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brooklynite

(94,547 posts)
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 11:03 PM Oct 2020

Secretly recorded tapes show Melania Trump's frustration at criticism

Source: CNN

First Lady Melania Trump was secretly recorded in the summer of 2018 expressing her frustration at being criticized for her husband's policy of separating families who illegally crossed the southern border while at the same time needing to perform traditional first lady duties, such as preparing for Christmas.

"They say I'm complicit. I'm the same like him, I support him. I don't say enough I don't do enough where I am," she said in a tape secretly recorded by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former friend and senior adviser to the first lady who wrote a book about their relationship, "Melania and Me."

The tapes were played exclusively on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" on Thursday night and were recorded by Wolkoff after she left the White House.

"I'm working ... my a** off on the Christmas stuff, that you know, who gives a f*** about the Christmas stuff and decorations? But I need to do it, right?"

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/politics/melania-trump-tapes/index.html



Is it just me, or do you get the feeling that the Trump family doesn't engender loyalty among it's staffers?
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Secretly recorded tapes show Melania Trump's frustration at criticism (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2020 OP
Can you imagine if Michelle Obama had said that.... BigmanPigman Oct 2020 #1
Michelle would never have claimed the work of so many others as her own. Cracklin Charlie Oct 2020 #7
I Really Don't Care Do U? ProudMNDemocrat Oct 2020 #2
+1! marble falls Oct 2020 #6
I agree rockfordfile Oct 2020 #10
That's what I thought as well xxqqqzme Oct 2020 #13
"Biden winning among Democrats, independents, immigrants, People of color jorgevlorgan Oct 2020 #3
Aha!! The devious hidden mastermind of the war on Christmas!!! C_U_L8R Oct 2020 #4
+1 dalton99a Oct 2020 #5
One thing we know about Melania is that she sure doesn't know how to decorate! Her Christmas Illumination Oct 2020 #8
My Wish modrepub Oct 2020 #9
Melania hates Christmas. sarcasmo Oct 2020 #11
Important read for those who still think, for reasons unbeknownst to me... SKKY Oct 2020 #12

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
7. Michelle would never have claimed the work of so many others as her own.
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 11:52 PM
Oct 2020

I’ve watched those shows on HGTV.

xxqqqzme

(14,887 posts)
13. That's what I thought as well
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 12:01 PM
Oct 2020

She can go back to New York and stay in that tacky, over the top decorated pent house. No one will miss her.

jorgevlorgan

(8,292 posts)
3. "Biden winning among Democrats, independents, immigrants, People of color
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 11:08 PM
Oct 2020

and former Trump staffers."

-somewhere

 

Illumination

(2,458 posts)
8. One thing we know about Melania is that she sure doesn't know how to decorate! Her Christmas
Fri Oct 2, 2020, 09:07 AM
Oct 2020

decorations looked like something out of "The NIghtmare Before Christmas". Landscaping wise her recent fiasco was more like a hatchet job out of "The Shining". Her jacket was just pure evil & stupidity. A failure just like her fake hubby!...

modrepub

(3,495 posts)
9. My Wish
Fri Oct 2, 2020, 09:41 AM
Oct 2020

Is for all Trump supporters to have to work with him for six months; pick any work environment. I don't think they would last 6 hours with him.

Now it seems all of his family, including his current wife, are cut from the same cloth. I can only imagine the number of books that are going to come out after this batch leaves office.

SKKY

(11,807 posts)
12. Important read for those who still think, for reasons unbeknownst to me...
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 08:24 AM
Oct 2020

...that she is better than her husband. They are a perfect match.

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