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[Susie924]

Tiffany Trump posts cryptic poem after claims the president criticized her to personal assistant: 'You will never know me'


Yahoo Lifestyle

Megan JohnsonYahoo LifestyleSeptember 1, 2019

Tiffany Trump has posted a cryptic poem on social media in the wake of claims that her father disparaged her to his former personal assistant.

The 25-year-old daughter of President Donald Trump and his second wife, Marla Maples, took to Instagram Stories over the weekend to post a quote by the poet Rumi. The statement urges readers to look beyond what they see at first glance, which has some speculating that it’s in response to the drama involving her dad.


“Study me as much as you like, you will never know me. For I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be,” the poem reads. “Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself. Because I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”

The statement from the first daughter comes after President Trump’s personal assistant, Madeleine Westerhout, was forced to resign from her role at the White House on Thursday. Politico first reported that Westerhout bragged to reporters during a dinner party that she had a better relationship with Trump than his own daughters. She also reportedly alleged that Trump did not like being in pictures with Tiffany because he thought she was overweight.

After the statements hit the news, Trump told reporters that Westerhout had apologized for the slip of the tongue.

“I think she said some things. And she called me. She was very upset. She was very down,” Trump told the press. “And she said she was drinking a little bit. And she was with reporters, and everything she said was off the record. And that still doesn’t really cover for her. She mentioned a couple of things about my children.”

The president also took to Twitter to publicly praise his daughter. He also said that Westerhout is a “very good person” who “had a bad night.”

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/tiffany-trump-rumi-poem-madeleine-westerhout-fired-174202066.html?ncid=facebook_yahoolifes_ixks0smm1bi&fbclid=IwAR0SbQdPMp6OQkhhucnlpAUQpkQr3cpIaw3nXt-i218np_oLSkfcLdImLrs

[fuagf]

Though, judging solely on Ian Reifowitz's excellent article, it seems Metzi's book left religion (at least relatively) out of the mix i kept thinking of similarities between political ideology and religion. The unquestioning devotion involved in being stuck in both as guessing most all who think (or don't think) like Trevor likely are.

"Review: 'Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland'"

On reading of Trevor,

"“Trevor voiced a literal willingness to die for his place in [the racial] hierarchy, rather than participate in a system that might put him on the same plane as immigrants or racial minorities.”"

i kept thinking of the 'give me a child until 7 and i give you the man' idea. Saint
Ignatius of Loyola .. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ignatius_of_Loyola, Voltaire or Aristotle ..
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/709859-give-me-a-child-until-he-is-7-and-i .. whoever, line.

Aside: Give Us A Kid Till She's 7 and We'll Have Her For Life
The kids are not alright
Matthew J. Edlund M.D. Posted Mar 07, 2013
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-rest/201303/give-us-kid-till-shes-7-and-well-have-her-life

"It works" for advertisers too.

I'm guessing this is the same Ian Reifowitz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Reifowitz .

Back to the good old days of whiteness and white culture even economists are getting that into their articles now,

The Frauding of America’s Farmers
[...]
At one level, it’s not hard to see why farmers supported Trump. Hostility to nonwhite immigrants was central to his campaign, and such hostility tends to be highest in places where there aren’t actually many immigrants .. https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/22/politics/immigration-trump-arizona/index.html . So rural America, with its still tiny immigrant population .. https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/05/22/demographic-and-economic-trends-in-urban-suburban-and-rural-communities/ , was a receptive audience for his fear-mongering. More generally, Making America Great Again — which was basically about setting back the clock racially and culturally — was a message that played well in places that still tend to think of themselves (and are told by politicians to think of themselves) as the Real America, as opposed to the big metropolitan areas where most Americans actually live.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=150873078

so there is no doubt race is an important factor in most all things of America. And, sadly, worldwide.

The above feels disjointed and wandering, but anyway, an excellent article by Reifowitz. Thanks.

[fuagf]

Then there is the, deeply rooted in many white psyches, Darkness and evil

In western popular culture, black has long been associated with evil and darkness. It is the traditional color of witchcraft and black magic.

In the Book of Revelation, the last book in the New Testament of the Bible, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are supposed to announce the Apocalypse before the Last Judgment. The horseman representing famine rides a black horse.The vampire of literature and films, such as Count Dracula of the Bram Stoker novel, dressed in black, and could only move at night. The Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz became the archetype of witches for generations of children. Whereas witches and sorcerers inspired real fear in the 17th century, in the 21st century children and adults dressed as witches for Halloween parties and parades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black#Darkness_and_evil

With

"Let there be light" is an English translation of the Hebrew ????? ???? (yehi 'or) found in Genesis 1:3 of the Torah, the first part of the Hebrew Bible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_there_be_light

Someone could remind people as Trevor that white light is a mixture of all colors.