If the Trump Train had a Grand Central Station, the very next stop would always be Nepotismville. Now, I know it’s usually just when you do favors for your direct family, but sometimes friends count too, and it looks like Donald Trump is extending that to friends of his family.

Well, make that “more than friends.” We’re talking, of course, about Bettina Anderson, the new girlfriend that Don Junior is showing off to everyone who will look. It’s a little shameless, actually, since Junior and Anderson only just started being less coy about the affair they’ve been having for about six months.

But hey, at least his dad’s been pretty magnanimous about the whole thing. The family could have cast out Kimberly Guilfoyle like a forgotten ex-wife and mother of five Trump children, a la Vanessa Haydon, Junior’s first go-round with matrimony. Instead, Trump gave her a prestigious spot as a foreign ambassador in a very pleasant climate.

Now it looks like Trump may be giving Bettina a spot adjacent to the White House, and his son didn’t even have to break up with her first.

Anderson, 38, looks a little like a cross between Junior’s first wife and Kimberly Guilfoyle if you caught her before she was mauled by bears got extensive plastic surgery. But the similarities end there, apparently. Some insiders even think she may be a usurper. Anderson has been rubbing elbows at Mar-a-Lago, expressing her interest in being on Trump’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

She claims that she could help the administration get in tune with “the more sophisticated and liberal Hamptons and Palm Beach types of people,” according to the New York Post.

To some sources close to the family, that sounds like something a dirty liberal might say. They think she already leans left and is simply exploiting her relationship with the president-elect’s progeny to increase follower count for her Instagram page.

“Being a wannabe influencer is nothing new in this world, but is she an influencer or an infiltrator?” asked one such skeptical spectator on the transition team.

It’s hard for me personally to imagine anyone who calls themself a liberal dating a Trump for any reason whatsoever, but in reality, it’s not like she’s typical for someone you WOULD imagine in an interspecies relationship with a sniffling, sniveling blowhard like Donald Trump, Jr.

There are pictures of her on her Insta page showing her wearing — GASP! — a mask during COVID. And she’s not really pushing the conservative bonnet-wearing, baby-suckling tradwife image, either. In one picture of her pushing a stroller full of shopping bags down the road in Palm Beach, she included the caption, “When my friends tell me the joys of having children, I’m always moved by just how tired they look.”

 

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Even Kim herself may be harboring secret suspicions about Junior’s new flame, although she can’t really complain too loudly, lest she lose her ticket to Greece and her remaining relevance.

Despite the awkward, formal, businesslike way that Junior and Kim handled their split, and the fact that Guilfoyle was on the foolish-looking end of the transaction, she’s still stuck by Junior in her way.

The source told the Post, “I think part of it is she’s a bit worried for Don because if there are some nefarious intentions from this new woman, that would just be awful. Don’s great and has done an awesome job on the transition. Would just be unfortunate to have a self-inflicted wound.”

Yeah, that sounds exactly like the kind of cynical thing a MAGA loyalist might say.

Trump could probably do worse than Bettina on the outreach front. She’s beautiful and charismatic, and is already involved in at least semi-philanthropic work with the Project Paradise Film Fund, which hands out $25,000 grants for filmmakers who make pieces about Florida’s wildlife.

PPFF’s website sells her as a nature girl: “As a Palm Beach native and an outdoor enthusiast, Bettina is passionate about protecting Florida wildlife and preserving the natural treasures that make Florida such a unique and beautiful place to live.”

Imagine being Florida Man and NOT having a baby gator to throw through the window of a fast food drive-thru while you were high on bath salt-infused fentanyl! Anderson is truly doing the Lord’s work already.

I personally think, however, that the non-starter for the MAGA circle is that she has posted pro-Black Lives Matter content on her social media. I’m pretty sure that makes you, if not the devil, at least a minor succubus. One insider said, “The transition is delivering big wins for the country. We can’t afford to have any headaches or liabilities trying to grift their way to more Instagram followers… Especially ones who aren’t MAGA to begin with.”

I guess they’ll have to take their chances. Until Junior gets bored, at least.