Twitter Blasts Melania's Tone-Deaf Post About Ways To ‘Positively Impact Children’
In what seems like cluelessness to the highest degree, first lady Melania Trump posted a Tuesday tweet that many found incredibly offensive as the nation grapples with the Trump administration’s family separation policy at the southern border.
“A great visit with the King & Queen of Spain at the @WhiteHouse today. Queen Letizia & I enjoyed tea & time together focusing on the ways we can positively impact children,” she wrote.
Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia are in the United States on a three-city tour to celebrate friendship between the two nations.
A great visit with the King & Queen of Spain at the @WhiteHouse today. Queen Letizia & I enjoyed tea & time together focusing on the ways we can positively impact children. pic.twitter.com/IiaMQOil3K
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) June 19, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy on immigration earlier this year. From mid-April and early May, officials have separated thousands of undocumented migrant children from their parents at U.S.-Mexico border. The U.S. government has placed them in shelters while their parents face prosecution for illegally crossing the border.
The Trump administration has claimed that it is merely enforcing a law, but the policy has been massively criticized. National outrage increased on Monday with the publication of photos showing children held in chain-link enclosures at an immigrant processing facility in McAllen, Texas. Public backlash hit a boiling point when ProPublica published audio recordings of children screaming for their parents.
FLOTUS has vaguely condemned the harsh policy, and President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would sign “something” soon to keep immigrant and migrant families together. But the fact that Melania posted a tweet about sipping tea in the White House with the queen of Spain while discussing ways they could “positively impact children” on Tuesday rubbed many the wrong way.
Here are the most poignant tweets of the bunch:
Yeah, give that a good, hard think. What could you do......? https://t.co/u5LItLvkFA
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus (@OfficialJLD) June 20, 2018
Is this a real account? Are you a real person?
— Charles Irons (@wellwoodirons) June 20, 2018
Like letting them out of cages?
— Erin Carr (@Erin_Carr) June 20, 2018
Unlocking the cages is 100% an effective first step
— Cameron Kasky (@cameron_kasky) June 20, 2018
You're kidding, right? You can start helping children by talking to your husband about changing his policy of separating children from their parents at the border.
— Marsha Mood (@MarshaMood) June 19, 2018
Uh. The camps..... but nice dress.
— Holly Marie Combs (@H_Combs) June 20, 2018
You are part of an evil regime. You support evil with your silence. You could have a major impact if you spoke your mind but you allow children to suffer by putting out pointless statements which request no hard changes. Shame on you. https://t.co/KtGME5VVQP
— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) June 20, 2018
just white kids tho, right?
— Usman Ally (@UsmanAlly) June 20, 2018
Impact children??? How's the impact of putting a young child into a concentration camp?
— Mark🌟Siegel (@marksiegelbooks) June 19, 2018
“Positively impact children,” @FLOTUS? Are you really THAT tone deaf?? You’ve got to be fucking kidding!! 😡https://t.co/FNAKKgZrA8
— Jon Cooper 🌊 (@joncoopertweets) June 20, 2018
Like not separating them from their parents even if the parents can not “prove” that their kids crying for them are really their kids?
Really? Is that what you talked about over tea?— Jidgette (@Jidgettewynn) June 19, 2018
.@FLOTUS There are literally babies being held in prison camps away from their parents at your husband’s order. https://t.co/yJEVBZdcT6
— Charlotte Clymer🏳️🌈 (@cmclymer) June 20, 2018
Hey Melania – either help us liberate your husband's child concentration camps, or convince him to resign.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) June 19, 2018
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