Some people have all the luck.
Consider the case of the fortuitous timing of Tiffany Trump’s pregnancy, announced last week in Detroit, by her proud father.
At first, when I read about it, I thought naively: Oh, how nice! It’s great that he cares so much about Tiffany that he wants to share this…
And then, I realized after I watched his interview on Sunday with the Saudi government funded TV network, Al Arabiya, that I was being dumb.
Tiffany Trump’s husband, Michael Boulos, is Lebanese. He was born in Lebanon and raised in Nigeria.
Detroit is in the swing state of Michigan, where there is a big Arab American community that’s voted Democrat for over 20 years, following 9/11.
But that community, according to today’s Washington Post, is now divided over whether to vote for Kamala Harris, seeing her as aligned with President Biden’s staunch support of Israel. According to the Post, many may not vote at all.
After, his speech to Detroit’s Economic club, Trump reportedly met with two local Imams, courtesy of Michael Boulos’s businessman father, Massad Boulos, who has reportedly been lobbying Michigan’s Arab Americans on behalf of the Trump campaign for the past six months.
And Tiffany’s pregnancy enabled Trump to talk out of both sides of his mouth on his Al Arabiya interview last Sunday: on the one hand saying Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu should feel free to do whatever he wants in terms of bombing Lebanon and Iran, and on the other saying that he’s thrilled he’s going to have a grandchild who is half-Arab and he wants Lebanon to be a place his family can visit.
“I’m happy about it. I have many friends who are Arab, as you say, but from different countries, but Arab, and I’m very happy about this. They’re very warm people. It’s a shame what’s happening over there. They’re the warmest people. Michael’s father’s so great; his mother’s so great. They’re friends of mine. Michael’s such a great young man. He’s such a smart guy. And they’re gonna have a baby and I’m very happy about it.”
I’ve never thought much about Tiffany Trump or Michael Boulos.
It’s possible that, until recently, neither has Donald Trump. You’ll recall that Trump’s personal assistant Madeleine Westerhout was fired in 2019 after knocking back a couple of drinks and telling reporters that Trump couldn’t pick Tiffany out of a crowd.
But that was before Tiffany got married to Michael at Mar-a-Lago in 2022 following a courtship conducted far from proletariat view, in a bunch of private members clubs in London and Europe.
Thus an opportunity arose. Coincidence?
Read on at Vicky Ward Investigates