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CatWoman

(79,294 posts)
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 03:34 PM Nov 2019

Melania Trump Facing Enormous Protests As She Arrives in Boston for 'Be Best' Photo Op

Approximately 250 Boston Medical Center employees are protesting a visit by Melania Trump on Wednesday over fears that her presence will dissuade vulnerable populations, like immigrants, from seeking medical care.

Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar plan to visit a BMC program dedicated to treating babies who are born with opioid dependency. It’s a natural extension of Trump’s confusing Be Best initiative, which—among several other nebulous goals—tackles drug use and opioid addiction.

But according to the Boston Globe, protesters worry that this photo op may make BMC appear complicit with the Trump administration’s war against immigrants.

From the Boston Globe:

“If they thought that my affiliation was with somebody who promotes such division and promotes the hatred of immigrants, I’m sure that they’re not going to be asking to come to see me to take care of them,” said Cecilia T. Girard, a nurse midwife who is an immigrant from Ecuador.


Hospital employees said their patients are bearing the brunt of immigration crackdowns, and that some are so worried about deportation that they have missed appointments.



Last week, hospital employees urged hospital administrators to cancel Trump’s visit. BMC president and chief executive, Kate Walsh, didn’t budge. Instead, she encouraged employees to use Trump’s visit as an opportunity to show the first lady and federal leaders like Azar first hand how important federal funding is to the vulnerable populations they serve.


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Melania Trump Facing Enormous Protests As She Arrives in Boston for 'Be Best' Photo Op (Original Post) CatWoman Nov 2019 OP
I love this. ❤ dewsgirl Nov 2019 #1
I can't believe anyone in that family is dumb enough to come to Boston Green Line Nov 2019 #2
I can. They're congenitally dumb. lagomorph777 Nov 2019 #10
And so far above the law thegoose Nov 2019 #17
Seriously! smirkymonkey Nov 2019 #21
Wish I could have been there! sheshe2 Nov 2019 #3
Melalonia has brought out the be-best in our protesters!1 UTUSN Nov 2019 #4
I still find it hilarious that the biggest bully on the planet is involved in anti-bullying programs Initech Nov 2019 #5
This 👆 Roy Rolling Nov 2019 #31
This message was self-deleted by its author Roy Rolling Nov 2019 #32
I imagine most of those 250 will be working or sleeping Hortensis Nov 2019 #6
Glad they are protesting her. Remember Melanie [sic] is the one who wore this jacket to immigrant iluvtennis Nov 2019 #7
It bothers me that a former Scarsdale Nov 2019 #9
They're fine with sexy model immigrants from Europe IronLionZion Nov 2019 #12
Exactly nt iluvtennis Nov 2019 #16
+ agree iluvtennis Nov 2019 #15
+1000 smirkymonkey Nov 2019 #22
Please don't do that. Sex Worker status of any sort, has nothing to do with this. AtheistCrusader Nov 2019 #43
That she sold herself to Scarsdale Nov 2019 #44
Like Eva Peron except a lot dumber. MoonRiver Nov 2019 #47
Not only that - she was a birther. Fuck her. Drunken Irishman Nov 2019 #26
Yep. calimary Nov 2019 #38
Good for them... Mike Nelson Nov 2019 #8
If she really wanted to stop it Kaiserguy Nov 2019 #19
what is WRONG with that woman Skittles Nov 2019 #11
Good. yuiyoshida Nov 2019 #13
She's no lady. I'd say First Strumpet. calimary Nov 2019 #39
Don't you mean yuiyoshida Nov 2019 #40
Good one, yuiyoshida! calimary Nov 2019 #45
I bet every one of those passionate protesters will vote blue no matter who! ffr Nov 2019 #14
My son-in-law works there. trof Nov 2019 #18
Did you ever get any feedback from your SIL on how this went down? Arazi Nov 2019 #34
No. Learned that his office is elsewhere. trof Nov 2019 #48
Be beast sandensea Nov 2019 #20
Thanks for the empty, meaningless sentiment, Melanie Blue Owl Nov 2019 #23
Her Be Best is when she Be Gone. nt UniteFightBack Nov 2019 #24
She also jumped on the birther bandwagon awfully quick, claiming that it was true. Haggis for Breakfast Nov 2019 #25
WE CARE - DO U? is the best sign. (n/t) forgotmylogin Nov 2019 #27
I'm 76 yearss old and I don't recall ANY First Lady facing protests on any visit to anywhere! napi21 Nov 2019 #28
She never recanted her birtherism. F her forever. NCLefty Nov 2019 #29
Good Sherman A1 Nov 2019 #30
Does anyone else Timmygoat Nov 2019 #33
Our Solvenian Sex Worker first nude lady is at it again. Farmer-Rick Nov 2019 #35
Photo Op of a Freak! Melania Trump n/t RKP5637 Nov 2019 #36
"Get avay from me or I vill shoot!" SunSeeker Nov 2019 #37
She looks like one of the "realistic" silicone sex dolls from that RealDoll company. NurseJackie Nov 2019 #42
She's got more silicone in her "kidneys" than anything in those dolls. SunSeeker Nov 2019 #46
Look how large her kidneys are! NurseJackie Nov 2019 #41
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
21. Seriously!
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 08:13 PM
Nov 2019

This is the last place they should be showing their hideous, botoxed faces.

Did she really think she was going to be welcomed with open arms? What I would like to know is who arranged this ridiculous little publicity stunt for her and what they were thinking when they set it up.

Initech

(100,054 posts)
5. I still find it hilarious that the biggest bully on the planet is involved in anti-bullying programs
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 04:24 PM
Nov 2019

That's like Tyrone Biggums from Chappelle's Show participating in D.A.R.E.

Response to Roy Rolling (Reply #31)

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. I imagine most of those 250 will be working or sleeping
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 04:32 PM
Nov 2019

and readying themselves for their next shift. So their portion of the inevitable disruption of a presidential visit won't happen.

As for those on site, I would expect them to be there to work and to behave completely professionally and be as dedicated DIRECTLY to patient care as they claim to be.

iluvtennis

(19,843 posts)
7. Glad they are protesting her. Remember Melanie [sic] is the one who wore this jacket to immigrant
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 04:35 PM
Nov 2019

dentention centers.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
9. It bothers me that a former
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 04:45 PM
Nov 2019

sex worker is being treated like royalty. She was an escort, nude model. How very classy. Now she lives at taxpayer expense and travels the world. She has as much self awareness as her ugly husband. They both think they are something special. They are - specially repugnant.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
43. Please don't do that. Sex Worker status of any sort, has nothing to do with this.
Thu Nov 7, 2019, 01:54 PM
Nov 2019

She's a terrible human being, but not because she was an escort or a nude model.

She's a terrible human being because she's aide, co-conspirator, and confidant to Donald Trump. She's a terrible human being because she is married to, and publicly supports a man who throws the children of immigrants in jails that you or I wouldn't board our dogs in, even knowing Melania abused her visa, and also got her parents fast-tracked into the country.

Do as I say, not as I do, racist hypocrisy are her calling cards directly, and by way of marriage to Trump.

That she took her clothes off in front of a camera at some point is pretty much the least interesting or relevant part of her life.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
44. That she sold herself to
Thu Nov 7, 2019, 02:53 PM
Nov 2019

anyone with enough money is repugnant to me. When she is in public, I wonder how many men remember her, and her price. There is no excuse for that, apart from just pure laziness. Rather than get a proper job, just sell herself for fast money. Now look at her, pretending to be a "lady" She disgusts me, along with her con man husband. They deserve each other.

Mike Nelson

(9,949 posts)
8. Good for them...
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 04:44 PM
Nov 2019

... If the 3rd Lady really wanted to stop bullying and help people needing to Be Best, she would stay at Crooked Donald's side.

Kaiserguy

(740 posts)
19. If she really wanted to stop it
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 06:21 PM
Nov 2019

She should publicly put Donny boy in his place, and then walk out the door and tell all that she knows.

Skittles

(153,138 posts)
11. what is WRONG with that woman
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 05:07 PM
Nov 2019

she is married to a guy who thinks separating kids from their parents and keeping them in CAGES is a SWELL IDEA

napi21

(45,806 posts)
28. I'm 76 yearss old and I don't recall ANY First Lady facing protests on any visit to anywhere!
Thu Nov 7, 2019, 02:56 AM
Nov 2019

I believe Melania is THE FIRST!

Timmygoat

(779 posts)
33. Does anyone else
Thu Nov 7, 2019, 08:55 AM
Nov 2019

Besides me think that Melania Trump is downright ugly, with her shifty eyes and mouth tightly shut, she is either very unhappy or is trying to be the model she supposedly was. Where is the son, he is never seen at the White House, as the Obama girls were, it is
like he really is not wanted, the poor kid has a sad life, he almost does not exist.
I wonder if he is allowed to play with other boys?

Farmer-Rick

(10,150 posts)
35. Our Solvenian Sex Worker first nude lady is at it again.
Thu Nov 7, 2019, 09:17 AM
Nov 2019

She thinks we don't know how she got the job. And then she puts out a resume that said she spoke 5 languages (a lie) had a 4 year degree (a lie), claiming she was a model (a lie).

She is a sex worker, she should own it and try to help out other women in poverty with few skills. But instead she writes her opinion of suffering children on the back of her coat and pretends to be something she is Not. If she stood up and proudly announced who she really was, and object to caged children, I would respect her. But the Slovenian sex worker will never do that.

And the family value Christians embrace her for the fake model she pretends to be.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
42. She looks like one of the "realistic" silicone sex dolls from that RealDoll company.
Thu Nov 7, 2019, 01:28 PM
Nov 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealDoll

Follow the links at your own risk. Beyond the initial link to the Wiki page, things quickly become NSFW.
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