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Ivanka Blasted So Hard for Her Disgustingly Tone-Deaf Tweet About Husband Jared She’s Forced to Turn Off Comments

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As children, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were raised in the lap of luxury. Hardship is a foreign concept for them. This is part of the reason why Ivanka is currently facing backlash on social media for writing a laudatory post about Kushner, her husband, on X. She posted said clip on Sunday. It features Kushner holding forth on the benefits of having a go-getter attitude to podcaster Lex Fridman, Newsweek reports.

The clip, recorded in October, features Kushner saying: “If you want to accomplish something, you just have to go at it.”

“I just think it’s just something where if you want to accomplish something, you know, a lot of people, I hear, complain about what other people do or why it’s hard, or why it’s impossible,” Kushner told Fridman.

I’m sure the homeless 67-year-old veteran who lost his legs in Vietnam can relate to this. I bet the mom whose insurance company has denied her even though she’s battling cancer while caring for two kids can relate as well. If they want to  “accomplish something” they just have to “go at it.”

Ever chirpy, when Ivanka shared the clip she claimed she had received numerous compliments about her husband’s discussion and optimism.

“I’ve received a remarkable number of gracious compliments on @jaredkushner’s recent in-depth discussion with @lexfridman. I personally love this clip as it reveals the determined optimist who firmly believes that there’s always a solution if you’re willing to try enough paths. I love this about Jared…and it’s a good reminder as we start the new year!” Ivanka Trump wrote on X.

That post didn’t sit well with people who live in the real world, and X users took Trump and Kushner to task over the (imaginary) difficulties he had to overcome to be successful by pointing out the wealth they were born into. While these two didn’t receive wages when they worked as dear old Dad’s White House advisers, they nevertheless pulled down millions in outside revenue, according to a report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which had assessed the couple’s financial disclosures.

And Ivanka turned off comments on X/Twitter, so if people wanted to comment, they had to retweet the video and add a comment.

So folks on X were rather angry, especially Donald Trump’s estranged niece, Mary Trump, who wrote, “There’s nothing like 2 billion dollars in Saudi blood money to keep you optimistic.”

Trump’s comments are an obvious reference to Kushner receiving roughly $2 billion in funding from the government in Saudi Arabia six months after leaving the White House. During his father-in-law’s time in office, Kushner served as his adviser on Middle East policy.

The New York Times reports that Kushner, who founded the investment firm Affinity Partners six months after departing the White House, secured $2 billion in funding and received and received the go-ahead to invest the funding in businesses and opportunities in Israel.

Even though he received the funding early on, The Wall Street Journal reported in August that he’s only now about to make his first investment on behalf of the Saudis. That’s not even the half of it. The WSJ reports that Kushner has collected “tens of millions in management fees each year,” while not making any investments.

Apparently like son-in-law, like father-in-law.

Kushner went on the offensive and defended the arrangement that this was because Affinity Partners opened during a turbulent time for investment and lauded his firm for its patience.

“Deployment has been slower than expected because we maintained high standards,” Kushner said. “In retrospect, I’m glad we didn’t follow the herd.”

Unsurprisingly, Kushner has been (deservedly) targeted with plenty of ire on X for accepting the $2 billion, adding they would not want to take any advice on becoming successful from him.

“I’d like to think I’d have a better moral compass, but there is a chance the Saudis could turn me into a determined optimist for $2B,” quipped Brian Brewer on X.

“Two nepo[tism] babies born with 24-carat gold spoons in their mouths, who went into their daddy’s businesses instead of getting real jobs, and who are now funded by $2 billion in Saudi money, want to tell you about how to be successful,” posted user Bradley P. Moss.

But perhaps Jeffrey Evan Gold, an attorney and CNN legal analyst put it best:

“$2B is easy money when you’re willing to trade your soul.”

I don’t think I could have said it better myself, although I’m not sure Kushner has a soul.

There are so many great responses that it’s hard to pick just a few:

Megan Hamilton
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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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