Melania Trump plots convention speech that hopes to avoid past missteps

[left-of-center2012]

The first lady is expected to give a high-profile Republican National Convention speech ...
The first lady wasn't careful in 2016, effectively botching her introduction to America by delivering an RNC speech including lines plagiarized from Michelle Obama's 2008 convention speech.

In 2016, Trump, according to campaign sources at the time, shunned the assistance of more seasoned speechwriters and worked with a staffer at the Trump Organization who had some experience helping ghostwrite her husband's books. This time the first lady is again opting not to use a professional speechwriting team for her convention address, relying instead on her small circle of staff, according to a Republican strategist, speaking with anonymity to preserve working relations within the White House.

Anita McBride, former chief of staff for first lady Laura Bush, said the first lady should speak from the heart, if she can, about private moments that humanize the President.
"That was a turning point in 2004 for President George Bush ... Laura Bush made him more human. Mrs. Trump could have that impact, too." McBride added that Melania Trump's speech should also focus on the work she's already done (such as her ‘Be Best’ campaign). "Now she has the experience of having seen the impact she can have being first lady," she said.

Currently, Melania Trump is living in Bedminster, New Jersey, where the Trumps have long kept a private home, adjacent to the members-only golf club. She trekked into Manhattan for several days last week, taking meetings and appointments, a source with knowledge of her travel told CNN, but for the most part, Melania Trump has been out of sight. It has been almost three weeks since she's been seen at a public event.

Short of the convention address, there is little else on Trump's radar pertaining directly to assisting the reelection of her husband.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/politics/melania-trump-convention-speech/index.html

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I wonder who she will plagiarize this time.

[2naSalit]

8. Hillary Clinton. ...nt

[Aristus]

2. I Really Don't Care, Do U?

[Moostache]

7. Yup...my ONLY thought about her...nothing is going to wipe that stain away.

She is a for-profit bride by choice.
Who gives a fuck what she has to say? She is just as sleazy as the rest of that criminal cabal.

[Ninga]

3. Work done on her kidneys perhaps? Nt

[Happy Hoosier]

4. LOL. Melania barely LOOKS human with all that plastic surgery...

No way she wins anyone over with her vacuous gold-digger bullshit.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

9. A GRIFTER has got to GRIFT....

Something Melania is good at.

Honestly! She wears a pair of stilletoes that cost more than what a Minimum Wage worker makes in a month woking 50 hours per week, if lucky now.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. "Humanize the president"? Good luck with that.

[LakeArenal]

20. Or herself for that matter.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. So BE BEST is dead as a doornail then?

No wonder Trump is so alone within his shrinking world. Nobody loves him. Not even his wife.

Her Convention speech will be just empty words. They will mean nothing because they will be uttered without feeling. All her speech will prove is that she can read from a teleprompter, like she did in 2016. Then and now, she is afraid of any missteps.

[Arkansas Granny]

16. Let's face it. BE BEST was DOA.

[Paladin]

10. I hope she tries extra-hard not to fuck things up.

That'll guarantee a disaster.

[Nikki28]

11. She will

be up staged by Michelle Obama and Obama and all the speakers in the DNC. She probably should stay where she is because every time she opens her mouth,she is a disaster.They should not put this poor woman in front of a mic until they can work with her.I feel for her because I honestly do not understand a word of what she is saying or trying to say.No slam against her,but I can't understand what she says and that annoys me.If someone call me trying to sell something or a Representative trying to help me and I can't understand them, I politely ask them to please put someone on the line that i can understand after giving them 10 or 15 minutes. I feel for them.Again this is no slam on non English speaking people,but it irritates me sometimes.

[LakeArenal]

21. Oooo nice thought.

But it doesn’t take much to upstage her.
I have wind up toys that have more emotion than she.

[HotTeaBag]

12. She's living in Jersey?

What a loving couple.

[soothsayer]

15. Ha she didn't even show up for his memoranda magic show

[ProudMNDemocrat]

19. Even having her own floor at the WH was not enough to separate her from Mangowacker.

THAT is news, people! She cannot stand the guy, but wants whatever millions she can get from him.

[soothsayer]

13. "Vee don't vant eeeeemagreeents komming to our vondervul counnntry"

[bamagal62]

14. Which one of Michelle Obama's

Speeches will she read this time.

[ismnotwasm]

17. She will fuck it up

She’s terrible at this shit. Just awful. And while it’s not inherently bad not to be a instinctual politician, she also a horrid human being.

[NCjack]

18. Oh goody !!! Malignant and her staff will write her speech. I smell TRAIN WRECK. nt

[LakeArenal]

22. Her contributions are legendary.

Dug up the garden for a tennis court

Told us to “Be Best” is really “I don’t really care. Do U?”

Her work with children... in cages.

Her past role modeling for our youth!

Her display of nipples.

[tinrobot]

24. She'll speak from the heart? Then maybe it will be a confession rather than a speech.

I'm sure her heart is heavy from all the horrible things she's witnessed and been part of.

Confess, it will free your soul.

[sfstaxprep]

25. It Will Be So Wonderful To See A First Couple That Actually Love Each Other, Once Again

I guess Melanoma is coming out of her NJ hole, away from her Boyfriend, for her monthly appearance with her "husband."

She's probably busy working out the divorce petition.

[TheCowsCameHome]

26. She'll be the one with the "HELLO - My Name Is" tag.

Another worthless grifter.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

27. "Just a tiny little minute, but ...

hostility is in it"

No, wait

paternity is in it"

That's not right

Oh, I don't care, do you?

[left-of-center2012]

28. When was she last seen with Donald?

I assume Baron is living with her in NJ?