Melania Trump's indefensible defense of her bully husband

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Melania Trump’s indefensible defense of her bully husband

By Karen Tumulty
Columnist
12/13/2019, 6:51:07 p.m.

There is a classic dodge that bullies can be relied to fall back on when they abuse someone who is smaller and weaker than they are.

He (or she) asked for it.

First lady Melania Trump, it appears, subscribes to that defense of the indefensible as well.

A day after her husband mocked a 16-year-old girl who has been diagnosed with a disorder that is on the autism spectrum, the White House attempted to square President Trump’s appalling behavior with his wife’s supposed advocacy against bullying. It also asked us to pretend we didn’t see the obvious hypocrisy in the president’s attack on climate activist Greta Thunberg only a week after the first lady expressed outrage at a law school professor who had the temerity to make a play on words with the name of the Trumps’ 13-year-old son, Barron.

What, people wondered, did Melania Trump think of the president’s tweet?

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Now we know. There is a lot to unpack in this four-sentence statement that White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham issued Friday afternoon: “BeBest is the First Lady’s initiative, and she will continue to use it to do all she can to help children. It is no secret that the President and First Lady often communicate differently — as most married couples do. Their son is not an activist who travels the globe giving speeches. He is a 13-year-old who wants and deserves privacy.”

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/13/melania-trumps-indefensible-defense-her-bully-husband/

[madaboutharry]

1. Melania is not smart.

She is also a liar like her husband. She claimed for years to have a degree in Architecture from "University in Slovenia." As if there is actually an institution of higher learning in Slovenia called "University in Slovenia." The truth was eventually uncovered when a reporter decided to call the University that she actually attended only to discover that not only did Melania NOT earn a degree in Architecture, but had in fact dropped out in the middle of her freshman year.

Melania is also lying about her ability to speak 6 languages. She speaks 1 language fluently (her native Slovenian) and she can speak an acceptable English. She is flat out lying about the others she claims. She was unable to speak Italian to schoolchildren while visiting a classroom in Italy. She was unable to speak French to the Macrons and spoke with them in English. She has not been heard speaking German. What she does speak well is the language of bullshit.

And someone needs to answer for how she obtained an "Einstein" visa while having one semester of post secondary education and a pile of nude photos in her application file.

Melania is a fraud, just like her husband.

[SCVDem]

2. What a sleaze!

Show our kids your portfolio you low life! How proud are you of your life?

Barron will NEVER match Greta's character.

I never want to hear the trump name again!

[Doc_Technical]

3. Chelsea Clinton was 12 years old,

when Rush Limbaugh called her "the white house dog".

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2014/12/02/flashback-video-limbaugh-calls-chelsea-clinton-age-12-white-house-dog/

[ResistantAmerican17]

5. When I am riddled with dementia

I will still get furious when I recall that bloated oxy addict mother *ucker saying that. Edited for typo.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

4. DO NOT FORGET how committed she was to the Birther Bullshit, too.