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(36,109 posts)Can you imagine what would happen if Laura Bush, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, etc had done that?
MadLinguist
(790 posts)there'd have been pearl clutching scandal segments on every news show for weeks!
It's just that these folks currently crashing in the White House are always running news cycles with horror shows like this, just to fuqq with us. It feels like we're getting played to be sucked into speculations about Melania's "message".
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)and send her "approval ratings" crashing. Every single media outlet has covered it, so I don't know how she can ignore saying something DIRECTLY about it. She comes off as every bit as callous as her a'hole husband.
So, in that, I do think it has relevance.
Trek4Truth
(515 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)For what? Be Best? Maybe for the her pictures from the before time?
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)though I saw that it was dropping.
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)We are talking about a trashy ass flotus that would deliver her Marie Antoinette message to the world that she does not give one dayum about the children.
yardwork
(61,650 posts)The message is that she doesn't care about the babies and children forcibly separated from their parents. To the Trumps and their followers, these refugees are non-people. They literally, actually don't care.
Melania's jacket was a message to the Trumps' white supremacist base. I'm sure that many well-off white suburban Trumpsters got a good laugh from Melania's jacket today. They were in on the joke.
4now
(1,596 posts)He makes it look so easy.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Oneironaut
(5,504 posts)administration.
Kaleva
(36,312 posts)DU has tools such as "Auto Trash by Keyword" and "Trash This Thread".
MadLinguist
(790 posts)Kaleva
(36,312 posts)It gets rid of threads discussing subjects I have no interest in. Cleans up GD for me quite nicely!
blake2012
(1,294 posts)Would undercut the visit itself. The question remainswhy?
She did it to piss off Donald or
She did it as an encoded message to the base Im doing this but dont worrywe still dont care. Or
They really are that lax and unprofessional regarding protocols and symbolism.