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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMelania Trump Leads FEMA Briefing on Hurricane Preparedness and People Have Questions
Link to tweet
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. WTAF...............................
I just can't , seriously what is this.
The first spouse, whether woman or man, has no official duties nor title in the United States. There are a million good policy reasons to keep it that way. If one absolutely must put a family member in government, make it official and appoint a spouse to a specific position for specific purposes. The spouse is not supposed to simply take on duties that belong to the presidency under any circumstances.
This tweet below should leave us all breathless and afraid.
Trump wants a government where his daughter is a senior adviser who speaks in official meetings, his son-in-law is perhaps the second most powerful person in the White House and runs programs, his kids work as campaign officials, with their wives and girlfriends getting paid, and now Trumps idiot, spoiled brat, unsmiling, miserable, wife, is being briefed by FEMA on hurricane preparedness. In other words, Trump is running this like the Trump organization, a small, tight, criminal, family enterprise with as few people involved as possible.
I wonder when she got her emergency management credentials.
leftieNanner
(15,137 posts)I'm sure it was in her credentials somewhere. Wait a sec. Let me look in my files. That college degree she got? Wasn't it included? Maybe emergency management is different in Croatia.
2naSalit
(86,739 posts)leftieNanner
(15,137 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Tribetime
(4,701 posts)paleotn
(17,937 posts)Lonestarblue
(10,038 posts)Im sure it was a strenuous curriculum.
Nasruddin
(754 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)NNadir
(33,538 posts)leftieNanner
(15,137 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)thanks for the laugh
I have named our local squirrels Boris and Natasha, btw.
Love it!
Thunderbeast
(3,417 posts)FEMA getting ready to help the poor citizens of Frostbite Falls!
jls4561
(1,259 posts)After all, she has shoes down there.
Solly Mack
(90,778 posts)Get those paper towels to the people in the back row.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)nt
chia
(2,244 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)to do anything. So, he sends his highly UN-qualified family out to do everything for him. It's a damn three ring circus and we are footing the bill. We need a government not a damn three ring circus. WTF?
Cha
(297,464 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Conversely, can you imagine being a Republican (me either) and seeing this and saying, "hey, I don't have a problem with this"?
Me either.
Can you imagine being a reporter and not setting off the alarms?
Me either.
This is a mockery of our institutions and democracy. Not an alternative. A mockery.
Retrograde
(10,143 posts)during Bills term: you could have heard the GOP outrage on the moon.
Im sure theyll express their displeasure any time now
lunatica
(53,410 posts)If not then he must be hoping all the flack and anger hes getting will be redirected to her.
Nevilledog
(51,167 posts)Looked twice for the source being The Onion.
Did they have an interpreter there to help her with the big words?
Kaiserguy
(740 posts)the same ones they would have use for Trump. This is a picture of a big wind and so on.
KatyaR
(3,445 posts)Excuse me while I go bash my head against the wall.
Johnny2X2X
(19,095 posts)Kakistocracy.
They're making a joke out of everything.
area51
(11,916 posts)not sure how that'll help with emergency preparedness.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Break (out your) ass?
Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)uponit7771
(90,348 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,151 posts)Hekate
(90,766 posts)...answerable to nobody else.
dreamland
(964 posts)How can she possibly do worse than baby rump.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,189 posts)"Be best, I tell you! Do not weather-bully us!"
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)(Melania, probably)
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This can't be for real. It just can't be. She's not qualified to hand out samples at a grocery store let alone lead a FEMA briefing in front of others who must be vastly more knowlegeable.
delisen
(6,044 posts)Shermann
(7,423 posts)IcyPeas
(21,899 posts)everyone else must've been too busy.
lindysalsagal
(20,718 posts)I would have.
Midnight Writer
(21,780 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,164 posts)Heck of a job, Frowny!
barbtries
(28,808 posts)oh we are so screwed.
trump is sinking fast. has he been seen today?
CountAllVotes
(20,877 posts)I mean afterall she does speak 666 languages and has that Epstein Visa going for her right?
C Moon
(12,219 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,727 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,249 posts)dameatball
(7,399 posts)bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)Blubbering, sweating& shaking like crazy.
His chubby little mushroom fingers twittering like a madman...
On a dead phone.
(Someone's taken the battery out but hes so out of it, he doesn't realize it.)
Dios Mio
(429 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,027 posts)NotHardly
(1,062 posts)Aviation Pro
(12,181 posts)One of the officials should have asked her about hot towers.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)dhill926
(16,351 posts)are going to throw their hands up in the air and say, "we quit!"
aggiesal
(8,921 posts)Oh, it's the onion.
And literally not believe this is true.
Watch tomorrow!
Sympthsical
(9,091 posts)When I read the initial story, I thought she was in any way being involved in FEMA matters and nearly had a heart attack out of sheer disbelief.
Its for a program shes involved in raising awareness among youth about hurricane preparedness. That doesnt bother me that much. First Ladies do many programs targeting children.
And besides, its not like shell ever actually do anything about it anyway.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,129 posts)Link to tweet
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