Washington – Backstage photos from the black-tie inaugural balls. A quick peek out the Truman Balcony to admire the view of Washington. A visit to the basement White House bowling alley.
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President Donald Trump’s grown children and their families have reveled in the first hours as the first family and have enthusiastically documented it all on social media.
The Trumps’ Twitter and Instagram accounts reveal much of the Trump clan is as comfortable with social media as its patriarch. Each of the grown children tracked their historic day as many Americans would — one post at a time.
The build-up to the inauguration began days ago as daughter Tiffany Trump and Lara Trump, who is married to Trump’s son Eric, posted photos of themselves prepping for some of the week’s black tie-events. Lara Trump included a caption that read “Dinner date” and a smiling face emoji.
Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest child, documented much of his Inauguration Day on Instagram. He first posted a photo of his family riding in a presidential limousine on the way to the U.S. Capitol on Friday. Later, he posted a video of him dancing with his wife, Vanessa, at a ball, and then for his nightcap, an encounter at the family’s new Washington hotel with the cast of the reality show “Duck Dynasty” and a slightly disheveled Fox News personality Sean Hannity.
Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to the president, chronicled her family’s ride to the inaugural parade with an Instagram of the two of the couple’s children secure in car seats rolling to the viewing stand. Each held a distraction in hand — one a tablet, the other a smartphone — a detail likely to earn knowing nods from many parents.
The Trump clan spent Friday night at the White House, as Trump himself had promised in the days before. Ivanka and Jared were spotted snapping photos Saturday morning on the Truman Balcony.
Later, the Trumps tested out the bowling alley.
Donald Trump Jr. posted a video of his wife and children bowling in the lanes installed in the basement of the White House by President Richard Nixon in 1969.
Was snapping pictures on Shabbos also part of the heter Jared and Ivanka received? Just asking..
So the Kushners went to church on Shabbos morning. Was that before or after they went to Shul?
“Ivanka and Jared Kushner were spotted Saturday morning snapping photos on the Truman balcony”. Undoubtedly, this must have been Pikuach Nefesh.
You see even the President grandkids need phones and tablets to keep them busy in car lol
Ivanka and Jared snapping photos Saturday Morning. Pikuch nefesh here too?
” Ivanka and Jared were spotted snapping photos Saturday morning on the Truman Balcony”
what happened with shabbos?forget going into a church but shabbos, i thought they were shomer shabbos?
Does Rabbi Lookstein know that Ivanka went to the National Cathedral? Did she have a heter for that also?
Did Ivanka get a heter to snap photoshots saturday morning too? Is this also pekuach nefesh?? This whole thing is extremly questionable.
Could be they got a heter to take photos. We have a rabbi in the area who wouldn’t object. She allows such things.
The Kushners were “spotted” taking pictures on Shabbos? The news story presents this as second-hand information. Given all the other outright lies published about the family, it is not only obligatory but reasonable to doubt this story as well.
though i posted previously questioning the kushners ,we would be best served to be mekarev them instead of openly criticizing them for their lack of halacha
being their are plenty of jews who embrace them as they are
if we really want them to get closer to authentic orthodoxy we should be mekarev beyemin instead of meracheyk bismoel
Such Loshon Hora! I think they were actually holding a shiddur!
Maybe they began a new minhag to birchas hachodesh.
They were “spotted snapping photos”? That’s hearsay, not fact. That said, seems orthodoxy means different things to different people. Tznius has a definition in the Torah. Frum women don’t go sleeveless and married women wear a head-covering. I know, I know, many otherwise “orthodox” women don’t. Say what you will, that doesn’t make it right. So like I say, orthodoxy today means different things to different people.
The journalist knows that it is user on shabos to take pictures and all he wants is all those negative comments here and elsewhere, if this was true why didn’t he snap a picture of them posting for pictures??
How come we didn’t see any pictures of it?
Let’s chill with the Lamed Hey please.
What worries me about their activities is how many truly Shomer Shabbos people are now going to be subject to “well, the Kushners got a dispensation to do things on Saturday – why can’t you?”
its amazing how everyone minds everyone elses business and always find faul with others instead of looking into fixing themselves lead by example is the best way of influencing others