The children of prominent politicians are causing mighty waves. Kellyanne Conway’s daughter Claudia has one million followers on TikTok, Twitter and other social media outlets, where she regularly excoriates Trump and her parents. The niece of Donald Trump, Mary Trump, wrote a bestseller about the dysfunctional family that produced The Donald and regularly appears on cable news to denounce his policies.
But the latest shocker is this article in Vanity Fair by Caroline Rose Guiliani, daughter of Trump’s personal attorney and former Mayor of New York City. She argues with her father’s political views and urges readers to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Caroline is a political activist, and she speaks out eloquently against her father and his famous client.
The article is titled: “Rudy Guiliani Is My Father. Please, Everyone, Vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”
She writes:
I have a difficult confession—something I usually save for at least the second date. My father is Rudy Giuliani. We are multiverses apart, politically and otherwise. I’ve spent a lifetime forging an identity in the arts separate from my last name, so publicly declaring myself as a “Giuliani” feels counterintuitive, but I’ve come to realize that none of us can afford to be silent right now. The stakes are too high. I accept that most people will start reading this piece because you saw the headline with my father’s name. But now that you’re here, I’d like to tell you how urgent I think this moment is.
To anyone who feels overwhelmed or apathetic about this election, there is nothing I relate to more than desperation to escape corrosive political discourse. As a child, I saw firsthand the kind of cruel, selfish politics that Donald Trump has now inflicted on our country. It made me want to run as far away from them as possible. But trust me when I tell you: Running away does not solve the problem. We have to stand and fight. The only way to end this nightmare is to vote. There is hope on the horizon, but we’ll only grasp it if we elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Around the age of 12, I would occasionally get into debates with my father, probably before I was emotionally equipped to handle such carnage. It was disheartening to feel how little power I had to change his mind, no matter how logical and above-my-pay-grade my arguments were. He always found a way to justify his party line, whatever it was at the time. Even though he was considered socially moderate for a Republican back in the day, we still often butted heads. When I tried to explain my belief that you don’t get to be considered benevolent on LGBTQ+ rights just because you have gay friends but don’t support gay marriage, I distinctly remember him firing back with an intensity fit for an opposing politican rather than one’s child. To be clear, I’m not sharing this anecdote to complain or criticize. I had an extremely privileged childhood and am grateful for everything I was given, including real-world lessons and complicated experiences like these. The point is to illustrate one of the many reasons I have a fraught relationship with politics, like so many of us do.
Even when there was an occasional flash of connection in these disagreements with my dad, it felt like nothing changed for the better, so I would retreat again until another issue I couldn’t stay silent on surfaced. Over the years other subjects like racial sensitivity (or lack thereof), sexism, policing, and the social safety net have all risen to this boiling point in me. It felt important to speak my mind, and I’m glad we at least managed to communicate at all. But the chasm was painful nonetheless, and has gotten exponentially more so in Trump’s era of chest-thumping partisan tribalism. I imagine many Americans can relate to the helpless feeling this confrontation cycle created in me, but we are not helpless. I may not be able to change my father’s mind, but together, we can vote this toxic administration out of office.
Trump and his enablers have used his presidency to stoke the injustice that already permeated our society, taking it to dramatically new, Bond-villain heights. I am a filmmaker in the LGBTQ+ community who tells stories about mental health, sexuality, and other stigmatized issues, and my goal is to humanize people and foster empathy. So I hope you’ll believe me when I say that another Trump term (a term, itself, that makes me cringe) will irrevocably harm the LGBTQ+ community, among many others. His administration asked the Supreme Court to let businesses fire people for being gay or trans, pushed a regulation to let health care providers refuse services to people who are LGTBQ+, and banned trans people from serving their country in the military.
Women, immigrants, people with disabilities, and people of color are all also under attack by Trump’s inhumane policies—and by his judicial appointments, including, probably, Amy Coney Barrett. Trump’s administration has torn families apart in more ways than I even imagined were possible, from ripping children from their parents at the border to mishandling the coronavirus, which has resulted in over 215,000 in the U.S. dying, many thousands of them without their loved ones near. Faced with preventable deaths during a pandemic that Trump downplayed and ignored, rhetoric that has fed deep-seated, systemic racism, and chaos in the White House, it’s no surprise that so many Americans feel as hopeless and overwhelmed as I did growing up. But if we refuse to face our political reality, we don’t stand a chance of changing it.
And a little child shall lead them.
–Isaiah 11:16
Guiliani’s daughter is her own person. She rejects conservative dogma. Her father, Rudy, is a serial cheater on the women in his life including Donna Hanover, Rudy’s second wife and Caroline’s mother. I think his behavior is indicative of Rudy’s moral compass. Perhaps that is one reason he remains loyal to the most unethical president we have had in modern history and perhaps ever. Rudy was recently implicated in a fake news attempt to smear Biden’s character in a ridiculous fabricated story about a laptop that linked Biden to Ukraine. Luckily, this “trumped up” character assassination plot was rejected by ethical news outlets, but it reveals volumes about Rudy’s character. Team Trump is grasping at straws.
Brava to Caroline Rose, she also supported Hillary in 2016. On the other side of the spectrum is Giuliani’s son, Andrew, who might run for mayor (ugggghh!).
Quote: The son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani may be following in his father’s footsteps, telling the New York Post that he may run for mayor in 2021.
[snip]
“I am certainly thinking about it. It’s something that a bunch of people that I trust have approached me with,” Andrew Giuliani, 34, told The Post. “It’s been terrible to see over the last few years how the city has spiraled. I am afraid if the right candidate doesn’t win in 2021, four more years of de Blasio’s policies will remind us of the ’80s.” [snip]
For now, Andrew works as a public liaison assistant for President Trump, and he remains focused on the upcoming election.
“I am trying to make sure the president gets over the finish line on November 3 and then right after that my focus is going to be on how we can save New York City again,” he said. end quote
https://thewolfofwashington.com/giulianis-son-makes-startling-announcement/
Given how hated Trump is in NYC, I recommend that young Andrew look for other work.
I remember what a brat he was when Rudy was mayor.
Yes, I will never forget bratty Andrew’s “performance” (when he was a kid of 9 or 10) while Rudy was trying to make a speech in front of hundreds of people and a TV audience of millions (I guess). It was actually hilarious.
Yes, but it’s probably very hard not to turn out a brat if you have Rudely for a father.
Andrew imitating Rudy’s speech is funny. 😅🤣😂
How does Andrew Giuliani look Irish, when his parents are German and Italian? It must be his hair color. 😁
To me he looks German. But mother’s German-sounding name was from a previous husband: her ethnic background is a mix of Czech & Polish on father’s side, & Eng/ Irish/ Scottish/ Fr/ Germ on mother’s side. [Yes embarrassed to admit I spent the a.m. reading all about this family].
Everything you never wanted to know about Giuliani but were told anyway.
Just think of the useful things we could all have learned and done in the time that we have spent following all the BS about Trump, Giuliani and the rest of the gang.
That alone must have decreased GDP by at least a couple trillion dollars.
Yes, he looks German too. 😮
SDP– the most interesting thing I learned was that Rudy’s dad got busted for felony assault and robbery, did time at Sing Sing, and spent the rest of his life as an enforcer for the mob! No wonder the young Rudy planned to become a priest. Genes/ environment eventually had their way w/him, though.
Kaleigh MakeInanities, the latest Whiter House Miss Communications, posted today that Twitter, the media, big tech, the swamp, the deep state, the Hollywood elite, and China were against the Trump reelection.
She forgot a few things that are against the Trump reelection (I’ve culled these from Twitter and added many of my own):
history
science
intelligence
compassion
reason
the environment
sane people
people of color
truth
logic
honor
decency
the rule of law
all of our real allies
just about everyone who ever worked for Donald Trump, within or outside the maladministration
actual patriots
everyone left of Hitler
Mother Nature
1,000 CDC scientists who signed a letter today denouncing the Trump nonresponse to Covid-19
officers of the United States armed services
hundreds of former officials who worked at the highest levels in our intelligence services
farmers ruined by Trump’s tariffs
endangered species
the loved ones of 220,000 Americans dead from the SARS-CoV-2
the mothers of the dead after Trump’s abandonment of our allies the Kurds
people who believe that black lives matter
suburban Moms–yes, Donald, even white suburban Moms can’t stand you
OK, I realize that this is a partial list, but hey, one could go on and on
New York Times editorial board: “[Trump] can’t solve the nation’s most pressing problems because he is the nation’s most pressing problem.”
I would think that would make it easy.
Caroline Rose Giuliani is definitely an independent thinker. I can’t even begin to imagine what it was like growing up with Rudy for a father. By the way, replace all occurrences of the misspelling “Guiliani” with the correct spelling.