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groundloop

(11,521 posts)
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 02:18 PM Oct 2020

Melania Trump strikes back at former friend who secretly recorded conversations

Source: ABC News

Two weeks after secret recordings of first lady Melania Trump came to light in which she could be heard using expletive-laced language complaining about having to decorate the White House for Christmas -- and calling the living conditions for migrant children separated from their parents an improvement from their normal ones, the first lady is striking back.

In a letter-style post published on the White House website, Mrs. Trump attacks her former friend and adviser, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who last month published a memoir called 'Melania and Me' and shared select recordings of her private conversations with the first lady with CNN. Mrs Trump also blasts the media for scrutinizing her comments, which she does not dispute but rather says “were out of context."

“When the media chooses to focus on self-serving individuals & salacious gossip instead of work to help our next generation, it needs to be talked about,” Trump wrote in a tweet sharing the post, which appears on the White House website.

In the recordings, Trump could be heard complaining about working "my a** off at Christmas stuff” and praising the conditions at detention centers for migrant children.



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Melania Trump strikes back at former friend who secretly recorded conversations (Original Post) groundloop Oct 2020 OP
Her jacket says it all Sanity Claws Oct 2020 #1
Message to Melania: madaboutharry Oct 2020 #2
Malaria can go fuck herself. BlueStater Oct 2020 #3
fuck you malaria gopiscrap Oct 2020 #4
Bye Felishia nt LittleGirl Oct 2020 #5
HAHA OUT OF CONTEXT??? bluestarone Oct 2020 #6
Not a decent human being as we've all been led to believe and now the lie is out for all to see. SWBTATTReg Oct 2020 #7
Hey Lite Brite, you know everyone had forgotten about this underpants Oct 2020 #8
You tried to destroy your 'friend' but she protected herself and showed what a miserable Demsrule86 Oct 2020 #9
Those tapes don't lie. hamsterjill Oct 2020 #10
I kinda gotta wonder how much stroke she has really has over any policy or enforcement. I'll ... marble falls Oct 2020 #11
Christmas-hating smelly pirate hooker. BusyBeingBest Oct 2020 #12
Where is the stolen Trump Inauguration 2016 money?! NCjack Oct 2020 #13
I'd guess it's in Mel's offshore bank account. fierywoman Oct 2020 #38
Someday, Barron might realize that his Dad lied to his Mom just as much as he lied to the nation. maxsolomon Oct 2020 #14
Be best by fucking off melanoma. ResistantAmerican17 Oct 2020 #15
The White House PR department Wellstone ruled Oct 2020 #16
Surely this entitled hooker isn't suggesting that SHE NellieStarbuck Oct 2020 #17
So, save us some $ and forego the creepy Xmas "decorations" this year flibbitygiblets Oct 2020 #18
Malaria pissed because her "friend" won't take the fall BlueIdaho Oct 2020 #19
exactly llashram Oct 2020 #20
She knows by now Fritz Walter Oct 2020 #21
"self-serving individuals" - That would be you Trumps for sure. keithbvadu2 Oct 2020 #22
Melanomia is the same shitball as always - they all hate it when the public sees them as they are bringthePaine Oct 2020 #23
Sigh... maxrandb Oct 2020 #24
Interesting Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #25
Hey you squatter get the hell out of OUR White House. And stop bitching. usaf-vet Oct 2020 #26
more whining from the WH Trump family. boring riversedge Oct 2020 #27
Well Star-Thrower Oct 2020 #28
Gee, mel, maybe you should have said something several weeks ago. We are about 27 crises past that. niyad Oct 2020 #29
"'When the media chooses to focus on self-serving individuals & salacious gossip instead of work generalbetrayus Oct 2020 #30
Malaria does not speak languages kiri Oct 2020 #34
What "context" can possibly rescue those comments? Grokenstein Oct 2020 #31
Oh, screw you Melania. JohnnyRingo Oct 2020 #32
#BeBest, melanoma! NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 #33
I don't care, Do U? Go fuck yourself Melania. You whored your way in and you can leave anytime. Evolve Dammit Oct 2020 #35
If you want to do something useful Melaina ..... jb5150 Oct 2020 #36
F U Melania - you jackass. nt iluvtennis Oct 2020 #37
Has someone explained the phrase nwduke Oct 2020 #39
I can't wait until we're rid of this entire vial family! unitedwethrive Oct 2020 #40
Fuck you Malaria NorthOf270 Oct 2020 #41
Team Trump calling out "self-serving individuals" is the acme of hypocrisy flibbitygiblets Oct 2020 #42

madaboutharry

(40,216 posts)
2. Message to Melania:
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 02:22 PM
Oct 2020

No one gives a shit what Stephanie Grisham wrote pretending to be you.

The world will be a better place as soon as you and the fascist you are married to go away.

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
3. Malaria can go fuck herself.
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 02:23 PM
Oct 2020

She can help the next generation by launching herself and the rest of the Trump family into a black hole.

gopiscrap

(23,762 posts)
4. fuck you malaria
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 02:25 PM
Oct 2020

also you might want to shut your mouth about immigration, considering you probably got special treatment to enter the US As some one who had to go through the immigration and citizenship testing process, I really resent her

SWBTATTReg

(22,156 posts)
7. Not a decent human being as we've all been led to believe and now the lie is out for all to see.
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 02:36 PM
Oct 2020

Serves her right.

underpants

(182,861 posts)
8. Hey Lite Brite, you know everyone had forgotten about this
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 02:36 PM
Oct 2020

right?

No, you just had to circle back and (to your mind) punch down. Just like your John Barron.

Demsrule86

(68,632 posts)
9. You tried to destroy your 'friend' but she protected herself and showed what a miserable
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 02:40 PM
Oct 2020

Excuse for a person you are.. I wonder if all red sparrows are like you.

marble falls

(57,144 posts)
11. I kinda gotta wonder how much stroke she has really has over any policy or enforcement. I'll ...
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 02:51 PM
Oct 2020

bet she's pretty pissed of if Baron has Covid - he tested positive yesterday or Wednesday.

With the exception of Two Scoops, most people who get this stuff tend to have taken it very seriously once they got sick.

maxsolomon

(33,360 posts)
14. Someday, Barron might realize that his Dad lied to his Mom just as much as he lied to the nation.
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 03:04 PM
Oct 2020

Holding out hope the kid develops a conscience.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
16. The White House PR department
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 03:20 PM
Oct 2020

knows the Bullshit Reality TV Show,"how to f over a Nation and make money"is about to end. Just another timely distraction after last nights smelly turd left on the stage at Phil Griffin/Comcast Media event.

NellieStarbuck

(266 posts)
17. Surely this entitled hooker isn't suggesting that SHE
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 03:24 PM
Oct 2020

is doing "work to help our next generation". Help them do what, exactly?

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
18. So, save us some $ and forego the creepy Xmas "decorations" this year
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 03:26 PM
Oct 2020

since you apparently think it's as much of a joke as we do, just skip it and get another botox injection instead. Oh, I'm sorry, I meant to say "kidney operation".

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
19. Malaria pissed because her "friend" won't take the fall
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 03:39 PM
Oct 2020

For the missing inauguration celebration funds. Cry me a river Malaria you’re going down with the fat boy.

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
21. She knows by now
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 04:12 PM
Oct 2020

While Melanoma might still be in the WH this Christmas, soon after that, she's likely to be out on the street again. Kinda' hard to get in the mood to decorate when you're going to be moving out in less than a month.

And to where? Will The Cowardly Lyin' Traitor take her to Moscow with him? Someone suggested that she may end up in Mohammed Bone Saw's harem. Maybe she and her chain-migrating parents can find they way back to Lower Slobovia.

Just get her off the stage!

keithbvadu2

(36,869 posts)
22. "self-serving individuals" - That would be you Trumps for sure.
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 04:40 PM
Oct 2020

"self-serving individuals" -

That would be you Trumps for sure.

maxrandb

(15,345 posts)
24. Sigh...
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 04:50 PM
Oct 2020

This is evidence that America...and possibly the entire fucking world has not only crashed through the Looking Glass, but we are now using the broken shards to slit our fucking wrists.

Every fiber of my being, from the deepest depths of my soul, to the tips of my male nipples in the frozen-food section at Harris Teeter, knows with a crystalline, pure spar certainty, that I should NOT BE REQUIRED to give ONE-FUCK what this soulless, hell spawn "Netherworld Barbie" has to say about fucking anything!

My intellect, my psyche, my conscience, my decency and grace...all tell me that I shouldn't even be required to know who in the fuck these people are.

I know that these lifeless, grifting, vapid, empty vessels deserve NOT ONE SECOND of my serious thoughts.

These spray-on-tan, Loreal of Bakersfield, plastic, Axe-Body Spray wearing morons SHOULD BE THE MOST FUCKING INSIGNIFICANT PEOPLE WE EVER ENCOUNTER.

Their impact on our lives should have the same effect of a fucking gnat blocking the path of a charging rhino.

I will NEVER forgive fucking Donnie Shit for Brains voting morons for requiring me to take seriously A FUCKING BUNCH OF IGNORANT FUCKSTICKS that should NEVER be taken seriously

This fucking family and their supporters, are like dog-shit stuck in the grooves of your tennis shoes.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
25. Interesting
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 05:31 PM
Oct 2020

a little slow on the response time there? The world understands you are a grifter and your "friend" certainly corroborated that, but it takes two whole weeks to craft a response???

niyad

(113,505 posts)
29. Gee, mel, maybe you should have said something several weeks ago. We are about 27 crises past that.
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 06:07 PM
Oct 2020

Nobody cares.

generalbetrayus

(507 posts)
30. "'When the media chooses to focus on self-serving individuals & salacious gossip instead of work
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 06:18 PM
Oct 2020

to help our next generation, it needs to be talked about', Trump wrote in a tweet sharing the post, which appears on the White House website."

Hey, Melanoma, some of the media IS working to help our next generation by helping toss the sorry-ass Trump family out of the White House and into the jailhouse. Some town in Slovenia is missing its village idiot.

kiri

(796 posts)
34. Malaria does not speak languages
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 07:00 PM
Oct 2020

She surely does not know the word 'salacious'.

Her English is quite limited, except when staff write for her. Her Italian and French are a fraud. Look, I can say Bon Jour, too, and with a better pronunciation.
Her attempt at German made everyone cringe. Be best? A real person would say, "Be your best."

Grokenstein

(5,727 posts)
31. What "context" can possibly rescue those comments?
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 06:20 PM
Oct 2020

Melanoma dredged this back up to throw some prefabricated excuses at it, and only wound up reminding everyone that she's a grotesque monstrous piece of shit like her hubby. A gold star sticker for you, garbage person!!

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