#UglyMelania was a top trend on Twitter, only followed by the ironic #BeBest hashtag for her ugly behavior. Never in our history have we had such a clueless and classless First Lady.
Once again, Melania, in front of millions, appears to have condoned her husband’s bullying of a 16-year-old with Asperger's syndrome. According to Melania, her husband’s jealous attack was just “communicating differently” and Greta’s concern for her generation doesn’t warrant her being treated with any kind of respect.
Here is that statement, per the White House Press Secretary to CNN’s Kate Bennett.
I don’t think it could be more ironic if I witnessed Nancy Reagan justify her husband selling drugs after tweeting #JustSayNo. Or someone visiting a child detention facility with a message literally written on a coat saying how much they don’t care.
Greta, of course, is way smarter than both of them and clapped back in the best way possible.
Greta Thunberg stood up for herself and her beliefs against the most powerful people in the world. Melania won’t even stand up to her husband. It’s bad enough that she is willing to justify and even support the worst impulses of her racist, hateful husband—whether it be birtherism, locking up children in cages, bashing gold star families and war widows, or mocking people with disabilities. However, the fact that she tried to set herself up as a champion for bullied children makes her even more wickedly horrible.
The polar opposite is the one Melania plagiarizes, but could never copy. Michelle Obama did not take up child bullying as her primary cause, but as a First Lady, did stand up for the child:
Thank you, Michelle. Always First in class.