Writes Margaret Hartmann in New York Magazine, reacting to Ivanka's stoicism-studded thread on X.
November 5, 2024
"You can read Ivanka’s inane musings below, but they’re not the real point. She turned 43 on October 30."
"There is no reason to post this thread on November 4, the night before Election Day, other than to emphasize that she’s not even thinking about Donald Trump’s reelection bid. Ivanka basically found a way to tell her dad, 'I really don’t care, do U?' via Twitter thread, rather than donning an ugly jacket...."
Writes Margaret Hartmann in New York Magazine, reacting to Ivanka's stoicism-studded thread on X.
What's up with Ivanka? Who knows? She was the favored child, it always seemed, or at least the favored daughter. Maybe you're wondering Should I care? Just consult Marcus Aurelius — "You have power over your mind—not outside events" — or Epictetus — "Anyone capable of angering you becomes your master."
Writes Margaret Hartmann in New York Magazine, reacting to Ivanka's stoicism-studded thread on X.
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Melania didn't (care, that is) when she wore that jacket.
That's not a cake for slicing. That's a cake for core sampling.
All the Trumps live rent free in their heads.
So what if she posts her millennial-inflected beliefs on her birthday? The woman has been forced-thru the political ringer. Wonder if this journalist has had her life and her marriage turned upside down by frequent mocking from the media, significant upheaval from numerous court-proceedings facing her family due to lawfare, and constant public disdain and outright hatred from progressive-liberals. Nope of course not. Very profitable for big media to shower contempt and spew hatred on Trump and his children, without ever considering the human consequences.
Ivanka has small children, likely wants to shelter them as best possible. I note that Trump's adult children are far more successful individuals, seem to love and support their father, and decent parents to their own children. Biden's own two troubled delinquent adult-kids are both embarrassment and indictment of Joe's and Jill's poor parenting and poor moral guidance to their children.
So the whole point of the article was to copy & paste Ivanka's thread, and add Trump Derangement frosting to help show how much the author knows about things? What a waste of clicks. The Intelligencer should change its name, as a matter of consumer protection.
Happy Birthday Ivanka!
"Inane."
Margaret Hartmann is a bitter, ugly on the inside, woman.
OK, I read the musings. Commonplace, yes. Inane, no. And where's the sisterhood? Anyway, TDS is a nasty filter.
Great stuff! I plan on quoting Marcus Aurlieus to the OPPD Board later this month.
What crap from an ugly writing woman. Ivanka’s birthday was in the last week so being busy and/or reflecting on what she wrote about are real reasons why she would post on Nov 4th. Ugly writing woman isn’t a mind reader…
“Inane musings”? Ivanka quotes lessons from some of the world’s master philosophers.
She's jealous that Ivanka is beautiful, rich and has a great family. Something she will NEVER understand, whilst she hates on everybody who isn't like her.
Neither stoicism nor Aureliusism is Augustine's charity, thinking the best of people instead of he worst.
Her husband negotiated the Abraham Accords, probably the most significant agreement toward Middle East peace in our lifetimes. As a reward the press savaged him, Democrats threatened him with jail time, and for good measure he was lumped in as a Nazi for supporting his father in law. I'm not surprised at all that Ivanka and Jared are sitting this one out. If someone took literal shots at my father I might opt out of campaigning too.
OTOH we heard a lot of "Melania is not on board this time" BS right up until she made a very public endorsement of her husband. So I take any alleged "reporting" on Trump's family with a boulder-sized grain of salt.
Happy birthday! to the first daughter!
Ditto the Walz and Emhoff children! Quite a contrast to the normal loving supporting family the Trumps seem to be. Even the exes and step-children support him.
Good catch.
It's almost as if she's a strong intelligent woman who is close to Trump. How can that be!
Happy Belated Birthday, Ivanka.
Ivanka is beautiful. Why won't that creep Anna Wintour put Ivanka on the cover or inside the glossy mag?
Oh right- Anna Wintour is a democrat hack. Ivanka used to have a nice line of clothing. She was essentially forced to give that up. Now she is very wealthy - and doesn't need any of that. But perhaps she is a bit destroyed by the left.
Remember - the corrupt modern left live to punish and destroy.
…a large boulder, the size of a large boulder..
Ugly people do feel entitled to hate on attractive people, don’t they…
That is a nice looking cake. And jealous journalism, with such a weak premise and failure to recognize success in someone else's life, is bad journalism.
So, Ivanka lives a productive life, and integrates the insights of people throughput the world and over time with her own understanding and experience. Good for her.
I read the musings. Although she doesn't seem to understand the importance of integrating BBQ, especially brisket, into a balanced life, they're all worthwhile insights and definitely not inane. She's an impressive person, both in her physical appearance and intelligence. She has an interview on the Lex Frideman podcast that's interesting. She comes across as a genuinely nice person. If her father were a Democrat, she'd be a super star.....If she wasn't affected by her parents' divorce, she's the only kid in the history of the world who wasn't. I think that's why she married an observant Jew. Kushner doesn't look like the type who will look for a younger woman when the mid life crisis hits.
She's a Jew. I'm certain she's scared to post anything the way the Democrats are setting up for Holocaust 2.0.
Compare and contrast the parent-child relationships and the quality of personal lives between Trump's children and those of Biden, Harris, and even the Liebringer. There's quite a story there worth pondering.
I read that. This writer is an absolute moron.
Journalism is a low IQ profession. Only teachers are lower.
I am just going to say I am skeptical when women quote Marcus Aurelius.
But more people were exposed to his writings and maybe she has internalized those writings.
She is beautiful, literate, and grounded. Feminists should revere her. But she is orange mans kin, and that is unforgivable.
All the left has is hate. It is obvious on this blog, and obvious in the press.
feminists revere the twisted and the perverse. and proves once again, how easy it is to manipulate women with fear porn. hysteria becomes a natural state for the leftist female.
*this* alert.
Inane? Good Lord! This author (like most of the rest of the “media”) just shills for the unitary and cashes a check.
If she doesn’t like the way Ivanka looks or apparently feels right now, maybe she should consider the fact that Ivanka has a good life, Donald does to and doesn’t need to do the job of President of the US, but he’s doing it for love of the country… and maybe, just maybe, Invanka is considering how close she came to losing her father in Butler, PA.
By the way, will we ever find out anything about that guy (the dead shooter?). Why not? WTF seriously..
Uniparty
As I posted before, she may be the designated survivor. If all goes badly and everyone else in the family is dead or locked up, she, like young Michael Corleone, will be the "civilian" who can come in from nowhere and settle business.
At least until Tiffany and Barron are old enough to come in and join the vengeance.
These kids (except Tiffany) are half-Slavic. Long memories.
JSM
Wow, Hartmann is some kind of TDS sufferer. Really- how stupid and unself-aware does someone have to be to write an essay like that and put their name to it?
Yeah it felt like the author just chose the word because of the negative emotional feeling of the word rather than the actual meaning. One could say that the platitudes come off as banal, but banal is not the same as inane. Probably just a case of Orange Man Bad and Daughter of Orange Man Bad Too.
JUST IN: MSNBC host Joy Reid says the media has "said all they can" to help Kamala Harris before doing a whole segment on how Trump is like Hitler & Mussolini.
The White Left of D-MSNBC speaketh!
This is the first time today that I thought about the Roman Empire, that I can recall.
I consider this election important and care about who wins. But if I was tempted to write a lessons learned essay about my life, like Ivanka, politics wouldn't enter into it in the least. The idea that this is some kind of rebuke to her father is ludicrous.
One of the greatest Emperors and philosophers in the world is "inane" according to this loser, woman NYC writer. Got it.
Here is a thought for the day: If you give up, the game is over.
Only two presidential candidates have secured every vote in Dixville NH, including Richard Nixon in 1960 and Joe Biden in 2020. This year it was 3-3
3 people changed and 3 said everything will be hunky dory with the Kommie.
Must be a strange place.
If you want to "bring us together," a lot of what you say will be banal or will be seen as banal. A lot of what one learns about life will also sound banal because so many people have learned the same things about life as they grow older. But is any of that "inane"? Does talking about time-honored life lessons mean a rejection of involvement in present-day public affairs? I think it's more of a unifying "whatever happens, whatever side you're on, here are some things to bear in mind," something we all could make use of today.
Pointer to all, though: next time, be a little cautious when some celeb posts her life lessons and hold back on calling them "inane." I don't know what else I could possibly say about Gwyneth Paltrow, but I now feel obligated to strike that word from my vocabulary.
I enjoyed the whole thread. Thanks.
It's likely anyone she interacts with, or wants to, hates her Dad for no reason other than it's fashionable. She wants to appear beyond that. Not easy being the daughter of 'an existential threat.'
Maybe Ivanka is exhibiting some maturity and wisdom, something very few NY Mag writers have (or ever will have) any experience of.
I remember the 2016 Republican convention, when Ivanka took the stage. How normal she looked! How healthy and happy and beautiful. She was the perfect hostess. You want to talk about normalizing Trump? His family is the product of a good man. Trump's children are impressive, and they say a lot about him. Even when they don't say anything.
You can't argue with any of the chestnuts Ivanka lists. It's easy to say and harder to practice. Namaste
Does Trump have a dog or a pet goldfish? What does the pet think? Keep digging is the motto of the media.
I had to look up "lashon hara." I wondered if it was some Hindu yoga thing. It wasn't. For the other thread I looked up Jamie Raskin. He was born Jamin Ben Raskin in honor of his grandfather, Benjamin Raskin. I guess his parents feared the "lashon hara" if they just named him Benjamin.
Thank you, rehajm, as I served that up hoping someone would say it. Althousians do not disappoint.
The woman has been forced-thru the political ringer.
Nobody (except maybe her father) forced her through the political ringer. Her father decided to give her an important job in his administration for which neither she, nor her husband, were qualified for.
She has no one to blame but herself and her father for the criticism she received.
Least you could have done was include a definition. My HS graduating class was 1/3 Jewish, and many of friends, therefore, were Jewish, and I had never heard it. Lashon hara is a Hebrew term that refers to speech that is harmful or negative about a person, even if it is true.
Should she be obsessing about the election? It was election eve. The die has been cast, pretty much anything that could be done has been done. I doubt a frantic last-minute tweet would get out any new votes.
I think this list of things to think about that don't involve politics is a lot healthier. It could also be that the campaign's own polling is very favorable and her posting something personal instead of political reflects the ease she is feeling.
Stopped reading when I saw "New York Magazine."
NyMag is 2020s Gawker.
I’m imagining what could Ivanka be thinking: An assassin almost killed my father and they are wondering why I put some distance between me and all of it, all over again.
If Trump has a pet, it's probably worried that if Trump loses, the Dems will come for it like they came for Peanut.
It's not an unreasonable concern.
If she wants to be left alone, leave her alone. It’s simple enough.
A lot of people won't remember the organized shunning that went of in DC last time Trump was elected. It was an understood, collective slight: Trump newcomers had difficulty finding housing arrangements, and were not invited to join the cocktail and social circuits, which is the norm. Like any society, a lot of the business of running things gets done in social settings, golf games, cocktail parties, fundraisers, etc. If nothing else, the whole commonplace pave-the-way exchanges toward getting meetings set up, planning efforts, and so on.
But none of that happened. Trump people were outsiders, and they were kept outside by being treated as social outcasts by the DC Establishment.
And it didn't stop there, either. I'm sure many here can recall the public attacks, Republicans dining together being run out of restaurants - more accurately 'hounded'. Or being chased by a mob and beaten, left bloody and unconscious in the street, for the sin of wearing a red hat in public.
I thought this was a pretty good essay on the capacity for unfairness that has blossomed under this toxic, party-driven Progressive madness.
A Response to my Liberal Neighbor'
So who is the jerk here? The person who comes up with a list of positive things to think about or the person who shits all over the person who just shared a list of positive things?
This is actually a shrewd (and subtle) campaign move to help her father. After all, how could Hitler raise a daughter who has so many good things to say and has her head screwed on right?
The point is, Ivanka is a class act who made a good-faith effort to support her father in politics, and has been attacked and vilified for doing no more than that. No wonder she has no time or attention for those people. They are much worse than you think: That's what Ivanka is telling us.
"She has no one to blame but herself and her father for the criticism she received."
Actually, the people who bear the lion's share of the blame are the people on the far left who constantly cross the line and act inappropriately towards their political enemies and their families.
Yep. It is called Trump DERANGEMENT Syndrome after all. Many fragile egos were broken, never to heal and doomed to suffer an eternal nightmare.
No pity from me.
Surely "Aureliusism" is a poor neo-Latin construction. Can't decide whether "Aurelism" or "Aurelianism" would be more proper.
"Ivanka’s inane musings". She could take that off Broadway with Yoko yoideling backup and random street musicians on sax or clarinet.
Can Joy Reid?
You need to read over comments on this blog and then maybe you will reconsider your implication that only the "far left" cross the line.
Democrats have abandoned all their liberal principles and replaced them with hatred. Not only that, but they flaunt it as a virtue to be signalled. Congratulations.
Butkus, yes - I would have thought a town called Dixville would be right up Kommie’s, um, alley.
JSM
...keep tossing us the hanging curves!
tim in vermont said…
“This is the first time today that I thought about the Roman Empire, that I can recall.”
Me too. Although, when I was a teenager, I would think about it once every fifteen seconds.
"How does it feel being Hitler's daughter?"
Actually, Jared appears to be one of those in charge of the Transition, if there is one. He’s long been Trump’s brain, and was instrumental in getting him elected in 2016.
Its demonstrably clear that the "liberal principles" most democraticals espoused publicly was nothing more than window dressing until they could consolidate power in whatever institution they came to control. After which they invariably turned every one of those institutions into a soviet style bureaucracy and the few actual "liberal democrats" that saw that either went to the other side or meekly accepted what their political brethren were doing for whatever reason.
The coked up biden spawn were fine with her
Half the fun is looking things up.
I saw evil and assumed it was the "evil eye," but that's "ayin hara" so I would have steered you wrong.
She has no one to blame but herself and her father for the criticism she received.
Maybe you should try killing him again so you can blame her for that, too.
then maybe you will reconsider your implication that only the "far left" cross the line.
Are we trying to kill your candidate? No. So, take your 'both sides' shit and shove it.
This election can’t be over soon enough.
After seeing the ugliness and viciousness of the left Trump moved his daughter out of the line of fire. Literally, as it later developed.
This, as others said, was a soft show of support without direct involvement in the campaign and yet they attack her.
Fuck these people. I wish them ill.
"How dare she not be as crazy as us!", said the Democrats.
About right, but sure, it's a generalization.
First Polls are closed in most of Indiana and parts of Kentucky !
The fake election is the beginning ... not the end.
@Althouse, Gotta give you mad props for the probably utterly unique tag list in the history of humanity ---- Epictetus, Ivanka Trump, Marcus Aurelius
I couldn't bear to read the whole thing. Like sitting down to read one of those inspirational daily calendars as if it were a book.
Why locally grown food? One always hears this. I like oranges.
Her thread would have been enjoyable for being interesting if she'd expressed all the opposite sentiments. That would have been something.
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