Last week, we learned that Donald Trump had fired his longtime personal assistant, Madeleine Westerhout. She looks like Hope Hicks’ sister, which is creepy. Westerhout was fired for cause – she was spilling her guts to journalists and everybody else about Trump and the Trump family. That was all we knew at first… but of course more was revealed after a few days. Because, again, Westerhout was spilling her guts to journalists.
Madeleine Westerhout, who left her White House job suddenly on Thursday as President Trump’s personal assistant, was fired after bragging to reporters that she had a better relationship with Trump than his own daughters, Ivanka and Tiffany Trump, and that the president did not like being in pictures with Tiffany because he perceived her as overweight.
The critical comments happened at an off-the-record dinner, according to two people familiar with the matter, that Westerhout and deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley held earlier this month with reporters who were covering Trump’s vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Westerhout also jokingly told the journalists that Trump couldn’t pick Tiffany out of a crowd, said one of the people. “She had a couple drinks and in an uncharacteristically unguarded moment, she opened up to the reporters,” the person said.
Trump on Friday confirmed that Westerhout had been dismissed for talking to reporters about his children, calling the comments “a little bit hurtful.”
“It was too bad,” Trump told reporters before leaving the White House for Camp David, adding that Westerhout was a “very good person” who performed her job well. “I wished her well.” Trump said he would speak by phone with Tiffany when he reached Camp David, disputing that he had ever personally disparaged his daughter. “I love Tiffany,” he said.
Not that Tiffany Trump needs me to defend her, but I think Donald Trump avoids being photographed with Tiffany because A) she’s not Ivanka and B) he sometimes forgets that she exists. It has nothing to do with her weight and she’s not overweight, and even if she was, who cares. Apparently Westerhout also dished about Trump’s feelings about Barron and a lot more. In the wake of Westerhout’s dismissal, Trump has gone out of his way to defend HER and not Tiffany, by the way. He told reporters: “I really think she had a bad night. I think it was unfortunate. She said she was drinking, and the whole thing was very unfortunate.” He also tweeted this bizarre statement:
While Madeleine Westerhout has a fully enforceable confidentiality agreement, she is a very good person and I don’t think there would ever be reason to use it. She called me yesterday to apologize, had a bad night. I fully understood and forgave her! I love Tiffany, doing great!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 31, 2019
Well, if he tweets that he loves Tiffany, that means he does not, since everything on his Twitter is a lie. Sorry, Tiff!
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Money is his first love…then Ivanka. Tiffany who lol?
Which is really sad because she looks JUST like him. He’s an ugly, wretched thing and she’s his female mini-me, sadly.
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I kinda feel bad for Tiffany, but isn’t she in law school? She has the means to be her own person. Many many kids have survived toxic parents and forged their own way, and the public’s memory is short.
She supposedly is at Georgetown but she seems to have the lightest load and more free time than any law school student I’ve ever known/seen.
From what I understand she’s doing fairly well there and should graduate next year I believe or 2021 not 100% sure. As far as her schedule, I think her schedule is pretty much the same as most students. Other than a few pictures here or there you never really see her much, and she’s in the same city as her father and sister. Just a photo op here or there. My guess is she’ll return to LA when done and go into entertainment law.
I feel bad for her having this toxic POS as a father. I’m not saying she has an ED, but this is definitely the kind of thing that could and would trigger a relapse if she’s ever struggled.
And of COURSE he defends a f*cking aide over the daughter he persistently ignores. Ugh. What an asshole.
When I waa her age, I still very much felt the emotional scars from my childhood and when my father dragged me into his second divorce/second custody hearing, I was a ragey mess about it all. But eventually I was able to move beyond being a product of my childhood. Tiffany has an added burden of public humiliation. It’s a bad situation, but of all his kids, she’s the one who has the best chance of surviving Trump, IMO
Completely agree, Betty. Sorry you went through that with your dad. I’ve always had a complicated relationship with my pops as well. Sigh.
I heard about the Tiffany stuff but nothing about Barron. That’s his youngest, right? What did he say?
It’s long been rumoured that Barron has developmental issues.
Old sperm. There are numerous studies linking old sperm with autism.
I was wondering what was said about Barron too.
The news report said she gossiped about how Trump feels about Barron. My guess is that if Barron isn’t dripping in toxic masculinity Trump thinks he is a wimp.
I had a friend whose son played soccer with him in NYC. If he did have developmental issues, I don’t think it was that pronounced as she said he seemed normal and Melania was actually very nice. I’m not worried about Barron more about Donald’s mental issues.
“melania was actually very nice”.
I will quote Dave Barry here. “A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person”.
Melania is a birther. a bigot. RA-CIST. by definition, NOT A NICE PERSON.
Barron’s biggest problem is having Dump for a father.
As for Tiffany, I totally believe that Trump would avoid her for being overweight since to him, women are purely sex objects.
Barron seems just normal to me. Hope he grows up to be a good Democrat.
HA!
whatWHAT? says: “A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person”. Yes. That was a lesson I used to preach to my daughter when she was young. And she actually lives by it which makes me so proud. Even a complete asshole needs some friends, so they will never be jerks to everyone. Bystanders always make the oppressor stronger, they never help the oppressed. Don’t be a bystander just because you are not the one being bullied.
It’s best that no disparaging remarks about young Barron are published (he just turned 13 this year). I wish that the press had never disclosed the negative remarks Trump said about his daughter Tiffany.
I absolutely believe that Trump thinks Tiffany is fat and unattractive, which is why he doesn’t care about her.
And we all know that he doesn’t care about Tiffany. Even she knows it. But that still hasn’t stopped her from traveling on the taxpayer’s dime to England, so she could wear a godawful dress to meet the Queen in. Or posing all over the White House for her Instagram. She’s not going to do anything to piss her father off because she doesn’t want to get cut off. That’s why I have zero sympathy for her. She’s a Trump. Never feel bad for these people.
Yeah, in that New York and/or right wing socialite world, Tiffany is fat. It’s not even that she’s fat at all, she just carries the weight she has in “not the right places (i.e. exactly the same places as her father and brothers)” and is sane enough not to starve it away. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if she knew that 15 pounds kept Daddy away, she’d make sure to keep 20 on.
Ha! True.
Tiffany is prettier than pre-surgery Ivanka. Trump wouldn’t like Ivanka if she had her original nose, cheeks, chin, eyes, bust….the list goes on and on.
I want to hear the scoop about Baron, and why he isnt being groomed to be the next big game hunter/ errand boy that his other sons are
Because Melania seems to be doing her best to stop that happening, I think. She taught him Slovenian and the two of them apparently talk to each other in the language, iirc. I’d love to know what they talk about together when no-one else in the room understands.
We can all hate on Trump, and Melania isn’t exactly a gold-star human, but there is plenty of evidence that she’s a very loving, caring mother to Barron who seems intent on stopping him from turning into another Don Jr or Eric.
And no evidence he has any developmental issues, either. This is the same stuff people said about the Obama girls and Chelsea Clinton. Attacking a child because you hate their parents is gross, no matter what side of the aisle you’re on.
@andromeda I imagine that was addressed to someone else and ended up as a reply to me via the peculiarities of the internet because nowhere in my reply to @Phonycat did I disparage, denigrate or attack either Melania or Barron. If anything my reply was positive.
Andromeda: people who work with autistic children have noted that Barron appears to have many of the behaviors associated with being on the autistic spectrum. This is from watching footage of him from his appearances with his family. Barron is gorgeous. If he were at all up to it, he would be front and center in pushing the happy and beautiful best family ever story.
Barron goes to very fancy prep schools. There have been rumors about his having developmental problems from “other parents.” I really hope Melania is arranging for him to get the specialized help he needs at his school.
I am DYING to hear what else she had to say. Barron seems to be very sheltered and I’m guessing this is his mother’s doing. Charitably, I’d say it was because she wants to shield him from public life. I also think she knows (like Marla Maples) that he’s her meal ticket if the marriage goes south. I totally buy Donald not wanting ‘fat’ Tiffany around. He didn’t want his first born son to have his name because he didn’t know if Don Jr. would ever live up to it.
From what I’ve read on SM he apparently used the ‘r’ word to describe Barron, as in the derogatory way to describe people with learning/developmental difficulties.
Trump’s adult children are fair game because they fully and gleefully inserted themselves into Trump’s presidency. Barron, however, is off limits. She absolutely deserved to be fired for gossiping about him.
That said, I would not be at all surprised if Gidley spiked her drink. Everyone but Trump wanted her out.
Here’s the rumor about Barron: Trump doesn’t get along with his son (reasons unknown) and Trump is jealous of his son’s height. Courtesy of Wolffe’s second book, for what is worth.
The older boys spent alot of their time with their maternal grandfather. He was the hunter/fisherman outdoorsmen.
It is probably good she isn’t on his radar for whatever reason. Look at the lewd remarks he has made about the daughter he does care about! UGH!!!!!!
I agree with you, I think Tiffany was lucky to be on the opposite coast from her father (and half-siblings) for most of her formative years. This guy is horribly misogynist. Also I think that relatively speaking in the realm of mothers Marla Maples would be way saner than Ivana Trump.
I have zero problem believing he would avoid being seen with her because he thinks she is not attractive/in any way overweight. That is 100% how he operates and I’m sure she knows it. Why do you think precious Ivanka has had so much plastic surgery?
Same for Barron – if he is dealing with any learning issues, then I could see 45 not wanting to have much to do with him. Actually, even if he doesn’t – let’s be real here, right now he only serves purpose as a photo op for his father. I’m pretty sure 45 won’t take any kind of interest in him until he’s old enough to start parroting the family lies.
I agree; from what I remember Ivana raised the older three as a single mother, for the most part, once they divorced. Trump didn’t take much interest in them until they were adults. Seem to remember too that at one point Eric didn’t want to go into the family business but was threatened with getting cutoff.
And agree it’s not fair game to go after Barron. People are making big assumptions based whispers from, for example, friends of friends of friends who may have watched him play soccer somewhere and on a relatively few photos ops that are mainly of him walking with his parents, in an audience or standing stage.
That last tweet sounds like a not=so-thinly-veiled threat. From the POTUS.
I do feel sorry for Tiffany’s childhood. She essentially grew up without a father since her mother Marla moved away to California to raise her. And Trump wasn’t very interested in her at all since Tiffany was the product of an affair (Marla and Donald got married about 2 months after Tiffany was born and if you read about the prenup agreement Trump had Marla sign, he was really doing everything in his power not to marry her). She probably doesn’t see it as being the best thing for her even though it totally was. But still, not having a present and loving father who is doting on her older half-siblings in New York is definitely going to cause emotional trauma. Tiffany had to appeal to Ivanka to get an allowance from Donald, it is very clear to everyone that Donald and Tiffany are not close like he is with his kids from Ivana’s marriage as he clearly neglected ever trying to form a real relationship with her. She wants to have what they have which is only natural. So yeah I do feel sorry for her in that respect.
But she’s an adult now and she has access to the best therapists who can help process all those feelings toward her father. And she still benefits as a Trump just because its her last name. It would be great if she were the Trump to carve out a separate identity from her father, like go on to have a great successful law career or something (and that Trump last name will always help her, regardless of whether she and her father are close or not).
The only kid he’s ever been nice to is Ivanka, and I think she figured out how to get to him with plastic surgery and beauty. He wasn’t around much when the three were little. Ivana raised the kids. Donald Jr apparently hated him after he cheated on his mother, and barely spoke to him for over a decade. Eric never really had a great relationship either. Ivana encourage them all when they were older to get things from their father, MONEY and power. She pushed them to reconcile their differences. The one thing about Ivana is she knows how to survive Trump and get the best of him, even with her kids.
Marla may have wanted a different life for her daughter, and that is why she moved away. She knew she was never going to best Donald like Ivana did. Melania probably thinks he’s old, and I’ll get what I need and he’ll be gone.
There’s also the rumour, that iQ45 was pressuring Maples to have an abortion, because he did not want to have a child with her.
And we all know that this is not just a rumour.
This Vanity Fair interview with Donald was around the time of Tiff’s birth and he addresses that question.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1994/03/donald-trump-family-bankruptcy
I think if DT avoids Tiff it is out of hatred for Marla.
I said it before and i say it again: Tiffany is NOT a victim.
She has been shilling hard for daddy and much like the other Trump children she just want to be liked by him so bad. Orange Dotard is paying her tuition. And while he’s certainly capable of such pettiness of not wanting to be photographed with a “fat person” he wouldn’t invite Tiffany to occasions or like recently to that trip to London. And if that isn’t enough check her latest instagram message where she is quoting the poet Rumi. It basically sending a “you don’t know me haterz”. And in a way she’s right. We’re projecting victimhood onto someone who we don’t know. Much like Melania she knows what she’s getting into and she doesn’t care. Marla Maples has an NDA so she can’t directly speak about Trump but Tiffany is not about to bite the hand that feeds her. If she was ever annoyed or against the Orange Dotard and his policies she hasn’t displayed any of that on social media or otherwise. Quite the opposite. I don’t give Tiffany a pass because she’s perceived in the public to be “the lesser unloved Trump” or that she’s getting less attention by the media in comparison to the other Drumpf children. Her actions speaks louder than sheanything she could ever say.
People always project victimhood on certain demographics…
I wish melania would talk about the fact that she and her son do not live in the white house. Why no mention of that? Not even from the media. Says it all.
Certain people get all the protection in the world.
She’s there now, at least during the school year. Barron goes to a fancy Episcopalian school near Bethesda, not Sidwell or St. Albans which a lot of Presidential and Vice Presidential kids went to. Also, the one thing you never hear about but heard all the time with the Obama’s is guess who also lives in the white house with them, her parents to help her with Barron. Plus her parents and Melania are both obviously immigrants, but Trumpsters don’t care about that cause she’s hot and white.
Melania’s parents bought a house close to Barron’s school. I assume Melania and Barron actually live with them.
Melania lives with Barron in McLean Virginia with her parents. While the media shouldn’t be discussing Barron, they should not be hiding the sham of the marriage with Melania, who is too greedy to have divorced him when she wanted to. All the adults are grifters and should be exposed as such. While it’s unfortunate that dump said mean things about Tiffany, she is not much different than the other adult kids. Do we really think she got in law school without help of name recognition? Please. Kushner got into Harvard and is an idiot so there is no doubt the daughter of a president got a free pass too. They all need to go away forever.
I’m of mixed opinion on Tiffany. She has shilled for her father but at the same time, having a parent who really couldn’t care less is so damaging. She’s a product of her environment. I feel a leeeetle bit sorry for her but not enough to care about her.
Barron is a child and has always been off-limits for criticism. I do think Melania is a caring mother doing the best with what she has, but she’s raising the poor boy in a toxic environment. I feel for the kid.
Melania has literally said she knew trump was going to win the presidency before he won and she supported him and said she looked forward to being the first lady. She was (is?) a birther, she says she loves being married to him and has shown her contempt for the American people on more than one occasion…yet, people still victimize her as if she is being held at gunpoint. As if she can’t divorce him at any time.
She and her son don’t even live with him so no ‘toxic’ environment there.
I’m sure she’s a caring loving mother like most mothers? Not sure why that is always mentioned about her as if it’s unusual or something?
Well said. Melania is living her dream. She doesn’t need anybody’s sympathy and would probably laugh at you if it was offered. Melania has taken advantage of every perk that comes with being a trophy wife, including getting her family US citizenship.
It must be hard for Tiffany to be her father’s daughter, knowing what he probably thinks about her. But she takes his money too and is willing to take advantage of being a President’s daughter, so I’ll save my sympathy for the kids in cages.
No pity for Melania. She married him to get into the country and could have divorced him at any time. She even stayed away from the WH just to negotiate a better deal. I don’t care how miserable she is she deserves it. Barron is the only victim here. For now anyway.
Poor Tiffany, she looks the most like him of all of his adult children. Also, does he own a mirror? She is probably better off the farther away that she can stay from Emperor/daddy baby tantrum toddler. Tiffany seems to be trying to obtain an education and hopefully she uses it to forge her own path. She has a crummy situation with her father humiliating her at random intervals….but I always thought she might escape this family the most intact if she chooses to try.
Tiffany is a grifter like the rest of them. She will use his connections until it doesn’t work, which is hopefully soon. Let’s not pretend that she got into law school for any reason than her last name. Law students don’t travel the world like she does and expect to pass and get posh positions.
Regarding Barron – It is a well known “secret” in the D.C. media bubble that Melania and Barron live with her parents nearby. It is normal protocol to not report this because the extended family is due some privacy but this will all come out after he leaves office/dies.
McLean Virginia is where they are living.
I honestly don’t think Trump cares about any of his kids. He just favors Ivanka because she represents his ideal beauty. And I don’t think his kids care of him. They just want the money and control of the business when he croaks.
We’re all just stuck in one long episode of Succession.
You are right it is Succession. I don’t believe any of his kids really like him, just his money and power. If I was Tiffany, I would make my deadbeat Dad who never did much for me pay for my college all the way through, and all my crazy vacations, and anything else I could get too. Then I’d go be a great lawyer make my own living and write a Daddy Dearest book about him and the rest of the wacked out family.
Yeah, I don’t think so either. And despite their best efforts, especially Don, Jr., none of them have whatever weird/awful charisma/personality it is that The Donald seems to have in spades.
He’s a malignant narcissist. So he seems superficially charming and charismatic because he craves attention like regular people crave air, and he’s built a whole personality disorder around courting it, keeping it, and increasing it by any means necessary. Disgusting, awful, pathetic, ignorant, sick fool. (Him, obvs.)
I have no ill-will against Barron, but the complete lack of information we have about that child is unprecedented. Like so much else about this administration…
IIRC, aside from what their parents would share, there wasn’t a lot reported about the Clinton or Obama kids until they were in high school. Only things I really remember when they were Barron’s age were about their pets and the school they were attending,
Not really, what did we know about Malia, Sasha, or Chelsea really especially their middle school or high school years. The Obama girls once they got out of office you saw a bit more as the girls had friends on instagram who would post, but Barron is just in middle school and I’m guessing he’s not into that as much yet. My daughter knew about Sasha going to Michigan from her Prom date’s instagram a while ago, not when it was posted. I thought it was common knowledge. The Bush girls we had a little more cause they were in college when their Dad was in office and Jenna was kind of a partier. Barron is going into 8th grade goes to St. Andrews in Potomac, MD. it’s Episcopalian and costs around $40K a year. He plays sports there too. The school doesn’t list the names of the team on their website like some do, but he’s middle school so I doubt they’d list him anyway. He shows up to a few things and walks with his parents He seems more quiet like his mother. Apparently he’s fluent in the Slovenian language and can speak to his mother and grandparents too. If as some on here are implying he has a manageable illness we can’t overtly identify or a learning disability any Presidential child’s privacy would be respected so not sure where you are going with this and what should we know about Barron? A lot of things about Trump are unprecedented, but this seems the same as all other minor children of Presidents.
Dump is rarely seen with his kid, unlike the other presidents. That’s what is different than all the president with kids under 18.
Every time Trump looks at Tiffany he sees himself. She is the image of him. I have no doubt with his shallow self that he has issues with her size/shape. She seems to be very close and supported by her mom so at least she had that foundation.
She wasn’t fired for giving an opinion.
She was fired for repeating what he’d said about his daughter.
And further reports make it sound like he didn’t want to fire her.
She looks a lot like Hope Hicks.
He definitely has a type.
Trump is one sick puppy so I have no idea how Hope Hicks lasted as long as she did.
I think Hope was originally a friend of Ivanka’s and worked for her brand in PR but I could be wrong.
Has he looked at himself in the mirror lately? I see a 300 lb orange so I wonder what he sees?
Leah you gotta ask.. is his room outfitted with funhouse mirrors?
Come on you know he’s the type of guy who seems to think it’s only important how women look. I mean come on what other worth do we have lol? Plus he thinks his money makes him more attractive. Not even for a billion dollars Trump…not even for a billion.
Trump is fat. He must have a distorted mirror.
For the people that are equating questions about whether Barron is autistic with digs, it is very hurtful to me as a parent of an autistic child. While there are some things may be very challenging for autistic people living in a “typical” world, autism does not mean deficiency. Other than the one person that commented somebody called him the R word, I have never read any examples of anyone on the record using questions of Barron having autism as an insult . I’ve certainly heard a lot of the buzz around it pointing that direction though, including above. Please start understanding that this condition has to do processing, not with health or overall ability.
All these commenters dying to hear what he said about Barron…good Lord, step back and think about this. You are hoping for the publication of whatever negative comments this narcissistic ahole said about his minor child. This is nuts. He is only 13. No child deserves that kind of humiliation. I hope whatever he said never comes out and It shouldn’t as long as the journalists have any shred of ethics (so it probably will).
I don’t feel any kind of way about Tiffany but I feel sorry for her in this situation because this is a crappy position for her to be in. Sure she takes lots of perks from her daddy but this still sucks. Really wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
I’m shook.
Nothing left to say. I almost envy England their predicament based on what we have.