WTH?
Busted: Ivanka Trump’s Story About Her Son’s White House LEGO Model Probably Isn’t True — Here’s Why
During her address to the Republican National Committee Convention from the White House, first daughter Ivanka Trump attempted to humanize her father by telling a story of her son building a LEGO model of the White House.
Trump biographer Andrea Berstein, the Peabody Award winning journalist who wrote the 2020 book, American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power Hardcover, had heard a similar story before, although in the earlier telling the story was about Ivanka herself.
{The story was plagiarized from “The Art of the Deal.”)
— Andrea Bernstein (@AndreaWNYC) August 28, 2020
President Donald Trump also told a similar story, involving his brother Robert and toy blocks.
Ivanka also told the story about herself while being interviewed by Conan O’Brien in 2007.
Watch:
Seems the whole family has made up different versions of the LEGO story. https://t.co/naVCDlPl6G
— Kenneth Hurwitz (@KenHuur) August 28, 2020
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