Trump Looks At Eclipse — Even After Ivanka Warned Him Not To

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By Daniel J. Solomon August 21, 2017

It was another epic fail in Ivanka Trump’s efforts to influence the president. Her father peeked at Monday’s solar eclipse, even after she tweeted a warning about not looking at the sun.

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump were caught by the press looking at the solar eclipse from the White House’s Truman Balcony. Though the couple eventually donned eclipse glasses, the president appeared to look straight up at the eclipse – something that can lead to eye damage.

And that was after Ivanka sent out her Twitter.

Excited for #Eclipse2017? Remember to wear your glasses ? #NASA #STEM pic.twitter.com/FzujQai4G3

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) August 21, 2017

Ivanka Trump has struggled to get her dad to listen – on Paris climate change, on the transgender military ban and now, it seems, on eclipse etiquette. But at least she wasn’t at the White House – she was watching the event from the National Air and Space Museum nearby.

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Daniel J. Solomon is the former Assistant to the Editor/News Writer at the Forward. Originally from Queens, he attended Harvard as an undergraduate, where he wrote his senior thesis on French-Jewish intellectual history. He is excited to have returned to New York after his time in Massachusetts. Daniel’s passions include folk music, cycling, and pointed argument.

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