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*This* is the US I loved and honoured...

(58 Posts)
Wyllow3 Mon 22-Sept-25 15:12:07

Barack and Michelle Obama at Aretha Franklin's awesome tribute to Carole King.

“I’ll be your friend”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfEb9Sb6Ge8&list=RDGMEM6CZm14o9sc-Q22TIneLI8g

Allira Mon 29-Sept-25 11:15:53

And I always think Melania is there but reluctantly.
Dutiful. The only time I've seen her relaxed was when she was over here and with the small children.

keepingquiet Mon 29-Sept-25 13:26:37

Melania doesn't care- she is just a silent version of Trump only caring about herself and of course, her son.

Don't make her into a victim of a heroine, she is neither- she supports her husband and everything he stands for.

Oreo Mon 29-Sept-25 13:55:44

I think politicians wives shouldn’t be up for discussion especially if it’s insulting.
They aren’t their husbands or their husbands job.

Allira Mon 29-Sept-25 14:01:13

Oreo

I think politicians wives shouldn’t be up for discussion especially if it’s insulting.
They aren’t their husbands or their husbands job.

Yes, you're right.

We don't know her views in the main, although she did stand up for abortion rights publicly.

Wyllow3 Tue 30-Sept-25 00:41:22

Hang on a bit - she has written a book, an autobiography, she is a public figure in her own right.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8d7k2dnnko

It includes
"Her clothing was the subject of media fascination and controversy, particularly after she was spotted wearing a jacket with the phrase

*I really don’t care, do you?” during a trip to a migrant child detention centre in 2018*"

so every right for comments, tho of course in terms of her not her husband.

foxie48 Tue 30-Sept-25 09:36:59

The wife of anyone in the public eye seems to become public property (not sure it's the same for the husband though). Rory McIlloy's wife had beer thrown on her at the Ryder Cup on Sunday by American fans (thugs) at least Melania doesn't have to put up with that!

Wyllow3 Tue 30-Sept-25 22:30:02

Europe won the Ryder cup ☺️ some poor little US idiot couldn't take it.