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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsi think melania wore the jacket to make cheetolini look bed
and it worked.she took it off to go into the building. she asked verifiable questions while there. she put the jacket on again as she left. he comes out with a lame-ass, moronic reason for her wearing it. seemingly totally unprepared. motherly instinct seems strong in her. maybe she has seen enough harm.
can only hope.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)thanks, the best explanation Ive seen today. One can only hope. Childhood shapes a person. It seems she had a normal childhood in Slovenia when it was part of soviet block. She is very close to her son and he seems to be normal boy; any mother who is that close to her child must have a heart. She was looking for better life in America too, its unconscionable to imagine that she has no empathy. Eva brown didnt have children.
Louis1895
(768 posts)I think this is part of the plan and a nod to Trumps base. She is complicit in this whole thing.
Just like Miller and Nielsen going out to dinner at Mexican restaurants this week, Melanias flagrant wearing of that jacket was designed to cause a maximum backlash and distract from other events.
CozyMystery
(652 posts)This was a planned event -- by someone other than Melania.
The only other jacket I heard that Melania wore cost $50,000, IIRC.
This jacket cost $39. I highly doubt that Melania would have known about the place that sold the jacket. She doesn't wear $39 items of clothing, especially jackets like that.
So someone saw it, suggested it, and it was procured as a stunt. Purpose - distraction, pandering, and so forth.
That it also sends a big up yours to her husband ... maybe, but I doubt it.
I recently looked at a book in which the author discussed Melania. She is not portrayed as a trophy wife done wrong:
"Ronald Kessler, the author of The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game, notes how influential the first lady has been in a variety of matters, from her husbands decision to run for office to matters of policy.
Kessler told CNN on Sunday,
she will sit in, in meetings with cabinet officers and she will disagree with Trump, her judgment is spectacular.
In the book, set to be released on Tuesday, former White House press secretary Sean Spicer reportedly echoes that sentiment. I dont think people fully recognize how influential she is and what a grounded political sense she has on her own, Spicer said in an interview with Kessler. When she weighs in, its always spot on.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/04/02/new-book-about-the-white-house-claims-melania-trump-rules-the-roost/23401094/
I do not recommend the book. I realized immediately that it was an ode to Trump, but read the chapter or two about Melania.
demmiblue
(36,875 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Pissing in the face of families and children seeking asylum - by wearing that stupic coat - is one of the lowest, meanest things any republican has ever done.
JI7
(89,262 posts)greyl
(22,990 posts)KT2000
(20,586 posts)no matter the reason. That whole gang has no sense of their responsibilities - just crass, low life shit all the time. She should have stayed home.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)She wouldn't provoke him like that.
OnDoutside
(19,969 posts)holding unaccompanied minors, aided by a Lutheran church group.
struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)More likely she picked it to say a) she wears inexpensive clothes and b) she doesn't care what the press says about her. Of course, she does, and of course, they read it completely differently. The long and short to me is that she's chary of speaking directly to reporters, as she's sure to be lambasted for plagiarism or banality or her accent, but she's aware of her image in the press and doesn't like it.
Cha
(297,531 posts)They are all that, I'll grant you. And the insensitivity. It's just the malice I'm having trouble believing. Trump yes, Sessions yes, but I don't think Melania meant to twist the knife. And Trump and Sessions are both backpedaling to beat the band and know they screwed the pooch so I don't see Melania pouring gas on the fire. But then again I could be wrong . . .
Cha
(297,531 posts)places.. I believe she is malicious and/or so damn tone deaf she's dangerous.
I think she poured gas on the fire even by being insensitive.. you just DO NOT wear a jacket with that on the back to visit KIDS who you're stupid Fraud has ripped from their parents arms.
Link to tweet
JI7
(89,262 posts)that says what she is all about. fuck her.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)just that I don't think she meant it the way it's being taken. She and Cheeto are both hyper-sensitive about their public images and I don't see her intentionally damaging them just to be outrageous. She's not Roseanne.
Cha
(297,531 posts)you can see in my above post what I think of her.
melania is a tool.. she was out in 2011 spreading Birther Propaganda.
Link to tweet
#BeWorsTool
And, she's been GasLighting ever since.. helping her Pervert.. spread the Propaganda. Really, her issue is online Bullying? Ain't nothing but a GasLighter.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Even if she'd pulled it off it wouldn't have done any good as I suspect Trump had his Chris Christy moment and will never fully recover. But then if he starts a war all bets are off so the worst may still be ahead. . .
Cha
(297,531 posts)That's how stupid and sociopathic he is.. but this is going to be Front and Center for a LONG LONG TIME.. those poor KIDS need to get back to their parents. And, although trump has no intention of letting that happen.
America won't stand for it.
is right.
Cha
(297,531 posts)Demsrule86
(68,643 posts)Demsrule86
(68,643 posts)visited one place instead of two...Theresienstadt all over again...melanoma may be pretty on the outside thanks to surgery... but plastic looking if you ask me...but on the inside she is as rotten as they come.