Ivanka Trumpon Tuesday encouraged her 5.6 million Twitter followers to “ignore the trolls” — and she may be taking some of her own advice.
President Donald Trump‘s eldest daughter and adviserfaced the wrath of social mediaover the holiday weekend after she tweeted a photograph of hercuddling with 2-year-old son Theodoreamid reports that the United States government has lost track of 1,500 migrant children who entered the country at the Mexican border.
Twitter users lashed out, asking Trump to consider, “How would your Sunday be if the federal government ripped this child from your arms and put him in a detention facility?” and “Isn’t it the just the best to snuggle your little one — knowing exactly where they are, safe in your arms?”
But on Tuesday, Trump, 36, appeared to be turning the other cheek to her Twitter “trolls.”
Quoting Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius in a series of tweets, she wrote: “ ‘If thou workest at what is before thee, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything to distract thee…If thou holdest to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to nature… thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who will be able to prevent this.’ ”
Ivanka and her son.Ivanka Trump Twitter
And in her final tweet in the series, Trump wrote: “Focus on what is before you, on what you can control and ignore the trolls! Have a great week!”
Shortly after Steven Wagner, a top official with the Department of Health and Human Services, testified to that fact during a Senate committee late last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration’s new “zero tolerance” policy regarding illegal immigration.
Prior to his daughter’s controversial social media message, President Trump tried toblame the “horrible law” on Democrats.
“Put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law,” he wrote on Saturday, adding, “we MUST continue building the WALL!”
ButThe Washington Postnotes thatthere is no lawspecifically requiring the government to separate children from parents who enter the country illegally.
In fact, was the Trump administrationthat made the decisionto refer anyone caught crossing the border illegally for federal prosecution — a policy that has already led to more children being separated from their parents at the border.
source: people.com
