Trump’s Kids Are in the Arena. If They Dish It Out, They Have to Learn to Take It, Too.

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Bob Woodward says that Donald Trump isn’t the only one using “excessive rhetoric” these days. Hillary supporters are doing it too:

He went on to cite a Wednesday column by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who wrote Trump’s children “should be ashamed” of their father for his remark about “Second Amendment people” and called the GOP nominee “a disgusting human being.”

Friedman’s opinion of Trump as “disgusting” is a “reasonable opinion,” Woodward said, but said he couldn’t recall another time in 40 years of covering politics when someone violated the “zone of protection” generally respected for candidates’ children.

“That makes no sense. So, the excess is feeding both sides on this,” he said.

Um, these are “children” in their thirties who are actively part of Trump’s campaign—actively lying, actively giving interviews, and actively telling anyone who will listen that Donald will be the best president in history. It so happens that I’d normally give them a pass anyway—I nearly always give family members a pass for supporting their kinfolk—but if you get into the arena, then you’re in the arena.

Anyway, Friedman was right: the Trump kids should be ashamed of their father. He’s still Dad, and they still love him, and that’s fine. But they should still be ashamed of him.

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