Melania Trump:Looking for a platform, and a stylist.

[CTRLZero]

1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I like this response:

"November is coming," ha!  I am starting to think about what my next protest sign will say.  There are so many things I want to include, and now I see that I can just continue the writing on my clothing.  It would be a lovely look with my tinfoil hat.   (This administration is truly making me crazy.)

[candygirl200413]

Just remember though, Melania is a racist. She also pushes the same ideology of the birther movement. She really did know what she was doing.

[Cartmann99]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

"What Melania Trump’s ‘I don’t care’ jacket says about the state of the East Wing"

Spoiler

It was the jacket that launched a thousand tweets. Boarding Air Force One on her way back from visiting a Texas detention center where unaccompanied children at the center of the current immigration debate are housed, first lady Melania Trump wore a jacket that had “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” emblazoned on the back. Many speculated, as they have of Trump’s fashion choices in the past, whether the jacket was meant to send a subliminal message.

Could it have been a coded allusion to her contempt for her husband? Was it, as the president himself claimed on Twitter, an attempt to tell off the media?

My sense is that it was neither, and that it wasn’t saying anything else either. More likely, it was, as her spokesperson claimed, just a jacket, but that makes it all the more questionable.

Anyone who closely followed the first lady’s border visit Thursday would have noticed that Trump does appear to care about the fate of the children she was visiting. It was not a strictly congratulatory trip. The questions Trump asked indicated genuine concern, not indifference, such as how often the children were permitted to call their parents.

Trump’s statement earlier this week urging the administration to govern “with heart,” an uncharacteristic foray into the policy sandbox, sent the same message. And that was on top of the lobbying Trump reportedly did behind the scenes to encourage her husband to end the practice of separating parents from their children at the border.

But to chalk up Trump’s sartorial misstep to an inconsequential oversight would also be misguided.

What first ladies do and say in public, as my research on presidential spouses consistently shows, matters very much. Spouses are the most effective public messengers presidential administrations have, and Trump is no exception to this.

Like past first ladies, she is more popular than the president, and she seems to have a greater ability to influence public opinion of her husband among political independents and members of the opposite party, even when compared to key surrogates like Ivanka Trump and Vice President Pence.

Those advantages come from the flexibility first ladies are afforded by their role, which allows them to stay out of partisan debates and restrict their public appearances, all the while benefiting from unfettered access to presidents and perceived closeness to them.

But these advantages also impose great responsibility. Trump’s visit to the border Thursday was the best shot the administration had at putting a compassionate face on a highly divisive and controversial policy. It also fit nicely with Trump’s personal story as an immigrant and her expressed interest in the well being of children, which she formalized with her platform “Be Best.” Cohesiveness in political communications is everything.

And that is what made jacket-gate such an unfortunate, frustrating and avoidable stumble. For someone who has been involved in the fashion industry and the public eye for decades, Trump, like her husband, can be surprisingly careless about her public image at times. This would be surprising in any presidential spouse, and it’s no less so coming from one who’s a former model. If anything, the words on her jacket seem to speak to a lack of interest in the role she fills.

She has also learned, since being in the White House, what public actions draw positive attention and which draw negative attention. The white hat she wore to the French state dinner was met with widespread awe and delight, and the phrase “Melania Trump hat” garnered more online search results than several top news stories combined that week. Yet when she wore stilettos aboard Air Force One to visit Hurricane Harvey victims, her choice was met with castigation.

When most first ladies make a public gaffe, they tighten up their operation, become more willing to be managed by staff, and make sure not to make the same mistake again. That is exactly what we saw after Michelle Obama remarked that she was “proud” of her country for the first time in her adult life on the 2008 campaign trail, for example. To the great benefit of the Obama administration, Michelle Obama’s public appearances and statements throughout her time in office were highly targeted, polished and vetted by experienced staff.

But Melania Trump has made mistakes aplenty, starting with one too big to even be called a gaffe, the plagiarism scandal that surrounded her remarks at the RNC in 2016 (and then, another plagiarism allegation, that coincided with her “Be Best” announcement earlier this year).

In the modern era, the East Wing has developed into an intensely strategic and media-conscious operation that serves to garner positive press coverage for the president and his policy agenda. But Melania Trump’s East Wing has not yet hit its stride in this regard, despite its abundant potential to do so. Under the current administration, the West Wing’s communications have, of course, been similarly clumsy, but as history teaches, the first ladies and their staffs typically have the opportunity to be better.

 

[Drala]

[JMarie]

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[47of74]

Then she went out to spout off about kindness and compassion.

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Melania Trump is telling a youth conference that kindness, compassion and positivity are important traits in life.

The first lady says that participants attending Sunday's Students Against Destructive Decision national conference outside Washington have the power to be the "positive force" in people's lives. She's urging them to show each other respect, treat their communities like family, and have each other's backs.

Then why the FUCK were you wearing that jacket, lady?

 

[AmazonGrace]

Today I learned that me ne frego =I don't care was an Italian fascist slogan

[AmazonGrace]

 I'm sure it was just a coincidence

[fraurosena]

Sweet Rufus.

She sends out the unmistakeable message that she really doesn't care, then says '...one of the largest pillars of my campaign is the well-being of children'. 

 

[AmazonGrace]

Because of course she did

[AmazonGrace]

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[Cartmann99]

12 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

Also, please hide my hands so that I have an excuse not to hold Donald's hand.

[Cartmann99]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[AmazonGrace]

It was 86F in Helsinki today and Melania is wearing  a coat

[LurkerOverThePond]

11 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

It was 86F in Helsinki today and Melania is wearing  a coat

THIS. I know it's the least of her problems, but wtf was it with that coat?! I'm from Helsinki and was (and still am, because no ac) sweating like a pig the whole day, and I only had a thin t-shirt, shorts, and sandals. I'm not too fond of our First Lady, but at least she was dressed according to weather.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Not that anything will happen to her in this corrupt administration: "First lady’s spokeswoman may have misused official position in tweet about Trump’s 2016 campaign, complaint alleges"

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A tweet by the first lady's spokeswoman from her official account containing a photo from the president's 2015 campaign rally and his campaign slogan may have violated a federal law that prohibits public employees from using their official capacity to conduct political activity, according to a complaint filed Monday with federal investigators.

Stephanie Grisham, first lady Melania Trump's communications director, tweeted on July 11 from her official Twitter account celebrating her third-year anniversary of joining the Trump team during the presidential campaign. The tweet included a hashtag (#MAGA) representing the 2016 Trump campaign's slogan, "Make America Great Again." Attached with the tweet was a July 11, 2015, photo from President Trump's rally in Phoenix, which displayed then-candidate Trump and his campaign slogan sign in the far-left corner of the photo.

Government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) claimed the tweet ran afoul of the Office of Special Counsel's guidance on the Hatch Act, which prohibits public employees from using their official capacity to conduct political activity. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is a separate agency from the Justice Department's special counsel's office.

The Office of Special Counsel in March 2018 issued updated guidance on Hatch Act restrictions after Trump officially announced his reelection campaign. The federal investigator's office noted that the prohibition on political activity by federal employees is "broad and encompasses more than displays or  communications (including in-person and via email or social media) that expressly advocate for or against President Trump’s reelection."

The office warned federal employees against communications, either in person or electronically, directed at the success or failure of a partisan political office, including displaying any items with Trump's 2016 campaign materials.

"For example, while on duty or in the workplace, employees may not: wear, display, or distribute items with the slogan 'Make America Great Again' or any other materials from President Trump’s 2016 or 2020 campaigns; use hashtags such as #MAGA or #ResistTrump in social media posts or other forums; or display non-official pictures of President Trump," the guidance says.

Because Grisham tweeted from her official White House Twitter account, which lists her official position as the first lady's communications director in her bio, the tweet about her service on the Trump 2016 campaign constitutes political activity under the Hatch Act, CREW's complaint argues.

Grisham and the White House press office did not respond to a request for comment Monday afternoon.

Earlier this year, the Office of Special Counsel found that Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President Trump, violated the Hatch Act on two occasions by making public comments supportive of one candidate and against another ahead of a special Senate election in Alabama last year. Last year, the office found White House social media director Dan Scavino Jr. violated the law when he posted on Twitter urging Trump’s supporters to defeat a GOP congressman, Justin Amash, in Michigan.

 

[GreatGirl]

My friend pointed out that lately you have seen Melania in clothes that covers her arms. Is she having dialysis or something and covering needle marks? Also after kidney surgery her face seem to be more tight than usual? Too much botox or were here kidneys in her face?

Her dress looked uncomfortable for current weather. Our first lady is beautiful lady but I must say that her dress was little bit homely. Also she is looking older than she is, she should have more nicer haircut.  On the other hand, she has six month old baby so maybe she doesn't care at the moment.

[Cartmann99]

I know they must have an agreement about Trump being able to see other women, but usually such agreements are based on being discreet about it. 

[Cartmann99]

So, in order to try and change the subject, Trump agreed to release a tape proving he cheated on his wife. That's pretty damn cold!

[GreyhoundFan]

Aunt Crabby's theory:

 

[fraurosena]

On 7/21/2018 at 10:41 PM, GreyhoundFan said:

Aunt Crabby's theory:

 

You know what? With all the weirdness coming to light nowadays, it doesn’t sound that far-fetched at all.

[thoughtful]

That's the second urine-yellow dress she wore on that trip. Coincidence?