"The One With The Retarded Dad"

Apologies for the language in the title of this post, I'm quoting Donald Trump Jr.'s wife Vanessa, who's referring to his father. It's from a fascinating 2006 New York Times article:

"I'm at this fashion show," Vanessa Trump said, recalling their meeting in 2003. "Donald Trump comes up to me with his son: 'Hi, I'm Donald Trump. I wanted to introduce you to my son Donald Trump Jr.'"

The three engaged in a brief, awkward conversation.

At intermission, the elder Trump again noticed a gorgeous girl nearby.

"Donald comes back up to me again, 'I don't think you've met my son Donald Trump Jr.,'" Vanessa Trump recalled. She remembers responding, "Yeah, we just met, five minutes ago."

Six weeks later, at a birthday party at a New York restaurant, they were introduced a third time, this time by a mutual friend. Neither remembered the other. "We talked for an hour," she recalled.

Then suddenly, something clicked: Wait, you were at that fashion show. Wait, you're "the one with the retarded dad!" Vanessa blurted out.

On Nov. 12, 2005, they married at Mar- a-Lago, the family's club in Florida. (Donald Trump Sr. had taken his son to task on "Larry King Live" for accepting a free engagement ring from a jeweler at a mall in New Jersey in exchange for publicly announcing his engagement there. "You have a name that is hot as a pistol, you have to be very careful with things like this," the elder Trump told King. (Read the article here.) 

There's a lot going on in Trumpworld this week, much of it centered around the president's eldest son, who apparently isn't too bright.(Google "Donald Trump Jr. stupid".) I'm going to try *not* to spend the day cutting and pasting every example of how dim junior is but it won't be easy. It would all be truly hilarious if his father wasn't president.