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demmiblue

(36,820 posts)
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 11:39 AM Jan 2021

Silent Melania Trump plods toward end of her husband's tumultuous term

(CNN)Two days after his supporters rioted on Capitol Hill last week, President Donald Trump informed the world he would not be attending President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

"To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th," tweeted Trump via his official account, which no longer exists.

Many inside the White House were hearing the President's thoughts on this important and historic issue definitively for the first time -- including his wife, according to a senior White House staffer.

First lady Melania Trump has spent the last several weeks operating inside a gray area of what might happen, with many big decisions such as this one made at the whim of the man to whom she is married.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/politics/melania-trump-impeachment-donald-trump-riot/index.html


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Silent Melania Trump plods toward end of her husband's tumultuous term (Original Post) demmiblue Jan 2021 OP
I'm going to be as charitable in response as I can muster: 634-5789 Jan 2021 #1
WHAT????!!!! sfstaxprep Jan 2021 #2
THis Me. Jan 2021 #6
+1000 smirkymonkey Jan 2021 #7
Nailed it! Totally Tunsie Jan 2021 #13
Well, she did push birtherism. So, there's something significant. Not good, but significant. GoneOffShore Jan 2021 #17
Gotta wonder if she's getting nervous about being alone with him and no SS around.... lindysalsagal Jan 2021 #3
She never did......... secondwind Jan 2021 #4
Bye Mailordia. CentralMass Jan 2021 #5
I really don't care. Do you? gibraltar72 Jan 2021 #8
Good riddance. (nt) Paladin Jan 2021 #9
Hey Melania, Larry Flynt is on line 1 Submariner Jan 2021 #10
Well... Mike Nelson Jan 2021 #11
As already observed, the outgoing 3rd Wife... 3catwoman3 Jan 2021 #12
I'd love to see the other former First Ladies give Dr Jill the tour and welcome tea Arazi Jan 2021 #14
Classy to the end Retrograde Jan 2021 #15
I would like to see her deported with her family Thunderbeast Jan 2021 #16
but.....Be Best? JuJuYoshida Jan 2021 #18
Give her a break jcgoldie Jan 2021 #19

sfstaxprep

(9,998 posts)
2. WHAT????!!!!
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 11:41 AM
Jan 2021
"The outgoing first lady hasn't done anything of significance as the weeks of her tenure come to a close."

SHE HASN'T DONE ANYTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE IN HER ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE, LET ALONE THE LAST 4 YEARS, OR THE LAST 4 WEEKS.

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
4. She never did.........
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 11:43 AM
Jan 2021

why start now?

As for Dr. Biden, Melania is so beneath her in every way .... that she doesn't know how to handle this.

Mike Nelson

(9,942 posts)
11. Well...
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 12:07 PM
Jan 2021

... her kidneys look nice. She had them done. Her main thing was "Be Best" and she did spell those individual words correctly!

3catwoman3

(23,943 posts)
12. As already observed, the outgoing 3rd Wife...
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 12:12 PM
Jan 2021

...hasn’t done anything of significance. Full stop. Period. End of story.

Arazi

(6,829 posts)
14. I'd love to see the other former First Ladies give Dr Jill the tour and welcome tea
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 12:20 PM
Jan 2021

Yes, even including Laura Bush. It would be a lovely gesture

Retrograde

(10,128 posts)
15. Classy to the end
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 12:39 PM
Jan 2021

Low classy, that is. From the two books about her I've read, it seems Melania does nothing for anyone except Melania and her immediate family - her kid, her parents, and maybe her sister. Apart from those four people, it's just about her: if she acts like a normal human being it's because she wants something or thinks you can further her ambitions. And lets not excuse her by saying she's from a former communist country: all societies have structures to let people help and support each other and act as decent human beings.

I do hope the cleaners who'll be prepping the White House for the Bidens take pictures of what she did to the family quarters and leak them.

Thunderbeast

(3,400 posts)
16. I would like to see her deported with her family
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 12:45 PM
Jan 2021

for fraud in her citizenship applicarion process. I would also like to explore her role in planning the seditious conspiracy (if any).

Junior, Erik, and Ivanka should go to prison with Dad. Tiffany should learn to live the life of a normal twenty-something (ramen, roommates, waitressing job). Barron should go live with Mary Trump. Maybe Ron Reagan can help with the deprogramming.

jcgoldie

(11,610 posts)
19. Give her a break
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 12:50 PM
Jan 2021

Shes had her hands full focusing on cyber bullying and paving the entire white house grounds under concrete.

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