Has anyone seen Melania Trump, recently?
It seems, virtually, impossible, of late, to switch on the television news, without viewing the grimly, contorted visage of Donald Trump. The numerous charges and indictments against said twice-impeached, former President, founded upon his criminal acts, and glaring misfeasance in office, appear to be, the constant, and almost exclusive, subject of every media news program. Yet, despite the relentless, broadcast, concerning his serious, criminal charges and the appropriate avenues of their retribution, his wife, and official,” First Lady,” seems, invisible, literally, nowhere in sight. By bright contrast, First Lady, Hillary Clinton, during the period of the (much less impactful), charges concerning her husband’s (the President) misbehavior with Monica Lewinsky, was not merely, available for media comment and visible, but, despite the embarrassment and angst of the sordid and disloyal affair, publically declared: “I stand by my man.”
The historically, traditional, role of a President’s wife, (“FLOTUS”) in addition to being the official hostess at the White House, is one that has always figured, prominently, in the political and social life of the sitting U.S. President. The role of the First Lady has, in recent times, come to include, in addition to the management of the White House, an involvement in political campaigns, a champion of social causes, as well as an official representative of the President at Official and ceremonial events.
Many past First Ladies have made valuable contributions to the Nation. Among those many are Michelle Obama, with efforts on behalf of working, families and the reduction of childhood obesity, Roselyn Carter whose dedication included the important area of mental health and disabilities, and Barbara Bush whose dedication was on behalf of literacy and the literary world. We can recall, with great nostalgia and respect, the humanistic services rendered to the American Nation by First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. In addition to publicly, and vigorously, championing the “Declaration of Human Rights,” supported the refugee movement, and the universal right to education, shelter and medical care. We are old enough to personally, remember her humanistic efforts on behalf of workers’ welfare when, her husband, FDR was obliged to mobilize the Nation’s industrial production, due to the advent of World War 2. In sum, many of the Nation’s First Ladies have distinguished themselves by their contributions to social reform, human rights, public health, and world peace.
The first time we saw Melania, was on the occasion in which she, theatrically, accompanied her egocentric husband, the newly, (and surprisingly) elected, President of the United States, down the infamous, Trump escalator. On this (public relations), showy occasion, and on subsequent occasions, she always has appeared half-smiling and her fashionably, slim figure, encased in an expensive, designer dress. In fact, at every one of the rare occasions in which Melania has appeared in public, she has, invariably, appeared, with a half-smile and an expensive dress, worn over her slim, manikin-like figure. We are not aware of any memorable, public statements she has made, on these rare, half-smiling occasions, in the management, or decoration of the White House, nor as to any political, charitable or social cause.
We are, accordingly, obliged to conclude that this, singular, First Lady’s sole responsibility, was to, in fashionably, in manikin style, parade in public with ostentatiously, expensive dresses, in order to present the mis- en -scene, of Donald Trump’s purported, success and great fortune. [No Eleanor Roosevelt she!]
The former President, at present, is finally, and deservedly, facing America’s retribution for his unspeakable, immorality and brazen criminality; we shall presume that there is little, present, utility, for attractive, ostentatiously, dressed, human manikins in such a situation.
-p.
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