Melania Trump Is Holding Her First Public Forum on Cyberbullying (NOT Satire)

[DesertRat]

(WASHINGTON) — Melania Trump is hosting executives from major online and social media companies to discuss cyberbullying and internet safety, more than a year after saying that would be her issue as first lady.

The meeting Tuesday marks her first public event on the topic, a choice some observers have questioned given that her husband often berates people on Twitter.

Amazon, Snap, Facebook, Google and Twitter are among the companies that are expected to attend the meeting. The Internet Association said it will also be represented.

Mrs. Trump announced in a speech near the end of the 2016 presidential campaign that her priority as first lady would be to fight cyberbullying. A native of Slovenia, she at the time lamented a U.S. culture that she said had grown “too mean and too rough.” It was a curious speech for a woman whose husband uses Twitter to dismiss people as losers and taunt them with unflattering nicknames.

http://time.com/5206742/melania-trump-forum-cyberbullying/

[flibbitygiblets]

1. What a fucking joke. She should be laughed out of the room.

Sadly, this is a serious issue. She has zero credibility on the subject, so at best this will be a dog and pony show.

[DesertRat]

4. I couldn't agree more

If you can’t speak on something without using a teleprompter and a team of people directing you, then you shouldn’t pose as a champion for it.

[Hortensis]

11. I couldn't agree less. Regardless of why she

might be motivated to this first lady effort, a lot of people are determined to admire her and she is in a position to influence people. Hopefully her messages will at least help a few unfortunates, perhaps even make a real difference.

[flibbitygiblets]

16. Sorry, not buying that. By "championing" a cause that her husband is guilty of on a daily basis

even those who supposedly "admire" her will have built-in excuses to continue to allow cyber-bulling. I.e., "it's okay if a person in power does it". "It's okay if Republicans do it". "It's okay if it's just done to women who are not thin and beautiful". ETC.

It would be as effective as her going out and leading a charge against marital infidelity. Who would actually take it seriously?

[Tanuki]

10. She was also recently appointed to the "blue ribbon commission" to solve the opioid crisis!

[DesertRat]

22. Omg, really?

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Will the participants be able to ask her questons?

Such as, what steps are you taking to control your husband's cyberbullying?

[chelsea0011]

6. Twitter can't ask that question because they should have blocked that POS in the WH years ago.

[DesertRat]

9. Exactly right. nt

[DesertRat]

7. I seriously doubt it

She'll carefully sound out the words on the teleprompter, then the press will fawn over her poise and beauty.

[pandr32]

14. Exactly!

[Tanuki]

3. When is she going to have that press conference to show her immigration documents

and clear up any questions about whether she was ever here illegally, as her idiot husband promised she would do "in a couple of weeks" more than a year and a half ago?

[DesertRat]

8. Good question- someone should ask Huckabee at the daily briefing.

[flibbitygiblets]

17. Also about her "chain migration" parents!

I guess it's only "family reunification" if one is not from a shithole country?

[Bengus81]

5. Guess she stopped reading Donnie's tweets............

Come on Melania.....get that DIVORCE filed.

[BannonsLiver]

12. I hope closed captioning is provided.

[DesertRat]

25. .

[Generic Brad]

13. Her husband and step sons constantly punch down

Daily they use social media to name call, ridicule, and pick on those who have a lower social status than they do. They are the very definition of cyberbullies.

If she really wants to fight cyberbullying, she needs to toss Trump's phone in the toilet.

[GallopingGhost]

15. This is rich.

The immigrant wife of the world's biggest anti-immigrant cyberbully is going to lecture us on not using social media to cyberbully.



I'd rather watch four non-stop hours of an Ivanka Trump How To Make Meatloaf video.

[flibbitygiblets]

18. Vonkers doesn't "make" meatloaf. She only "architects" it.

On account of all her class.

[Tanuki]

19. ...or she "curates" it.

[GallopingGhost]

23. "make"

What was I thinking? lol

[Ilsa]

20. Jimmy Kimmel on Melania's cyberbullying campaign:

The PSA start about 1 minute in:

[DesertRat]

24. lol

That was great! Thanks

[bdamomma]

26. she better start with her husband's

obsession first.

[Blue Owl]

21. Wow, she is really moving on that