Melania Trump makes surprise visit to border facilities

[leftynyc]

Source: CNN

First lady Melania Trump touched down in McAllen, Texas, Thursday making a publicly unannounced and hastily planned trip to get a first-hand look at the crisis affecting immigrant families at the US border.

In doing so, she becomes the first Trump family member to personally witness the situation that has captured the country's attention over the past several weeks.
"She wants to see what's real," said the first lady's spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham told CNN during a 10-minute press briefing en route to Texas. "She wanted to see as close to what she had been seeing on TV. She wants to see a realistic view of what's happening."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/politics/melania-trump-border-visit-immigration/index.html

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Find out what your putrid husband is hiding with all those babies that those places wont let anyone see, Melania. Do some good for a change.

[ailsagirl]

1. "She wants to see what's real"

[kacekwl]

19. I'm sure she will see what's real.

Fine linens, flatware and china to eat the fabulous food they get to eat.

[olegramps]

20. Let's admit it she is nothing more than a trophy wife.

I really don't give one rat's ass for what this pack of trash does. She is supporting a con-man, liar, racist, homophobe, amoral, bastard of the first order. She is aiding a demagogue whose constituency swallowed his horseshit because they are just as dedicated to racism as he is. He is a damn fascist that visions of transforming the presidency into an authoritarian dictatorship.

[ailsagirl]

26. Hear, hear

[kimbutgar]

2. Was she wearing high heels and her designer outfit?

[ailsagirl]

40. She's a joke

[Scarsdale]

42. Took her this long

to decide what to wear? Check HER immigration status while she is there. She entered the country on a visitor visa, worked (as an escort and nude model for a pimp) then stayed.

[ailsagirl]

57. That's right! Oh, the irony!!

[C_U_L8R]

3. Bullshit on top of bullshit

And so easily disproven. These Trumps are craven.

[pangaia]

4. Unless she leaves him and squeals......

the hell with her...

[Girard442]

5. My money is on the Melania-bot giving Donald's camps a good report.

Hoping to be proven wrong.

[Wwcd]

6. Thanking the complicit staff for all their compassion & hard work

[jrthin]

7. This! is why this woman is ghastly. She has enabled

her husband's evil act. They are a fu@king crime couple.

[gopiscrap]

8. oh puke

what phony bullshit. She's only there because trump wants to repair his image and knows with his anti-social personality he couldn't do it himself

[Scarsdale]

43. Most people have already

seen through the grifting Ivanka, so Melanie is second best. When will her spokesperson make a statement for her? "Bot, I vas vorking to be best. I vas not seeing the TV. My hosband does not speak to me, so how could I know vot vas going on?"

[gopiscrap]

56. perfect

[Corgigal]

9. Media

Turn this marketing bs off. She has nothing to add and you're being played again.

[lark]

10. I'd bet HUGE money the title of this is a total lie.

She's not going there to see anything real, just a staged production that's a total lie. She has zero truth in her and this is a drumpf ploy, not her plan at all. Count on it being total BS.

[Iliyah]

11. UGH . ..

More television fake stuff. Prepared speech bullshit . . .

[CentralMass]

12. This will be a telling moment to see if she has a soul or not.

[Scarsdale]

44. The evidence has been there forever

on that. No, she has no soul. That is what they have in common. That is why she always looks so miserable, as though she is going to the gas chamber.

[CentralMass]

52. If that coat that she allegedly wore today is for real, she has no soul.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

13. Hopefully

she'll, "Be's BEst," and goes to the picket line and supports stopping all of this. Not sure how to feel about this. She brought her parents here this year didn't she?

[heaven05]

14. I still don't trust this 'birther'

will she see what's real or some hastily cleaned up 'showcase' facility as hitler had when human rights people questioned the rumours of extermination-concentration camps? This all damage control by the trump snakes. He has fucked up bigtime listening to miller and sessions and he knows it

[deurbano]

35. With her "genius visa" citizenship, and her own parents becoming citizens through "chain migration."

I'll bet they aren't fluent in English, either, since Barron is supposedly fluent in Slovenian and they reportedly spend a lot of time with him and speak that language with him.

So yeah. i don't trust her either. Her birther stance was more Republican hypocrisy... and racism. (Plus.. for godsakes, she married that vile thing.)

[heaven05]

37. got that right

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. It seems as if Trumps are trying to counter the Four First Ladies who condemn the kidnapping.

But I will not completely discount the possibility that Melania has formed an opinion against it and siding with the Four First Ladies. We'll see what results from the visit.

[LiberalLovinLug]

36. I agree

After her hubby was criticized enough for his perpetual cyber bullying, she was trotted out to anounce some big new anti-cyber bullying campaign. Hmmm....I wonder how that's going.

After first reports of child separations started she announces a new campaign "Be Best". A confusing mix of fighting the dangers of social media combined with opioid abuse aimed at young people.

And now this trip. It's also a way to fool his easily fooled base that he had nothing to do with it. (Even though he gets 100% support for it from his followers). I wouldn't be surprised if they held a press conference together, her and Donald, after she returns, her to blab on about some general goal for the well being of all children in the world to be best. And then the Don steps up to once again pronounce how he will end the suffering of the little children from the evil Democrats in Congress that are jailing them. A new reality episode for his TV addicts.

[louis-t]

16. If she comes back with a glowing report, you know it was staged.

These people are horrible monsters.

[beachbum bob]

17. How scripted this and what she "reports" will be

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. I hope they turned her away.

Or else locked her up.

[Mr.Bill]

34. No, the only ones turned away

are members of Congress and journalists.

[treestar]

21. Watch her say it's OK

Like Barbara Bush, it's better than where they came from.

[dhol82]

22. From what I saw a little while ago she had just toured a sanitized facility

This was a Lutheran facility that had been outsourced by HHS.
She asked a few sanitized questions and then was, purportedly, going to see where the babies were.
We will see what kind of facility she got taken to.
My money is on a glowing report where she glorifies Unser donald.

[AmandaRuth]

23. alt immigration on twitter

says she isn't visiting the CBP facilities, were most of the kids are.

[IronLionZion]

24. If she reports that everything is just peachy

then she's complicit

[Sunlei]

25. the kids get Mrs. Dump- for taxpayers $600 a DAY for EACH child into 'for profit' pockets.

[FloridaBlues]

27. Wonder if she will go where the cages are set up or the tents these kids are in?

I say no. What a photo op this is, you know trump is in deep trouble and sends his wife.
My hope is that the press stays on this story.

[Sunlei]

30. no, they'll show her the kids eating or sitting at tables with crayons.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

49. Would cost much less to keep parents & children together. Not to mention costs years from now.

Some of those children will be so damaged they will require years of care at great expense.

Some will be damaged as teens and adults and commit lots of crime that would not have been committed, at great cost to victims and of law enforcement, prosecution, and incarceration.

[Solly Mack]

28. Bother. He does something horrible and she goes out playing the "nice" one

the softer side of him and all that rigmarole (in an attempt) to make him look better.

People fall for it.

Bother.

[leftofcool]

29. Yea, a nice little neat Luthern facility with 58 kids.

[Sunlei]

31. The one where Mr. DeVoss sits on the board and they're paid 50k a DAY for childcare?

[leftynyc]

32. Holy Shit

We have over 300 kids being housed here IN NEW YORK CITY - that's thousands of miles from the border but this twit manages to find a place with just a few children. I'm spitting angry.

[CanonRay]

33. Surprise visit

It's like she's visiting Baghdad or Damascus.

[RoBear]

38. Her comment:

"Let them eat cake."

I'm pretending the smilie is waving the correct finger to express my true feelings for M and her "loving" family.....

[uppityperson]

39. K&R for not visiting the real sites

[gibraltar72]

41. A facsimile of care and concern is just as good as the real thing.

[Vinca]

45. Someone on either MSNBC or CNN was talking to a reporter on the ground near this place

early this morning. They were talking about all the activity during the night. Trucks coming and going, shipments of stuff coming in, etc. They had been keeping an eye on the place watching for kids arriving. I told my husband I bet they were going to let cameras in and were designing a nice set. Lo and behold, Melania arrives "unexpectedly." Right. Add that to the BS list.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

47. Good catch. Caught red-handed assembling a Potemkin Village. . . . nt

[Snellius]

50. Himmler used to set up model "detention centers" and invite the Red Cross

With concerts and lectures and happy inmates (guests) smiling for the news (propaganda) cameras. They could look like Disneyland but they would still be concentration camps and the innocent children would still have no family to look after them.

[HurricaneWarning]

60. That's the first thing I thought of.

[enid602]

46. Melania

She wants to get her 'girls' prepped for their new assignment with TRump Escorts in Beijing. She want to make sure they're 'the best.'

[turbinetree]

48. Dear Melania, your about twelve years to late..............in my humble opinion

your nothing but a show, and the media right now is having a fucking field day trying to normalize this shit your shit of some type of compassion............I'm not buying this bull shit.

Do you know what it is like to be with a serial abuser, I mean do you really understand, I know what it was like.....................did you ask your abuser husband if the kids that may have disabilities being held in chair chained and then given shots of what ever the fuck they are giving them in these concentration camp interment centers, make some of these "kids" admit they belong to a gang, when they don't, they are given drugs to make them docile and admit to anything ................just so that your pathological flaming fucking husband can go on the tv that is trying to normalize your and his bull shit of caring that they are "animals".

Dear Melania, do you sit at the same fucking dinner table and speak to this asshole on what he did today and yesterday, .................that's what I want to know.

I fucking what to know if you sat down at the dinner table to discuss his fucking behavior...........................and if you can't answer that simple question ................FUCK YOU




November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[neohippie]

51. Look what she was wearing

Not sure if this has been confirmed as real. but apparently she boarded the plane in Washington wearing a coat (first day of Summer) that said I really don't care, do you?

Link to tweet

[leftynyc]

53. It's real

It's being report everywhere and her spokesperson claims there was no hidden message. Of course it wasn't hidden, it was right there for everyone to see. Feckless twit.

[SunSeeker]

54. Yep. She didn't go to a "Tender Age Shelter" for a reason. She is complicit.

She went to a camp where older boys are kept. This is in keeping with Trump propaganda that immigrants are MS-13 gang members. They only want to show older boys on TV to further that narrative, not babies or girls. And Melanoma is right on board with and helping to further that racist narrative.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

55. I can imagine Donald Trump saying to Melaina

after having been forced to reverse his position ,I really don't care do you ? That in response to her question about what is real . If that holds water ,she wore it on her back. It's just a thought.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

58. Malignia Trump. . . . nt

[DesertRat]

59. They're distracting us while they gut Medicare, Medicaid and the ACA

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210771145