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  Jared walked into the dining room dressed in dark slacks and light-colored casual shirt. The thing that strikes you first about him is how handsome he is in person: tall and trim, with an easy smile and piercing eyes. When you see Jared and Ivanka together, you realize how perfect they are for each other. Theirs is a respectful, loving marriage. It’s obvious.

  As we sat at the table, their six-year-old daughter Arabella appeared from the living room. Precocious, with her mother’s eyes, and a smile like her dad’s, she showed us the latest dance moves she’d learned, and recited poetry of Confucius. A born entertainer, Arabella’s singing videos have already gone viral. One of them is a song she sang in Mandarin with her brother Joseph at Mar-a-Lago for Chinese president Xi. The children learned Mandarin from a Chinese nanny. The video has had millions of views in China alone.

  Ivanka reminded Arabella to introduce herself, which she did with a ladylike bow. Then Joseph, who’s a biological stamp of his father, came back in wearing his bicycle helmet, looking ready to hit the trail. Theodore, the baby, is still a little young for banter with adults—Ivanka was pregnant with him during the campaign. Right after he was born, his grandfather went on a winning streak across America, so Ivanka called Theodore their good luck charm!

  As a spring sun poured through the windows, we drank mint lemonade and talked about life as working parents. Although they both have been blessed financially and otherwise, Ivanka and Jared worked very hard in their careers, and now in the White House, trive to raise their children in a normal, loving home.

  Neither Ivanka nor Jared get the credit they deserve for what they’ve done in their short time as presidential advisors, and in Jared’s case, on the campaign as well. Ivanka worked tirelessly to craft and pass the tax cut legislation, especially championing its working families’ provisions which included the creation of the child tax credit, doubling the standard family deduction, lowering individual rates, and preserving the child and dependent care and adoption credits.

  She and Jared hosted fifteen dinners at their home for legislators, urging them to vote for the bill and securing critical votes from both the House and the Senate. Whether it’s her focus on economic growth and job creation, paid family leave, youth sports, championing apprenticeships and retention in Workforce Development, or global women’s economic empowerment, Ivanka’s focus on advancing job opportunities for all American workers is laserlike. oday there are more jobs available and unfilled than the number of unemployed. Ivanka champions vocational education for the young and older worker to fill these jobs. The federal government spends little on retraining older workers and, of course, our educational system generally stops at the age of twenty two. Ivanka is currently working on a groundbreaking initiative with CEOs of major American corporations to develop vocational education in order to bring people off the sidelines and into the workforce.

  Though she doesn’t get the credit she deserves in the main stream media, there’s no denying the positive impact she’s had on the world stage. Heads of countries around the world have invited Ivanka to speak and shared the stage with her at the W20 conference in Berlin, the Summit of the Americas in Peru, the World Assembly for Women in Japan, and the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad, India. At all these important events, she has been nothing short of sensational, and the perfect representative for America and the Trump White House.

  Another case in point is the Winter Olympics. Along with the star turn she took there, she engaged in diplomacy at its highest level. Her private discussions and subsequent dinner at the Blue House with the South Korean President Moon Jae-in and First Lady Kim Jung-sook might very well have laid the foundation for denuclearization talks with Kim Jong-un of North Korea. It was at this dinner that she informed them of the sanctions being issued the following day by the United States against North Korea. She attended the Olympics to celebrate the world’s athletes but also to act as a representative of the Trump administration. The people of South Korea were clearly charmed by her, especially how she celebrated the deep alliance between the US and South Korea.

  When Ivanka first took the job as an advisor for her dad, LIBERALS were thrilled. They believed that she would talk her father out of the promises he made on the campaign trail, like a wall on the Mexican border or the defunding of Obamacare, and start promoting causes that mattered to them—causes that flew in the face of Donald Trump’s agenda.

  In other words, they wanted her to make her father into a liar, and blamed her when she didn’t. Why is it nobody ever talked about moderating Obama out of his positions?

  Leaving aside the fact that manipulating Donald Trump is about as easy as rolling a boulder up the Washington Monument, the whole idea is wrong. LIBERALS are not paying attention to what Ivanka is doing in the West Wing. Donald Trump was elected our president because of his policies, and Ivanka has no interest in getting her father to change his stripes. What they refuse to acknowledge is that Ivanka is getting her father to add more stripes. She feels privileged and honored to serve her country and there are many areas in which she completely agrees with her father the president.

  I managed to get where I am because I’m not afraid to speak out for what I believe in—perhaps too often, I’m told—and Ivanka got to where she is the same way. She’s never let anyone tell her what to think or what to do. When people were telling her to study hard at boarding school, she decided to try her hand at modeling instead, just like her mother. When people expected her to join the family business straight out of Wharton, she worked at an outside firm instead. And when they told her she needed to follow the liberal crowd in New York City, she decided to use her head instead. She’s advocated policies that made sense to her and joined an administration where she knew her ideas would be heard.

  As soon as Ivanka joined her father’s campaign, the LIBERAL knives came out. The reporters who used to write positive profiles about her, chose instead to mock her from afar and make cheap jokes at her expense, or reduce everything she does to her clothing. Here’s a headline from the New York Times last November: “In India, Ivanka Trump Tried on Some Fashion Diplomacy. Was It a Good Look?” Could you imagine similar coverage of David Axelrod during the Obama years? Maybe a piece about Dick Cheney’s shoes?

  She’s been called a “media darling” and an “adviser-in-training,” and that’s only in the headlines! It’s similar to how reporters can never seem to reference Hope Hicks, one of President Trump’s former aides, without reminding everyone that she’s a former model. Even in the 1950s, this kind of coverage would smell of sexism and condescension. It’s so much worse when it comes from the same outlets that used to praise Ivanka for her ambition and business acumen. What they should write is that she has impeccable credentials that she brings to her job in the West Wing: she ran a huge international real estate company and created her own eponymous clothing company worth hundreds of millions of dollars!

  Once Ivanka was a role model for young women who wanted to succeed. Suddenly, now that she’s speaking her mind, she’s just an inexperienced little girl again, according to the Fake News media.

  These are the kind of tactics that no one has ever used on a woman like Chelsea Clinton, who, as far as I can tell, hasn’t had a real job in years. Ivanka used to be quite friendly with her.

  The difference between them, as I see it, is that one of these women has a father who ran a successful business empire while the other makes most of his income from donations from foreign despots. One of these women worked hard all through college and became a business executive and entrepreneur, while the other hit the speaking circuit right out of school and made money off her last name. One of these women has a father who makes bad jokes on occasion, while the other has sexually assaulted more women than anyone’s ever been able to count, including an intern in the Oval Office.

  One of them is viewed by the media as a champion of women. Can you guess which one?

  It goes to show you that the LIBERAL Left will let you get
away with anything so long as you can buy into their tactics and regurgitate their talking points. But if you believe that, say, illegal immigration is a serious problem, or that abortion is murder? Sorry, they say. That’s not what women think anymore. We decided for all of them. What right does the Left have to speak for all women, to exclude women who don’t share liberal views—the millions of conservative women who voted for Donald Trump? Ivanka is making sure that their views are being heard.

  This kind of mindless groupthink leads to a bad place. You don’t need to study history for very long to realize what happens when a group of people starts dictating what citizens are and are not allowed to believe. The struggle that Ivanka Trump is having with the mainstream media is no different than the one faced by millions of women across this country who dare to think for themselves—women who won’t be told what they can and cannot believe.

  LIBERALS in this country have built a platform of hatred, and anyone who’s not onboard is the enemy. If you don’t hate like they do, you’re not a feminist. You’re a racist and a Nazi. Or you’re some of the vile names I got called on the streets of Washington, DC, during the women’s march. Take your pick. We’re sick of being called names and hearing what you’re against. Tell us what you’re for. Do something productive!

  The sad truth is that these rich New York City liberals don’t actually believe in anything. They only know what they hate. That’s why no one could tell me what the women’s march was about. It was only about hatred of one man—a man who, somehow, remains unaffected by it. So, they go after his daughter.

  The reason LIBERALS, who once pretended to be Ivanka’s friends, don’t want to see illegal immigration curbed in this country is they need illegal immigrants to do jobs they won’t do: to work on the floors of the factories they own, to help around their penthouse apartments for below minimum wage, to be gardeners for their Scarsdale estates. They don’t want to see Donald Trump reform the international trade system because they’re already making millions off the current crooked system. They can’t stand the thought that it might be Donald Trump—a man who was one of them and decided to strive for something other than the standard rich-guy life in the city—who ends the strife in the Middle East or fully strips North Korea of its nuclear capability. They can’t stand it because he doesn’t owe them anything, he doesn’t need them, and he won without them. He won because the real people of America believe in him.

  So instead of doing something, the LIBERALS run back into their bubbles and hide. They cut ties with everyone who thinks differently than they do, and they funnel dirty money into Democrat campaigns, hoping it’ll swing their way next time. Or they organize some kind of “women’s march.”

  Next time they have one, I’m going to stay in the studio.

  Considering what he’s up against, I can’t help but marvel at what President Trump has accomplished in barely over a year. He did it despite unprecedented negative news coverage, a spurious investigation based on the left’s outlandish Russiagate conspiracy theory, and even resistance from some within his own party. There are times when he seems to be fighting the whole world. But he’s fighting for the people who elected him; he’s fighting for America. This is the Trump presidency you haven’t been told about. And it’s going to go on winning, the Swamp be damned.

  CHAPTER THIRTEEN

  The Trump Boomerang

  The anti-Trump hate brigade keeps coming up with new and more ridiculous ways to attack the president, finding ways to not only spin his spectacular accomplishments negative, but to disparage even his most innocuous comments or actions as proof he is evil incarnate. Ironically, whenever they point an accusatory finger at him, as the saying goes, there are three more fingers pointed back at themselves. Like a boomerang, every unhinged hate campaign against the president eventually circles back and hits the hater square in the forehead.

  The NFL Boomerang

  Donald Trump took on the NFL in his take-no-prisoners fashion, calling out Colin Kaepernick and other players taking a knee during our national anthem by saying “Get that S.O.B. off the field right now, he’s fired, he’s fired!” He was accused of everything from creating a divisive controversy to outright racism. David Remnick of the New Yorker called it “racial demagoguery.” Charles Blow of the New York Times opined: “Trump is a racist. Period.” It’s outrageous that when the President of the United States stands up for honoring the National Anthem, he’s called a racist!

  NFL commissioner Roger Goodell called the president’s comments “divisive,” adding they demonstrated “an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL and all our players.” He added that the president exhibited a failure to understand the overwhelming force for good the NFL and its players represent. The assistant executive director of the NFL mouthed off that no one should have to choose a job that forces them to surrender their rights, as if following their employers’ policies to respect our flag and national anthem was surrendering their rights.

  Suddenly, all these guys want to stand up or take a knee for social justice? When was the last time they voted, sat on a jury, joined a school board, wrote a letter to Congress, or fought for laws to help the people for whom they supposedly want justice? Instead of honoring the nation that allowed them to shine and become financially prosperous, they chose to disrespect our flag, inspiring eight-year-olds who hold them up as heroes to do the same. In high school football games across the country, young players took a knee, thinking they were “cool.”

  The boomerang was almost immediate. Americans who watched sports to get away from day-to-day stresses, financial woes—and yes, politics—had had enough.

  The NFL suffered ratings and attendance losses. Fans canceled their subscriptions and burned their season tickets and team jerseys.1 Stations that broadcast NFL games all took a hit. Television ratings on games dropped between 13 and 30 percent,2 costing the NFL hundreds of millions of dollars. As much as they loved football, Americans were angry enough to not watch the game because Goodell, Kaepernick, and company forced them to choose between football and the flag. True Americans chose the flag.

  But the Trump boomerang hit more than the franchises and the game. As the NFL kept going down the rabbit hole, with coaches beholden to misguided players and the almighty dollar, Americans made an end run to the Right.

  The 2017 World Series was a display of Americanism we hadn’t seen in decades. The singing of “God Bless America” by a Coast Guard petty officer preceded the national anthem. At some NASCAR races, the Pledge of Allegiance was recited, including US Olympic team members at one race.3

  It was a classic boomerang. The NFL took on the president and they were the ones who suffered, not for their phony patriotism as social justice warriors, but for their lack of real patriotism, period.

  The Papal Boomerang

  During the 2016 campaign, as Donald Trump touted his plan to build a wall between the US southern border and Mexico, Pope Francis decided to chime in from the other side of the world.

  Although he did not mention Trump by name, the Pope said societies should build bridges, not walls, to encourage good relations among people—a clear Trump reference. He added, “a Christian can never say ‘I’ll make you pay for that.’ Never! that is not a Christian gesture.” Again, that was clearly referring to Trump having said that Mexico would pay for the wall.

  Catholics across America panicked and started to wonder if a vote for Trump would be one against the church.

  Most politicians would have softened the wall message, or eliminated it, to steer clear of any perceived confrontation with the leader of the Catholic Church. After all, there are certain things that just aren’t done.

  Not Trump. He responded clearly and firmly, uncharacteristically sticking to his script, “For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful.”

  Donald Trump knew any fight with the leader of 1.2 billion Catholics, regardless of whether he won, would not be to his benefit. But he also knew that he couldn�
�t allow the Pope’s comments to go unanswered.

  The answer was in the form of a tweet. It was a picture of the Vatican, highlighting the wall surrounding the compound adding, “Amazing comments from the Pope—considering Vatican City is 100% surrounded by a massive wall.”

  Catholics who had held their breath, worried that they might not be able to vote for Trump because of the Pope’s message, breathed a sigh of relief. The point was made.

  Trump not only didn’t lose many votes; he got 50 percent of the Catholic vote to Hillary’s 46 percent.

  The Trump boomerang struck again.

  The Minority Boomerang

  The mainstream media and the Left has excoriated anyone of color who says anything remotely positive about Trump. The backlash is always immediate, swift, and severe. In fact, it’s so predictable that none dare to bring up anything pro-Trump. They are afraid to even mention that African American and Hispanic employment are at an all-time high.

  Kanye West, a cultural leader in the African-American community, has broken this intimidated silence. In a series of social media tweets, West posted a photo of himself wearing a “Make America Great” hat and commenting on his fondness for Trump. This reportedly cost him the loss of nine million followers and resulted in enormous social media criticism.