Flashback: Harry Truman also slammed one of his daughter’s critics

Washington Post critic Paul Hume wrote a review in December 1950 criticizing Margaret Truman’s singing performance at Constitution Hall.

“Miss Truman is a unique American phenomenon with a pleasant voice of little size and fair quality … (she) cannot sing very well … is flat a good deal of the time … more last night than at any time we have heard her in past years … has not improved in the years we have heard her … (and) still cannot sing with anything approaching professional finish,” Hume’s review stated.

The Democratic president chose to respond by penning a letter to Hume on Dec. 6. That letter is on display at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Mo.

“I’ve just read your lousy review of Margaret’s concert. I’ve come to the conclusion that you are an ‘eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay.’ It seems to me that you are a frustrated old man who wishes he could have been successful. When you write such poppy-cock as was in the back section of the paper you work for it shows conclusively that you’re off the beam and at least four of your ulcers are at work. Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you’ll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below! Pegler, a gutter snipe, is a gentleman alongside you. I hope you’ll accept that statement as a worse insult than a reflection on your ancestry. – H.S.T.,” Truman wrote.

On Wednesday morning, Trump fired off a tweet decrying Nordstrom’s decision against carrying Ivanka Trump’s clothing and accessories line.

“My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person — always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!” Trump wrote.