Eric Trump mocked for 'snowflake response' to MSNBC joke about father's hush money trial
Eric Trump was dubbed a "snowflake" this week on X after he expressed sensitivity to a joke about his father's hush-money criminal trial in New York.
MSNBC's Katie Phang joked about Eric's absence from former president Donald Trump's trial Tuesday after diligently accompanying him on most other days. Phang then pointed to the presence of Donald Trump Jr, who has never been seen at the courthouse with his dad. Given the decent setup, she tweeted: “Don Jr. is here today. I guess we know who lost the rock, paper, scissors battle.”
It seemed to strike a nerve within the second-born Trump son who rebuked: “What a cruel and nasty comment by @KatiePhang of @MNSBC. This is the state of the mainstream media — attacking a son for supporting their father — as I have on countless days during this bogus sham of a trial.”
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Critics were quick to remind Eric of his father's, and other Trump family members, online attacks on rivals and their families. Thus began a long X thread of users poking fun at Eric's seemingly hurt feelings--excluding Phang who hadn't responded to his comeback.
"It's peak hypocrisy for any member of your insurrectionist grifter family to make a peep about nasty comments," one wrote. "Your brother has a podcast dedicated to attacking people. Your father has attacked people so horribly that a judge had to issue a gag order. You should toughen up."
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Others showed a bit more malice in their tweets to Eric. "Cruel? Your father used the presidency as his bully pulpit to target, defame and incite an insurrection. F*** you!" The comments have legitimacy to them as media outlets noticed that Eric liked a tweet that off-handily referred to Vice President Kamala Harris, then a California Sen, as a whore.
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At the time, US President Joe Biden had just announced Harris as his running mate for the 2020 election and the second-born Trump son was serving as executive vice president for his father's re-election campaign.
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The long-deleted tweet from an account belonging to user Lori Hendry read: “Raise your hand if you think Harris was a whorendous pick. May have misspelled.”
It's ironic for Eric to take such a light comment to heart given his father's short, but explosive and controversial history in politics. The sexist tweet came after Trump senior scathed Harris as he scrambled to respond to her historic selection.
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He called her mean, horrible and disrespectful before spouting downright racist and sexist comments about an otherwise barrier-breaking decision from the then-former vice president. Not to mention all the disrespectful names he called his former rival Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election, whom he referred to as a "nasty women."