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Melania Trump responds to POTUS attack on goofy Greta Thunberg; she says she communicates 'differently'
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Dec 15, 2019, 3:32:41 PM12/15/19
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The Trump-vs-Greta Thunberg conflict continued Friday after first lady
Melania Trump responded to accusations of anti-bullying hypocrisy by
issuing a statement about her husband's tweet attacks on the Swedish
climate-activist teenager.
Greta Thunberg, 16, “who travels the globe giving speeches,” isn't the
same as her son Barron Trump, “a 13-year-old who wants and deserves
privacy,” she said in the statement, according to The Associated Press.
The statement also acknowledged that she and President Donald Trump
"communicate differently."
The first lady was silent this week after the president mocked Thunberg,
telling her in a tweet that she should "work on her anger management" and
"chill" out. He was dismissive of Thunberg after she was named Time's
Person of the Year Thursday.
First lady Melania Trump attends a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of
the White House on Dec. 11, 2019.
The first lady's critics on Twitter then chastised her for saying nothing
even though last week she responded angrily to what she perceived as
bullying of Barron, when his name came up during an impeachment hearing.
The first lady's signature Be Best initiative includes campaigning against
bullying of children on social media.
As the criticism continued Friday, the White House responded with a
statement issued by spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham.
President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and Barron Trump, 13, who
towers over his parents, walk across the South Lawn to Marine One on Nov.
26, 2019, on their way to Florida for Thanksgiving.
In it, the first lady made a distinction between Thunberg, who has become
world famous, and Barron, the president's youngest child, who is rarely
seen and never heard under media rules for covering presidential children
under 18.
"BeBest is the First Lady's initiative, and she will continue to use it to
do all she can to help children. It is no secret that the President and
First Lady often communicate differently -- as most married couples do.
Their son is not an activist who travels the globe giving speeches. He is
a 13-year-old who wants and deserves privacy," Grisham's statement said.
The statement echoed Trump's sharp scolding in a tweet last week,
something she seldom does on social media or in public, in contrast to her
husband.
She addressed the tweet to Pamela Karlan, a law professor whose testimony
on impeachment included an awkward pun on Barron's name. Karlan later
apologized. Trump was not mollified.
"A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics," Trump
tweeted soon after the testimony. "Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of
your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child
to do it."
Trump's statement Friday did little to calm the disapproval on Twitter,
where critics renewed their mocking of the first lady's stance.
"I gave Melania respect and the benefit of the doubt but no longer. With
this statement, which she never had to say, @FLOTUS is now just a bad as
the people her "BeBest" campaign derides. She was upset about Barron, but
gives no thought to the feelings of Greta's mother," tweeted a user named
Karen.
Trump has been taking heat on Twitter on a variety of issues related to
Trump administration's policies. The common link is the accusation that
she is hypocritical in making the well-being of children her signature
issue while seeming to ignore what foes consider egregious examples of
threats to children by the administration.
Thus, her rare fit of pique over the mention of her son's name was not
well-received except by Trump supporters on social media and by
Republicans on the House committee taking testimony on impeachment.
Last week, as the first lady and the president prepared to light the
National Christmas Tree, Twitter foes heaped contempt for her lack of
public outrage for a teen boy apparently allowed to die without care in
immigration custody, and the pending removal of nearly 700,000 people from
the food stamps program.
The president has been critical of Thunberg before – she is a climate
activist, he is a climate-change skeptic – but he seemed to be especially
annoyed after she was named Time's Person of the Year.
He was named the magazine's Person of the Year in 2016 after the election
and has criticized the magazine for passing him up in the years since. He
said on Twitter it was "so ridiculous" Thunberg was named.
As a result, on Thursday, after the president's mocking tweets, the first
lady's Be Best campaign was trending online.
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
The Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
approved Uranium One in fall 2010. With a little luck, we'll see
compulsive liar Hillary Clinton in jail before she dies.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
a-trump-responds-potus-attack-thunberg/2640897001/
The Trump-vs-Greta Thunberg conflict continued Friday after first lady
Melania Trump responded to accusations of anti-bullying hypocrisy by
issuing a statement about her husband's tweet attacks on the Swedish
climate-activist teenager.
Greta Thunberg, 16, “who travels the globe giving speeches,” isn't the
same as her son Barron Trump, “a 13-year-old who wants and deserves
privacy,” she said in the statement, according to The Associated Press.
The statement also acknowledged that she and President Donald Trump
"communicate differently."
The first lady was silent this week after the president mocked Thunberg,
telling her in a tweet that she should "work on her anger management" and
"chill" out. He was dismissive of Thunberg after she was named Time's
Person of the Year Thursday.
First lady Melania Trump attends a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of
the White House on Dec. 11, 2019.
The first lady's critics on Twitter then chastised her for saying nothing
even though last week she responded angrily to what she perceived as
bullying of Barron, when his name came up during an impeachment hearing.
The first lady's signature Be Best initiative includes campaigning against
bullying of children on social media.
As the criticism continued Friday, the White House responded with a
statement issued by spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham.
President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and Barron Trump, 13, who
towers over his parents, walk across the South Lawn to Marine One on Nov.
26, 2019, on their way to Florida for Thanksgiving.
In it, the first lady made a distinction between Thunberg, who has become
world famous, and Barron, the president's youngest child, who is rarely
seen and never heard under media rules for covering presidential children
under 18.
"BeBest is the First Lady's initiative, and she will continue to use it to
do all she can to help children. It is no secret that the President and
First Lady often communicate differently -- as most married couples do.
Their son is not an activist who travels the globe giving speeches. He is
a 13-year-old who wants and deserves privacy," Grisham's statement said.
The statement echoed Trump's sharp scolding in a tweet last week,
something she seldom does on social media or in public, in contrast to her
husband.
She addressed the tweet to Pamela Karlan, a law professor whose testimony
on impeachment included an awkward pun on Barron's name. Karlan later
apologized. Trump was not mollified.
"A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics," Trump
tweeted soon after the testimony. "Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of
your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child
to do it."
Trump's statement Friday did little to calm the disapproval on Twitter,
where critics renewed their mocking of the first lady's stance.
"I gave Melania respect and the benefit of the doubt but no longer. With
this statement, which she never had to say, @FLOTUS is now just a bad as
the people her "BeBest" campaign derides. She was upset about Barron, but
gives no thought to the feelings of Greta's mother," tweeted a user named
Karen.
Trump has been taking heat on Twitter on a variety of issues related to
Trump administration's policies. The common link is the accusation that
she is hypocritical in making the well-being of children her signature
issue while seeming to ignore what foes consider egregious examples of
threats to children by the administration.
Thus, her rare fit of pique over the mention of her son's name was not
well-received except by Trump supporters on social media and by
Republicans on the House committee taking testimony on impeachment.
Last week, as the first lady and the president prepared to light the
National Christmas Tree, Twitter foes heaped contempt for her lack of
public outrage for a teen boy apparently allowed to die without care in
immigration custody, and the pending removal of nearly 700,000 people from
the food stamps program.
The president has been critical of Thunberg before – she is a climate
activist, he is a climate-change skeptic – but he seemed to be especially
annoyed after she was named Time's Person of the Year.
He was named the magazine's Person of the Year in 2016 after the election
and has criticized the magazine for passing him up in the years since. He
said on Twitter it was "so ridiculous" Thunberg was named.
As a result, on Thursday, after the president's mocking tweets, the first
lady's Be Best campaign was trending online.
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
The Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
approved Uranium One in fall 2010. With a little luck, we'll see
compulsive liar Hillary Clinton in jail before she dies.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
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