It’s easy to forget that Melania Trump exists, what with everything that’s been going on lately, paired with the fact that she’s been the most absent First Lady in modern history. But every now and then, she does step out from her gilded cage to do the bare minimum of what’s expected of her.
Like today, when she spared an entire 47-seconds of her time to record a video in which she tried to inspire hope in the nation’s healthcare workers who are currently working tirelessly on the front lines of this ever-worsening coronavirus pandemic.
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“To all medical personal and the other frontline responders,” Melania says at the top of the video, “on behalf of a grateful nation, thank you.”
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She continues, “It is because of you that the people of America are receiving the care and treatment they need.”
Giving credit where credit is due, she’s right about that. It’s doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel–who are still not receiving the full support they need from Trump–that are caring for the sick and dying. They are heroes.
“Our prayers are with all who are fighting this invisible enemy,” Mrs. Trump continues.
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) April 8, 2020
So how are you feeling after watching that? Are you inspired? Relieved? Grateful? Hopeful about the future?
Yeah, nobody else is either.
The response to Mrs. Trump’s video has been about what we’ve come to expect anytime she tries to #BeBest. Let’s take a look…
Did we check to make sure this wasn’t a Michelle Obama speech?
— Brad Wollack (@BradWollack) April 8, 2020
Empty words from an empty vessel
— Betty Martinez (@Martinez55Betty) April 8, 2020
Where are the tests?
Where are the masks?
Where is the PPE?
Where is the federal coordination?
Where is the empathy?
Where is the oversight?
Where is the responsibility?— 🕊🌜Rhiannon🌞🕊 (@WelshWitch07) April 8, 2020
Go back to your tennis courts or whatever project you think is necessary!
— D.L.P. (@DLP207) April 8, 2020
Did you cost extra to actually appear human? #BeBest
— Lesley Abravanel🆘 (@lesleyabravanel) April 8, 2020
Evidently Melania’s makeup crew and stylists are considered essential workers during the pandemic!!!
— nancy cronvich (@FT1965) April 8, 2020
13,000 AMERICANS DEAD.
Some hoax.#TrumpIsTheVirus— Honolulu Haoles (@honoluluhaoles) April 8, 2020
But how are the tennis courts coming along ?
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) April 8, 2020
This is the worst movie ever.
— Socially Distant Democrat 🏳️🌈🚀⚛️ (@shesnottrump) April 8, 2020
Tell us again how one gets an Einstein visa.
— Rick Britt (@RickBritt61) April 8, 2020
Your husband knew in Nov 2019 and did NOTHING. The Intel Community sent the briefings but he NEVER ACTED! He’s done now, start packing your bags, and don’t steal the towels on the way out the door.
— Robin (@trumpsatwit) April 8, 2020
I am deeply concerned about the lack of progress on your Tennis Pavillion (sic) … please do not let this minor “virus” interrupt the rush to establish your right to a swanky place to sit while others play tennis near you
— Abraham Lincoln (@SurrealALincoln) April 8, 2020
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HankHarris
The enemy isn’t invisible – its clearly there giving a press conference daily where he lies and grandstands to the world…
Cam
I thought she was too busy stealing our tax dollars to build a Tennis pavilion.
Also, you don’t notice it as much because Donald’s fake tan is SO ridiculous, but considering she lives in a city just coming out of winter, her ridiculous brown orange spray on looks almost as weird has his does.
succubus
you are an azzhole and such a disgusting ignorant opportunist gaf. wipe the corners of your mouth.
a disgrace…
folks …why in the name of God do you support this idiot and his “sister” PWWO????
are we not more than this?
Cam
@succubus
You’ve now obsessed over me in 5 different screenames. Sweetie, your unbalance is showing.
Translation: You couldn’t argue against my point that she was stealing tax dollars to play tennis and her spray on tan looks ridiculous.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Why thank you oh so much Mrs, Stepford!
succubus
all I can say to you is shut up fool!
Norm
Mrs Stepford, I LOVE IT!
Grrrowler
There was no substance, no reassurances, and no ideas. I can only wonder if Donnie’s handlers are seeing his approval slip so they’re trying to give the country the warm, mothering approach from Melania. I don’t know what she’s like in private but in public she’s anything but warm and mothering.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I will give her credit for one thing…….
She has been fiercely protective and kept the First Twink Barron completely shielded from the madness of the misadministration
Cam
That was preemptive, After spending 8 years attacking Obama’s daughters, FOX News went on a two week foaming at the mouth bender SCREAMING that nobody should EVER mention a President’s children.
So that was their doing.
ShiningSex
she should have aborted when she learned she was pregnant by Don Jr.
Cam
@ShiningSex
Ugh, I can’t scrub that horrible image from my brain.
succubus
you and your sister ilk are proving my statements about the sissification of queer culture
wake the phuck up dudes…. you want these parasites representing you???
Cam
@succubus
Awww, and the right wing anti-LGBT troll account shows that the biggest insult it can think of, is to basically call people gay.
You’re spiraling.
gag
Predators like you are all the same. It doesn’t matter what side of the fence you’re on.
ptseti
Lord Have Mercy….umm Sweet girl…please the LESS you say the better it is for you..get out while you still have time
Garth
Good Lord ! I haven’t seen nor heard from her in so long I thought she had passed on .
Gigi Gee
Lay off the Botox. #FFS
Diplomat-G
“Breath in Some Fresh Air” wasn’t that the title of your last porn film you made prior to selling your ass to trump?
ScottOnEarth
LOL!! Funny 🙂
ShiningSex
She’s so vile. She looks (her expressions) like she has a stuck fart.
hayesj
I hate that whore and her stupid husband.
TamaraChing
I found nothing negative about this video that our First Lady had done. Why are you dumping shade on her. I found this to be bad juju as I found a heartfelt message after watching her personal message. If you have issues with her husband, don’t diss her for it. She has a lot going for her tenure as First Lady and will be remembered as such. Each First Lady has their own unique style and she has hers. I like her for who and what she is.
Jbaltes
I find your “supportive” comments obtuse and reprehensible! She is a cold, calculating bitch of the first degree… and deserves no adulation or admiration of any kind. I respect a common alley rat more than I do that piece of trash!
whatthefckever
Oh bullshit. That dumbshit knew exactly what she was getting when she married that asswipe. Love? Think again. A lifetime of money and easy living. If that’s your choice, so be it. But she knew the scumbag she married so she gets no pity, no sympathy from me.
Cam
Work on your grammar if you’re going to pretend to be an American account.
MISTERJETT
so i guess you don’t remember “I REALLY DON’T CARE. DO U?”
Hdtex
What flavor is Trump’s crusty sphincter today Cletus?
trojanboy
Someone just put this thing put of its misery, please.
GlenMartin
Gee thanks Melani. I think you have just calmed everyone’s nerves with your simpleton speechie. Go away you dolt. Your as much help as your incompetent, ignorant and epic failure of a husband. Don’t you have some shopping to do anyway? America does NOT need you and your hollow words.
Eric R. Wilson
She is the coldest so-called First Lady of my lifetime – and I remember cold nancy reagan and the drunkard, pat nixon…. There is nothing warm about her – and it’s not only the botox…. We all know her husboy is impotent, but she looks as frigid AF.!! In a way, I feel sorry for her – but don’t ask me what that way is. It’ll be refreshing to have a relatable First Lady again, huh…?
ScottOnEarth
The First what? “Lady”? That’s a laugh. This low-rent, vacuous, plastic-faced airhead was a tacky, flat-chested soft-core porn model on the hunt for a sugar daddy. She found one in desperate donald dump and, through a corrupt election, found her surgically-enhanced ass in the White House. She is not a real First Lady, just as much as her useless husband is not a real president
dave1000
I love how people insist on punishing others for doing something right. So petty. You make yourselves look even worse.
Hdtex
Dave. Kindly crawl up Trump’s rectum.
Cam
Please point out exactly what was “Right”.
rray63
I usually agree with a lot of the comments, today I can’t. Should she not be protective of her 13 y/o son? Should she not dress like a former model that has outstanding tastes in clothes? At least be intellectually honest guys. Mrs. Obama could wear a burlap sack and you would talk about how great her fashion sense is, Mrs. Trump can wear couture and we say she looks like a pig in slop? I’m sure some of you will call me all the names you usually call folks that disagree, but I have big shoulders. She had the misfortune of marry Trump and you folks are going to pillory her forever. Okay, start calling me names now.
Cam
Except nobody said anything about her son, that is a typical right wring troll gambit. Pretend the article was about something it wasn’t so you can then invent a fake narrative to argue against.
If you’re going to try something like creating a strawman argument, do a better job of hiding it.
MISTERJETT
i kinda doubt Mrs Obama would wear a coat saying “I REALLY DON’T CARE. DO U?” painted on the back.
rray63
Hey Cam,
Guess you didn’t read all the comments. I didn’t say the article said this, it was from one of the commenters. As for talking about me like I’m a virus, keep on keepin’ on. I know a moron when I har from one.
Here is the comment, you can read up to find it as put out:
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I will give her credit for one thing…….
She has been fiercely protective and kept the First Twink Barron completely shielded from the madness of the misadministration
Joshooeerr
Note how she can’t even pronounce “humanity”.
Onecaddy13
WOW!!! If this is not Far left Commenting, I don’t know what you call it. You people have so much hate raging inside, I have never read such hateful, despicable comments about any person than the ones I read here. Do you like anyone??? or do you resort to bashing and name calling for people that disagree with you? Wow, you need to call out both sides and the media for being slow on the draw and hypocritical. Cam, this is for you. I did not vote for Trump nor did I support him. I just made the comments which may have seemed to defend him but I was just calling all the people out for their hatred and hypocrisy. I supported Obama, but could not bring myself to support any candidate in 2016. To all Stay safe.
Shaver
Totally Agree!
mozzer
Nope, nah with how NASTY her POS husband is and the way he bullies people…and this B!TCH excuses him by saying “When you punch my husband he punches back HARDER!” She deserves EVERYTHING and more coming to her! ESPECIALLY when her platform was anti-bullying. F@CK this B!TCH!
Kangol2
@OneCaddy13, you actually typed, “I have never read such hateful, despicable comments about any person than the ones I read here.” Girl, you are not fooling anyone! If you’ve ever read even ONE right-wing rag or website and there tons of them, you’ve read far worse about the Obamas, the Clintons, the Kennedys, any sundry Democrat who makes the news, and even Republicans who fall out line. Can the Pollyanna-ish crap and come correct: Melania Drumpf is a sorry excuse for a First Lady. I’d have some sympathy for her if she hadn’t turned into a Birther nut, but she’s just a garden variety Stepford Wife who I cannot even say, based on her actions, is a good person. The less of her we see before she and Don Ceaucescu the Covid-19 Con leave office ASAP, the better.
Cam
Let’s see, she lied about writing her convention speech and instead stole if from Michelle Obama. She wore a jacket saying she didn’t care, to go look at kids in cages. She was a birther, and while people in the nation were suffering she stole tax dollars to build a tennis pavillion.
Sweetie, the old “waaaaaah, calling Republicans out for their bigotry and hate is the REAL bullying” doesn’t work troll.
Hdtex
Cry harder feckless shitpost reich-wing troll.
Norm
It was the worst fake performance I’ve ever seen. Of course I’ve never seen her orgasm with Donald!
SportGuy
Just makes me realize and remember how amazing First Lady Michelle Obama is.
Onecaddy13
Michelle Obama was not as amazing as you think!! Do some fact checking on your own, don’t go by what you read or hear from those hacks on major news outlets & then comment. Everybody was stuck so high in it they needed help wiping their noses off once the bulldozer pulled them out. And before everybody goes off, I will call out any politician, no matter what affiliated party they belong to for stretching the truth or being hypocritical. When caught, they apologize and walk it back!! And I voted for Obama.
Cam
@Onecaddy13
It’s alsways cute when right wing troll accounts try the whole “I’m a lesbian but….” before they support some right wing bigoted law that attacks lesbians.
You’re not even THAT subtle, you tried to go on the attack (My My how hateful) against Michelle Obama, and then at the ed stuck on the lie you voted for Obama. LOL!!!!
Sweetie, try a new screename, you ruined this one already.
WSnyder
I’m pretty sure that was just a cardboard cut-out of Melania with a cassette player taped to the back [and some weak AAA batteries]. The energy level and animation was just that flat.
Kangol2
So true, though what you describe would have been preferable to Frau “Be Best” Drumpf’s fake babble.
& does she ever tell that lazy, lying oaf she’s married to, “Be Best”? He sure in the hell could take her advice for a change!
DuMaurier
So…if I have this right, she didn’t actually say anything wrong, it’s that we hate her so much there is nothing she could say or do that would be right.
MISTERJETT
that is correct!!!!!!
Cam
Another new screename for the same right wing account that always freaks out if Melania is mentioned.
Get a new gig.
rj_topher
How does it go with HATE? Shamefully I thought we were beyond embracing the very thing we despise most. So go ahead and hate her husband but when your jealousy is showing it doesn’t wear well on you to attach the woman he is married to,
o.codone
The seething hatred here is frightening. But we, as a community demand unconditional respect, yet we cannot give it. She is a nice lady. She’s not Donald Trump. She’s not a hater. What’s wrong with what she says? The haters here are really reprehensible. Stop hating guys. Just stop.
rj_topher
Thank you o.codone for reminding us that hating diminishes the best of us. Hate accomplishes nothing and it weakens the spirit of all.
MISTERJETT
so i guess you don’t remember her “I REALLY DON’T CARE. DO U?” jacket.
Cam
It’s always adorable that the same accounts who defend Republicans trying to pass laws attacking LGBT civil rights, putting kids in cages, and stripping money away from school lunch programs, now say that not liking Melania Trump’s mocking children in cages and other actions is “Seething hatred”.
You trolls are wasting your time here.
Hdtex
She’s NOT a “nice lady”…she’s a calculated WHORE.
o.codone
The seething hatred I was referring is on display right here ^. Why are these guys so angry? And all the random name-calling. Wow, it’s really ugly guys and frankly I don’t know why you aren’t ashamed / embarrassed to put this level of out-of-control emotion out there into the universe. You seem to think the this comment section is a free for all. Like you can say anything you want.
You can’t have a dialogue? Why do you resort to negativity and name-calling on every single post? It’s time to put that stuff away. People are cringing at your public, shameless negativity. Time to stop.
Cam
@o.codone
It’s interesting how you always defend Republican bigots who attack LGBT people. But if LGBT people don’t like bigots, you always clutch your pearls and cry about how “Hateful” them not liking being attacked is.
You trolls have tried this routine for years. It has never worked.
MISTERJETT
that whole family is creepy
Bradley
I hope they kept the box and packing material so they can send her back to Stepford. She needs a few more tweaks.
fxdudeinmia
Donald Trump and Barack Obama ended up at the same barber shop. As they sat there, each being worked on by a different barber, not a word was spoken.
The barbers were both afraid to start a conversation, for fear that it would turn nasty. As the barbers finished their shaves in silence, the one who had Trump in his chair reached for the aftershave.
But Donald was quick to stop him, jokingly saying, “No thanks. My wife, Melania, will smell that and think I’ve been in a whorehouse”
The second barber turned to Barack and said, “How about you, Mr. Obama?”
Barack replied, “Go right ahead, my wife, Michelle, doesn’t know what the inside of a whorehouse smells like.”
Cam
BOOM!
Evji108
What happened to her eyes? She looks like the walking dead.
corgimel
It has been said that the democrats and lefties are the biggest hate group in the country. After reading these comments I have to agree….
Cam
It’s been said that Republicans hate women, minorities, LGBT people, and children. And after reading the comments of you right wing trolls, I’d have to agree.
Onecaddy13
I have to agree, Cam’s just a one sided ass who Seems to repeat his virbage in his comments when he doesn’t like what you have to say. He throws the entire party Into the mix instead of the individual. Not all politicians ( both sides) are bad, evil or corrupt. Readers need to read more and stop listening to these far left political hacks they call journalists before the throw their hate spewing, name calling comments.
GayEGO
Is Malaria Trump a U.S. citizen or an immigrant?
Hussain-TheCanadian
Well Melania, the number of infected in the United States will hit 500K soon, and the dead will reach 15k; your criminal husband has done nothing to prepare for, or now, do anything to help stem the tide of this pandemic ravaging the American population.
There is a story making the rounds this morning that the American government has just given the Israeli government a million masks and additional medical supplies, while Trump steals medical shipments on route to Europe while threatening Canada that he’ll do the same, agreements be damned.
Your 30 second video doesn’t change any of the above, your husband doesnt care about the people hes supposed to be governing, and his actions will lead to more infected, and more deaths.
No more “packed churches” I presume??
Vince
Yeah, but i was great PR. His Christian loony base will love it!
jayceecook
I mean, she tried…she failed. I don’t know if it’s just her personality or being from another country but she just doesn’t have any emotion when she speaks. It’s bland teleprompter speech. Even when she’s not speaking from one. I’m not going to hate on her as there have been worse First Ladies. And honestly there’s nothing in this particular video that should have people up in arms.
However this administration would be wise to just keep her hidden or as a silent prop. She’s not relatable, completely out of touch with regular folk, and misses the mark in almost everything she tries. I mean I’m still waiting for her “amazing” anti-bullying initiative? Has that ever manifested?
Black Pegasus
She’s as wooden as they come but why all the nasty vitriolic comments?
– oh nevermind.
Cam
Or we could ask, why do you always defend anti-LGBT bigots and then attack people for not liking racists or bigots?
– oh nevermind.
Stephanie34
I mean, is she not Marie Antoinette? Insulated from the everyday while the policies of this administration has ruined this country at light speed.
o.codone
@Cam. You must be mistaken. Perhaps you think I’m someone else. I don’t defend Republicans. Melania Trump is not a politician. The problem, as I see it is that you are *blinded* by anger. Your anger is way, way out of proportion to anything that’s being said here and probably has to so with some other part of your life. You post the most angry comments on Q, by far. **By far**.
And, all that said, nobody knows what “clutching pearls” means/is. IDK. Don’t bother to explain, nobody cares.
Onecaddy13
Cam, why is it when you comment, nobody can reply? I guess you want that gotcha moment. You really are hateful. You insist I’m a right winger. You couldn’t be farther from the truth. And speaking of truth, Unless you were in the voting booth with me, you really can’t comment which political affiliation I belong too. I’m going to say this one more time, I will always call out the truth stretchers and the hypocrites from both parties as well as the media. I voted for Obama, but did not vote for Trump. So why don’t you clutch your pearls & troll since These are your favorite sayings when commenting. Also, I will not change my screen name as I’m not immune to receive negative comments or being called names by people like you that may disagree by my comments. This is everyone’s right, it just shows the many differences people have, but some of us don’t resort to bashing or name-calling.