Opinion: Presidents’ young children should be left alone. That rule doesn’t apply to Ivanka and Don Jr.
Donald Trump Jr. attends the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in Dallas last May. By Patti Davis March 12 at 5:04 PM Patti Davis is the author, most recently, of the novel “The Wrong Side of Night” and is the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
Some of us were still children or adolescents when an election changed our lives forever. Some of us were adults, already in our 20s. Regardless, we were still referred to in infantilizing ways. We were “first daughters” or “first sons” or simply “the children.” Those who were younger — Chelsea Clinton, Malia and Sasha Obama, Barron Trump — have been for the most part graced with an unwritten rule that young children of a president should be left alone. That isn’t always honored, however.
I was 28 when my father was elected president. I chose to be part of the antinuclear movement in the most strident and public way — at rallies and demonstrations. I put myself on the front lines, and the media had a field day. I have no one to blame but myself. I could have supported that movement in a more dignified way, but I didn’t.
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