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demmiblue

(39,730 posts)
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 01:39 PM Feb 26

Melania Trump to chair a meeting of the UN Security Council, White House says

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - First lady Melania Trump will chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Monday as the U.S. takes over the monthly rotating presidency, the White House said.

Melania Trump will emphasize education as a way to advance tolerance and world peace at the meeting, which will be the first time a sitting American first lady presides over the 15-member council, the first lady's office said in a statement Wednesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump has been a vocal critic of the United Nations since his first White House term, saying the 198-member world body was ineffective and needed reforms.

Trump struck a more conciliatory tone last week at the first meeting of his Board of Peace, an initiative he said aims to resolve conflicts globally but one that many world leaders have failed to embrace amid concerns it was designed to replace the United Nations.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/melania-trump-chair-meeting-un-security-council-white-house-says-2026-02-26/



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Melania Trump to chair a meeting of the UN Security Council, White House says (Original Post) demmiblue Feb 26 OP
what a joke - she has no qualifications samsingh Feb 26 #1
Hey - she's an Epstein scholar! rurallib Feb 26 #23
My first thought also: seriously? ananda Feb 26 #43
because of Trump, obviously RussBLib Feb 27 #49
Is there anything good about her? ananda Feb 27 #58
Depose her publicly under oath about trumpstein instead SheltieLover Feb 26 #2
Will she be showing off her language skills? jls4561 Feb 26 #3
The closed caption boys will be taxing their skills trying to interpret what she is saying. Brother Buzz Feb 26 #9
It will be easy. She'll just repeat Michelle Obama's ideas and words or focus over and over on Be Best. Lonestarblue Feb 27 #53
No. Just her tits. Grins Feb 26 #13
She'll be showing off her oral skills. cloudbase Feb 26 #39
Like she knows fuck all about security Jilly_in_VA Feb 26 #4
Naked or with clothes on? n/t rzemanfl Feb 26 #5
With a useless hat Layzeebeaver Feb 26 #26
Once again we will be the laughing stock of the world. walkingman Feb 26 #6
Not the Onion? Tasmanian Devil Feb 26 #7
Pity the translators Dear_Prudence Feb 26 #8
Caligula allegedly appointed his horse to high office. Frasier Balzov Feb 26 #10
If Orange Julius Caesar were to appoint his horse to high office, the horse would be missing its hindquarters generalbetrayus Feb 26 #31
Talk about the Whore of Babylon peppertree Feb 26 #11
Wow... that's deep, Pepper... worth losing a non-productive afternoon slightlv Feb 26 #33
Why, thank you. peppertree Feb 26 #36
She might be self aborbed and boring but at least she's sawake Warpy Feb 26 #12
Well..she's no Eleanor Roosevelt and that's for damn sure Deuxcents Feb 27 #51
Of course not Warpy Feb 27 #54
" Melania Trump will emphasize education ...." Botany Feb 26 #14
She did get quite an "education" RussBLib Feb 27 #50
😂😂😂 bamagal62 Feb 26 #15
Will there be a pole? I heard there will be a pole! Floyd R. Turbo Feb 26 #16
;-{)....seriously? Goonch Feb 26 #17
Pitching her OnlyFans page is my guess Torchlight Feb 26 #18
Who is going to translate her gobbledygook into English? efhmc Feb 26 #19
This is how Chump regards the United Nations FakeNoose Feb 26 #20
lolololol Solly Mack Feb 26 #21
He has to outsource now KT2000 Feb 26 #22
Gag me! lark Feb 26 #24
Maybe she'll suggest cutting spending on education. JohnnyRingo Feb 26 #25
It's not even April 1st. colorado_ufo Feb 26 #27
The Red Sparrow will be conducting some manner of dead drop with Russian intelligence Prairie Gates Feb 26 #28
After Security Council Chair Melania, we will release Astronaut Melania (thanks, Jeff!), and then muriel_volestrangler Feb 26 #29
Hope there are empty seats /nt bucolic_frolic Feb 26 #30
What, Don Jr. wasn't available? generalbetrayus Feb 26 #32
Will she tell them TurboDem Feb 26 #34
Will she tell the other members of the Security Council when she expects her husband to become educated? Vinca Feb 26 #35
Who gets tasked with the job of interpreter? The Wizard Feb 26 #37
Maybe the other members... 2naSalit Feb 26 #38
I thought this was something from The Onion. nt moniss Feb 26 #40
"A way to advance tolerance" ??! electric_blue68 Feb 26 #41
Lemme guess... there'll be an admission charge, and then they'll have to watch her movie. Talitha Feb 26 #42
That's just a big fat insult to the UN, Bayard Feb 26 #44
I love The Onion! Or is it Borowitz? 😂🤣😂🤣 QueerDuck Feb 26 #45
Being well schooled in diplomacy . . . Aussie105 Feb 26 #46
It just keeps getting worse and worse sakabatou Feb 27 #47
The only chair she should be sitting in is bluestarone Feb 27 #48
Representing Putin. blm Feb 27 #52
I hope the UN has a translator fluent in "whiny, Slovenian sex worker English", otherwise... LudwigPastorius Feb 27 #55
Does she think there is a mercuryblues Feb 27 #56
what could possibly go wrong? CTyankee Feb 27 #57

samsingh

(18,426 posts)
1. what a joke - she has no qualifications
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 01:40 PM
Feb 26

and a horrible person married to an even more horrible person

maybe she's better than ivanka

ananda

(35,179 posts)
43. My first thought also: seriously?
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 06:27 PM
Feb 26

Why is she even allowed to have anything
to do with the UN?

RussBLib

(10,637 posts)
49. because of Trump, obviously
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 02:22 PM
Feb 27

…. I’d like to hear her speak clearly in some of those other languages she is supposedly fluent in. Her English is pretty bad.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

Brother Buzz

(39,917 posts)
9. The closed caption boys will be taxing their skills trying to interpret what she is saying.
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 02:01 PM
Feb 26

Lonestarblue

(13,487 posts)
53. It will be easy. She'll just repeat Michelle Obama's ideas and words or focus over and over on Be Best.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 02:54 PM
Feb 27

Imagine her telling the world's UN ambassadors how to do their jobs!

Jilly_in_VA

(14,394 posts)
4. Like she knows fuck all about security
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 01:47 PM
Feb 26

Ask her about Epstein. Also about the boxes in the Mar-a-Lardo bathroom.

Tasmanian Devil

(163 posts)
7. Not the Onion?
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 01:57 PM
Feb 26

Well I think this fits.

First you make the UN a bad joke, then you continue to refuse to pay the dues we owe the UN because ... it's a bad joke.

Dear_Prudence

(1,173 posts)
8. Pity the translators
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 01:59 PM
Feb 26

Who must translate her proto-pidgin English into standard English, then into the other official languages of the UN (Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and French). Hers is not a fully developed pidgin because there is no other group that uses her "be best" language. I have huge respect for people who are multilingual, but none for linguistic posers.

generalbetrayus

(1,870 posts)
31. If Orange Julius Caesar were to appoint his horse to high office, the horse would be missing its hindquarters
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 03:54 PM
Feb 26

because the horse's ass will still be in the Oval Office.

slightlv

(7,790 posts)
33. Wow... that's deep, Pepper... worth losing a non-productive afternoon
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 04:09 PM
Feb 26

to endless thought, tho...! thanks!

Warpy

(114,616 posts)
12. She might be self aborbed and boring but at least she's sawake
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 02:03 PM
Feb 26

unlike that orange pile of putrefaction she's married to.

Offhand, I'd say expect a lot of this in the future. Other First Ladies of decrepit husbands have had to do the same thing.

Botany

(77,352 posts)
14. " Melania Trump will emphasize education ...."
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 02:06 PM
Feb 26

Really didn’t she drop out of college and move to Italy after 1 semester and @ some point became
a “sex worker” of some kind?

Torchlight

(6,833 posts)
18. Pitching her OnlyFans page is my guess
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 02:20 PM
Feb 26

and gauging whether the UN would be open to having stripper poles installed (at their own expense, though).

FakeNoose

(41,691 posts)
20. This is how Chump regards the United Nations
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 02:32 PM
Feb 26

Yes it's a total insult to a real Security Council, but he doesn't care.
He has his own "Board of Peace" where the real "billion-dollar" men sit.

KT2000

(22,159 posts)
22. He has to outsource now
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 02:56 PM
Feb 26

saving himself for the income generating rallies and sales pitches.

lark

(26,081 posts)
24. Gag me!
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 03:00 PM
Feb 26

How horifically horrible that first ho, Epstein girl and mean as a snake person, who is in the country illegally havin lied to get an Einstein visa (she doesn't speak 4 languages, that is a lie) should have this honor is beyond vile.

JohnnyRingo

(20,882 posts)
25. Maybe she'll suggest cutting spending on education.
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 03:07 PM
Feb 26

WTF is this centerfold skank even considered viable to speak to the World Body? How can she begin to address any issues that face global crisis?

Will she be wearing her coat that says "I don't really care, do you"? This is an insult to The UN. Britney Spears would make more sense.

Pardon my language, but I'm sick of it.

muriel_volestrangler

(106,227 posts)
29. After Security Council Chair Melania, we will release Astronaut Melania (thanks, Jeff!), and then
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 03:25 PM
Feb 26

News Anchor Melania (thanks, Bari!), and then United States Air Force pilot Melania (thanks, Pete!), followed by Surgeon Melania (thanks, Robert!), Musician Melania (thanks, Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts board!) and Ballerina Melania (hey, board, you again - double work! Give yourselves all a Trump Kennedy Center Honor!)

And to think Barbie only got as far as UNICEF ambassador ...

Remember, kiddies, this is the Western Culture that we must defend from the Somali Pirates Who Invaded Minnesota.

Vinca

(54,005 posts)
35. Will she tell the other members of the Security Council when she expects her husband to become educated?
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 04:18 PM
Feb 26

2naSalit

(102,873 posts)
38. Maybe the other members...
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 05:17 PM
Feb 26

Will not give her any time to speak after her intro. She's probably there to pass info to the ruzzians.

Bayard

(29,727 posts)
44. That's just a big fat insult to the UN,
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 06:30 PM
Feb 26

Send someone who's main qualification is strewing the White House with horrendous xmas decorations.

Aussie105

(7,933 posts)
46. Being well schooled in diplomacy . . .
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 08:28 PM
Feb 26

members of the Council will listen politely to Melania's vacuous utterings, then go off and have separate and productive dialog behind closed doors.

LudwigPastorius

(14,742 posts)
55. I hope the UN has a translator fluent in "whiny, Slovenian sex worker English", otherwise...
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 03:40 PM
Feb 27

nobody is going to understand a damn thing she says.

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