Eric Trump doesn’t seemed bothered by Chelsea Handler’s rude comment about his unborn son. Honestly, he thinks it’s “just sad.”
On April 25, the Trump and his wife Lara joined Dr. Oz to talk about the impending birth of their first child, living in the spotlight and their passion for stopping puppy mills.
Oz began by complimenting the couple on their pregnancy and then resurrected Handler’s March 20 tweet: “I guess one of @realDonaldTrump’s sons is expecting a new baby. Just what we need. Another person with those jeans. Let’s hope for a girl.”
Although she did face media backlash for her insensitive comment, the comedian only apologized for her incorrect spelling. In a follow-up tweet, she explained: “I’m a little stoned. What’s your excuse?”
“Those are harsh words, even if you’re stoned,” Oz opined, before giving the floor to Mr. Trump.
“It’s just sad, that society has gotten to the point where something as beautiful as this, and life, and babies, and innocence… really gets taken down like that because of politics, I mean that’s how divided we’ve become as a nation,” Trump commented. “…This is a very special thing and it should be celebrated.”
He continued, “At the same time when somebody spells ‘genes’ incorrectly right, you kinda have to turn your head and ignore it a little bit. But, you know, honestly, for every single one of those there were 300 saying, listen we love your family, we love everything that you stand for… I really think in so many ways that’s what America voted for.”
Vanity Fair Hollywood columnist Richard Lawson wasn’t having any of it. In a highly sarcastic op-ed for vanityfair.com, the writer jabbed: “Despite ignoring it and taking the higher road and talking about it on Dr. Oz, as brave and handsome Eric Trump is doing, I still wish we knew who created this political temper, who is to blame for this national mood of sniping and cynicism.”
(Of course, the Vanity Fair writer failed to point out that Oz—not Trump—brought up Handler’s tweet.)
“We have a calm, intelligent, completely sane and benevolent leader in the White House, so it’s not coming from there,” Lawson went on. “But it must have a source. There must be some petty, vindictive, stupid bully somewhere in Washington who is tearing our country in two.”
Clearly, Lawson is not contributing to the division – shall I use italics?—at all.
