MAGA socialite and Manhattan Republican Party Chairwoman Andrea Catsimatidis has responded to President Donald Trump’s bizarre Father’s Day post featuring her mother.
The 80-year-old president sparked concerns after he acknowledged Father’s Day with a bizarre Truth Social post featuring a photo of a woman whom online sleuths later identified as Margo Catsimatidis, 74, the wife of billionaire Trump ally John Catsimatidis.
For the caption, the president wrote, “Great daughter. My Honor!!! President DJT.”
The photo was likely taken at Camp David during the Clinton administration, as the state seal of Arkansas, Clinton’s home state, is visible in the image. It is unclear why the president posted it, and the White House did not respond to the Daily Beast’s repeated requests for comment.
John and Margo’s daughter, 36-year-old Andrea, responded to the post late on Sunday, writing on X, “Thank you Mr President! Thank you for inviting me to your birthday party, it was an amazing tribute filled with so much American pride. And thank you for everything you are doing for America!”
Andrea attended Trump’s UFC event at the White House on his 80th birthday, posting a selfie from the event, wishing the president a happy birthday, and posing for a photo with White House Communications Director Steven Cheung and Labor Department Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito.
Some online had suspected that the president’s post was intended as a message for Margo about Andrea, while others wondered if the president had mistaken Margo for one of his own daughters, Ivanka, 44, or Tiffany, 32.
Andrea, who has chaired the Manhattan Republican Party since 2017, married Richard Nixon’s grandson, Christopher Nixon Cox, in 2011. Trump reportedly told the couple that he was responsible for convincing John to pay for their extravagant million-dollar wedding at the Waldorf-Astoria.
According to their marriage announcement in The New York Times, the couple met when Andrea was a high school senior “just five days shy of her 18th birthday.” Cox was 11 years her senior and working for Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign at the time.
Among the 700 guests at the wedding were high-profile political figures including Hillary Clinton, Henry Kissinger, and Rudy Giuliani.
“We had so many people to celebrate with us… It was a beautiful, bipartisan wedding—everyone had an amazing time,” she told New York Magazine.
The couple divorced three years later.
Andrea endorsed Donald Trump in the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections. She has amplified unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in the 2020 election, including accusing President Joe Biden of planning a coup and claiming that “Corporate America helped rig the election.” She also falsely claimed that antifa activists were responsible for the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
Speaking to amNewYorkMetro after Jan 6, she said, “I’ve seen some evidence circulating of ads looking for antifa members to dress as Trump supporters, as well as communist tattoos on some of the rioters, and pictures of actual rioters who were at the left-wing riots over the past year. Antifa had every reason to do this, and it is definitely their MO.”
Andrea’s father, 77-year-old John, was born in Greece and migrated to the U.S. with his parents when he was six months old. He is the owner, president, chairman, and CEO of Gristedes, D’Agostino Supermarkets, and Red Apple Group, a real estate and aviation company.
A vocal Trump supporter, John contributed $515,000 to Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign. Alongside Andrea, who is the chairwoman, John, Margo, and their son John Jr. are vice-presidents of the Manhattan Republican Party.
