<p>President Donald Trump fired back at the media late Tuesday, taking aim at reports about his weekend visit to Walter Reed Medical Center, and accusing the press of &#8220;scaring&#8221; the First Lady.</p>
<p>The president made an unscheduled trip to Walter Reed on Saturday. The White House claimed Sunday that he took advantage of a quiet weekend in his schedule to get part of his annual physical &#8212; a checkup and some bloodwork &#8212; done ahead of what will surely be a grueling start to 2020.</p>
<p>&#8220;Witnesses had earlier spotted the US leader leaving the White House shortly after 2pm. He was also carrying what looked like a tan rectangle-shaped folder or envelope under his arm,&#8221; <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1205639/US-President-Donald-Trump-health-scare-tests-Walter-Reed">the UK&#8217;s Express reported</a>. &#8220;President Trump entered a black SUV outside the White House and the escort motorcade departed for Walter Reed. Upon arrival at the hospital, Secret Service&#8217;s heavily armed counter-assault team were seen taking up strategic positions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Media &#8212; and, in particular, health reporters &#8212; speculated that Trump&#8217;s visit was far from routine, and pointed to evidence from the President&#8217;s 2018 physical suggesting that he may be in the early stages of heart disease. One cardiologist even went so far as to tell CNN that he doubted the White House&#8217;s official story, and that he was &#8220;skeptical&#8221; the visit was simply the first half of a planned physical set to take place in the first quarter of next year.</p>
<p>Speaking before a cabinet meeting Tuesday, Politico reports, the <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/19/trump-skewers-media-hospital-visit-071567">President tried to head off speculation</a>.</p>
<p>“I went for a physical. And I came back and my wife said, ‘Darling are you OK? … Oh they’re reporting you may have had a heart attack,’” Trump said, accorind to the Washington, D.C., based newsmagazine. “I said, ‘Why did I have a heart attack?’ ‘Because you went to Walter Reed Medical Center’ — that&#8217;s where we go when we get the physicals.”</p>
<p>“I was only there for a very short period of time, I went, did a very routine, just a piece of it, the rest takes place in January,” he added. “I got back home and I get greeted with the news that ‘We understand you had a heart attack!’”</p>
<p>&#8220;My wife said ‘darling, are you Ok? What’s wrong? Oh, they’re reporting that you may have had a heart attack,'&#8221; Trump continued, recalling his conversation with the First Lady, specifically. “I said, ‘Why did I have a heart attack?’ ‘Because you went to Walter Reed Medical Center.&#8217;”</p>
<p>&#8220;These people are sick. They’re sick,” Trump added, talking about the media. “The press really in this country is dangerous.”</p>
<p>Trump&#8217;s visit to Walter Reed wasn&#8217;t on his public schedule, and unlike his previous routine visits, the staff at the hospital wasn&#8217;t notified in advance that he would be appearing for tests. The White House also seemed unsure of what to say about the visit, backtracking from earlier claims that the President tried to get some parts of his 2020 health screen out of the way early, and calling the visit an &#8220;interim checkup&#8221; in statements made Monday, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/politics/donald-trump-hospital-visit-white-house/index.html">per CNN.</a></p>
<p>Trump&#8217;s personal physician, however, tried to put rumors to rest by assuring the media that Trump is in good physical condition <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1196622001982623744">in a memo released by the White House press office</a> late Monday afternoon.</p>


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President Trump Fires Back Over Walter Reed Visit, Says Media &#8216;Scared&#8217; Melania With Speculation

Donald Trump

Melania Trump

<p>First Lady Melania Trump visted a Boston hospital Wednesday to discuss a program where mothers and volunteers cuddle babies born addicted to controlled substances, only to meet with dozens of leftist protesters &#8220;decrying the immigration stance and policies of her husband, President Donald Trump,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/politics/melania-trump-boston-protests/index.html">according to CNN</a>.</p>
<p>Around 200 protesters, who claimed to be nurses, doctors, and &#8220;health care workers&#8221; from Boston Medical Center where Trump was meeting with leadership and viewing the baby-cuddling program, carried signs opposing &#8220;babies in cages,&#8221; and calling for an end to the &#8220;Trump-Pence regime.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Medical professionals standing in solidarity at Boston Medical center in protest of First Lady Melania Trumps visit.<br />First lady visiting cuddle program at Boston hospital for babies born on drugs.<a href="https://twitter.com/boston25?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@boston25</a> <a href="https://t.co/DPDaFxnI5j">pic.twitter.com/DPDaFxnI5j</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Scott McDonnell (@ScottMcDonnell_) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottMcDonnell_/status/1192113759378165760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The protest appeared to be organized by &#8220;ResistFascism.com,&#8221; a program of, ANSWER (&#8220;Act Now to Stop War and End Racism&#8221;), a group of international socialists and Communists that have protested Republican presidencies since the early 2000s.</p>
<p>The cuddling program, which has met with incredible success, helps babies born addicted to opioids and other controlled substances &#8212; a condition called Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome &#8212; handle the process of withdrawl after birth. The First Lady has made programs like Boston Medical Center&#8217;s the hallmark of her child health platform, and regularly visits children who are living with complicated and, often, terminal illnesses.</p>
<p>First Ladies aren&#8217;t usually the focus of protests against their husband&#8217;s policies, but the rules have changed under the Trump Administration, where few members of the Trump family &#8212; including the president&#8217;s young son, Barron, and his children and grandchildren &#8212; are still off limits.</p>
<p>Wednesday&#8217;s protest was not the first protest the First Lady has faced during her husband&#8217;s tenure, but it was easily the largest.</p>
<p>“She’s married to Donald Trump, and he is such a symbol of so much of what we stand against,” one protester, a pediatrician at the hospital who works with the program Trump was exploring, explained, as though that somehow justified the demonstration.</p>
<p>Other protesters said they objected to Mrs. Trump&#8217;s mere presence at the Boston hospital, where she could take part in photo opportunities, which they believe could traumatize some of the patients.</p>
<p>The protesters also got the support of Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), who added that Trump was undermining “the efforts of the incredible staff at BMC and health centers across the nation,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-melania-trump-boston-protest-20191107-zazmbxxclfds3f352w5up5r4uq-story.html">New York Daily News</a>.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I stand w/ the hundreds of employees standing in the cold, calling out the cruelty of this Administration&#39;s policies that hurt families in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MA7?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MA7</a> including <a href="https://twitter.com/The_BMC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@The_BMC</a> patients. My statement on the protest against the Trump Administration&#39;s visit to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Boston?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Boston</a> <a href="https://t.co/4g1iq0f4IH">https://t.co/4g1iq0f4IH</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (@RepPressley) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepPressley/status/1192109578533711872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Pressley did not elaborate on her statement, so it&#8217;s not entirely clear exactly how President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;cruelty&#8221; actually is &#8220;undermining&#8221; the efforts of health care workers (other than the typical complaints, of course).</p>
<p>The hospital itself saw things differently. After hearing about the protest, the Boston Medical Center&#8217;s CEO, Kate Walsh said she intended to keep the hospital&#8217;s appointment with the First Lady, and use the visit as an opportunity to showcase to both the public and the Trump Administration how well Medicaid dollars are being used.</p>
<p>&#8220;[T]he visit will be a unique opportunity to share our values of respect and inclusion with federal leaders whose policies have a significant impact on the vulnerable populations we are dedicated to serving,&#8221; Walsh said in a statement. &#8220;Two-thirds of our patients have some form of government insurance, and our health plan is the largest participant in the state&#8217;s Medicaid accountable care organization, so the opportunity to highlight the innovative work we are doing is critical to ensuring that we are able to continue to deliver on our mission well into the future.&#8221;</p>
<p>The First Lady, for her part, was gracious.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mrs. Trump enjoyed visiting Boston Medical Center to meet with the center&#8217;s leadership and medical staff and learn about the impressive programs available that support and provide care to mothers struggling with drug addiction and babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome,&#8221; her press secretary told media in a statement.</p>


Leftists Protest Melania Trump While She Cuddles Sick Babies At A Boston Hospital

<p>On Friday morning, MSNBC &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; co-host Mika Brzezinski repeatedly suggested President Donald Trump is not the biological father of 13-year-old Barron Trump.</p>
<p>&#8220;We’re going to have Donald Trump, yesterday, I think it was yesterday, in the White House, talking about Melania’s son,&#8221; said Joe Scarborough, &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; co-host and husband to Brzezinski.</p>
<p>&#8220;Maybe <em>it is</em> Melania&#8217;s son,&#8221; Brzezinski interrupted.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is Melania’s son?&#8221; Scarborough responded, attempting to squash the implication.</p>
<p>&#8220;Well, that&#8217;s what he was saying. He was saying it was just her son,&#8221; Brzezinski said, referring to President Trump discussing a coming ban on flavored vaping products on Wednesday in the Oval Office. &#8220;It’s not — that&#8217;s just what he said.&#8221;</p>
<p>Scarborough again tried to run interference for his wife: &#8220;Let me get back to Biden, because I don’t know exactly what you&#8217;re saying.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It seems that he didn&#8217;t remember Barron’s name or —,&#8221; Brzezinski continued.</p>
<p>&#8220;Just stop, just stop,&#8221; the co-host again tried to quiet his wife.</p>
<p>President Trump, sitting alongside First Lady Melania Trump, welcomed reporters into the Oval on Wednesday to discuss his administration&#8217;s coming crackdown on vaping products. While talking to reporters, Trump emphasized the motherhood of the First Lady to explain her push for the ban.</p>
<p>&#8220;Vaping has become a very big business as I understand it, like a giant business in a very short period of time. But we can&#8217;t allow people to get sick, and we can&#8217;t have our youth be so affected,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCwi6nDAiRk">told</a> reporters. &#8220;And I’m hearing it, and that’s how the First Lady got involved. She’s got a son, together, that is a beautiful young man and she feels very, very strongly about it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Brzezinski used the momentary pause Trump took before adding the word &#8220;together&#8221; to apparently rationalize suggesting some bizarre conspiracy on daytime cable television.</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Mika’s just asking questions you guys <a href="https://t.co/J3zKUzekcZ">pic.twitter.com/J3zKUzekcZ</a></p>
<p>— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1172497952797069313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The ugly showing from Brzezinski was criticized online. The Hill reporter Joe Concha commented, &#8220;The next time you listen to Mika do a speech on the need to raise civility and discourse in the country, take this out of the retort file.&#8221;</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The next time you listen to Mika do a speech on the need to raise civility and discourse in the country, take this out of the retort file: <a href="https://t.co/Fy5oAJN0c9">https://t.co/Fy5oAJN0c9</a></p>
<p>— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1172526405034397697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;If you want to debate policies, that’s one thing,&#8221; posted GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. &#8220;But there’s no excuse for attacking President Trump’s 13-year-old child. Kids should be off limits.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Why don&#8217;t MSNBC and Mika Brzezinski think that applies to [Donald Trump]?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;Her comments are indefensible.&#8221;</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>If you want to debate policies, that’s one thing.</p>
<p>But there’s no excuse for attacking President Trump’s 13-year-old child.</p>
<p>Kids should be off limits.</p>
<p>Why don&#8217;t MSNBC and Mika Brzezinski think that applies to <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>?</p>
<p>Her comments are indefensible.</p>
<p>— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1172536836499152896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;The next time [Mika] rages against [Donald Trump]’s ‘attacks on the media’ remember this video,&#8221; posted The Reagan Battalion. &#8220;This is absolutely disgusting on so many levels!!! Kids should be off limits, always. Vile disgusting trash.&#8221;</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The next time <a href="https://twitter.com/morningmika?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@morningmika</a> rages against <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>’s “attacks on the media” remember this video.</p>
<p>This is absolutely disgusting on so many levels!!!</p>
<p>Kids should be off limits, always.</p>
<p>Vile disgusting trash. <a href="https://t.co/7XpMNKR7Gz">pic.twitter.com/7XpMNKR7Gz</a></p>
<p>— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReaganBattalion/status/1172500341088276481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Last year, Mrs. Trump told Fox New&#8217;s Sean Hannity that her son should be &#8220;off limits&#8221; to the press.</p>
<p>&#8220;It does make me angry, because children should be off limits,&#8221; the First Lady told Hannity about media attacks on her child, according to <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/video-melania-trump-blasts-media-attacks-son-barron-children-should-be-limits-1258994">Newsweek</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;I protect [Barron], and I want to give him as normal a life as possible. This is not a normal life, but I like to protect him and give him the childhood he deserves,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s strong, he&#8217;s tough, he&#8217;s enjoying life in Washington,&#8221; Mrs. Trump said of her child, who was then 12 years old, adding that Barron is &#8220;a fighter. He has a soft, beautiful heart, but he&#8217;s a fighter too.&#8221;</p>


Mika Brzezinski and Barron Trump

‘MORNING JOE’ LOW: Mika Suggests Trump Isn’t The Biological Father Of Barron

Barron Trump

Joe Scarborough

Mika Brzezinski

<p>First Lady Melania Trump revealed on Wednesday that while former Special Counsel Robert Mueller was testifying on his investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election, she was officially kicking off the White House’s Christmas preparations.</p>
<p>“#Christmas planning has begun in the East Wing at the [White House],” the first lady announced on Twitter. “I’m looking forward to sharing our final vision for this unique tradition in the coming months.”</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Christmas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Christmas</a> planning has begun in the East Wing at the <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a>. I&#8217;m looking forward to sharing our final vision for this unique tradition in the coming months. <a href="https://t.co/oxt6Bdggcl">pic.twitter.com/oxt6Bdggcl</a></p>
<p>— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1154057626113708032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The tweet included four photographs of Trump donning a cream-colored dress as she seemingly reviewed fabric swatches and sample decoration options for the holiday décor.</p>
<p>The first lady <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BltA_Q2BXKH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link">began planning</a> Christmas at the White House for the 2018 holiday season in July of that year as well; however, Trump’s joyful Christmas planning now comes in stark contrast to the heated hearings that were being simultaneously held in the House Judiciary Committee and House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill.</p>
<p>After Trump opted in 2018 to line the White House’s East Wing Colonnade with bright red, cranberry-filled Christmas trees, the first lady was mocked by many for hosting a “<a href="https://twitter.com/VICE/status/1067183765590560768?s=20">Christmas from Hell</a>” that was full of “red Christmas trees of death.”</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a> is sparkling for the Christmas season! <a href="https://t.co/ncNhlkZAWl">pic.twitter.com/ncNhlkZAWl</a></p>
<p>— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1067060623706648576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>At the time, <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/white-house-christmas-decorations-2018-melania-trump">Vogue Magazine</a> compared the White House decorations to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a reference the left-wing media often attributes to conservatives and Republican policy.</p>
<p>“This year’s decorations have taken a different dystopian tack: Walking through a strange assemblage of bloodred trees, Trump looks to be channeling ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’” Vogue published in a Nov. 2018 article. “All they’re missing are bonnets worn by the handmaidens in Margaret Atwood’s patriarchy-cum-totalitarian Gilead.”</p>
<p>The first lady also received criticism for the Christmas decorations she opted to display the year prior. The White House’s grand foyer was lined with Christmas trees covered in sparkling white lights in 2017, reminiscent of a winter wonderland.</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The decorations are up! <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a> is ready to celebrate! Wishing you a Merry Christmas &amp; joyous holiday season! <a href="https://t.co/d6ZuyeFvrw">pic.twitter.com/d6ZuyeFvrw</a></p>
<p>— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/935147767726448640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Accordingly, Vogue Magazine stated that the decorations had “distinctly desolate, post-apocalyptic ice chamber vibes” and further questioned if the décor was “a manifestation of the first lady’s own ‘Get Out’-style entrapment in Donald Trump’s administration.”</p>
<p>Trump’s recently announced launch of Christmas planning came amid Mueller’s testimony to the Democrat-led House of Representatives about President Donald Trump’s contacts with Russians in Moscow. Mueller’s testimony was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49851/trump-mocks-democrats-over-disastrous-mueller-ryan-saavedra">chided by many</a> as a political disaster — the president himself called the hearing “an embarrassment to our country.”</p>
<p>“This morning’s testimony exposed the troubling deficiencies of the Special Counsel’s investigation,” White House lawyer Jay Sekulow wrote in a statement. “The testimony revealed that this probe was conducted by a small group of politically-biased prosecutors who, as hard as they tried, were unable to establish either obstruction, conspiracy, or collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.”</p>
<p>“It is also clear that the Special Counsel conducted his two-year investigation unimpeded,” the statement added.</p>


Melania Trump Prepares For Christmas As Mueller Hearing Unfolds

Robert Mueller

<p>Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour dodged questions about First Lady Melania Trump on Sunday and instead pivoted to offer high praise of former First Lady Michelle Obama.</p>
<p>“I think it’s important for Vogue to support women who are leading change in this country,” Wintour said while being interviewed by Anna McElvoy for “The Economist.”</p>
<p>McElvoy suggested that President Donald Trump could be dressing “in his sort of ill-fitting suits and the strange trousers and red baseball camp” as a way to purposely echo his political base, but noted that the first lady is much more stylish and collected.</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p>Which first lady wore the role best? Anna Wintour talks politics and fashion with <a href="https://twitter.com/annemcelvoy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AnneMcElvoy</a> on “The Economist asks” podcast <a href="https://t.co/0mHlLjtf06">https://t.co/0mHlLjtf06</a> <a href="https://t.co/gIoUpd3teo">pic.twitter.com/gIoUpd3teo</a></p>
<p>— The Economist (@TheEconomist) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1152873440191418369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>“Melania, put together in a much more put-together way,” McElvoy said. “She did come to the UK, and I think very consciously, wanted to see herself as an ambassador for British fashion, in this case, or a transatlantic ambassador, I mean. Do you value that?”</p>
<p>“Well, I think first lady Michelle Obama really was so incredible in every decision she made about fashion,” Wintour responded. “She supported young American designers. She supported designers, indeed, from all over the world.”</p>
<p>“She was the best ambassador that this country could possibly have in many ways, obviously, way beyond fashion,” Wintour added.</p>
<p>When McElvoy clarified that Michelle Obama is no longer the first lady and again asked her thoughts on Melania Trump, Wintour responded that Michelle Obama is the example of a fashion ambassador whom she admires.</p>
<p>Wintour has headed Vogue, the world’s leading fashion magazine, for more than three decades. Although the New York-based editor was born in London, she later became an American citizen. However, she has also received multiple honors from the Queen including Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2008 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2017, according to <a href="https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/anna-wintour-dbe-queen-elizabeth-buckingham-palace-bee-shaffer-10882140/">The Guardian</a>.</p>
<p>Wintour has been an outspoken supporter of former President Barack Obama but has not been shy about her criticism of the Trump administration and consequent dislike of the Trump family.</p>
<p>While discussing Vogue’s longstanding tradition of featuring first ladies on the cover when they get into office, Wintour implied during an interview in April that the current first lady will not be seen on any of her future covers.</p>
<p>Responding to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour’s contention that she has been “overtly political,” Wintour noted that when it comes to cover features and profiles, the Vogue editor-in-chief must take a stand.</p>
<p>“I also feel even more strongly now that this is a time to try and – I think that one has to be fair, one has to look at all sides – but I don’t think it’s a moment not to take a stand,” Wintour said at the time. “I think you can’t be everything to everybody.”</p>
<p>“To be on the cover of Vogue doesn’t define Mrs. Trump, she’s been there and done that long before she was first lady,” Melania Trump’s office fired back <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/melania-trump-anna-wintour-vogue-cnn-first-lady">in a statement</a>. “Her role as first lady of the United States and all that she does is much more important than some superficial shoot and cover.”</p>
<p>“This just further demonstrates how biased the fashion magazine industry is and shows how insecure and small-minded Anna Wintour really is,&#8221; the statement continued. “Unfortunately, Mrs. Trump is used to this kind of behavior.&#8221;</p>


LISTEN: Vogue Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour Snubs Melania As First Lady … Again

Michelle Obama

Trump Administration

<p>On Sunday, CNN contributor and alleged Republican strategist Ana Navarro suggested we send First Lady Melania Trump, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) back to their native countries.</p>
<p>“And if we’re gonna start sending people back, I don’t know — ya know, listen, Ted Cruz was born in Canada, Marco Rubio’s parents were born in Cuba, Melania Trump was born where? Slovenia. How about her parents how are here through family immigration,” said Navarro, in a clip first highlighted by Grabien News founder Tom Elliott.</p>
<p>“I am sick of this guy’s hypocrisy and his ways of dividing this country, pitting people against each other,” Navarro lamented, before accusing President Donald Trump of racism: “And I think it is no coincidence, it is no coincidence, that the congresspeople he’s picking on are all women of color, they’re all women of color.”</p>
<p>“As a woman of color yourself, do you believe Donald Trump wants you in this country?” CNN’s Ana Cabrera asked Navarro.</p>
<p>“I really couldn’t care less what Donald Trump wants,” Navarro answered. “I don’t care if he wants me in this country or not because this is my country. He doesn’t get to decide that. I am a naturalized citizen.”</p>
<p>The staple anti-Trump contributor was reacting to Trump&#8217;s Sunday tweeting about “‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen.”</p>
<p>“So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run,” the president wrote in a series of tweets.</p>
<p>“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough,” he continued.</p>
<p>Trump added that he was sure House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!”</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p>So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150381394234941448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p>&#8230;.it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!</p>
<p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150381396994723841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Trump’s tweets sparked a response from Pelosi, who has been publicly feuding with freshmen congresswomen now dubbed “The Squad” — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA). In an attack last week, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez accused Pelosi of targeting her for being a “woman of color.”</p>
<p>“When [Donald Trump] tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to ‘Make America Great Again’ has always been about making America white again,” Pelosi responded to President Trump, adding the obligatory platitude: “Our diversity is our strength and our unity is our power.”</p>
<p>“I reject [Donald Trump’s] xenophobic comments meant to divide our nation. Rather than attack Members of Congress, he should work with us for humane immigration policy that reflects American values,” she wrote in a follow-up tweet. “Stop the raids &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FamiliesBelongTogether?src=hash">#FamiliesBelongTogether</a>!&#8221;</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p>I reject <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>’s xenophobic comments meant to divide our nation. Rather than attack Members of Congress, he should work with us for humane immigration policy that reflects American values. Stop the raids &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FamiliesBelongTogether?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FamiliesBelongTogether</a>!</p>
<p>— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1150408693021908992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>As noted by conservative writer Stephen Miller of Navarro, “Trump&#8217;s worst CNN critics ultimately end up exactly like him.”</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p>Trump&#8217;s worst CNN critics ultimately end up exactly like him. <a href="https://t.co/iSbpOuIOqN">https://t.co/iSbpOuIOqN</a></p>
<p>— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1150740194653609991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>WATCH:</p>
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<p>— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1150725007003324422?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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WATCH: CNN Contributor Suggests We Send Melania Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio Back To Native Countries

Ana Navarro

Marco Rubio

Ted Cruz

<p>Hours after President Donald Trump announced that White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders would be leaving her position at the end of the month, a name emerged from multiple sources close to the president for who should be Sanders&#8217; replacement.</p>
<p>Stephanie Grisham, the White House Director of Communications for first lady Melania Trump, has been a loyal soldier fighting to advance Trump&#8217;s agenda dating all the way back to his first month on the campaign trail in 2015 when she was a low-level press staffer.</p>
<p>In December, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/meet-melania-trumps-enforcer-its-not-her-husband/2018/12/07/52a5a864-f8c7-11e8-863c-9e2f864d47e7_story.html">The Washington Post</a> noted that Grisham has grown to become &#8220;one of the more powerful figures in the ever-evolving Trump White House&#8221; and referred to Grisham as &#8220;Melania Trump&#8217;s enforcer.&#8221;</p>
<p>A source close to the White House told The Daily Wire on Thursday night Grisham &#8220;has proven herself to be a stone-cold killer&#8221; and that &#8220;no one else comes close&#8221; to being able to match Grisham in her ability to command problems that arise.</p>
<p>The source said that Grisham was a &#8220;risk-free move for the administration in the run-up to perhaps the most important election in American history.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Grisham is pure Trump,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;She holds down the East Wing with ease and has no loyalties to any faction within the Republican Party. Members of the first family love her and know that she is fiercely dedicated and loyal.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another source, a Trump ally close to the President and the Trump family, told The Daily Wire: &#8220;Stephanie Grisham is a favorite of Trump loyalists, many in the national press corps, and most important, the Trump family. The First Lady loves Stephanie&#8217;s tenacity and loyalty, and President Trump has remarked that he respects Stephanie&#8217;s ability to stay cool under pressure and manage the toughest of news cycles. Stephanie might not be the first name that comes to mind for this role, but she&#8217;s the one person inside or outside the building who everyone nods their head and says, &#8216;She&#8217;d be great.'&#8221;</p>
<p>A third source, who is a former high-level Trump administration official, told The Daily Wire: &#8220;Stephanie is one of the last remaining Trump &#8216;originals&#8217; in the White House. She&#8217;s been with him since the beginning, is unquestionably loyal and has the respect of the press corps. She&#8217;d be a total home run as press secretary &#8212; both for the President and his supporters.&#8221;</p>
<p>In The Post&#8217;s report, Sanders spoke highly of Grisham, saying: &#8220;During the campaign she developed a good relationship with the president, and that&#8217;s carried through. She has developed a great amount of trust from both the president and the first lady, which is a pretty high commodity here. There aren&#8217;t a lot of people who have a lot of regular interaction with both of them.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Post noted that Grisham is hard-nosed and unapologetic in her defense of the president and highlighted Grisham&#8217;s response to Trump mocking MSNBC co-host Mika Brzezinski over an apparent facial surgery she underwent.</p>
<p>Speaking on Melania&#8217;s behalf, Grisham said: &#8220;When her husband gets attacked, he will punch back 10 times harder.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Post noted the following story as an example of how Grisham takes command of a situation:</p>
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<p>White House staffers are also learning that Grisham is not someone with whom to tangle. In preparation for Melania Trump&#8217;s first solo trip abroad, which she took to Africa this fall, deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel clashed with members of the first lady&#8217;s staff. Upon their return, Grisham and the first lady&#8217;s chief of staff, Lindsay Reynolds, approached White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly about the issue. When he took no apparent action, Grisham spoke directly to Melania Trump, who in turn spoke to her husband privately. Then, when still nothing happened, Grisham suggested to the first lady a different strategy: Without giving the West Wing warning, Grisham put out a statement: &#8220;It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House.&#8221;</p>
<p>Within days, Ricardel was out of the White House.</p>
<p>&#8230;never before has the East Wing issued a statement that resulted in the dismissal of a member of the West Wing, notes Myra Gutin, a professor of communications who studies the history of first ladies at Rider University in New Jersey.</p>
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<p>Tom Horne, the former Arizona attorney general who hired Grisham, said: &#8220;She&#8217;s a very loyal type of person and when there are unfair attacks she responds strongly.&#8221;</p>
<p>One White House official told The Post that &#8220;whereas the president will tweet himself and react himself,&#8221; Melania&#8217;s &#8220;got Stephanie.&#8221;</p>
<p>On Friday, Trump was asked during an interview on &#8220;FOX &amp; Friends&#8221; about Anthony Scaramucci and Stephanie Grisham being candidates to replace Sanders.</p>
<p>On Scaramucci, Trump said: &#8220;Well I like Anthony and he&#8217;s been very nice and all but I think Anthony should stay where he is right now.&#8221;</p>
<p>On Grisham, Trump said: &#8220;Stephanie is terrific.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Trump is asked about Anthony Scaramucci &amp; Stephanie Grisham being candidates to take over for Sarah Sanders</p>
<p>Trump on Scaramucci: &#8220;Well I like Anthony and he&#8217;s been very nice and all but I think Anthony should stay where he is right now&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump on Grisham: &#8220;Stephanie is terrific&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/sVTIct3BJm">pic.twitter.com/sVTIct3BJm</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1139557077309747202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><em>This report has been updated to include President Trump&#8217;s comments about Stephanie Grisham being a candidate to replace White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.</em></p>


‘STONE-COLD KILLER’: Name Of Potential Sarah Sanders Replacement Emerges

Stephanie Grisham

<p>Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour publicly declared the magazine will only profile women who conform with their social agenda, dismissing the idea that Melania Trump will ever be featured on the cover.</p>
<p>Speaking with <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/fashion/2019/04/09/intv-anna-wintour-vogue-fashion-amanpour.cnn/video/playlists/amanpour/">CNN&#8217;s Christiane Amanpour</a> this week, Wintour commented on why Vogue frequently features Democratic and progressive women on the cover, leaving little room for Republican women. According to Wintour, Vogue has taken a &#8220;point of view,&#8221; as in left-wing.</p>
<p>&#8220;You are political. You were a major fundraiser for Barack Obama. Your magazine, the most important fashion bible in the world, does profile some very important women who are in politcs,&#8221; Amanpour began. &#8220;Tell me about that, you are overtly political in your profiles and what you stand for, what is it you are trying to say by profiling a Michelle Obama or a Kamala Harris or even a Stormy Daniels?&#8221;</p>
<p>Wintour said that Vogue profiles such women because they support an agenda that aligns with Vogue. &#8220;If you&#8217;re talking about the first lady or Senator Harris, obviously these are women that we feel are icons and inspiring to women from a global perspective,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>The Condé Nast artistic director added that the political climate is so dire that Vogue must &#8220;take a stand.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think you can&#8217;t be everything to everybody &#8230; I believe, as those of us who work at Condé Nast believe, you have to stand up for what you believe in and you have to take a point of view,&#8221; Wintour told Amanpour.</p>
<p>The CNN host then pointed out to Wintour that Vogue overwhelmingly features Democratic women on their magazine covers. &#8220;I wonder if there is a reason for that. Is there?&#8221; Amanpour asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;We profile women in the magazine that we believe in the stand that they&#8217;re taking on issues we support them, we feel that they are leaders,&#8221; Wintour replied. &#8220;Particularly after the defeat of Secratary Clinton in the 2016 election, we believe that women should have a leadership position. We intend to support them.&#8221;</p>
<p>Amanpour did not in any way press Wintour on how that &#8220;point a view&#8221; will only affirm Trump voter stances that coastal elites have conspired against them.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/melania-trump-anna-wintour-vogue-cnn-first-lady">Fox News</a>, First Lady Melania Trump&#8217;s spokesperson Stephanie Grisham responded to Wintour&#8217;s comments on Friday, saying Mrs. Trump has more important issues to attend to than something as &#8220;superficial&#8221; as a magazine cover.</p>
<p>&#8220;To be on the cover of Vogue doesn&#8217;t define Mrs. Trump, she&#8217;s been there, done that long before she was First Lady,&#8221; Grisham told Fox News. &#8220;Her role as First Lady of the United States and all that she does is much more important than some superficial photo shoot and cover. This just further demonstrates how biased the fashion magazine industry is, and shows how insecure and small-minded Anna Wintour really is. Unfortunately, Mrs. Trump is used to this kind of divisive behavior.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/melania-trump-vogue-cover-anna-wintour-donald-michelle-obama-a8866361.html">Independent</a>, Hillary Clinton graced the Vogue cover in 1998, becoming the first U.S. First Lady to be featured there. Michelle Obama was profiled on as many as three occasions.</p>
<p>&#8220;I felt that the first lady at that time had behaved in a very brave way,&#8221; Wintour told Amanpour. &#8220;So we felt it was a time to support her and to stand up for women.&#8221;</p>


Anna Wintour: Vogue Only Profiles Women &#8216;We Believe In.&#8217; Melania Trump Hits Back: &#8216;Been There, Done That.&#8217;

Feminism

Media Bias

<p>Over the weekend, the conspiracy theory accusing First Lady Melania Trump of using a body double while paying her respects to victims of a devastating tornado in Alabama trended on Twitter. President Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to criticize the media for covering the unfounded conspiracy theory.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Fake News photoshopped pictures of Melania, then propelled conspiracy theories that it&#8217;s actually not her by my side in Alabama and other places,&#8221; Trump tweeted. &#8220;They are only getting more deranged with time!&#8221;</p>
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<p>The Fake News photoshopped pictures of Melania, then propelled conspiracy theories that it&#8217;s actually not her by my side in Alabama and other places. They are only getting more deranged with time!</p>
<p>&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1105827007991025666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Vox<a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/3/13/18263811/trump-fake-melania-tweet-explained"> reported</a> that Trump&#8217;s tweet came shortly after &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; did a segment criticizing ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; for discussing the conspiracy theory.</p>
<p>&#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; co-host Ainsley Earhardt called &#8220;The View&#8221; &#8220;hypocritical&#8221; because &#8220;they preach tolerance, yet they&#8217;re not tolerant of people who don&#8217;t agree with them.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-friends-ridicules-the-view-for-fake-melania-conspiracy-classic-mean-girl-environment/">accused</a> the co-hosts of &#8220;The View&#8221; of creating a &#8220;classic mean girl environment.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This was an excuse to be able to mock her, to say she looked short, her face was a different shape, classic mean girl environment,&#8221; Bruce said. &#8220;When you&#8217;re in college or high school there&#8217;s the pretty girl who is nice and you go with a marker to mark up her locker and then you gossip about her and you call her names. That&#8217;s what these adult women were doing to the First Lady. What it did of course, is it reminds us of their jealousy, their envy, the fact that they have nothing else to do other than being mean.&#8221;</p>
<p>The White House director of communications for Melania Trump, Stephanie Grisham, pushed back on Monday against &#8220;The View&#8221; for discussing the baseless conspiracy theory, as The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ryan Saavedra <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44511/white-house-slams-view-pushing-conspiracy-theory-ryan-saavedra">reported</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;@flotus &amp;@potus traveled to Alabama to pay their respects &amp; comfort victims of the tornado devastation,&#8221; Grisham tweeted. &#8220;In typical fashion, @theview chooses to laugh in the face of tragedy. Shameful.&#8221;</p>
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<p>.<a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@flotus</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@potus</a> traveled to Alabama to pay their respects &amp; comfort victims of the tornado devastation. In typical fashion, <a href="https://twitter.com/TheView?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@theview</a> chooses to laugh in the face of tragedy. Shameful. <a href="https://t.co/KzG2c4Th4a">https://t.co/KzG2c4Th4a</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Stephanie Grisham (@StephGrisham45) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephGrisham45/status/1105165179707379712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In the segment, &#8220;The View&#8221; co-host Joy Behar pointed out that &#8220;some people think that the First Lady is using an imposter to stand in for her.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You mean there are two women that have to pretend they are listing to [Trump]?&#8221; Behar asked. </p>
<p>Behar then shared the photos of &#8220;Fake Melania&#8221; that conspiracy theorists are using to push their theory, claiming &#8220;that one does not look like her, sorry, I wasn&#8217;t going to go along with this but that one in that picture doesn&#8217;t look like her.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I spent like an hour on Saturday involved in this,&#8221; co-host Sunny Hostin said. &#8220;Melania is a very tall statuesque women. The one that we saw &#8212; the first one that we showed &#8212; she looks kind of short.&#8221;</p>
<p>In a statement to The Daily Wire, Grisham called the attack &#8220;disgusting.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always found it sad that a group of women spend so much time attacking another woman, whose only goal is to help children, but today&#8217;s episode went beyond the petty mean girl spirit that we&#8217;re used to. People died, people lost family, people are hurting. I watched the President and First Lady hug, speak with, and comfort people who had lost everything &#8212; and these &#8216;ladies&#8217; are laughing about body doubles. It was disgusting.&#8221;</p>


Trump Slams ‘Fake News’ For Pushing ‘Fake Melania’ Conspiracy

Fox News

The View

<p>An 11-year-old boy named Joshua Trump was invited to attend President Donald Trump&#8217;s State of the Union Address on Tuesday by the First Lady, in connection with her anti-bullying initiatives. The sixth-grader has been bullied in school for sharing the same last name as the president.</p>
<p>ABC News, in all their wisdom, decided to focus in on Joshua for falling asleep during the late address, which ended at around 10:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time.</p>
<p>&#8220;Trump&#8217;s namesake sleeps through president&#8217;s big speech,&#8221; reads a headline from ABC. The news organization also put out a tweet with a photo of the boy dozing off. &#8220;Pres. Trump had invited Joshua Trump as his State of the Union guest because the White House said the sixth-grader from Wilmington, Delaware, had been bullied because of his last name. He appeared to doze off during the speech,&#8221; the tweet&#8217;s caption says.</p>
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<p>Pres. Trump had invited Joshua Trump as his State of the Union guest because the White House said the sixth-grader from Wilmington, Delaware, had been bullied because of his last name.</p>
<p>He appeared to doze off during the speech. <a href="https://t.co/ESpEPaBaAS">https://t.co/ESpEPaBaAS</a> <a href="https://t.co/ba2BBtGVHK">pic.twitter.com/ba2BBtGVHK</a></p>
<p>&#8212; ABC News (@ABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1093248485271498752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Though others online commented on Joshua falling asleep, the comments were in a lighthearted tone, praising the boy as a &#8220;#resistance hero.&#8221; The ABC article and tweet, on the other hand, were condemned by many for having a mean-spirited, bullying tone.</p>
<p>The news organization was quickly blasted online for targeting the boy. The tweet was so-called &#8220;<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-were-watching-ratio-ratioed-ratioing">ratioed</a>,&#8221; a term generally used to describe unpopular content that earns far more replies than &#8220;likes.&#8221; As of Thursday afternoon, the ABC tweet received over 7,000 replies and only about 3,600 likes.</p>
<p>The Daily Wire&#8217;s Elisha Krauss likened the piece and accompanying tweet to &#8220;public harassment of a minor.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;WTF ABC? Did you do stories about all the grown ass men and women from the left and right who also appeared to be sleeping? How is this not public harassment of a minor? Disgusting,&#8221; wrote Krauss.</p>
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<p>WTF ABC? Did you do stories about all the grown ass men and women from the left and right who also appeared to be sleeping? How is this not public harassment of a minor? Disgusting. <a href="https://t.co/jiWgjq95S7">https://t.co/jiWgjq95S7</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Elisha (@ElishaKrauss) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElishaKrauss/status/1093260331504136192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Pro-life advocate Obianuju Ekeocha accused ABC of aggravating the boy&#8217;s bullying problem. &#8220;So now he gets back to his school and other students get to bully him some more because [ABC] decided to expose the poor boy for dozing off,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Pat yourselves on the back [ABC].&#8221;</p>
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<p>So now he gets back to his school and other students get to bully him some more because <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC</a> decided to expose the poor boy for dozing off. Pat yourselves on the back abc.</p>
<p>&#8212; Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) <a href="https://twitter.com/obianuju/status/1093253229113155587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The Daily Wire&#8217;s Kassy Dillon pointed out the obvious: &#8220;Yeah. It was late. He&#8217;s a kid.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Yeah. It was late. He&#8217;s a kid.</p>
<p>&#8212; Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyDillon/status/1093266470383976448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Why is this news? Leave the kid who is already getting bullied alone,&#8221; Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe responded.</p>
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<p>Why is this news? Leave the kid who is already getting bullied alone</p>
<p>&#8212; Lisa Boothe (@LisaMarieBoothe) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaMarieBoothe/status/1093260010136784897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Shame on you for posting this. He is a kid. What is wrong with you people?&#8221; wrote lawyer and talk radio host Jennifer Bukowsky.</p>
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<p>Shame on you for posting this. He is a kid. What is wrong with you people?</p>
<p>&#8212; Jennifer Bukowsky (@esqonfire) <a href="https://twitter.com/esqonfire/status/1093286834300428289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;This went through a few layers before being posted here,&#8221; noted photographer Pete Halvorsen. &#8220;The 11 [year] old brought to the #SOTU after being bullied at school falls asleep during long ass speech so&#8230;let&#8217;s take his photo, select/edit photo, then publish the photo. Because, news?&#8221;</p>
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<p>This went through a few layers before being posted here. Disappointed all around guys.</p>
<p>The 11 yr old brought to the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SOTU</a> after being bullied at school falls asleep during long ass speech so&#8230;let&#8217;s take his photo, select/edit photo, then publish the photo.</p>
<p>Because, news? <a href="https://t.co/rOT5e3kkNp">pic.twitter.com/rOT5e3kkNp</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Pete Halvorsen (@petehalvorsen) <a href="https://twitter.com/petehalvorsen/status/1093267543710560257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Joshua was invited by Mrs. Trump in connection to the First Lady&#8217;s anti-cyberbullying campaign, &#8220;Be Best.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;They curse at him, they call him an idiot, they call him stupid,&#8221; the boy&#8217;s mother, Megan Trump, <a href="https://6abc.com/education/boy-dumps-trump-name-over-bullying-at-school/4880645/">told</a> WPVI in December. &#8220;He said he hates himself, and he hates his last name, and he feels sad all the time.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He was getting ridiculed and bullied for the fact that his last name was Trump,&#8221; said Bobby Berto, the sixth-grader&#8217;s father, adding, &#8220;I pulled him out of school and homeschooled him for a year.&#8221;</p>


ABC News Gets Torched For Bullying 11-Year-Old Invited To SOTU By Trump

State of the Union

<p>British newspaper the Telegraph has agreed to pay First Lady Melania Trump &#8220;substantial damages&#8221; and her legal costs after running an article last Saturday filled with &#8220;false statements.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We apologise unreservedly to The First Lady and her family for any embarrassment caused by our publication of these allegations,&#8221; <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/26/melania-trump-apology/">The Telegraph wrote</a>.</p>
<p>In an official apology to Trump, the paper laid out the numerous false statements published in its previous magazine cover story, titled &#8220;The Mystery of Melania.&#8221; Among the incorrect claims published in the article were suggestions that Trump&#8217;s father controlled the family with a &#8220;fearsome presence&#8221; and that the former model only became successful after she met now-President Donald Trump, who assisted her in her career.</p>
<p>&#8220;Following last Saturday&#8217;s (Jan 19) Telegraph magazine cover story &#8220;The mystery of Melania&#8221;, we have been asked to make clear that the article contained a number of false statements which we accept should not have been published. Mrs Trump&#8217;s father was not a fearsome presence and did not control the family. Mrs Trump did not leave her Design and Architecture course at University relating to the completion of an exam, as alleged in the article, but rather because she wanted to pursue a successful career as a professional model. Mrs Trump was not struggling in her modelling career before she met Mr Trump, and she did not advance in her career due to the assistance of Mr Trump,&#8221; The Telegraph wrote.</p>
<p>The newspaper also got some basic facts about the Trump&#8217;s relationship wrong, writing originally that the couple met in 1996, when they actually met in 1998. The paper also claimed Melania&#8217;s mother, father, and sister moved to New York in 2005 and lived in properties owned by Donald. Further, The Telegraph claimed Melania cried on election night, which she didn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>&#8220;We accept that Mrs Trump was a successful professional model in her own right before she met her husband and obtained her own modelling work without his assistance. Mrs Trump met Mr Trump in 1998, not in 1996 as stated in the article. The article also wrongly claimed that Mrs Trump&#8217;s mother, father and sister relocated to New York in 2005 to live in buildings owned by Mr Trump. They did not. The claim that Mrs Trump cried on election night is also false.</p>
<p>Stephanie Grisham, Melania&#8217;s communications director, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/26/politics/melania-trump-telegraph-apology/index.html">told CNN</a> that the first lady &#8220;will not sit by as people and media outlets make up lies and false assertions in a race for ratings or to sell tabloid headlines,&#8221; the paper wrote.</p>
<p>Melania was also <a href="https://money.cnn.com/2017/04/12/media/melania-trump-daily-mail-settlement/">awarded $2.9 million</a> from the Daily Mail after the paper made false claims about her past as a model. The Mail had claimed Melania&#8217;s modeling agency also acted as an escort service.</p>
<p>&#8220;We accept that these allegations about Mrs. Trump are not true and we retract and withdraw them. We apologize to Mrs. Trump for any distress that our publication caused her,&#8221; the Mail said at the time.</p>
<p>The Telegraphy included in its apology a promise &#8220;to pay Mrs Trump substantial damages as well as her legal costs.&#8221;</p>


Newspaper Agrees To Pay Melania Trump ‘Substantial Damages’ Over False Reporting

<p>Is there anything, anything at all, for which President Donald Trump won&#8217;t be faulted by a press corps that despises him so much they are making a mockery of themselves in front of the world?</p>
<p>They slammed the president for failing to visit troops in a war zone. Then, on Christmas night, Trump snuck out of town with Melania to bring Christmas cheer to troops in Iraq. So they slammed him for signing &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; Hats that soldiers brought him, turning the trip into a &#8220;campaign stop.&#8221;</p>
<p>It gets even more ridiculous. The scribes at Yahoo News discovered something far more pressing, and their scoop showed up on cellphones from coast to coast on Dec. 26. A fashion writer named Kerry Justich uncovered a national outrage, apparently. Her headline: &#8220;Melania Trump gets mocked for wearing Timberland boots while visiting the troops.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, dear friends, it is national news that someone, somewhere &#8212; actually, it is at least two or three people &#8212; found Melania&#8217;s boots unacceptable.</p>
<p>The first lady wore sturdy all-American boots to meet the troops, and it was somehow mockable. &#8220;The Timberland boots are being called an &#8216;out of touch&#8217; style selection by some on Twitter.&#8221; Whenever a liberal writer uses &#8220;some&#8221; people or &#8220;many&#8221; people, they mean &#8220;we.&#8221;</p>
<p>It makes you wish Twitter had never been born.</p>
<p>A person with the Twitter name &#8220;Posh Spice&#8221; tweeted, &#8220;melania wearing timbs &#8230; how much more out of touch could she possibly be.&#8221; Another person, &#8220;wintrynight Jordan,&#8221; tweeted, &#8220;i have never in my life seen anything stupider than Melania Trump in a pair of Timberland boots.&#8221; One could quickly discover this wasn&#8217;t exactly a fashion tweet: The hashtag on wintrynight Jordan&#8217;s Twitter bio read &#8220;#VoteThemOut.&#8221; Ms. Spice&#8217;s account bore the hashtag &#8220;#BlackLivesMatter.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the new piece, Yahoo also made sure to link back to another Yahoo piece pulling the same thread, mocking Melania Trump for wearing Timberland boots on a visit to hurricane victims in October 2017.</p>
<p>So what about Michelle Obama&#8217;s boots?</p>
<p>Just six days earlier, on Dec. 20, the very same Kerry Justich at Yahoo News posted the very opposite article, &#8220;People are freaking out about Michelle Obama&#8217;s $3,900 boots.&#8221; Freaking out&#8230; in delight, that is.</p>
<p>Michelle Obama wore thigh-high designer glitter boots priced at 4 grand to one of her book-tour stops, but she was not &#8220;out of touch.&#8221; This time, &#8220;people&#8221; (again, read: &#8220;we&#8221;) were &#8220;inspired&#8221; by her &#8220;impeccable&#8221; style.</p>
<p>&#8220;But despite sharing numerous moving anecdotes about growing up in Chicago and eventually landing in the role of first lady, people seem to be most inspired by the impeccable sense of style she displayed on her last stop in Brooklyn on Wednesday,&#8221; Yahoo oozed.</p>
<p>Yahoo also promoted a slew of other &#8220;You Go, Girl&#8221; articles, with gushy headlines, including:</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8221;Michelle Obama &#8216;breaks the Internet&#8217; with her 3000-pound thigh-high Balenciaga boots&#8221; &#8212; Yahoo Style UK.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8221;Michelle Obama&#8217;s Post-White House Fashion Is Proof Of How Liberated She Feels&#8221; &#8212; Refinery 29.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8221;Michelle Obama rocks thigh-high Balenciaga boots and Twitter approves&#8221; &#8212; The Independent.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8221;Michelle Obama Wore The Glittery, Thigh-High Balenciaga Boots Of Your Dreams&#8221; &#8212; Huffington Post.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8221;Michelle Obama&#8217;s Balenciaga Tour Boots Are $4,000 of Glitter Goodness&#8221; &#8212; Glamour magazine.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s only a fraction of the love that the liberals always have for Michelle Obama. She can do no wrong. Everything she does is the Most Precious Thing Ever.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s tawdry &#8212; and so damn boorish &#8212; to suggest that being &#8220;out of touch&#8221; with median-income folks is only reserved for Republican first ladies. Liberals would argue Michelle Obama came from humble beginnings. Want humble beginnings? Try being born in communist Yugoslavia, like Melania.</p>
<p>One would think feminist women in the media could come up with better articles to write than catty Twitter roundups of liberals sneering about Melania Trump&#8217;s boots &#8212; especially when it has nothing to do with boots.</p>
<p>By God, do they hate this man &#8212; and because she married him, now also his wife.</p>
<p><i>L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell</i> <i>III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.</i></p>


BOZELL &#038; GRAHAM: These Boots Are Made For Double Standards

<p data-reactid="22">Once again, the mean girls Left is mocking Melania Trump for something completely ridiculous. The source of the ire now: the First Lady&#8217;s choice of Timberland boots while visiting American troops stationed at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq over Christmas.</p>
<p data-reactid="22">Taking selfies while speaking with various servicemen, the First Lady looked spectacular as always in her &#8220;suede mustard belted blouse with dark green pants,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/melania-trump-gets-mocked-wearing-timberland-boots-visiting-troops-221926377.html?ncid=facebook_projecttil_vd4c5e3dbna">Yahoo News.</a> Overall the meeting appeared to be a success.</p>
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<p>.<a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FLOTUS</a> Melania and I were honored to visit our incredible troops at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq. GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.! <a href="https://t.co/rDlhITDvm1">pic.twitter.com/rDlhITDvm1</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1078026520021544960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>President Trump and the First Lady traveled to Iraq late on Christmas night to visit with our troops and Senior Military leadership to thank them for their service, their success, and their sacrifice and to wish them a Merry Christmas. <a href="https://t.co/s2hntnRwpw">pic.twitter.com/s2hntnRwpw</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1078007105339224064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p data-reactid="23">None of that seems to matter though, because the First Lady can do no right and her use of Timberland boots is reportedly &#8220;out of touch.&#8221;</p>
<p data-reactid="23">&#8220;Is Melania rocking combat boots or Timbs in Iraq?&#8221; said one Twitter user. &#8220;Melania&#8217;s wearing TIMBS! I&#8217;m done!&#8221; said another. &#8220;Melania wearing timbs dndjdjdjd how much more out of touch could she possibly be,&#8221; another said.</p>
<p data-reactid="23">Another Twitter user suggested the shoe choice had racially insensitive undertones. &#8220;Did melania kill timbs or did the ceo of timberlands when he said he wasn&#8217;t wit (black)people wearing them casually,&#8221; the user said.</p>
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<p>Is Melania rocking combat boots or Timbs in Iraq?</p>
<p>&#8212; Doyle Rader (@DoyleRader) <a href="https://twitter.com/DoyleRader/status/1078030768650309635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Melania&#8217;s wearing TIMBS! I&#8217;m done! <a href="https://t.co/NiOuT8CMBv">https://t.co/NiOuT8CMBv</a></p>
<p>&#8212; fun dad. (@extrapettychris) <a href="https://twitter.com/extrapettychris/status/1078009264780775425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Did melania kill timbs or did the ceo of timberlands when he said he wasn&#8217;t wit (black)people wearing them casually <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hmm?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hmm</a></p>
<p>&#8212; fatherofflagons (@thegadblast4me) <a href="https://twitter.com/thegadblast4me/status/1078020087012118528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>i have never in my life seen anything stupider than Melania Trump in a pair of Timberland boots</p>
<p>(close second is Eric Trump in his plaid-outdoorsy-shirt gazing into the sky)</p>
<p>&#8212; wintrynight Jordan (@riverjordan19) <a href="https://twitter.com/riverjordan19/status/1078020975562612737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p data-reactid="23">For some inexplicable reason, the Christmas season has been one where the Left has sent a lot of hate Melania Trump&#8217;s way. It all began when the First Lady unveiled her 2018 Christmas decor, with multiple outlets specifically targeting the 40 topiary trees strung together by cranberries and red berries in the East Colonnade of the White House. Vice <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xp8ka/melania-trumps-christmas-decorations-are-from-the-underworld">even declared</a> that Melania&#8217;s decor resembles a &#8220;circle of hell Dante could never have dreamed up.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s 2018: It&#8217;s well-established that we live in hell. It only makes sense that the first lady&#8217;s Christmas decorations would match the bleakness of the Trump era,&#8221; said Vice.</p>
<p>Vanity Fair said Melania Trump&#8217;s Christmas decor always seem to have &#8220;<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/11/melania-trump-white-house-decorations-red-trees-2018">a touch of menace to them</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It wouldn&#8217;t be a Trump White House Christmas without, again, a menacing touch to what is otherwise a lavishly and beautifully wrought winter wonderland,&#8221; said VF. &#8220;This year, crimson red trees dotted a long hallway, dyed with what I assume is liberal blood a-boiling.&#8221;</p>
<p>Both <a href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/11/melania-trump-white-house-christmas-decorations-2018.html">Slate</a> and <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/melania-trump-shares-white-house-christmas-decorations.html">The Cut</a> made similar denunciations of varying cruelty. A Funny or Die video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQtM-fZhoYo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">spoof </a>also mocked Melania&#8217;s accent and suggested the trees were dipped in blood.</p>
<p>Shortly thereafter, Vogue <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39529/mean-girls-vogue-bashes-melania-trumps-white-house-paul-bois">published a meticulous critique</a> of the First Lady&#8217;s Christmas portrait alongside President Trump. Written by an unnamed author, the rather wholesome traditional photo of the First Lady and President Trump was blasted for feeling &#8220;so strangely off&#8221; while asserting the couple looked &#8220;almost like cardboard cutout versions of themselves.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;They are very, <em>very</em> smiley&#8212;despite this season of indictments, and the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/nyregion/ny-ag-underwood-trump-foundation.html">dissolution of their flagrantly fraudulent charity organization</a>,&#8221; it said. &#8220;They are also holding hands, a move that is famously <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/melania-trump-white-hat-style">out of character for them</a>.</p>
<p>The article then quoted Vogue.com&#8217;s Visual Director Emily Rosser to explain why the first couple looks like &#8220;wax statues.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s how they&#8217;re lit versus the lighting in the space,&#8221; said Rosser. &#8220;It makes them look like cutouts.&#8221;</p>
<p>Vogue.com&#8217;s Senior Designer Durrant Santeng simultaneously noted that the lighting was &#8220;very overdone.&#8221;</p>


Melania Mocked For Wearing Timberland Boots To Visit Troops

<p>Amid what proved to be false reports that he was the first president since 2002 not to visit the troops at Christmastime, President Trump met with U.S. soldiers in Iraq in a surprise Christmas day visit.</p>
<p>White House Press Sec. Sarah Huckabee Sanders posted a series of tweets of images and video of the unannounced visit showing Trump arriving at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, meeting one-on-one with soldiers and speaking to the troops, who at one point erupted in enthusiastic chants of &#8220;USA! USA!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;President Trump and the First Lady traveled to Iraq late on Christmas night to visit with our troops and Senior Military leadership to thank them for their service, their success, and their sacrifice and to wish them a Merry Christmas,&#8221; Sanders wrote in the first of a series of social media posts highlighting key moments from the visit.</p>
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<p>President Trump and the First Lady traveled to Iraq late on Christmas night to visit with our troops and Senior Military leadership to thank them for their service, their success, and their sacrifice and to wish them a Merry Christmas. <a href="https://t.co/s2hntnRwpw">pic.twitter.com/s2hntnRwpw</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1078007105339224064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The press secretary posted footage of Trump&#8217;s address to the troops, who were clearly charged up to see him:</p>
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<p>President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> speaks to U.S. troops in Iraq. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpTroopsVisit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpTroopsVisit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/USA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#USA</a> <a href="https://t.co/9CSdO8AwWD">pic.twitter.com/9CSdO8AwWD</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1078034144557322241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Sanders highlighted one particularly &#8220;powerful moment.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Powerful moment &#8211; Member of United States Army told the President he came back into the military because of him. And President Trump responded, &#8216;And I am here because of you.&#8217; I met him after and he gave me the patch from his arm. Incredible,&#8221; she wrote.</p>
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<p>Powerful moment &#8211; Member of United States Army told the President he came back into the military because of him. And President Trump responded, &#8220;And I am here because of you.&#8221; I met him after and he gave me the patch from his arm. Incredible. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpTroopsVisit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpTroopsVisit</a> <a href="https://t.co/WmQf3b2K8X">pic.twitter.com/WmQf3b2K8X</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1078051657051586560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Sanders also retweeted posts by President Trump and his director of social media, Dan Scavino Jr.</p>
<p>&#8220;Melania and I were honored to visit our incredible troops at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq. GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.!&#8221; wrote Trump in a post that included a video montage of his visit to the base.</p>
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<p>.<a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FLOTUS</a> Melania and I were honored to visit our incredible troops at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq. GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.! <a href="https://t.co/rDlhITDvm1">pic.twitter.com/rDlhITDvm1</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1078026520021544960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>MOMENTS AGO: President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FLOTUS</a> Melania visiting troops at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/ZUPNZdbJ6w">pic.twitter.com/ZUPNZdbJ6w</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Dan Scavino Jr. (@Scavino45) <a href="https://twitter.com/Scavino45/status/1078019597263982593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Behind the scenes as President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FLOTUS</a> Melania arrive at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpTroopsVisit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpTroopsVisit</a> <a href="https://t.co/Sv6pZnjRDz">pic.twitter.com/Sv6pZnjRDz</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Dan Scavino Jr. (@Scavino45) <a href="https://twitter.com/Scavino45/status/1078035852326891521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>After their late-night Christmas visit to Iraq, the president and the first lady flew up to Germany to meet with troops and Air Force generals at Ramstein Air Force Base.</p>
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<p>President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FLOTUS</a> meet with Air Force Generals at Ramstein Air Base aboard AF1. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpTroopsVisit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpTroopsVisit</a> <a href="https://t.co/u6Bz3ORUz3">pic.twitter.com/u6Bz3ORUz3</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1078101602375028736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Happening Now &#8211; President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FLOTUS</a> meet with Troops at Ramstein Air Base. <a href="https://t.co/myDcyFIQde">pic.twitter.com/myDcyFIQde</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1078110877822402561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Trump posted a statement praising the troops upon returning from his surprise trips to the two bases. &#8220;Just returned from visiting our troops in Iraq and Germany. One thing is certain, we have incredible people representing our Country &#8211; people that know how to win!&#8221; he wrote.</p>
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<p>Just returned from visiting our troops in Iraq and Germany. One thing is certain, we have incredible people representing our Country &#8211; people that know how to win!</p>
<p>&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1078258964796706816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>On Christmas Eve, a day before Trump&#8217;s pre-planned trip &#8212; which as AP reported, had been &#8220;shrouded in secrecy&#8221; &#8212; NBC and other left-leaning outlets criticized President Trump Tuesday for supposedly being the first president since 2002 not to visit the troops around Christmastime.</p>
<p>&#8220;On Christmas Day, President Donald Trump took part in a long-running practice of presidents who called troops stationed around the country and the world,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-becomes-first-president-2002-not-visit-troops-christmastime-n951846">NBC News</a> reported. &#8220;But he broke from a recent tradition of actually visiting troops and wounded warriors. He did so in 2017, when he visited wounded troops at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Dec. 21 (and invited Coast Guard service members to play golf at his course in West Palm Beach, Florida). By staying home on Tuesday, Trump became the first president since 2002 who didn&#8217;t visit military personnel around Christmastime.&#8221;</p>
<p>NBC has since issued an editor&#8217;s note at the beginning of the piece acknowledging that the premise of the article turned out to be false. &#8220;On Wednesday, a day after this article was published, President Trump made a surprise visit to Iraq to greet U.S. troops. It was his first presidential visit to a combat zone.&#8221; Despite the note, the false title of the piece remains unchanged: &#8220;Trump becomes first president since 2002 not to visit troops at Christmastime.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://apnews.com/eda3e299fdae47bd98dfe059a89d842f">AP&#8217;s report</a> on Trump&#8217;s visit couches it in almost entirely contentious terms, focusing on his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from neighboring Syria &#8220;despite a drumbeat of criticism from military officials and allies who don&#8217;t think the job fighting Islamic State militants there is over.&#8221; AP&#8217;s report also contains thinly veiled criticism about this being &#8220;his first presidential visit to troops in a troubled region.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Related:</em> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39697/nbc-reports-trump-first-president-2002-not-visit-amanda-prestigiacomo">NBC Reports Trump Is First President Since 2002 Not To Visit Troops At Christmastime. Wrong.</a></p>


WATCH: Trump Makes Surprise Visit To Troops In Iraq; Soldiers Erupt In Chants Of &#8216;USA!&#8217;

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<p>NBC and other far-left outlets <a href="https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHZL_enUS743US743&amp;q=trump+breaks+tradition+doesn%27t+visit+troops&amp;spell=1&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjLh_i5pL7fAhXCm-AKHcuFA04QBQgpKAA&amp;biw=1536&amp;bih=754">slammed</a> President Donald Trump on Tuesday for being the first president since 2002 not to visit our troops around Christmastime. The &#8220;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-becomes-first-president-2002-not-visit-troops-christmastime-n951846">news</a>&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=Trump%20becomes%20first%20president%20since%202002%20not%20to%20visit%20troops%20at%20Christmastime&amp;src=typd">spread</a> like wildfire online by the typical anti-Trump brigade.</p>
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<p>President Trump becomes first president since 2002 not to visit troops at Christmastime. <a href="https://t.co/6GS2MTeaLZ">https://t.co/6GS2MTeaLZ</a></p>
<p>&#8212; NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1077680192850706432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 25, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>But as has been the case so often with the mainstream media and Trump-haters (but I repeat myself), the report wasn&#8217;t true.</p>
<p>President Trump not only called troops to wish them a Merry Christmas on Tuesday, he and First Lady Melania Trump took a secret trip to Iraq on Christmas Day so they could greet those serving our country in person.</p>
<p>&#8220;Trump&#8217;s trip was shrouded in secrecy. Air Force One flew overnight from Washington, landing at an airbase west of Baghdad under the cover of darkness Wednesday evening,&#8221; <a href="https://apnews.com/eda3e299fdae47bd98dfe059a89d842f?utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=Twitter">reported</a> the Associated Press on Wednesday.</p>
<p>&#8220;President Trump and the First Lady traveled to Iraq late on Christmas night to visit with our troops and Senior Military leadership to thank them for their service, their success, and their sacrifice and to wish them a Merry Christmas,&#8221; tweeted White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.</p>
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<p>President Trump and the First Lady traveled to Iraq late on Christmas night to visit with our troops and Senior Military leadership to thank them for their service, their success, and their sacrifice and to wish them a Merry Christmas. <a href="https://t.co/s2hntnRwpw">pic.twitter.com/s2hntnRwpw</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1078007105339224064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>CBS News&#8217; White House correspondent Mark Knoller noted that it&#8217;s customary for such a trip to be &#8220;highly secretive&#8221; and closed off to the press. &#8220;A presidential trip to Iraq is a highly secret movement. No advance notice to press other than press pool going along. Air Force One is boarded in privacy in hangar and departs under cover of darkness. All on board instructed to pull down window shades and surrender cell phones,&#8221; Knoller wrote on Twitter.</p>
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<p>&#8212; Mark Knoller (@markknoller) <a href="https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/1078010694249992194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Trump signed autographs and posed in selfies with the troops.</p>
<p>The NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-becomes-first-president-2002-not-visit-troops-christmastime-n951846">report</a> claimed Trump &#8220;broke from a recent tradition of actually visiting troops and wounded warriors. &#8230; By staying home on Tuesday, Trump became the first president since 2002 who didn&#8217;t visit military personnel around Christmastime.&#8221;</p>
<p>The following day, they added the following embarrassing editor&#8217;s note: &#8220;On Wednesday, a day after this article was published, President Trump made a surprise visit to Iraq to greet U.S. troops. It was his first presidential visit to a combat zone.&#8221;</p>


NBC Reports Trump Is First President Since 2002 Not To Visit Troops At Christmastime. Wrong.

<p>Former First Lady Michelle Obama has made her feelings about President Donald Trump clear: she&#8217;s, um, not a fan. But after taking a predictable swipe at the president on Tuesday during an appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Tonight Show,&#8221; Obama took a jab at First Lady Melania Trump, too.</p>
<p>When &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; host Jimmy Fallon asked Mrs. Obama to describe how she felt leaving the White House to a freshly sworn-in President Trump on Inauguration Day, the former First Lady reacted, &#8220;Bye, Felicia!&#8221; The trendy expression is a reference to the 90&#8217;s film &#8220;Friday&#8221; and is basically used as a rude dismissal of an idea, or as in this case, a person.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, the New York City audience ate up the quip from Obama, erupting into laughter. Pleased with herself, Mrs. Obama laughed along, too.</p>
<p>Fallon followed up, &#8220;Is that what was going through your mind?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;A lot was going on that day,&#8221; said a seemingly aggrieved Obama. &#8220;That was a day.&#8221;</p>
<p>And her insults toward the Trumps weren&#8217;t over, yet. Obama took a jab at Mrs. Trump, mocking her successor for giving her a gift from Tiffany&#8217;s on Inauguration Day. (How dare she!)</p>
<p>&#8220;Then the Tiffany&#8217;s box,&#8221; she complained.</p>
<p>Mrs. Trump handed Mrs. Obama a blue Tiffany&#8217;s gift box outside the White House; a moment that went viral on the Internet, mostly due to Mrs. Obama&#8217;s look of confusion upon acceptance. As Obama would later publicly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc0kcGgg3o0#action=share">reveal</a> on The Ellen Show, receiving such a gift at that time was not &#8220;protocol.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just all, you know, a lot,&#8221; Obama told Fallon.</p>
<p>In November, Obama complained that Trump hasn&#8217;t reached out to her for advice, even though she told her she&#8217;s a phone call away, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38342/so-michelle-obama-says-melania-trump-never-asked-ashe-schow">reported</a> The Daily Wire.</p>
<p>Stephanie Grisham, Mrs. Trump&#8217;s spokeswoman, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-melania-trump-hasnt-asked-michelle-obamas-advice-2018-11">hit back</a>: &#8220;Mrs. Trump is a strong and independent woman who has been navigating her role as First Lady in her own way. When she needs advice on any issue, she seeks it from her professional team within the White House.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama also gave the president a good beating in her new memoir, &#8220;Becoming.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38179/michelle-obama-ill-never-forgive-trump-birther-paul-bois">writes</a> Obama in the memoir, according to The Hill. &#8220;But it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks. What if someone with an unstable mind loaded a gun and drove to Washington? What if that person went looking for our girls? Donald Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family&#8217;s safety at risk. And for this I&#8217;d never forgive him.&#8221;</p>
<p>President Trump responded in kind, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38179/michelle-obama-ill-never-forgive-trump-birther-paul-bois">telling</a> reporters, &#8220;I&#8217;ll never forgive [Barack Obama] for what he did to our United States military. By not funding it properly, it was depleted. What he did to our military made this country very unsafe for you and you and you.&#8221;</p>
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&#8216;Bye, Felicia&#8217;: Michelle Obama Takes Swipe At President Trump, Then Melania

<p>Leftists seem to have no concept of the Christmas spirit. The mean girl cattiness they have shown toward First Lady Melania Trump two years in a row now makes that readily clear.</p>
<p>After having her Christmas decorations excoriated as<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38811/watch-melania-trump-brushes-haters-says-red-trees-paul-bois"> something from the pits of hell</a>, the fashion outlet Vogue has now blasted <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/donald-trump-melania-trump-christmas-portrait-white-house-photoshop" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the White House Christmas portrait</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BriIpY7gTCW/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Merry Christmas from President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. @realdonaldtrump &amp; @FLOTUS are seen Saturday, December 15, in their official 2018 Christmas portrait, in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)</a></p>
<p>A post shared by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/flotus/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> First Lady Melania Trump</a> (@flotus) on Dec 18, 2018 at 7:15am PST</p>
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<p>According to the article, which was written by an unnamed author, the rather wholesome, traditional photo of the First Lady and President Trump &#8220;feels so strangely off&#8221; while asserting the couple looks &#8220;almost like cardboard cutout versions of themselves.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;They are very, <em>very</em> smiley&#8212;despite this season of indictments, and the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/nyregion/ny-ag-underwood-trump-foundation.html">dissolution of their flagrantly fraudulent charity organization</a>,&#8221; it says. &#8220;They are also holding hands, a move that is famously <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/melania-trump-white-hat-style">out of character for them</a>.</p>
<p>The article then quotes Vogue.com&#8217;s Visual Director Emily Rosser to explain why the first couple looks like &#8220;wax statues.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s how they&#8217;re lit versus the lighting in the space,&#8221; says Rosser. &#8220;It makes them look like cutouts.&#8221;</p>
<p>Vogue.com&#8217;s Senior Designer Durrant Santeng simultaneously notes that the lighting is &#8220;very overdone.&#8221;</p>
<p>The piece concludes, &#8220;As former Trump White House associates continue to fall like snowflakes on a winter day in the Mueller investigation, the wildly sunny White House Christmas portrait might be another attempt to keep spirits looking bright.&#8221;</p>
<p>Media Research Center vice president Dan Gainor <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/vogue-ripped-for-attacking-melania-trumps-white-house-christmas-portrait-utter-piece-of-garbage">told Fox News</a> that Vogue&#8217;s decision to make the author anonymous was an act of cowardice. &#8220;Notice how no one at Vogue was brave enough to put their name on this utter piece of garbage? This isn&#8217;t journalism, its crap. It belongs in the same sewer that Vogue inhabits,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Major media have done more to discredit legitimate journalism than anything their critics &#8212; even Donald Trump &#8212; could ever do.&#8221;</p>
<p>Gainor went on to say that Vogue was particularly disgusting for criticizing the first couple for holding hands. &#8220;It&#8217;s because of garbage &#8216;news&#8217; stories like this&#8230; that journalism is in the awful state it is in,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Vogue is especially disgusting here by complaining about the president and first lady because they are smiling and holding hands. It&#8217;s even more laughable because it&#8217;s so bitter and vindictive.&#8221;</p>
<p>The hate for Melania Trump on Christmas began with the unveiling of her Christmas decor, with multiple outlets specifically targeting the 40 topiary trees strung together by cranberries and red berries in the East Colonnade of the White House. Vice <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xp8ka/melania-trumps-christmas-decorations-are-from-the-underworld">even declared</a> that Melania&#8217;s decor resembles a &#8220;circle of hell Dante could never have dreamed up.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s 2018: It&#8217;s well-established that we live in hell. It only makes sense that the first lady&#8217;s Christmas decorations would match the bleakness of the Trump era,&#8221; said Vice.</p>
<p>Vanity Fair said Melania Trump&#8217;s Christmas decor always seem to have &#8220;<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/11/melania-trump-white-house-decorations-red-trees-2018">a touch of menace to them</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It wouldn&#8217;t be a Trump White House Christmas without, again, a menacing touch to what is otherwise a lavishly and beautifully wrought winter wonderland,&#8221; said VF. &#8220;This year, crimson red trees dotted a long hallway, dyed with what I assume is liberal blood a-boiling.&#8221;</p>
<p>Both <a href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/11/melania-trump-white-house-christmas-decorations-2018.html">Slate</a> and <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/melania-trump-shares-white-house-christmas-decorations.html">The Cut</a> made similar denunciations of varying cruelty. A Funny or Die video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQtM-fZhoYo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">spoof </a>also mocked Melania&#8217;s accent and suggested the trees were dipped in blood.</p></p>


MEAN GIRLS: Vogue Bashes Melania Trump’s White House Christmas Portrait

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<p>In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday, First Lady Melania Trump addressed a range of topics, including the media&#8217;s treatment of her husband.</p>
<p>&#8220;They like to focus on the gossip and I would like [them] to focus on the substance and what we do, not just about nonsense,&#8221; Melania said of the media, adding that they were &#8220;opportunists &#8230; using my name or my family name to advance themselves.&#8221;</p>
<p>Melania identified those &#8220;opportunists&#8221; as &#8220;comedians,&#8221; &#8220;journalists,&#8221; &#8220;performers&#8221; and &#8220;book writers.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Does it hurt?&#8221; Hannity asked the First Lady.</p>
<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t hurt,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;The problem is they&#8217;re writing history and it&#8217;s not correct.&#8221;</p>
<p>The First Lady ultimately wished that the media would focus more on issues of substance and less on issues of gossip and sensation. In response to her critics, Melania said she always does the &#8220;right&#8221; thing and tries to &#8220;stay true&#8221; to herself.</p>
<p>When Hannity asked Melania to define what she means by staying true to herself, she said it&#8217;s a matter of following her conscience. &#8220;I do what I think is right. I know I will get the criticism &#8211; from the public or from the media &#8211; but I will do what is right and what I feel is right for the country and for the people,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I say I want to stay true to myself and listen to myself and what to do and what is right, what is wrong and live a meaningful life every day.&#8221;</p>
<p>Regarding her path to becoming the First Lady, Melania admitted that she has come a long way. &#8220;It&#8217;s incredible, especially when you think about your life and where you were born, and all the steps you took,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not like you just end up here, you learn a lot on the way here. In my business, and fashion business, it&#8217;s a tough business as well. Here, the politics, it&#8217;s a tough business. You need to have very thick skin.&#8221;</p>
<p>None of this means, however, that Melania Trump supports everything her husband says and does. In fact, she often tells him her opinion. &#8220;I follow what&#8217;s going on, and I give my husband advice and my honest opinion. Sometimes he listens and sometimes he doesn&#8217;t,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t agree with his tone sometimes and I tell him that.&#8221;</p>
<p>When asked how she would like the media to portray her husband, the First Lady said, &#8220;That he is fighting for the American people every day. He wants to guide them the right way and it&#8217;s tough because sometimes the media wants to bash and focus on negativity.&#8221;</p>
<p>In response to the interview, CNN took some shots at Melania, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cnn-bashes-melania-trump-says-she-continues-to-whine-about-being-first-lady">Fox News</a>. On &#8220;Tonight with Don Lemon,&#8221; CNN global affairs analyst Susan Glasser said Melania put off an &#8220;air of aggrievement.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;First of all, she has this incredible air of aggrievement,&#8221; Glasser told CNN anchor Don Lemon. &#8220;Here is this extraordinary story of a woman who came to this country as an immigrant, as a model, and is now the First Lady of the United States and you would think in her rare public appearances, you know, that some terrible wrong has been done to her in this country. I&#8217;ve always been surprised by that air of grievance that she carries very publicly with her.&#8221;</p>
<p>Later on in the program, CNN contributor Joan Walsh said the First Lady is a perpetual whiner.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure privately, you&#8217;re allowed to grouse, but you know, if Michelle Obama had done half of the complaining that she has done in her limited interviews &#8230; she&#8217;d be skewered,&#8221; Walsh said. &#8220;I mean, there&#8217;s just a constant sort of pity party whenever she gets in front of a microphone.&#8221;</p>
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WATCH: Melania Trump Blasts Media As &#8216;Opportunists&#8217; Piggybacking On Husband&#8217;s Fame

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<p>A day before former President George H.W. Bush was laid to rest, former First Lady Laura Bush and Bush family members were hosted by First Lady Melania Trump at the White House, touring the much-discussed Christmas decor. Mrs. Bush was quick to thank Mrs. Trump for the &#8220;sweet visit during this somber week.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Thanks to Mrs. Trump for inviting our family to the White House to see the Christmas decorations and our old friends, the residence staff,&#8221; wrote the former First Lady, posting two photos from the visit.</p>
<p>One of the photos featured a gathering of Bushes in front of a White House portrait, draped in black cloth, of the late George H.W. Bush.</p>
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<p>A post shared by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/laurawbush/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Laura Bush</a> (@laurawbush) on Dec 4, 2018 at 11:28am PST</p>
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<p>&#8220;Looking forward to being with the wonderful Bush family at Blair House today,&#8221; President Donald Trump posted in preparation for the visit. &#8220;The former First Lady will be coming over to the White House this morning to be given a tour of the Christmas decorations by Melania. The elegance &amp; precision of the last two days have been remarkable!&#8221;</p>
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<p>Looking forward to being with the wonderful Bush family at Blair House today. The former First Lady will be coming over to the White House this morning to be given a tour of the Christmas decorations by Melania. The elegance &amp; precision of the last two days have been remarkable!</p>
<p>&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1069960017204469760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Stephanie Grisham, the First Lady&#8217;s spokeswoman, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2018/12/04/laura-bush-touched-melania-trumps-invitation-white-house/2208982002/">said</a> the visit was closed off to the press and photographers, though photos of the visit have been floating around the Internet.</p>
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<p>&#8212; Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1070672407021543424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Following the visit, the Trumps and the Bushes greeted one another in a warm exchange outside the presidential guest house, Blair House (video below).</p>
<p>Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Trump have a much warmer relationship than what is perceived to be an essentially nonexistent relationship between the current FLOTUS and her predecessor, Michelle Obama.</p>
<p>In April, Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Trump shared tea together at the White House. Additionally, Mrs. Bush had nothing but warm wishes and kind words to say about the current First Lady during an interview with CNN in November of 2017.</p>
<p>&#8220;I just think she&#8217;s done a lovely job,&#8221; Mrs. Bush <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pB0qAVno0s#action=share">said</a> of Mrs. Trump. &#8220;She&#8217;s a beautiful woman. She&#8217;s a wonderful representative for the United States.&#8221;</p>
<p>Last month, former First Lady Obama said she extended an invitation to help Mrs. Trump if she ever needed advice, but has yet to hear from her. The Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/michelle-obama-melania-trump-never-reached-out-to-me-for-advice">reports</a>:</p>
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<p><em>Michelle Obama said first lady Melania Trump has never reached out to her for advice, even after Obama extended an invitation as her predecessor Laura Bush did.</em></p>
<p><em>Obama told ABC News in an interview that aired Sunday that Trump has not asked for any help since the Obamas left the White House in January 2017.</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;No, she hasn&#8217;t,&#8221; Obama said when asked if Trump reached out to her at all.</em></p>
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<p>Grisham swatted away any criticism of Mrs. Trump, stating, &#8220;Mrs. Trump is a strong and independent woman who has been navigating her role as first lady in her own way. When she needs advice on any issue, she seeks it from her professional team within the White House.&#8221;</p>
<p>Twice-failed presidential candidate and former First Lady Hillary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39076/watch-bitter-hillary-clinton-snubs-melania-trump-ryan-saavedra">appeared</a> to snub Mrs. Trump at the Bush funeral on Wednesday.</p>
<p>WATCH:</p>
<div class="embed video fluid-video"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="434" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZRv1T8GviOA" width="788"></iframe></div></p>


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<p>President Trump and first lady Melania Trump made a surprise visit to the Capitol Rotunda on Monday to pay respects to former President George H.W. Bush, who is lying in state there until Wednesday.</p>
<p>The unannounced visit was somber, with neither Trump nor his wife saying anything. Instead, they stood near the flag-draped coffin, with Trump saluting the 41st president while Melania held her hand on her heart.</p>
<div class="embed video fluid-video"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="721" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q47wqpwGlzY?ecver=1" width="1280"></iframe></div>
<p>&#8220;Departure from the White House and travel to the Capitol were off the record at the request of the White House, which cited security concerns,&#8221; a reporter who traveled with the pair wrote in a pool report.</p>
<p>The president and first lady boarded a motorcade a little after 8 p.m. for the six-minute ride down Pennsylvania Avenue to the capitol. While the Rotunda had been opened to visitors shortly before the couple arrived, the area was closed off while they were there.</p>
<p>The First Couple was not accompanied by congressional leaders. Instead, the Senate Sergeant at Arms and House Sergeant Arms brought them into the room. The room filled with the click of cameras from the photographers who were there to cover the event. They stayed two minutes, and the Rotunda was re-opened shortly after their departure.</p>
<p>Bush died Friday at age 94. Trump sent the presidential plane to Houston to bring his body to Washington, D.C. The president and first lady will attend his memorial service at Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday, but the president will not deliver a eulogy.</p>
<p>The Trumps visited shortly after Vice President Mike Pence delivered a moving speech about Bush and Pence&#8217;s son Mike, who is a Marine aviator, that occurred only months before Bush passed away.</p>
<p>Trump also said he will visit the Bush family on Tuesday at the Blair House, near the White House.</p>
<p>&#8220;Looking forward to being with the wonderful Bush family at Blair House today. The former First Lady will be coming over to the White House this morning to be given a tour of the Christmas decorations by Melania. The elegance &amp; precision of the last two days have been remarkable!&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter.</p>
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<p>Looking forward to being with the wonderful Bush family at Blair House today. The former First Lady will be coming over to the White House this morning to be given a tour of the Christmas decorations by Melania. The elegance &amp; precision of the last two days have been remarkable!</p>
<p>&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1069960017204469760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Related: <em>WATCH: <strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38994/watch-pence-delivers-beautiful-tribute-george-h-w-hank-berrien">Pence Delivers Beautiful Tribute To George H. W. Bush</a></strong></em></p></p>


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