During a recent sit-down interview with Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt, first lady Melania Trump discussed the “challenging transition” she and her husband, President Donald Trump experienced during their first term in the White House. This would be the handing over of power from former President Barack Obama, which means the left’s knight in shining armor was anything but when Trump was taking over in 2016.
“The difference is I know where I will be going, I know the rooms where we will be living. I know the process,” Melania went on to say during the conversation with Earhardt, which aired on Jan. 13, when she was asked what had changed since her 2017 move-in to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
“The information was [withheld] for us from [the] previous administration,” she continued, according to The Western Journal. Melania told Fox she’s “already packed” for the move-in this time around.
“It’s [a] very different transition second time around,” she stated. Earhardt then asked if the Bidens had helped her this time.
“They’re still living there, and they will be out on Jan. 20,” she continued. “The transition team has only five hours to move Bidens out and to move us in.”
If you move to the 2:00 mark in the video below, you’ll see the relevant part of the interview:
The interview came as former first lady Michelle Obama said that she wouldn’t be attending Trump’s second inauguration. Michelle didn’t attend Jimmy Carter’s state funeral on Jan. 9, reportedly due to a “scheduling conflict” with her vacation (because apparently, the avocation of former first lady as a professional calling isn’t enough of a vacation for her). This time, a source leaked to People Magazine, it’s because she really, really, really hates the living hell out of Donald Trump. (The source didn’t use those exact words, instead saying Michelle didn’t want to “plaster” on a fake grin for the sake of paying homage to the principle of the unbroken transfer of power.)
“There’s no overstating her feelings about [Trump]. She’s not one to plaster on a pleasant face and pretend for protocol’s sake,” the source remarked. “Michelle doesn’t do anything because it’s expected or it’s protocol or it’s tradition. She would be expected to swallow her feelings in the spotlight if she attended his second inauguration.”
Gasp! You mean she would be expected to act like an…gulp…adult?!? That’s horrible! No one should be expected to control their emotions out in public. What are we? Animals?
As for Trump being “someone whom she still considers a threat to American democracy,” as the source also claimed, most of this rhetoric has Barack Obama as patient zero — with the former president first dismissing Donald Trump as some peon who had made his money before he got into politics instead of getting into politics to make money, then hyping him as Literally Hitler™, with the rest of the Democrats and the media gladly following his lead and declaring that they were With Her.
The author of the WJ piece concluded by saying, “If you want to see what class and unity looks like, watch Melania state the unpleasant realities about how the Democrats acted during her husband’s two inaugurations herself — no anonymous source leaking quotes about how a girlboss former first lady refuses to ‘plaster on a pleasant face and pretend for protocol’s sake’ to a trash celeb rag — with a smile on her face and with reserve and poise. It’s what real confidence and courage looks like.”
Well put.