Throughout her time as first lady, Melania Trump frequently expressed complete disinterest in and, at times, downright disdain for the role.
Her tenure was literally bookended by her refusing to move into the White House for six months after her husband took office and completely ignoring the deadly insurrection on the U.S. Capitol because she was too busy staging a photoshoot in the White House after he was voted out.
Since leaving Washington, D.C., she’s mostly stayed holed up at Mar-a-Lago, reportedly getting daily spa treatments, avoiding FBI raids, and occasionally hawking NFTs on social media. And, frankly, she can keep doing that, for all we care. “Out of sight, out of mind,” as the old saying goes.
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Unfortunately, she just announced yesterday her plans to join the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation and serve as an honorary chair alongside first lady Jill Biden and former first ladies Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Rosalynn Carter.
Melania tweeted to say she’s “honored” to help “secure a monument on the National Mall of enduring inspiration for women and future female leaders.”
I am honored to join @WomensMonument and serve as an Honorary Chair of the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation to help secure a monument on the National Mall of enduring inspiration for women and future female leaders. https://t.co/x7eOshRho7
— MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) October 19, 2022
Aside from the obvious irony of Melania Trump finally doing something as first lady after she’s no longer first lady, there’s also the irony that her womanizing husband and his cohorts are voter suppressing election deniers who tried to invalidate the ballots of 81 million people, 57% of which were women, in 2020.
(Oh, and don’t even get us started on her comments about inspiring future female leaders when she remained totally silent/complacent while her husband coined the term “Lock her up!” and appealed to people’s worst instincts by leaning into sexism and misogyny to defeat a female leader in 2016.)
Per Yahoo! News:
The Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation was founded in 2018. In December 2020, Congress enacted Public Law 116–217, which authorized the creation of the Every Word We Utter Monument and charged the foundation with the monument’s oversight. The monument will be placed on federal land in Washington, D.C., and will “commemorate the women’s suffrage movement and the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which gave women the right to vote,” the text of the law reads.
The foundation is working with the National Park Service, along with other national committees, to help design, fund and place the monument. According to the foundation, fewer than 5% of outdoor monuments in the United States tell women’s stories.
Here’s how folx reacted to Melania’s big announcement…
Honoring and respecting women begins at home Melania.
— Stephanie Winston Wolkoff (@SWinstonWolkoff) October 19, 2022
This is a joke right? @WomensMonument
— PROFA FOR PRISON💙☠️ (@theshadow_2020) October 19, 2022
What a stain in that group of distinguished ladies you are…
“I really don’t care, do U?”— Liza (@bizcochito73) October 19, 2022
Women have paid the price for Trumps regulatory agenda Trump issued dozens of regulations that threatened women’s progress and cost them billions revealing a fundamental disregard for women, and Mrs Trump never spoke up.
— adrienne (@adriennerourke) October 19, 2022
You really should recuse yourself from any vote on the design of the monument!
— Richard Spring (@rspring72) October 20, 2022
Lmao, is this satire?
— Miguel Migs (@MlGUELMIGS) October 19, 2022
The @womensmonument organization has scraped the bottom of the barrel. I hope everyone hides their purse with you in the room.
What a disgrace!
— Paris to NYC & Back (@Paris2NYC) October 19, 2022
You are way out of your league with this group ! pic.twitter.com/1uodWBb410
— R. Barnett (@rickbarnett1950) October 19, 2022
Please, you will never come out of hiding.
— PamElla (@PamEllaCasual) October 19, 2022
Seriously? You will not “be best” among this group of distinguished women, that’s for sure.
— Lori Van Decker (@LoriVanDecker) October 19, 2022
The Women’s Suffrage National Monument is currently set to be unveiled in summer 2027.
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ho
Um excuse me ‘Lani, I believe you were looking to join the group for vapid grifters, oopsie.
jcool
i’m guessing she doesn’t know what suffrage means.
abfab
”o dahlinks yu hiv no idea how i suffrage eech night vit diss disgusteeng housband!”
Brian
Once you read the full line-up, you see that the organization was forced to invite her. The likely truths are: They don’t want her, she doesn’t want to do it, and she’ll do zero actual work.
mateo
Remember back when Ivanka became a sort of stowaway in some “Women in Business” type of meeting that was sponsored by the G-20 or World Bank or something like that, and ALL the other women in the room (headed up by Christine Lagarde) literally turned their backs on her when she tried to break into their group? I predict a similar scenario for Melanoma in this case.
abfab
I do and I watched it like a dozen times because it was such a joy seeing everyone being so cruel to the poor little rich girl. That whole family is mingy and cringy. We must rid them form this planet before it’s too late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bachy
It will probably be… awkward at meetings, seeing as how Failure 45 and Melanoma couldn’t be bothered to welcome Dr. Jill and her husband into the White House when he won the election.
Yeah and I think they also refused to leave the WH and raised an army of idiots to storm the Capitol to try to slaughter legislators attempting to certify Biden’s win. So, there’s that.
FreddieW
I feel sorry for her. She has a horrible man as a husband. She doesn’t do anything except dress well and people still deride her mercilessly. And this whole thing about being a female role model in America must be totally out of her comfort zone.
Den
” She doesn’t do anything except dress well ” (!?)
I would maintain that supporting her husband’s ridiculous “birther” smears in interviews during Trump’s first campaign was something other than dressing well. Similarly, her “High Tea” event which claimed unspecified profits would go to non-existent charitable organizations and had to be cancelled because of that, was hardly just dressing well. She is arguably a grifter just like her husband, so derision is richly deserved.
abfab
She doesn’t have a ”comfort zone”! She married the biggest and ugliest TROLL in all the land! What she really found was her ”money zone”. What woman on earth would actually give this disgusting POS a second look if he didn’t have money?
And don’t get me started on her horrific holiday hell scape at the White House.
balcony
Flabbergasting. How on earth are the other former First Ladies supposed to work with her, or even be in the same room with her?
Kangol2
Be best!
RIGay
How long until the Giant Floating Orange Turd uses this as a way to grift? “Ain’t my wife great! Look at all she’s doin’ for woman’s suffering! Send us money!”
CNY1983
i would not be surprised if her husband charged her for her daily spa treatments…..
Pearl
You people are vile. She didn’t care? She was disinterested..
She was 1000x better than that moose, that came before her.
And Jill Biden turned a blind eye while her husband and son molested her daughters and nieces.
Fail
abfab
Oh Pearl! Bless your sweet, little heart! Now vanish.
Fname Optional Lname
Yes and Tom Hanks eats babies. Q is only a letter in the alphabet around here
Mr. Stadnick
Melania has been sufferaging ever since she had to hide in Mar a Lago. She has sufferaged more than any other first lady. She sufferaged in and finally escaped eastern Europe. No one has sufferaged more than she has.
abfab
Nice summation!
HankHarris
All the living FLOTUS are there – they included her because they had to.
abfab
She will appear virtually and let the world know she is too precious to be seen with such low-life, money hungry women. ”Dee housband sez I moost stay in zee home!!
sbirk
All these women are smart educated women. They care about their country, their family and the folks that live in the United States. They aren’t money hungry, they make a great living on their own. I don’t know what education Melania has had, but modeling is not the most skilled and educated line of work. Any one of the women listed except Melania could run this country hands down. Old men hate them because their scared. Their stuck in the old ways. Young men hate them because their scared. Their stuck in the old ways because their father’s taught that to them. Politicians have run this country in so many bad directions. Old Men send young men to die in their selfish warish minds that’s the only way to solve the problem is to play the war game. We have done that. It’s time for new ways. Men of all ages in politics are scared because women’s thoughts are not let’s send out our son’s and daughter’s to die. Women are smarter. It’s time for this all to change. Everyone of those women in that group can handle sending our country in a new direction. Melania is not a women that could achieve this. She never stood up, she never voiced her opinion about how her husband had made terrible decisions. She never shower any feelings at all about the January 6th killings and riots that her husband instigated. She ignored the suffering of other’s caused by her husband. She did not once react about violating the White House. A cherished building for America’s. She wanted to be a U.S. citizen, but did not have love for the country. She went for money. So she could live the dream. She never worked hard to earn her citizenship. She does not deserve to be on the same panel as these amazing women let alone in the same room.
humble charlie
she was smart enough to be the richest one there
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