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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMelania Trump slammed for wearing 'common symbol of European colonial rule' during Africa visit
First Lady Melania Trump donned a white pith helmet during a safari in Kenya on Friday, which some claim is evocative of colonialists, CNN reports. The network reported that the helmet was often worn by European militaries in their colonies throughout Africa and in India, and soon became a popular sun hat for European tourists in the 1930s. Matt Carotenuto, a historian at St. Lawrence University, compared wearing the hat to showing up to an Alabama cotton farm in a confederate uniform. Her attire is a signal of her understanding of what Africa is in 2018, Kim Yi, a politics professor at the University of California, Riverside, told The New York Times. Its tired and its old and its inaccurate. Trump, whose sartorial choices have gotten her in trouble in the past, is currently on her first extended international tour and will visit Egypt as her next and last stop.
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Melania Trump Met With Not a Shithole! Sign in Malawi
First lady Melania Trump was reportedly greeted with a few protesters in Malawi on Thursday, with signs rebutting President Trumps previous remarks calling African countries shitholes. The New York Times reports that while the first lady was traveling to the U.S. ambassadors residence, the motorcade encountered protesters with signs reading #MelaniaToo and Welcome to Malawi. #NotAShithole! Another sign reportedly referenced the Trump administrations family separation policy, which separated hundreds of children from their parents along Americas southern border. The first lady also reportedly toured class rooms while she promoted her own initiative, Be Best, and USAIDs national reading program. President Trump previously proposed slashing the State Department and USAIDs budgets. I wanted to be here to see the successful programs that [the] United States is providing the children and thank you for everything youve done, she said at a book donation ceremony in a schools library. The first lady is currently in Kenya, where she will attend a series of events before making her final stop in Egypt on her first extended international tour.
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Tavarious Jackson
(1,595 posts)She has to be tone deaf or this is all on purpose to insult.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/melania-egypt-visit-pyramids-final-leg-africa-tour-111710415.html
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)though a history book. She, like her loving husband don't read. She's going for a glamour shot.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Without a riding crop and a gin and tonic.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)A group of lions chasing her ass, or a hippo saying hi while she is riding down the rivers.
However, I get what ya saying. If I had to go with her, I would need an hourly gin and tonic, myself.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Once "republican family-values" get a hold of you, your mind has been compromised, and your soul has been poisoned.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)But you didn't hear either her of evanke say anything against sexual predators, so did trump order them to keep their mouths shut on this? Probably, they're both as phony as they come. She's being used by trump for distractions , and she's doing it.
dlk
(11,576 posts)Melania has enough advisers and stylists around her to know EXACTLY what's she's doing. No one should be fooled. She is, without a doubt, passive-aggressive and as deplorable as her husband!
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,417 posts)to look for Obama's birth certificate?
FloridaBlues
(4,008 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)"Hey Sarah! Did Melania find the real birth certificate?"
pintobean
(18,101 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pith_helmet#Gallery
I was in Kenya in the 80s. Kenyans sold pith helmets to tourists. They probably still do.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)She married a creep and remains with one, she seems perfectly fine enabling her piece of shit husbands political agenda.