Overjoyed by these beautiful letters. Reading them is one of the highlights of my week. 😍 pic.twitter.com/AF5tSMHnB6
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) August 25, 2017
In July, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried to add a positive spin to a daily briefing by reading a letter from a child nicknamed “Pickle,” who few people really believed existed and who expressed the utmost admiration for the president. As it turns out, Pickle was apparently real, but the sketchiness remains with the sharing of such letters, including Ivanka Trump’s tweeted photos of her own gathering of fan mail: “Overjoyed by these beautiful letters. Reading them is one of the highlights of my week.”
It’s not out of the realm of possibility that young girls would idolize Ivanka, especially since she’s outwardly presenting herself as an advocate for women’s rights (even if she isn’t truly living up to that promise). However, some folks suspected that these letters were unrealistic portrayals of how children actually present themselves on paper. So, people began to do with they often do to Ivanka’s presumptuousness — they mocked the heck out of it — although they noted an aspect of “realness.”
Whatever staffer made these fake letters to Ivanka Trump, I loved this little touch – was it a commentary on being blinded by greed? pic.twitter.com/qFtUUAGeWo
— Lennie (@jerryorbach) August 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/neilscudder/status/900924265335103488
https://twitter.com/digggles/status/900954542207975425
Others made their own suggestions of what the letters should actually say.
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) August 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/safeagain1/status/900906772642365441
We had a letter for you too! 😍 pic.twitter.com/6cm9PklvvQ
— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) August 25, 2017
Still other people simply weren’t buying the story at all.
https://twitter.com/indiequick/status/900877054505365506
https://twitter.com/JustinOArnold/status/900876411413684224
Are they get well cards or something? Or are they encouraging you to take away your fathers phone so he stops tweeting.
— Russell West (@RWestChicago) August 25, 2017
And this concludes this regularly-scheduled dose of Internet skepticism that turns into figurative, whiteboard-style fun. Until next time…