Jared Kushner calls Chrissy Teigen a ‘nasty troll’ for criticising wife Ivanka Trump

Kushner spoke out against critics of his wife Ivanka Trump during a radio interview on Friday

Jared Kushner has called Chrissy Teigen a “nasty troll” for her comments about his wife, Ivanka Trump, in a clip from a radio interview that was released Friday.

Kushner appeared on conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt’s show The Hugh Hewitt Show on 26 August, where he praised his wife Ivanka for “empowering women” and “helping people find balance in their lives” as a businesswoman. However, Kushner said the public’s perception of his wife changed when she joined her father’s administration as an adviser.

“And then she basically gave up the actual business part and just went to pursue the mission, and the same people who praised her for it started attacking her, often viciously and very cruelly,” Kushner said during the radio show.

The former senior advisor added that he admires Ivanka because she “never lowered herself” to their level and “always stayed elegant,” despite being hurt by some of their comments.

“It did hurt her when people would be so nasty, people like, you know, Chrissy Teigen who were nasty trolls who would just say the most awful, horrible things about her, and I would see it,” he said. “And she would always brush if off, but I would imagine it had to hurt when things like that happened.”

Teigen has been very outspoken against Ivanka Trump and the Trump administration on multiple occasions. In 2019, the 36-year-old model criticised Ivanka Trump for showing a “complete lack of empathy” over the Trump administration’s child separation policy, given that Ivanka is a mother herself.

Just one year later, Teigen called out Ivanka on Twitter when she replied to an image of the former adviser holding up a can of Goya beans, after the company announced its public support for President Trump.

“had it with anyone who EVER defends this woman or puts her as the ‘sane’ one in this family,” Teigen tweeted. “what a repulsive trolling of the people. also (in the SEA of illegal sh*t this family does) is this even ethically ok or legal??”

The cookbook author has even engaged in many online spats with former President Donald Trump. Prior to his election, Teigen and Trump embroiled in a war of words when Trump retweeted a comment calling Teigen a “trashy gutter mouth woman” who can’t “hold a candle” to his wife, Melania.

Teigen was also blocked by the former president on Twitter in 2017 after she tweeted at him “lol no one likes you”. But that didn’t stop Trump from referring to her as John Legend’s “filthy mouthed wife” two years later.

As Trump’s presidency came to an end in 2021, Teigen did not hold back her thoughts about the former president in a farewell message posted to Instagram. Ahead of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Teigen told Trump that “history will not be kind to you” and called him an “absolute psychopath” in her social media statement.

“Today our great national f***up is over, but the shame will last forever. With two impeachments, the creation of three million LESS jobs, 403,000 dead, a record-low approval rating and god knows how many crimes, we can officially say Donald J Trump is the greatest at being the f***ing worst,” the mother of two wrote.

“History will not be kind to you, you absolute psychopath,” she concluded the post. “But I never was anyhow.”

Teigen has not responded to Kushner’s recent radio appearance.

The Independent has contacted Teigen for comment.