Open Season on Trump Kids
Posted By Bill McMorris On January 23, 2017 @ 4:59 am In Politics | No Comments
President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration brought to an end the Obama era, as well as the unwritten rule that the children of politicians are off-limits.
Ashley Csanady, a political reporter from Canada’s National Post, opened the festivities on Twitter less than three hours after Trump was sworn in, declaring that Trump’s 10-year-old son Barron suffered from a condition that many media outlets have speculated to be sexist.
She left the tweet up for more than a day before deleting the post and apologizing.
Targeting the family members of sitting presidents had been frowned upon since the 2009 Inauguration. The most famous breach of this protocol came in November 2014 when former First Children Malia and Sasha Obama, then 16 and 13, respectively, rolled their eyes during a White House Ceremony. The teenage antics garnered plenty of notice from the press, but the incident turned sinister when a low-level GOP aide criticized the pair on Facebook and urged them to “rise to the occasion” and “try showing a little class.”
http://freebeacon.com/politics/open-season-trump-kids/
