<p>Love him or hate him, we can’t ignore that when it comes to parenting, Donald Trump seems to be a pretty good father. The proof is evident in the behavior of his kids. Certainly, kids who have an ax to grind don’t act like his kids do.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">First, adult sons and daughters who harbor deep anger toward a parent never speak highly of him or her, regardless of how famous they are. In fact, fame can be an ideal opportunity for angry kids to humiliate their parents. Trump’s older kids, Eric, Ivanka, and Donald Jr. don’t behave this way. In fact, they have no reason to publicly support their father so enthusiastically other than the belief that their father is a good and capable man. Sure, they may want to applaud him to further their own careers, but they don’t need to do this. They are each highly successful on their own. If they had lukewarm sentiments about their dad, they would at least fade into the background. But they haven’t. They have taken advantage of large public platforms to convince us that he has strong character and extraordinarily strong abilities to improve America. They wouldn’t do this if they believed that his intentions were other than altruistic. The fact that they have successfully convinced millions of Americans that he has what it takes to lead our country can only come from sincere sentiments.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Second, both his daughter-in-law and son-in-law are two of his most ardent supporters. How many in-laws boast about their father-in-law not only privately, but also publicly? Lara has no motive to boast other than genuine admiration and Jared could certainly stay silent.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When it comes to his business life, Trump puts his grown kids front and center. Fathers who want to dominate the spotlight, don’t do this. They own the public space and keep their adult kids in the background, in part, to avoid the risk that their kids will make derogatory statements about them. Trump takes the risk because he is confident they won’t humiliate or criticize him. He knows they will always support him.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Trump’s older kids were young, he protected them from the paparazzi. He worked to keep his kids out of the spotlight until they wanted to jump into it of their own volition. His first three kids went away to school so that the press would leave them alone. Tiffany and Barron now enjoy that same privacy so they too can live their own lives. The president-elect could easily push all of them into the spotlight to make himself look like a good father, but he doesn’t. Eric, Ivanka, and Donald Jr., along with Lara Trump, put themselves in the public and political arenas to bolster President-elect Trump’s career.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When it comes to raising his family, Trump appears to have nothing to hide. Most fathers would be afraid to give their kids the freedom to say what they want about their dad. Who among us would have the confidence to give our kids such a large media presence to say whatever they want about us? Not me. Only a father who feels confident about the job he has done would do so.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many divorced couples carry resentment and anger after their breakup with their spouse and psychologists know how damaging the animosity can be on the couple’s kids. Donald has kept his kids from a lot of pain by embracing friendships with his two ex-wives. And while Ivana Trump passed away in 2022, we still see photos of Marla Maples, Melania, and Donald standing together smiling for the camera at Tiffany Trump’s wedding.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The peculiar thing about the president-elect’s life is that he seems to have successfully split himself into two men: the father and the political genius. In his former role, he appears to have worked hard at having close relationships with his kids. To the best of his ability, he has tried to spend as much time as possible with them. This is no easy task when you are running a multi-million-dollar real estate empire and then while being president. Succeeding at both takes impossible time and energy and yet, with these challenges, he has somehow stayed close with his kids.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The other side of Trump is hard to applaud. He has been accused of multiple incidents of sexual harassment and harmful sexual behavior toward women. He has admitted to being a poor husband at times, and his numerous public affairs with women confirm this. Good husbands don’t cheat on their wives or sexually harass other women. The peculiar part is that his five kids know this and still publicly support and encourage him. This occurs only because, in some genuinely incredible feat, Trump has found a way to communicate to his kids that being their father is a much higher priority than even being a husband, businessman, or politician. His life as a father is completely separate from his work life, and his kids must feel this. If they refused to forgive or ignore his deep flaws they would take every opportunity to denounce him on the worldwide stage.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Donald Trump is a complex man. He is both a good man and a villain. This is hard for people to understand. The truth is, however, that we are all complex beings. Like him, we are not simply good or evil, kind or cruel. We are both. Certainly, as a man, Trump has made poor decisions, and offended many people to the point where they despise him. But clearly, he has done something well when it comes to his kids. And their behavior is a testimony to his personal success as a father.</span></p>
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<p><em>Meg Meeker, M.D., has spent more than thirty years practicing pediatric and adolescent medicine and counseling teens and parents. Dr. Meeker is a fellow of the National Advisory Board of the Medical Institute, and an associate professor of medicine at Michigan State School of Human Medicine. She is <span style="font-weight: 400;">the a</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">uthor of the international best-seller “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strong-Fathers-Daughters-Secrets-Father/dp/1621573303/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=">Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters</a>.”</span></em></p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.</em></p>


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<p>Ivana Trump, the first wife of former President Donald Trump, was under FBI counterintelligence investigation after she eventually ended up in the U.S. after migrating out of then-communist Czechoslovakia.</p>
<p>Bloomberg News <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-27/fbi-releases-files-on-ivana-trump-former-president-s-first-wife">obtained</a> scores of pages from an FBI file on Ivana Trump that included their findings from the international investigation that spanned from Europe to Canada.</p>
<p>The &#8220;secret&#8221; files said that in 1989 the FBI recommended opening an investigation into Ivana Trump based on information that bureau received from a confidential source. The FBI report noted that the allegations could have stemmed from “jealousies of her wealth and fame.”</p>
<p>Much is still not known about the two-year investigation other than it involved the FBI&#8217;s counterintelligence division and was deemed &#8220;highly sensitive.&#8221;</p>
<p>The FBI file reportedly had little information about Donald Trump in it.</p>
<p>The report said that the FBI found 900 pages of material that it had on Ivana Trump and, after being sued by Bloomberg News, agreed to release nearly 200 pages this week and will release the remainder next month.</p>
<p>The bureau can release the information now since Ivana Trump is no longer alive.</p>
<p>Donald Trump announced Ivana&#8217;s passing last July in a statement he posted to social media.</p>
<p>“I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City,” the former president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-donald-trump-announces-ex-wife-has-died">said</a> in a statement. “She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life. Her pride and joy were her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her. Rest In Peace, Ivana!”</p>
<p data-reader-unique-id="37">Ivana Trump was mother to the three oldest Trump children, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump.</p>
<p data-reader-unique-id="38">Ivana Marie Zelnícková was born under communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia. She was athletically gifted growing up as she <a href="https://www.biography.com/personality/ivana-trump" data-reader-unique-id="39">participated</a> in competitive skiing starting at the age of six and continued skiing through college and reportedly was an alternate for the country’s Olympic team in the 1972.</p>
<p data-reader-unique-id="40">Ivana Trump later immigrated to Canada in the 1970s where she worked as a ski instructor before starting her modeling career which landed her in New York in 1976 — where she quickly met Donald Trump.</p>
<p data-reader-unique-id="44">Ivana Trump married Donald Trump in 1977. The couple later got divorced in 1992.</p>
<p data-reader-unique-id="45">The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/nyregion/ivana-trump-dead.html" data-reader-unique-id="46">reported</a> that Ivana Trump was a “critical part” in Donald Trump building his real-estate business, describing her as extremely hard working and with a keen eye for details. At one point she served as vice president for interior design at the Trump Organization.</p>
<p data-reader-unique-id="47">Ivana Trump and Donald Trump were on good terms in recent years, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/05/ivana-trump-president-twitter-habit-243492" data-reader-unique-id="48">reportedly</a> speaking as often as once a week, as she supported him politically and encouraged his use of Twitter.</p>
<p data-reader-unique-id="53">Ivana Trump was married to Alfred Winklmayr before she met Donald Trump. Ivana Trump’s marriage to Winklmayr lasted two years.</p>
<p data-reader-unique-id="54">After her marriage to Trump, Ivana Trump married Riccardo Mazzucchelli in 1995. That marriage later ended in 1997.</p>


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<p>Ivanka Trump shared a heartbreaking post on Instagram about &#8220;grief&#8221; during her family&#8217;s first holiday season following her mother Ivana Trump&#8217;s death in July.</p>
<p>In the lengthy <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CmuXbGGu3i0/">post</a>, former President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ivanka-trump">daughter</a> said &#8220;it&#8217;s true&#8221; what others have said about &#8220;grief during the holidays&#8221; being hardest and said the &#8220;void&#8221; left by her mom&#8217;s absence &#8220;is undeniable&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This is the first holiday season since the passing of my mother,&#8221; Ivanka captioned her post. &#8220;It&#8217;s true: grief during the holidays can be harder than any other time of the year.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Learning to celebrate differently is a challenge,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I am trying to be kind, patient and compassionate with myself and honor and make space for all of the emotions I am experiencing. New memories are being made, my children&#8217;s laughter is abundant, my 96-year-old grandma&#8217;s presence at our table brings us all joy, yet the void is undeniable.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The loss of a parent is one of life&#8217;s very painful passages for which one is never fully prepared,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;It hits at the very core of your being. And it takes a good amount of time to emerge from how it dislocates you.&#8221;</p>
<p>The former first daughter then closed out her post by sending love and support to all those who &#8220;have experienced the loss of a loved one this year.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;May hope sustain you, may good memories provide you comfort, may friends and family surround you, and may love give you strength,&#8221; she wrote.</p>
<p>The former senior advisor to the Trump administration&#8217;s post also included several sweet throwback photos of Ivanka as a young child with her mom during various Christmas celebrations over the years.</p>
<p>In July, news surfaced that the first wife of former President Trump had died, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-ivana-trumps-cause-of-death-revealed-reports-say">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ivana-trumps-3-children-post-heartfelt-tributes-after-her-death'">Reports later</a> confirmed that Ivana died from injuries she sustained after falling down a flight of stairs, according to the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Her death was ruled as an accident.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ivana-trumps-3-children-post-heartfelt-tributes-after-her-death">Ivana Trump&#8217;s 3 Children Post Heartfelt Tributes After Her Death</a></strong></p>


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<p>D-List comedienne <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-to-make-a-straight-man-turn-gay-60-year-old-kathy-griffin-ridiculed-after-dancing-topless-in-viral-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kathy Griffin</a>, who once posed holding a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/election-night-kathy-griffin-retweets-infamous-pic-of-her-with-trumps-severed-head/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fake severed head of former President Trump</a>, continued her gruesome and tasteless obsession with the 45th president Monday by suggesting his late first wife&#8217;s body be exhumed.</p>
<p>The cold-hearted comic&#8217;s joke was apparently about Trump allegedly having classified documents at his Florida home. In trying to make a punchline of Ivana Trump, who died tragically in mid-July after falling down the stairs at her home in New York City, Griffin tweeted, “Exhume Ivana.”</p>
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<p>Griffin, who was a fixture on CNN&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Eve specials for years, posed for a May 2017 photo session by photographer Tyler Shields in which she held up a bloody replica of Trump’s severed head. <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2017/05/30/kathy-griffin-beheads-donald-trump-photo-tyler-shields/">TMZ</a> obtained a copy of the shot before the picture’s release, reporting that Griffin joked during the shoot that she and Shields would need to flee to Mexico after the release or they’d go to prison.</p>
<p>The stunt was too much even for CNN.</p>
<p>“We found what she did disgusting and offensive,&#8221; the network said in a statement. &#8220;We are pleased to see she has apologized and asked that the photos be taken down. We are evaluating New Year’s Eve and have made no decisions at this point.”</p>
<p>But by the end of August 2017 Griffin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-kathy-griffin-says-she-isnt-sorry-severed-hank-berrien">indicated she was unrepentant</a>. Appearing on Australia’s &#8220;Sunrise Live&#8221;<em> </em>with hosts David Koch and Samantha Armytage, she brazenly stated that she wasn’t sorry for the infamous photo, calling the incendiary reaction to the photo “B.S.”, referring to the “atrocities” perpetrated by President Trump, and whining about all she had suffered because she’s a woman.</p>
<p>&#8220;You were very sorry at the time; you apologized,&#8221; Koch said in the interview. &#8220;You were very upset. Are you no longer sorry for it?</p>
<p>&#8220;Correct,&#8221; Griffin replied. &#8220;I&#8217;m no longer sorry. The whole outrage was B.S. The whole thing got so blown out of proportion. And I lost everybody; I had Chelsea Clinton tweeting against me. I had friends, Debra Messing, from &#8216;Will and Grace&#8217;, tweeting against me. I mean, I lost everybody. And so I have been through the mill, I also, I didn’t just lose like, one night on CNN; my entire tour was canceled within 24 hours because every single theater got all these death threats. I mean, these Trump fans; they’re hard-core. They have, like, robocalls, and they’re a minority, but they know how to act like they’re a majority.&#8221;</p>
<p>Armytage pointed out that it wasn’t just “Trump fans” who took offense, noting that liberal actress Debra Messing and Chelsea Clinton had denounced the photo.</p>
<p>&#8220;Do you not agree that that picture, holding up a severed head, I know it’s a mask, covered in tomato sauce, but do you do not accept that was a little bit over the line?&#8221; Armytage asked.</p>
<p>A defiant Griffin snapped back at the hosts.</p>
<p>&#8220;You’re full of crap,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Stop acting like my little picture is more important than talking about the actual atrocities that the President of the United States is committing, and I’m also on a mission to tell people honestly if it happened to me, as big-mouthed and obnoxious as I am, it can happen to you.&#8221;</p>
<p>On the night of the 2020 presidential election, as results were still being tabulated all over the country, Griffin retweeted the infamous photo.</p>
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