First lady to take part in 'town hall' on opioids

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

an hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Liberty University has announced that first lady Melania Trump will participate in a “town hall” discussion at Liberty University next week about the opioid epidemic.

Also participating in the Nov. 28 event will be Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Dianna Hart, whose daughter Demi Lovato was hospitalized over the summer after a reported drug overdose. The discussion also will include former Fox News host Eric Bolling, whose college-age son died last year of a mix of cocaine and the painkiller fentanyl.

Bolling tweeted Wednesday that the first lady would join him “for an intimate and important one-on-one discussion” at the town hall in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Addressing the opioid epidemic is part of the first lady’s “Be Best” campaign.


Read more: https://apnews.com/7c886d08fdaf4a4c84eccc255871d2a7

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[mr_lebowski]

1. Somebody just shoot me now ... the STUPID is just becoming too painful ...

Liberty University?

The First Lady's 'Be Best' so-called Campaign?

A Former Faux Nooz host?

What a friggin JOKE. And NOT a funny one.

[jberryhill]

10. Have you tried opioids?

[mr_lebowski]

52. lol ... not really, no ...

what if i was to *totally hypothetically* say 'only enough of them to OD everyone who's posted on this thread ... maaaaaybe ... 1000 times each?'

[handmade34]

34. right, except

Eric Bolling lost a son to opiods and he is trying... otherwise the whole thing is absurd

[onit2day]

64. Using this so called crisis to get stupid yahoos abusing ends up hitting those in pain hardest

I'm talking elderly pts with no history of abuse or mis use being forced off needed and effective pain killers for their long term pain is stupid and hurtful. You don't go to the Dr to buy cocaine. It should be up to the Patient's Dr to determine what is needed not the state. and Liberty U is a cult opposed to critical thinking. No oxygen should even be given to this made up crisis. Take all the bullets away from gun owners cause a few used them for mass shootings is comparable to this opioid crisis crap.

[Akacia]

67. Amen!

As an older person on prescribed pain meds I agree. Without them the quality of my life would suffer in the extreme. I take my meds as indicated and am required to visit my Doctor every 3 months to get refills.

[NurseJackie]

44. Ambiguous headline could be interpreted as if the First Lady is on opioids.

[Richard D]

47. wouldn't anyone be?

In her situation. At least.

[Honeycombe8]

50. LOL! That's what I thought, too, when I saw the headline. nt

[Bev54]

53. I am with You!

[IronLionZion]

2. Be Best

when people ask the difficult questions that make her uncomfortable. Like how many people have resorted to drugs after being bullied by her dear husband.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

61. One way to find out...

ask the WH doctor.

[IronLionZion]

66. The WH doctor has been giving drugs without a prescription

to people who feel stressed out by working for a lunatic

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

68. Right.

The other guy especially. Probably the new guy too.

[Scarsdale]

3. Oh, puleeze!

She will be there to show off her latest fashion buy, and Botox. What can SHE offer that is of any value, unless she is going to tell the young students "How to meet and marry a reech man"?? So, in conclusion I say "I really don't care. Do U?"

[Girard442]

4. Hope Melania has picked some appropriate designer to dress her.

I’d say really big shoes, a floppy polka dot bow tie, and a red rubber nose would be about right.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

62. Maybe she better put on that cape over her

"I really don't care, do you?" suit? Mel...nobody wants to see anymore of you than we already have.

[irisblue]

5. 🤦🤦🤦🤦

[jberryhill]

6. Well, if they think the opioids will help her with that, then I guess it's okay

I didn't think being strung out for public appearances was a good idea.

[RKP5637]

9. Yep, I guess she feels her being strung out on opioids will help as per AP!

"First lady to take part in ‘town hall’ on opioids"

[JaneQPublic]

12. Ha! Yeah, the AP could have worded that headline better.

To eliminate the humorous ambiguity, perhaps...

"First lady to take part in opioids ‘town hall’"

[jberryhill]

14. I dunno. I think they mean she's gonna do it on opioids

[MrsCoffee]

18. Lol, my thoughts as well.

[thegoose]

38. Reminds me of Nancy Reagan's line

When she was doing the "Just Say No" campaign tour, and reporters were trying to ask her more serious questions about her husband's Iran Contra-embroiled administration, she said, "I'm here for drugs."

[MrsCoffee]

41. Lol!

[mr_lebowski]

26. I'd definitely need a TON of them to listen to her blather without physical pain (nt)

[LudwigPastorius]

31. How do you think she got through her honeymoon night?

...and every subsequent night for the past 13 years?

[Cal Carpenter]

42. Hey, if it weren't for the humorous ambiguity, I wouldn't have clicked!

[flibbitygiblets]

13. I just assumed she did everything "on opioids". I mean, look at Anuslips McMushroomdick...

[mr_lebowski]

19. lololol ... i love it!

[libdem4life]

7. Maybe she could throw in a bit on Be Best and Decorum in the WH.

Then it would be complete. Phony boobs, other plastic surgery and stilettos get you far as a Trump...not much else matters. She's such a waste, and poor Barron, an anchor baby.

[RKP5637]

11. So, we know tRump melts in the rain and/or his makeup runs. I wonder if she melts

in the sun with her phony boobs, other plastic surgery. Plastic melts. Hmmmm, she's so plastic, maybe she doesn't need the other.

[libdem4life]

54. So, I'm wondering, at the risk of

being catty...isn't she of the chain immigration class that her husband wants to keep out? Comes in illegally, works as a (nude) model, gets legal, brings her parents over. I'm no fan of the bigoted law, but would be nice if it applied to her.

I'm sure she can leave her son...he's legal. And I feel sorry for him...an only child for the most part, imagine having to see photos of you Mom in the nude and the kids at school...oh my. He's already scarred beyond repair...then there's a maniac father who didn't want him and doesn't give a flip for him and is undoubtedly verbally abusive.

I've worked with immigrants and taught ESL in a school in a minority/immigrant community and have all respect for those who have struggled...both with the transition and the language... but her voice sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard.

[RKP5637]

58. It's all very very pathetic. And, I read someplace many republicans think tRump is an excellent

role model for their kids. Another one of my many WTF's each day. IMO there is no way Barron is not going to grow up as a disturbed child and adult. You can see the stress in his face.

[libdem4life]

60. I have an only child...and in our small world it's an issue...I have sisters...

he has no family peer. Neither his father nor I nor cousins, etc. can take the place of a sibling. No equal frame of reference. My decision was only because of a brutal marriage...looking back...not so sure. He suffers, mostly in silence.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

63. Saw that kid on tv today. He's grown two feet since he started getting fed.

He's taller than his dad.

[flibbitygiblets]

15. Who's she going to plagiarize this time, Nancy Reagan with "Just Say No"?

why is it that everything this woman does feels like trolling us?

[left-of-center2012]

16. Reading from "Two Corinthians"?

[PeeJ52]

39. Does pResident tRump keep his Bible

beside his book of Hitler's speeches, underneath his book of Hitler's speeches, or on top of his book of Hitler's speeches?

[MrsCoffee]

17. She will be on opioids for the town hall?

That's the only way I can read that headline.

[jberryhill]

20. It's also the only way she can tolerate her spouse

[MrsCoffee]

22. I would imagine it would also be the only way to tolerate herself.

She has to know that she is loathed almost as much as her husband.

[libdem4life]

23. Probably the truth...ha...

I don't think there are many people, other than the Koolaid Bunch that don't strongly suspect her husband of being on lots of things...opioids come to mind. Sniff, sniff, sniff.

But remember, all of these "bad things" are only bad if the little people do it. Rules don't apply to the Upper Crust.

[Cha]

49. lol!

[Turbineguy]

21. I'd have to take opioids

to spend time there too.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. That should be an inspirational event.

That ridiculous woman is, as my dear departed grandpa would say, "about as useful as tits on a boar hog."

[jb5150]

25. I'm willing to bet that Melania will contribute

little to nothing .. and what little she does say will be barely understandable, I know she speaks 5 languages, I just wish one of them was English.

[OneBlueDotBama]

27. I think she should be best, on meth

Rather than being on opioids, a tweaking Melania would be an interesting watch.

[JudyM]

28. I hope someone points out the data showing that legalizing cannabis leads to less opioid addiction.

And that she brings that back to “the House.” This needs to be shouted from the rooftops to get the law changed, thanks to all the lobbying against its legalization.

[dbackjon]

29. Are they going to drug test Falwell Jr?

[Racerdog1]

30. Nice

Room full of Reich wing hypocrites listening to a centerfold model. What could Be Best?

[ghostsinthemachine]

32. Shes going to be on opiods?

Asking.

[Racerdog1]

33. Living with the orange asshole

You would have to be on something.

[jpak]

35. This should be fun

[Iliyah]

36. I hope she wears her jacket . . .

I don't care, do you?

[Autumn]

37. Word of advice. If you're going to speak on opioids First Nude, do not take them on stage.

Do them backstage to give them time to work before your speech.

[muriel_volestrangler]

40. Grandstanding. She knows nothing about it, and it's not surprising, living in New York

having come from a European country 20 years ago and gone straight into gilded society. She adds nothing at all to it.

She could actually talk meaningfully about immigration, but since her, and her parents', story goes against the Trump narrative (unless you explicitly state the white supremacist version, which even Trump doesn't feel able to use in the open yet), they can't use her for that.

And doing it at Liberty University is not a 'town hall', it's an audience picked to be supportive of the Trump regime.

[BamaRefugee]

43. She knows PLENTY about it, how do you think tRump got her into bed while they were dating? n/t

[Honeycombe8]

51. I know how..I know how! (raising hand) ....with money. nt

[dchill]

45. And the jokes just write themselves!

[jb5150]

46. Supprised they didn't get Limpballs to be on ...

I've heard he's done a lot of "research" on the subject.

[Power 2 the People]

48. WTF does she bring to the table?

A soviet mail order bride who gaslights on a regular basis.

[BlueInRedHell]

59. Perhaps she can instruct us on the proper fashion to wear while overdosing?

I wish I was kidding.

[gay texan]

55. #be sober n/t

[gay texan]

56. I'm not sober, R U? N/t

[Julian Englis]

57. Makes sense--Many people, really reliable people--having been saying Donald was on coke....

during the debates. :-P

[duforsure]

65. She should be asked if she's ever used illegal drugs,

She will lie. Then ask her why her husband took so much money from big pharma. This is all a diversion, nothing more.