Kellyanne Conway has announced that she is resigning from her role as Senior Counsel to President Donald Trump.
The announcement comes after a weekend in which her teenage daughter, Claudia, posted a series of tweets blasting her parents – her mom in particular – and claiming she was seeking emancipation from them.
Claudia Conway, 15, has previously used her platform on TikTok and Twitter to criticize her mom’s politics. It ramped up over the weekend, beginning with Claudia saying she was “devastated” that her mom would be speaking at the RNC this week.
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i’m devasted that my mother is actually speaking at the RNC. like DEVASTATED beyond compare
— CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) August 23, 2020
This was followed by a tweet saying she was seeking emancipation from her parents.
i’m officially pushing for emancipation. buckle up because this is probably going to be public one way or another, unfortunately. welcome to my life
— CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) August 23, 2020
A later tweet said her mother’s job had ruined her life, and that her mother was all about “money and fame.”
my mother’s job ruined my life to begin with. heartbreaking that she continues to go down that path after years of watching her children suffer. selfish. it’s all about money and fame, ladies and gentlemen.
— CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) August 23, 2020
Kellyanne Conway’s husband, George Conway famously does not support Donald Trump and leads The Lincoln Project, a Republican-based political action committee dedicated to preventing the re-election of Trump as President. However, Claudia had little praise for him either.
as for my dad, politically, we agree on absolutely nothing. we just both happen to have common sense when it comes to our current president. stop “stanning” him
— CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) August 23, 2020
In a subsequent statement released Sunday evening, Kellyanne Conway said she was stepping down from her role at the White House to spend more time with her kids. George Conway also said he was stepping away from the Lincoln Project to concentrate on “family matters.”
“I will be transitioning from the White House at the end of this month. George is also making changes,” Kellyanne Conway said.
“We disagree about plenty but we are united on what matters most: the kids. Our four children are teens and ‘tweens starting a new academic year, in middle school and high school, remotely from home for at least a few months. As millions of parents nationwide know, kids ‘doing school from home’ requires a level of attention and vigilance that is as unusual as these times.”
She said the decision was “completely my choice and my voice.”
She added, “In time, I will announce future plans. For now, and for my beloved children, it will be less drama, more mama.”
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Husband George Conway tweeted, “So I’m withdrawing from @ProjectLincoln to devote more time to family matters. And I’ll be taking a Twitter hiatus. Needless to say, I continue to support the Lincoln Project and its mission. Passionately.”
So I’m withdrawing from @ProjectLincoln to devote more time to family matters. And I’ll be taking a Twitter hiatus.
Needless to say, I continue to support the Lincoln Project and its mission. Passionately.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 24, 2020
In her most recent tweet, daughter Claudia said she was taking a break from social media and asked people to show, “no hate to my parents please.”
this is becoming way too much so i am taking a mental health break from social media. see y’all soon. thank you for the love and support. no hate to my parents please. ❤️
— CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) August 23, 2020
Many have greeted Kellyanne Conway’s announcement by taking to social media to remind the world of her record at the White House.
Kellyanne Conway has been the chief propagandist for a White House that has inflicted enormous suffering and laid out a white supremacist worldview as a governing vision. She will go down in history as the leading apologist for unmitigated hatred as public policy.
— Charlotte Clymer 🏳️🌈 (@cmclymer) August 24, 2020
So Kellyanne Conway didn’t give a shit about countless families— children in cages, take from their mothers, families of trans and gay people, black families, gold star families?
And we’re supposed to care about her and her family???
Seriously?
Fuck you all!!
— Michelangelo Signorile, subscribe to my newsletter (@MSignorile) August 24, 2020
You say Kellyanne Conway – I say kids in cages.
There should never ever never be redemption for this woman – with the atrocities and bigotry she enabled, the gaslighting and lies. No redemption.
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) August 24, 2020
I do think we need to acknowledge that, while serving in the White House, Kellyanne Conway did a lot of good for the country. Not our country. But a country.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) August 24, 2020
michel_banen
And this is “Queer news” because…….?
MISTERJETT
because maybe some people might want to know what’s going on. if you’re not, then move on to something else and stop trying to be a female dog about it. it’s not all about you, you know.
Cam
What a surprise, the woman who lies without blinking an eye, defends the worst behavior of Trump and destroyed discourse as we know it is having trouble with her family.
I will express sympathy for Conway when she expresses any for the kids in cages.
Josh447
I wonder if she is raising a brood of sociopaths. She was the perfect day care mom for Trump and perfect sociopath enabler.
Topazme
you know its kind of amazing that two people so into the republican tribal mentality and its horrible ideology managed to raise a daughter who is ideologically independent and can think for herself and judging from her social media is progressive and has good judgement…good for her to use her privilege and money to use it to stand against the republican fascism
IndependentForever
Nicely said
Jim
Once you have children, parenting is job one.
Hillers
This. And if you’re a public figure, you have to manage a way to ensure your kids grow up as normally as possible and not end up as collateral damage to your own interests.
Mister P
I think there is a good chance she was the anonymous person who wrote about the dysfunction in the White House.
Hopefully she will come clean and work to keep that psychopath from getting re-elected.
Roy Moss
Suicide is the best thing KAC could do for her family, the nation and the world!
michael_totzke
I love that K, Conjob – one lie away from FULL-ON CRONE – has got the face she deserves.
Essie
I really cannot stand this woman because she is as much a sociopath as her boss but, she has finally decided to put her child first and I have to applaud her for that. This little girl has been crying out for attention for months and her mother did nothing. Hopefully, she will help her child and then disappear forever from public life.
Den
It is not clear that her daughter needs help.
Having progressive views is not necessarily a sign of family dysfunction, nor is disdain for one’s parents’ hypocrisy.
That she specifically asked for no posts hateful to her parents indicates that she is fine.
I guess Kellyanne and George assume progressive views are a cry for help though she is particular is the one who needs it…perhaps an ethics transplant.
rocknstan
Republicans care about their families.
Democrats care about their families AND everyone else’s.
Claudia Conway is really going to have her hands full now that both parents are determined to spend more time at home.
Actually, KAC is leaping off a sinking ship before Trump goes down completely; she is now weighing any Repug offers which come her way.
Perhaps KAC could be the national right-hand woman to “Q.”
Den
As is typical of those who have worked for Trump, there will be no offers forthcoming.
She is tainted, and rightly so as she embraced her lies with gusto.
All that she has in her future is a “tell all” book.
rocknstan
Hey, perhaps she [KAC] IS “Q.”
MISTERJETT
maybe she got tired of lying.
johncp56
She makes my skin crawl lieing Twat
IanHunter
I thought she was great in the movie IT 2.