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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMelania Trump makes a joke. A bad joke.
Link to tweet
Our country encourages freedom of speech, but let's communicate w/o hate in our hearts. No good comes from violence. #Charlottesville
That's a joke, right? Telling racists to communicate without hate in their hearts? That's her message? That's her big appeal on the violence in Charlottesville?
Racists are racists because they do hate. How does a racist express their hate without hate in their heart?
Or is she telling everyone else to listen to racists without counter-protesting them?
Does she seriously think the racists have something worth hearing?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)Melania is a clueless, privileged fool.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)dalton99a
(81,488 posts)it's what maintains his presidency
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)I can't BELIEVE the dog-whistling coming out of this administration
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)SamKnause
(13,106 posts)She is pretending she doesn't know this.
Trump called for violence at all of his rallies.
Trump is probably laughing his ass off on the golf course.
They deserve each other.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)mucifer
(23,542 posts)But, the Jew in me gets very fired up by all of this.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)And the thing is, some in the media will say she was a voice of reason.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)She has no idea what she will say until she speaks those words aloud.
Sincerity is not any Trump's strong suit.
Remember; this is the lady who plagiarized Michelle Obama at the RNC.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)But even if someone else wrote it, she wears it now.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)The WH realized it needed to make some sort of tepid statement regarding the violent situation. Trump, of course, TOTALLY SUPPORTS the Nazi march, so he was not going to make even the vaguest of condemnations. He loves his racist base and won't offend them.
So they dusted off Melania's twitter account.
This is so shameful. This feels like the 50s again.
Lars39
(26,109 posts)nolabear
(41,963 posts)NONE of them give a damn.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)"I support Freedom of Speech and I condemn the white supremacist and nazi sympathizers expressing un-american views and hatred in Charlottesville."
That statement is complete bullshit. It's not even close to being a subtweet.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)It's all fake news with them
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)Thrill
(19,178 posts)Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)As my grandmother used to say, you've got to give a dog its due. There's nothing inflammatory in her words. Maybe she was trying. Frankly I think Melania Trump, in a way, is victim, too.