I should apologize for the poor quality of these images. I have two excuses:
1. When it comes to photography, I have no game. I know how to point my cell phone, push the button, and then email it to myself. Beyond that, I ask the kids for help.
2. I confess this document sat in our recycling bin for 24 hours before I fished it out to share it with the class here. Somehow it became damp and stained.
Truth be told, my feelings toward her husband aren't as warm as she assumes. Those evil cookies and other crypto-gremlins that are busy hoovering up personal data on us based on our Internet usage still haven't perfected their logarhythms.
I am not surprised to see the RNC's name as the ones who are collecting funds. I doubt very seriously if Melania wrote this letter herself, or if she has even seen it. From anything I've read, she didn't want to be in the White House, still doesn't want to be there, and would probably be glad to go back to civilian life after 2020. I would have sympathy for her, except, seriously, didn't she know what her DH was before she married him?
ReplyDeleteI registered as a Republican years ago just to keep track of their activities and propaganda. Once in a while they make sense about something. I anxiously await my copy of Melania's letter. Meantime, I'm trying to " be best"!
ReplyDeleteGo for the whole 5 grand, Jim. Then you can kvell when he says he is so rich he doesn't have to ask for money.
ReplyDeleteOn this end, I am agitating to have Southern Blvd -- the road between the airport and Mar-a-Lago that he also has to use to get to his world-class golf course -- renamed John McCain Blvd. My Navy friends say that might keep pests away.
I'd donate to that cause.
DeleteTom, have a heart ... think how many street signs Mick Mulvaney would have to drape with a tarp every time the prez felt like getting in 18 holes.
DeleteMy husband is still a registered Republican, but no letter yet. The local group has finally learned not to call him to come out to volunteer though.
ReplyDeleteDC being what it is, we locals occasionally rub elbows with the PTB. Katherine had to put up with a relative's gushing over all of the great things Trump has done. A couple of weeks ago, one of my sisters and her daughter went to Melania's First Lady Luncheon through a connection that I won't take the time to explain. So, then my sister sent out a gushing email about how wonderful it was and, even more exciting, that her hostess for this event (the widow of a former congressman) and her new husband took my sister and her husband to dinner at the restaurant at the trump hotel that desecrates Pennsylvania Ave. My sister was on cloud 9. Her daughter also gushed about this event, on Facebook, about how beautiful Melanie is, and how TALL, and how she speaks 5 languages fluently, and she has this wonderful program and all of us should support it because it's non-partisan. I could ignore the FB post. This was not an email I could respond to, and, although my sister sent it to all the sibs and a couple of others, she knows darn well what I think about her hero, Trump and she did not have to include me. It wasn't a standard family email list that she pulled up, but a custom list. She and I haven't spoken since the election, except briefly at the funeral of our niece, the daughter of another sister. So, why did she include me on the email? Passive-agressive maybe?
I'll happily contribute to the effort to rename the road after McCain! Just let us know where to send contributions, Tom.
Katherine, no,Melanie did not write the letter. They never do. I have a friend who was a volunteer at the White House for years and years, through multiple administrations. She wrote Christmas cards from the Presidential family, sympathy notes, congratulations on anniversaries and 100th birthdays etc. A whole army of volunteers. Someone on her husband's reelection committee would have written that meaningless letter. Certainly not Melania. Why did she marry him? Well, why do you think? She did not have a wildly successful modeling career, no Vogue covers. And he is very rich. Maybe not nearly as rich as he wants people to believe, but plenty rich. She is not the first beautiful woman to enter a marriage with an older, unattractive, but very rich man for reasons other than being hopelessly head over heels in love. Even with a pre-up, she would make out just fine. A good income to finance all the clothes and long lunches in Manhattan. According to the local gossip, she spends a whole lot of time in NYC - going up to her hairdresser and to visit her "girlfriends".
ReplyDeletePre-nip not pre-up. Also, there are many who think that she got a better deal on a revised pre-nap by agreeing to stick with him until after the election. Probably got an even better revision after he won and she agreed to play First Lady for a few years before splitting. I'm sure she worked out a favorable arrangement -she'd show up for photo ops etc, in exchange for living her life as she pleases outside of the view of the paparazzi until he's out of office. Oh, and with a raise in the pre-nup too!
ReplyDeleteBut, Anne, it must be love. Her signature looks so much like his!
DeleteI sometimes hate auto fill. PRE-NUP!
ReplyDeleteAnne, I was enjoying all your typos - I though pre-up, pre-nip and pre-nap all had inadvertent meanings that might be pertinent to the case under discussion :-). I was hoping for pre-nope, as that might also be applicable in their marriage ...
DeleteJim, LOL!
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