Melania Trump departs for first solo international trip

[left-of-center2012]

Source: The Hill

First lady Melania Trump is set to depart on Monday for her first major solo international trip, where she will visit four countries in Africa over the coming week. The Associated Press reported that the first lady will arrive in Ghana on Tuesday. She will then travel to Malawi, Kenya and Egypt.

Trump announced plans for her trip to Africa last week during the United Nations General Assembly's annual meeting. She lauded her upcoming stops as four “beautiful and very different” African countries, that have made "great progress in overcoming some of their biggest challenges.”

The first lady is expected to highlight many of the themes of her Be Best campaign during her trip, including education, drug addiction, hunger and bullying. Trump, 48, launched Be Best — a children’s wellness and anti-bullying initiative — earlier this year.

President Trump will not join the first lady on her trip to Africa. The president stoked controversy earlier this year when he reportedly questioned why the U.S. was accepting so many immigrants and refugees from "shithole countries" in Africa.


Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/409211-melania-trump-departs-for-first-solo-international-trip

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[left-of-center2012]

1. By the way ...

Egypt is a brutal dictatorship that imprisons and kills thousands of opponents.

[Meadowoak]

2. Maybe she is finally going to make her escape!

[laserhaas]

4. Now - that would be - fantastic news

[laserhaas]

3. Hard to believe she will be - respected/ accepted

Looking forward to the news of the turnouts.

[Ohiogal]

5. So she's going to visit

the countries her husband called "shitholes"?

[Roy Rolling]

6. Medical question

Do her new "kidneys" expand in high altitude and low air pressure? Is she kept hermetically sealed to stay fresh the whole way?

[Rorey]

35. LOL

"I really don't care" that she had some work done, but I find it comical that they felt compelled to pass it off as a kidney procedure.

[Freethinker65]

7. I don't really care, do u?

[NCjack]

18. I don't care. Wish she wouldn't come back. Then,

Donald could move a porn star or high-class prostitute into the White House. That would cause more TV preachers to go there for prayer meetings and a gander at the new bed partner. More prayer meetings would mean more favors from Gawd, even if Donald continues to refuse to repent.

[niyad]

32. do you think she packed that jacket?

[Rorey]

36. And wear the same thing twice?????

I'm clutching my pearls at the thought of it.

[niyad]

42. of course!!! I don't know WHAT I was thinking!!!

[samnsara]

8. maybe they will keep her

[Scarsdale]

10. Nah. They can not

afford her. Too high maintenance. They would probably rather have Pamela Anderson of one of the Kardasians visit. Are her parents going along for the free trip too? Why not send "presidential aide" Ivanka along? Oh, Beavis and Butthead would like to go and shoot some animals.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

12. Maybe U.S. Immigration won't let her back in.

They have never provided the documentation that shows she was in this country legally, have they?

[GoCubsGo]

21. I can't imagine they'd want to keep her.

I'm not so sure they even want her there for the visit.

[2naSalit]

9. That's bound to go well...

just like a nasty fart in church!

[titaniumsalute]

11. Maybe she is defecting?

[d_r]

13. I can't really remember but

wasn't there something about right wingers complaining when Michelle Obama traveled to Africa?

[irisblue]

14. Run Melania Run!

🏃?♀️👠👟 now's your chance!

[Submariner]

15. What a colossal waste of jet fuel to fly a racist

ex-escort to see people with the skin color she hates.

[mentalsolstice]

16. Three of those countries merely cosmetic

She’s really there for Kenya where she’ll be chasing down that elusive evidence that proves Obama was really born there!

[FreepFryer]

17. The 'Shithole Tour' -- Trump (n/t)

[greatauntoftriplets]

19. But who will rub the caviar on Barron's body while she's gone?

[GoCubsGo]

20. How many of are tax dollars are being pissed away on this?

Isn't that what her party used to ask when Michelle Obama went abroad? IOKIYAAR.

[peekaloo]

22. Diamonds are a girl's best friend

bloody or otherwise

me so cynical

[rtracey]

23. keep going

Run for your sanity Mel..... just stay away

[jb5150]

24. Maybe she's trying to get out of the way

... before Trump goes nuts when they give his court pick the boot.

[llmart]

25. Ugh.

I can't think of anything more hypocritical than this bimbo, who's married to someone who thinks separating children from their mothers and putting them in cages, speaking about children's wellness.

Fuck her and her newly uplifted boobs. (kidney problems my ass)

[Rorey]

37. "Fuck her and her newly uplifted boobs. (kidney problems my ass)"

Well, she probably had a butt cheek lift too. Who knows.

[Anon-C]

26. (Sings) She left her man at home...

...She don't love him no more

[cp]

27. Is she returning?

[handmade34]

28. Mrs #notmypresident

is irrelevant

[jmowreader]

29. I get a different impression

In the intelligence business, this is called a face-to-face meeting with your controller.

[docgee]

30. Beat me to it.

I was going to suggest to look for Russian oligarchs just happening to visiting the same locations.

[niyad]

43. damn!!! should have thought of that!!

[Mr.Bill]

31. Is Barron going with her

or will he be held in a detention camp in Texas until she can be located so they can be reunited?

[llmart]

39. Actually I think she just enrolled him in Georgetown Prep.

Can't get started too early on the entitled white frat boy culture.

[Mr.Bill]

40. I'll send him a keg of beer so he can get his political career off to a good start. n/t

[niyad]

33. teaching Africans how to raise their children-- satire is indeed dead.

[LiberalLovinLug]

34. as opposed to her solo home stay?

[Maxheader]

38. Find you a boyfriend somewhere in your travels

and stay there...

[BigDemVoter]

41. For the life of me, I cannot imagine WHAT she may have to share with ANYBODY that is of value.

[niyad]

44. Be Best--for someone suposedly fluent in so many languages, one would think she

could have done better than this.