Eric Trump called it "just sad" comic Chelsea Handler fired off a mean tweet about his wife Lara's pregnancy — and then made matters worse with a glaring misspelling.
"It's just sad, right?" the son of President Donald Grump told Dr. Mehmet Oz on his TV program Tuesday.
"Sad that society's gotten to the point where something as beautiful as this and life and babies and innocence . . . really gets taken down like that because of politics. I mean, that's how divided we've become as a nation . . . It's really, really sad. This is a very special thing, and it should be celebrated."
"When someone spells genes incorrectly, you kind of have to turn your head and ignore it a little," he added.
Handler corrected herself at the time, saying, "Sorry about spelling mistake. I meant 'genes,' not 'jeans.' I'm a little stoned," the New York Post reported.
Eric Trump also sounded off about social media criticism of the Trump children, saying he does not mind being in the public eye, but "Where I find it harder is when I see my little brother, you know, Barron, or when I see Tiffany, who's kind of just coming into her own . . . it's a little bit tough when you see young children getting hit every single day by grown-ups."
"There's supposed to be an unwritten rule and, unfortunately, it's just not being followed," he said.
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