Perhaps Frank Bruni is right: Melania Trump, fully
disgusted with Disgustus is trolling our self-anointed Caesar.
Citing a turning point he labeled Melania Monday, in which
“wearing a pussy bow, (she) publicly chided cyberbullies at the
same time her husband ranted and raged on Twitter, likening Robert
Mueller to Joseph McCarthy and demonstrating a grasp of history
commensurate with his grip on civility.” (1)
Noting that the reluctant First Lady, besides not
sharing a bedroom nor hotel accommodations while on trips, has
heretofore been distant—some say near invisible. Let's face it,
Bruni reminds us, the job is a national embarrassment. “It's a
ludicrous job. You're supposed to make a difference without making
waves, find a passion while veiling your convictions and smile
blithely through ceaseless forensic examinations of your every
accessory.
“It's infantilizing. It's objectifying” (2)
Bruni continues, and how the more accurate. It reminds one of
the Royals, “heads of state” legally restricted from making any
statements upon any subjects whatever of national importance, bobbing
heads, waving arms, blithely smiling with vacant faces into faceless
crowds. How fitting for our monarch in residence.
But Melania has had enough of it. Forsaking the
marriage bed, she has left Disgustus alone with his cheeseburger and
the company of Faux News. One can only imagine the depths of
depravity. The First Lady has a higher calling and that, Bruni
suggests, is trolling her husband. In addition to her pointed
remarks on cyberbullying, she has announced a trip (without
Disgustus) to Africa a continent, Bruni reminds us, “whose
nations the president can't pronounce, let alone respect. She didn't
choose that destination randomly, throwing a dart at a map. She
chose it defiantly, throwing shade at her husband.” (3)
“We'll admire the wickedness of her
announcement”...Bruni writes, coming as it does on the heels of
other acts of defiance. When Disgustus went after LaBron James,
Melania came to his defense suggesting that she is interested in
visiting his Ohio school for disadvantaged children so that she could
see for herself the good work done there.
There have been other furtive gestures. Wearing a white
pants suite to his first State of the Union address, invoking Hillary
Clinton; even causing a storm on Air Force One when Caesar discovered
his wife watching CNN instead of true believer Sean Hannity. Not
since Adam discovered Eve in the throes of orgasm with that
snake...oh well, never mind. She's even used the words 'global
community'.
What's important here, Bruni reminds us, is that as our
Caesar Disgustus “teeters at the precipice of incoherence and
self-destruction, needing only a shove (.) (W)ho best to administer
it but a spouse with her own, separate bedroom in the White House...
“She
inches ever closer to open contempt for him. She finds increasingly
clever ways to show it. And its a perfect wedding of patriotism and
payback for all the humiliations that he has heaped on her. (4)
With one not-so-gentle nudge, Melania could shove our
'unhinged' Caesar over the precipice and, concludes Bruni,
“abbreviate a nightmare”. It cannot happen soon enough.
“An'
Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”
Impeach and Imprison.
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- Bruni, Frank. “Melania Trump's Call To Greatness” The New York Times. Wednesday, August 22, 2018. Page A19
- Ibid
- Ibid
- Ibid
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