Funny? Sad? Pathetic? slate - "This reporter's description of Melania reading to kids is brutal"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/03/03/the_press_pool_report_of_melania_trump_reading_to_kids_is_a_must_read.html

Melania Trump Reads to Kids in a Hospital—and Is Read by the Press Pool Report in Return

By Katy Waldman


Lots of lead in, but it gets good later on

"Almost every statement in this document is a cut, a stroke of restrained contempt liberating an extremely stilted and uncomfortable Melania statue from the marble. The tone, though, is also tragic. The report conjures a bonanza of unbearable awkwardness—of silence, looking, forced-smiling, and waiting—that derives in part from Trump’s seeming despair.

In a small room … First Lady Melania Trump sat in a wooden chair and looked at several children in the room.

I already feel embarrassed. Does she know how to sit on a hard surface? Why is she just staring at the sick kids?

“We will read some books today,” said Trump. “So do you know what is today?” she said. The children looked at her blankly.

Wow, she’s really connecting to her audience. She has a politician’s touch! And, given her advocacy for the written word, not the best grammar.

She was wearing black stilettos, a soft, blue sweater, and a long black coat. She had a huge diamond ring on her left hand ….

Huge!"

snip more to read....and weep!

[dembotoz]

1. Understand she speaks 5 languages. Or is that another trump lie

I feel more pity than contempt for her

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. I have to agree with you.

[panader0]

6. Some multi-lingual reporter should ask her "Which five?"

[lunasun]

13. All of them!

[uponit7771]

7. Another lie

[mnhtnbb]

16. Knowing how to say

"do you want to go to bed with me" in five languages doesn't qualify for knowing how to speak five languages.

And that's my polite answer of what she might know what to say in five different languages.

[GoCubsGo]

17. Yep.

She should probably just not do these things.

As for speaking 5 languages, if that is the case, I'm guessing they are all iterations of Russian.

[PufPuf23]

21. Probably not all iterations of Russian

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I guessed English, Slovene, and Serbo-Croation plus two of French, German, and Italian.

Wiki says she Melania speaks six languages and all three of French, German, and Italian.

Slovenian and Serbo-Croation are Southern Slavic languages.

Russian is an East Slavic language.

Recall Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia and not part of the Warsaw Pact.

I was there as a tourist in 1981.

Agree that Imelda oops I mean Melania could find better use of her time.

[Doreen]

3. So, dictator and his wife are visiting the children who

are eventually going to die when he takes their health care away. What and asshole....her too.

[LenaBaby61]

4. So, dictator and his wife are visiting the children who ....

"Are eventually going to die when he takes their health care away. What and asshole....her too."

Agree. She co-signs with his fuckery.

BOTH birthing asses.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Consider Michelle Obama in the same situation.

The comparison is night and day. There's no warmth there, no real compassion. Similar to Ivanka Tuesday night when she made no move to embrace and comfort Mrs. Owens.

[LenaBaby61]

8. Consider Michelle Obama in the same situation.

Except for the cavier-slathered 10 year old, ALL that family knows how to do is cheat, grift and LIE massively. I haven't a clue about the one named tiffany.

[KittyWampus]

9. Saw the footage on FB. Melania didn't show any pictures from the book, read w/thick accent

and in a monotone.

Her stiletto heels looked like weapons.

Sadly, it looks like she's never read a book to a child.

[DashOneBravo]

10. She doesn't project warmth like FLOTUS Obama

But this kind of article makes our side look like shit. Find some other reason to dislike her but to pick apart her reading at a hospital is stupid.

I'm betting the author hasn't done that.

[Old Terp]

11. Just imagined Bill Clinton doing this

He would have brought the kids in and had the whole place rocking. I have to smile. He would have made a wonderful First Husband.

[Solly Mack]

12. When I see Melania Trump I think about her echoing her husband's birtherism

and then suggesting that a Jewish reporter was to blame for being attacked by Melania's racist (Nazi) fans because the reporter "provoked" them.


Journalist who profiled Melania Trump hit with barrage of antisemitic abuse

So if people put a swastika on my face once this article comes out, will she denounce them?

“I don’t control my fans,” Melania says, “but I don’t agree with what they’re doing. I understand what you mean, but there are people out there who maybe went too far. She provoked them.” (She being the journalist who wrote the article)

So when a reporter is subjected to vile attacks and threats, she herself is to blame. (Poor Nazis: always getting “provoked” into doing things.)

Melania Trump Supported Her Husband's Racist Birtherism Claims on TV

[leftstreet]

19. !! I'd never seen that

Just piles of disgusting. Provoked them?

Of course, she lost me at "...my fans"

[Solly Mack]

20. She and Trump deserve each other.

Yep. Said the Jewish reporter provoked the attacks. Same thing the Nazis said. That it's the fault of Jewish people that other people attack them.

[JI7]

14. she doesn't care and she hates this

she married the ugly fuck so she could have an easy life. now she is expected to work.

[lunasun]

15. Maybe Nazis can be normalized and accepted easier if they visit sick kids in the hospital

They can try can't they ?

[RoadhogRidesAgain]

18. Gold digger First Lady.