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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo Melania is upset Barron's name was mentioned during impeachment hearings-I don't care do you?
Were it not for the thousands of minor children that the trump admin ripped from their parents and continue to keep in cages - were it not for THAT ABOMINATION of DECENCY - I might agree with @FLOTUS, but facts are pesky things and I don't.
Link to tweet
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)only white children count.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)Poor white trash kids are pretty much no different in their eyes than blacks, Hispanics, Asians or anyone else's children...It's not enough to ONLY be white to these people, you also have to be the "right kind" of white.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)was a gift to her and the rest of the hostile right.
But, yes, I care. I'm not one of them.
Kali
(55,011 posts)I must have been on the phone
handmade34
(22,756 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)tymorial
(3,433 posts)But the kid is an adolescent and has nothing to do with any of this. There is no reason whatsoever to bring his name into the process or for insults or for any reason whatsoever
atreides1
(16,079 posts)Isn't he a recipient of his father's corrupt practices...he has what he has because of his father...look at his older siblings, all of them were adolescents at one time...but because of what their father did, his business practices...they are all now as corrupt as he is...do you really think Barron isn't going to turn out to be just like his arrogant brothers and sister!!!
He's a part of it...no matter what you or anyone else may feel...
tymorial
(3,433 posts)Not ridiculous because he is a recipient of undue privilege because of his father, this is certainly true. However the notion that he will be corrupted by this fact and seemingly this fact alone is ridiculous. How many men and women in history have had terrible and awful parents but have gone on to do good and decent things to make up for their legacy? There are many examples from abusive religions where children grow up in a culture of abuse but as adults (sometimes younger) they turn their back on their families and religion to proceed to speak out and fight against injustice. The royal families is yet another place to observe children of terrible parents/fathers who become decent and positive rulers... Queen Elizabeth I
What is arrogant is your assumption that you know how a teenage boy is going to end up especially considering his father seemingly wants nothing to do with him.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)People know he has a son named Barron.
This comment was inherently no different than someone saying 'The President has a Son Named Barron'.
It was in no way bashing the kid.
Further, there WAS a reason, it was a beautifully-made point being made, in fact.
meadowlander
(4,395 posts)It wasn't about Barron, it was about the fact that we don't live in a hereditary monarchy. That's not an insult to the kid. It's a point that his father isn't a king. Which is true.
Kali
(55,011 posts)and as I figured, a bunch of manufactured bullshit outrage from the defenders of the worst asshole ever in the White House.
getagrip_already
(14,757 posts)There was no slight to barron. No intrusion into his privacy. Mentioning his name in public is not a terrible act.
Now if they discussed his dating habits, or drinking/drug abuse, or even what he wears to bed, then yeah, off limits.
Mentioning his name is not a matter of concern.
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)They're probably making money off of it as we speak.
Mike Nelson
(9,956 posts)... it was not major. I also wish Ms. Trump had not tweeted about it... she just elevated the minor mention for her on political reasons. She could show more concern for minor children and unnecessary bullying by speaking to her spouse.
Catherine Vincent
(34,490 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Yes, Melania is an asshole but I think children should be left out of any such discussions.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Was someone complaining about children being abused for political points? I couldn't hear it above the rumbling of empty bellies in a country that can't feed its own citizens.
spanone
(135,841 posts)lastlib
(23,239 posts)...and call out her husband's evil child-separation immigration policy. THEN I might be inclined to listen to her gripe about Barron's name being used in a sentence.
Granted, the boy is certainly punished beyond reason just having AnusMouth for a father--but there is no hurtful intent in using his name in this context, unlike what the Dotard has inflicted on those who differ from him. I'm sure Lisa Page and a certain disabled reporter (among many others) know what I'm saying. For the Dotard, infliction of pain and humiliation on perceived enemies is his raison d'etre for being in the White House (along with serving Master Putin...) I can't shed tears over him getting a taste of his own medicine.
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Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)And neither would most of America.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)tymorial
(3,433 posts)The kid has nothing to do anyting involving the president and his actions. There is no reason whatsoever to bring him up.
Melania probably shouldn't have reacted so angrily but in some ways I do understand it as a parent.
Given the Trump family's reactionary approach to all criticism, she didn't help by calling out the actions. And yet...
stopdiggin
(11,314 posts)It was not derogatory .. but it served little purpose either. Somebody thought they would be "clever" -- and ended up stepping in it. Ham-handed and a little tone deaf would best describe.
coti
(4,612 posts)It's right up there with the suffering of Kurdish children being killed as a result of Trump's betrayal, isn't it?
Baitball Blogger
(46,720 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,004 posts)Your own husband named your poor kid after his own pathetic pseudonym.
But when I heard Karlan say that, I knew there would be squawking from the WH.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,192 posts)I suppose he could have chosen "WS Journal".
BannonsLiver
(16,387 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,835 posts)Fuck you and the tiny dick you rode in on......
WHAT ABOUT ALL THE KIDS YOUR HUSBAND STOLE FROM THIER PARENTS AND NO PAPERWORK TO EVEN KNOW WHAT HE DID WITH THEM OR WHERE THEY ARE.......... YOU UBER RICH, HIGH PRICED TWAT........
Just wait until baron gets a little older and all his school mates hang his mom's color nude pictures all over the boys bathrooms at school!!!!!!
That will show everyone, how "classy" his mom is........
LSFL
(1,109 posts)You give her too much credit. She is just another post Soviet whore who hooked up with a bankrupt fat ass and forgot her birth control. I do so love your post though.. the tiny dick thing made me snicker.
Melanoma didn't forget her birth control, she knew if she were to have his spawn, the child would be her anchor child. Ironic that Trump et al have condemned the "anchor children" of the Mexican 'Invaders'.......
You know why Trump has such tiny hands????? Mother nature gave him the tiny hands, because she was feeling sorry for him for her having given him such a tiny dick!
Knew it was a mistake immediately
Red meat they will chew on for a while
True that they would find something to do this with anyways
But we don't need to hand it to them
slater71
(1,153 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,742 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)If she doesnt understand the difference between a name, and a title. Its her problem.
My male corgi dog name was Baron, no title but did have AKC papers.
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)That said, the fact that Melania does not care about children in actual cages makes me outraged that she is outraged.
Those poor children would be overjoyed if the only offense against them was the mention of their name in a public hearing.
karynnj
(59,503 posts)The comment was saying Trump is not a king. The clever play on his name should have been avoided, but in ALL the cases of a President or candidate's minor children being attacked -- this is the least outrageous by far.
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)ripcord
(5,404 posts)"It's high time the media & everyone leave Barron Trump alone & let him have the private childhood he deserves," Clinton wrote.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)that Barron got abused, ala Rush and Chelsea.
She may be working to clean up the family name.
Screw the high road.
This is war!
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)I must say though, there hasn't been much attention focused on him to date. I don't think it's been a huge problem.
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)samnsara
(17,622 posts)AnotherMother4Peace
(4,246 posts)The ones you don't care about.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)So do all the Republicans.
superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)The Handler
Active measures, and no, I dont care.
nolabear
(41,984 posts)Her fit of pique kept alive something that would have passed.
karynnj
(59,503 posts)Melania's English is not that good. In addition, the comment was about DONALD TRUMP as it simply means Trump was not a king. The ONLY thing said of that minor child was his name. How is that an invasion of his privacy? That Trump has a child named Barron is not a huge secret and I assume it was very well known.
catchnrelease
(1,945 posts)There's no way Melania wrote that tweet.
meadowlander
(4,395 posts)If he didn't write it for her, she cut and pasted it from one of his earlier tweets.
ReformedGOPer
(478 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)but that doesn't make you a Baron."
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)really would rather be king or create royalty.
What bugs me is that the Professor didn't attack the child. It was an attack on trump. And Malignia and others have so much faux outrage.
klook
(12,155 posts)but that doesn't make the publicist real."
agingdem
(7,850 posts)Hey, Melania if you gave a shit about your kid you would have divorced that piece of garbage a long time ago and taken your kid and moved far far away..
OnDoutside
(19,957 posts)Docreed2003
(16,861 posts)tenderfoot
(8,437 posts)eom
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)OMG I've just caused them irreparable harm!
You should probably sue, Melania. It's the Trump way.
x infinity
George II
(67,782 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,053 posts)meadowlander
(4,395 posts)we could dig out examples of prominent Republicans complaining that Obama didn't give his daughters "real American names".
Bonus points if they're bitching that "Natasha" is Russian sounding.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)Republics believe one thing: their voters can't remember what happened yesterday, and don't want to.
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)We can't use names now?
orangecrush
(19,569 posts)Beringia
(4,316 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,431 posts)PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Shut the fuck up, you entitled and ignorant fool.
First, your husband has damaged countless numbers of children with his border policies. They will never recover.
Your son, however, will not feel any sting from the professor's admittedly lame pun on Barron's name.
Do you remember when Bill Clinton was president and Senator John McCain made a terribly vulgar and bigoted joke about Chelsea Clinton when she was a teenager? Chelsea survived so will your spawn.
Spare us your hypocrisy, you selfish grifter.
helpisontheway
(5,008 posts)cages so I dont care about her child.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)Worthless concubine.
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)if baron was kept in a cage, separated from his family.
Poiuyt
(18,125 posts)If you name your son Baron, you've got to expect there will be some teasing and mocking. I would guess his classmates say a lot worse.
oasis
(49,388 posts)Aussie105
(5,398 posts)Melania's plan shot to pieces!
Melania had hoped that, when the Revolution comes, and the Great Unwashed storm the White House, they would have forgotten all about her and her son, and she could pretend to be the cleaner and sneak out un-noticed.
Just mentioning Barron's name has spoilt that for her.
But all joking aside, the complaint just shows how far some in the White House are out of touch with reality.
Time for a bit of Reality Therapy. I hope the shock of the Decline of the House of Trump isn't fatal for them. (But I can live with it if it isn't non-fatal. Care factor zero, actually.)
TheDemsshouldhireme
(172 posts)she would easily except the apology----sarcasm.
Mersky
(4,982 posts)In Baltimore with her trolling presence. She cant quit the hypocrisy or be best (whatever the hell that even means). Ugh.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)I think she is used to being used at times.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)about repig's.
They are not a part of where we need to go.
H2O Man
(73,558 posts)Not at all. The comment in question was focused on what Trump thinks, not the kid.
Recommended.
Excellent grammar and syntax for someone who really struggles with English.....
California_Republic
(1,826 posts)IcyPeas
(21,884 posts)Link to tweet
Link to tweet
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mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Mike Niendorff
(3,461 posts)The utter GALL of these people knows no bounds.
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SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)The Bopper
(185 posts)I dont recall these whining one way snowflakes coming to Chelsea Clintons rescue when Rush Limpball and friends attacked her. Like everything they try to do, they want to define the argument to their advantage. Fug them and ignore the whining basturds.
fierywoman
(7,684 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)...that Barron's non-royal commoner status has been outed.
She had hoped all his friends at school and all future acquaintances would think he's titled aristocracy.
Her fury is about exposing the truth.
marble falls
(57,097 posts)daughters days in Austin where they were living a life in the local headlines. They were not treated like Amy and Chelsea, they were given gentle treatment by people as I remember.
We aren't the RW.
Amy and Chelsea were not fair game, they hadn't put themselves out there as have Bevis an' Butthead jr, Ivanka, Jarod and Barb and the other Bush kid did.
Are we really going after another kid just because "they did it, too"?
tymorial
(3,433 posts)He needs to be left out of it. I don't care about what about or but he is or Trump did this bla bla bla.
Barron has nothing to do with the sociopaths actions
Bringing his name up for whatever reason is completely unnecessary. I hate to admit it but I agree with Melania
LonePirate
(13,424 posts)Link to tweet
For those who missed the GOP outrage today: Barron Trump was ripped from his mothers grasp and placed into detention in another state and might now be put up for adoption. Oh. Wait. No. Thats thousands of other children.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Apparently.
Dorian Gray
(13,496 posts)IF, on the odd chance, that Barron is actually upset that people are talking about him all over the news because of this, I will give him a moment of sympathy. He's a boy.
What was said about him would have been barely a blip. It was not mocking Barron. It was a criticism of his dad. Now Melania, Trump, the VP, and Fox are all making sure that it doesn't drop. So if he feels bad about it, he has their dishonesty to thank.
And that's an IF....
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Now YOU made it viral! I really don't care!
Quit your self induced bullshit!
I ain't buying any of it!
Lexee
(377 posts)time into the child.
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)I feel PAST badly that the birther's fat, racist fascist husband and Stephen Miller wants to turn this country into RU$$IA, because they are racist pos. Additionally, because tRump OWES his puppet-master, and the puppet master is ONLY too happy to fuck this country up and also get sanctions lifted against RU$$IA so that he can secure all of the oil that he can over there so he and his fellow oligarchs can fatten their already FAT pockets ----> as payment of fatso's debts to him. So no, I don't feel the least bit upset that her son's name was mentioned today, and it wouldn't have been mentioned had her husband not been trying to threaten, embezzle, lie, steal, break the law whatever--just so he can give this country away to pay off his massive debts to putin, but not before he tries to turn it into a white nationalistic country like putin's RU$$IA. I'm pretty sure Stephen Miller loves that picture below.
As for Barron, he's still alive, and looks relatively healthy. But, the toddler in this picture below is DEAD, because birther's husband is at the very least responsible for her death, yet she's allegedly angry that her son's name was merely mentioned? Many right-wingers are in an outrage today over Barron's name being mentioned today, yet tRumputin and his thuglican minions in the Senate & Congress are doing their BEST to destroy the rule of law, and every norm that used to be the USA by circumventing the US Constitution by trying allowing tRump to continue on with his law-breaking. He's trying his level BEST to turn this country into RU$$IA. By the way, MANY right-wingers were saying that the dead baby in this picture was a doll. A fake picture staged by dimtards, or by George Soros 🙄
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)But it doesn't MAKE her one.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)dansolo
(5,376 posts)It was just a really clumsy way of saying that Donald Trump wasn't a king (i.e. not able to grant titles).
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)nothing more. I don't see where the witness said anything insulting or offensive about Barron but, unlike Melania's husband, she sucked it up and apologized (she didn't really have to but anyway), which should quickly put it to rest. Melania and other Repukes will doubtless continue to flog this for the next few days as "evidence" of some kind of "problem" with the Impeachment Inquiry (which of course it isn't).
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)Far more humane TO KIDNAP CHILDREN FROM THEIR PARENTS AND THROW THEM IN FUCKING CAGES!!!
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no_hypocrisy
(46,117 posts)Barron doesn't know.
Barron doesn't care.
Runningdawg
(4,517 posts)healthnut7
(249 posts)Don't mention his name but it's okay what her husband says and does to other mothers kids!! She sure knows how to set an example!! Idiot!!! I've NO respect for her NONE!!!!
Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)Father Pence seems to have forgotten Rush Limbaughs vile joke about Chelsea Clinton.
Hows your grip on reality, Mr. Vice-President? Is it as slippery as your bosss?