As President Trump battles a government shutdown, staff departures, and multiple investigations, he is reportedly feeling increasingly isolated, even from his own children.

As President Trump battles a government shutdown, staff departures, and multiple investigations, he is reportedly feeling increasingly isolated, even from his own children.
"Mr. Trump has grown more sure of his own judgment and more cut off from anyone else's than at any point since taking office," according to a recent New York Times report.
This is said to include his own family, with the piece stating, based on inside sources, "...Trump's relationship with his children has grown more removed and that he feels he does not have a friend in the White House."
The piece adds about the president: "He disagrees with Mr. [Jared] Kushner and Ivanka Trump much of the time, but cannot bring himself to tell them no, leaving that instead to [White House chief of staff] Mr. [John] Kelly, according to former aides. That made Mr. Kelly the heavy, they said, and therefore the target of their ire until he was finally forced out." 
Despite the Times' report, the Washington Post wrote in September that the president expressed to a friend that "he could trust only his children" in the wake of an anonymous op-ed blasting the administration. 
The recent account of interpersonal turmoil comes as Kushner is applauded for his efforts in successfully working across both aisles to get a criminal justice reform bill passed.
Trump thanked Kushner and his daughter Ivanka during the signing ceremony Friday, though he simply named them among a list of other people involved.