Every living former president and first lady appear in a series of PSAs released today urging Americans to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. With the exception of Melania Trump. And, of course, her husband.
The first PSA features Barack and Michelle Obama, George W. and Laura Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter all receiving their shots. The second PSA, filmed at Arlington National Cemetery, shows former Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton encouraging people to get vaccinated.
“We urge you to get vaccinated when it’s available to you,” Barack Obama says, while George W. Bush encourages people to “roll up your sleeve and do your part.”
“This is our shot,” adds Bill Clinton, with Jimmy Carter delivering the closing line: “Now, it’s up to you!”
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The PSAs were produced by the Ad Council and COVID Collaborative for the COVID-19 Vaccine Education Initiative’s “It’s Up To You” campaign. Why the Trumps do not appear in the videos is unclear, but it certainly fits a pattern.
In addition to pooh-poohing their roles as President and First Lady for the four years that Trump was in office, they wouldn’t acknowledge Biden’s 2020 victory. Donald never conceded and Melania broke tradition when she refused to meet with Dr. Jill for tea. They also didn’t attend the Inauguration and have kept low profiles since leaving Washington, D.C.
Last week, it was reported that the couple, who both tested positive for coronavirus back in October, privately received vaccines in early January, but they didn’t tell anyone.
During his appearance at CPAC recently, Donald briefly told “everybody” to get vaccinated… before taking credit for President Biden getting the vaccine.
“We took care of a lot of people,” he said. “We took care of Joe Biden, because he got his shot, he got his vaccine.”
Meanwhile, Mlania hasn’t issued any statements encouraging people to get vaccinated, despite launching an “Office of Melania Trump” Twitter page. The self-congratulatory page, which has nearly 120k followers, has mostly been used to fire off tweets attacking the media for writing unflattering stories about her and to praise bigots like Rush Limbaugh.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Invader7
It would delicious and divine karma if Agolf Twitterler and that gold diggin trollop Melanoma Drumpf both got covid and DIED !!
WSnyder
DJT doesn’t have a heart or soul or smarts, so he’s really already dead. Just a carcass of greed and narcissism that happens to walk and talk [Note: proof is that it rarely makes any sense when it talks]
jcool
he would have just bragged about what great ratings HIS commercial got
HankHarris
She thought it was a syringe full of botox and said ‘no, I have plenty’
Cam
Are we sure she was asked? Anything she advocates for would take a hit from her association with it.
Also, maybe the invitation wasn’t in one of the 5 languages she speaks fluently. (Sarcasm).
Trask
She was invited but it is still in the mail.
marquez
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Mack
Melania was totally useless as a First Lady so why would it be any surprise. And of course Trump only does things that benefits him financially.
Kangol2
Twittler Don the Con did get Covid-19, as did Frau Con, and neither died. In fact, both received the best, most advanced medical treatment that the vast majority of Americans or people across the globe could not.
Moreover, Trumpolini also received the vaccine before the vast majority of Americans, in January, as did Frau Trumpolini, so despite the fact that he claimed Covid-19 would “disappear,” and would be “gone by Easter,” and “was a Democratic hoax,” and was the same as the “flu,” and would be no longer discussed “after election day,” etc., we learned he knew all along how deadly this virus was. He should be in prison for lying to and essentially killing Americans because of his lies.
Put another way, the psychopathic, treasonous, racist, homophobia-enabling, lazy, golf-playing, corrupt sack of offal Don the Con essentially let 500,000 Americans DIE from Covid-19 because of his inaction, incompetence, and malevolence, yet he and his Bride of Frankenstein sure in the hell availed themselves of any and all top medical treatment for that “hoax” as soon it was available! That’s the commercial the American people need to be reminded of.
tjay7
Malaria is too busy working on her post-FLOTUS vision board with “WIDOW” topping her goals.
Prax07
Melania wasn’t an actual first lady, just like her turd of a fake husband wasn’t an actual president. They just pretended the jobs were theirs. No surprise she doesn’t include herself among the Actual first ladies. Plus she would never do something she wasn’t getting paid for. Altruism and volunteering isn’t in her limited vocabulary.
justgeo
Do her eyes ever really open. Looks just like the snake she is.
Mr. Stadnick
She was invited but it was her day to help out at the retired porn actresses home.
Tombear
Isn’t Stormy Daniels in the retired pornstar home?
blackhook
Please! Show some respect for our lovely First Lady Melania. In her own words…
“The peoples ask me Melanie how you like live Trump Trash Mansion? I say “Secret Servants take me beach!” and the peoples love First Lady, ME! They say “Melanie you best Racist Birther we ever done had here in the Florida!”
cuteguy
Maybe she felt uncomfortable exposing her arm. Maybe she’s only comfortable exposing her vay jay jay and ta ta’s.
Liquid Silver
I think we can do without Stench and Mrs. Stench taking their shots in public. That would make me sick.
Hdtex
She should rather focus on treating her chronic case of syphilis, before the dementia sets in.