trump watch, tuesday, april 11th, 2017. i've said for some time the trump presidency resembles a royal favor with special favor to the russian royal family before the communists grabbed power. just watch the way these latter day romanovs set policy. jared kushner is given reign over pretty much everything. he heads off to iraq to meet with the u.s. military commander as if he were a viceroy, a stand-in for the president himself. and then there's the president's son, eric, who says that the key to understanding trump's decision to fire away at syria lies with his sister, ivanka. he says watch her and her children, donald's grandchildren, and you see the power behind the throne. if she didn't like those pictures coming from syria, that explains why trump acted, why he sent those cruise missiles there. again, it's about the family. young trump said something more