Trump family humiliated for pretending to be royalty

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President Donald Trump took a taxpayer-funded trip to the United Kingdom for a state visit with the British royal family, and brought his children along for the free ride so they could pretend they are American royalty. And that’s why conservative writer Molly Jong-Fast brutally mocked them.

Trump could have made the trip by himself, but he just had to bring his children and their spouses with him so they could rub elbows with people they consider themselves equal to in terms of importance, wealth and grandeur.

The whole thing gave Trump and his family another opportunity to think of themselves as royalty even though they were trashed by nearly the entire population of the United Kingdom.

In a column for the conservative publication The Bulwark, Jong-Fast couldn’t resist putting the Trumps in their place.

“This week the Trump kids went royal in the hopes of laundering their brand and enjoying some of the fruits of their father’s high office,” she began. “We should have known that the president who made up a fake coat of arms would be all too happy to bring along his four adult children to hobnob with what he considers to be their British counterparts.”

“But as royal families go, the Trumps aren’t the Windsors. Or the Bushes. Or the Kennedys. Or the Kardashians, even. The Trumps are more like the Habsburgs,” she continued.

Jong-Fast noted that none of the Trump children were really necessary on the trip, which is a diplomatic visit. After all, none of them have any real political or diplomatic skills. They are grifters who think merely associating with the elite makes them high class.

But while the British royal family is working to appear less royal, the Trumps reveled in the pomp and circumstance and bragged about it on social media.

The great irony here, of course, is that the royals themselves are trying to modernize their “brand” and skew a little less Marie Antoinette for obvious reasons.

In a way, you have to feel sorry for the British royals. Here they are trying to move away from the public image of being feckless dilettantes and in come the four Trump kids (and their spouses!) snapping away with their phones, tweeting and Instagramming and generally making sure that the world knows that they are totes living their best lives.

Indeed, Jong-Fast even observed that most world leaders do not bring their adult children on these kinds of trips. However, there is a precedent that Trump probably did not know about.

“How wonderful it is to realize that Trump was merely following the example set by . . . Mexico,” Jong-Fast quipped after noting that Mexican and Colombian leaders have previously brought their adult kids on such visits to Buckingham Palace.

Trump also sought to set up a “next generation” meeting between his kids and Princes William and Harry as if he expects his own kids are now in line for the presidency, which is not a family position that is handed down. It’s an elected position chosen by the people.

Jong-Fast wondered which kid Trump would choose to succeed him, but it really doesn’t matter since they are all embarrassments like their father.

“Whatever happens five years from now, I like to imagine that when the Queen was introduced to the Trump family, she thought to herself, When America sends its people, they’re not sending their best, are they?” she concluded.

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