Posted on 03/03/2017 7:15:19 PM PST by drewh
First lady Melania Trump paid a surprise visit to the New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center on Thursday where she read to children.
Her appearance marked "National Read Across America Day," which is celebrated every year on Dr. Seuss's birthday.
"Do you know what is today? It's reading day," Trump said, according to The Grio.
"So it's reading day and I came here to encourage everyone to read, and to just think about books and what you want to achieve in life and just extend your horizon and think very, very outside of the box."
Trump read the book "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" to the kids, noting that it is a favorite of her son, Barron.
CBS News shared a video of the visit on Twitter, and it appears it was not entirely flawless:
AdChoices At one point, a child refuses to give Trump a hug, but she still tried to pose for a picture with her.
The first lady moved past the awkward moment by hugging and posing with other children.
She visited a different children's hospital on Wednesday while she was in Washington, D.C., for Donald Trump's joint address to Congress:
The first lady is currently filling key posts in the East Wing, according to CNN. She has been criticized for taking longer than usual to do so.
"I am putting together a professional and highly-experienced team which will take time to do properly," Trump said in a statement last month. "I am excited to be organizing and bringing together such a dynamic and forward-thinking group of individuals who will work together to make our country better for everyone."
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AOL commie news and the despicable Asspress are usually the same.
“Never work with children or animals.” - W.C. Fields
AOL seriously. These pukes are on a fake news warpath.
Oh, GOOD GRIEF!!!!!! This is the best they could come up with? My little great-neice was the same way witb me. SO WHAT?????
Hillary’s FAKE CHILD PATIENTS
(Story originally appreared in the American Spectator, March 97)
It seems that Hillary, who’s had her fingerprints found on all the new scandals that are breaking on a daily basis is trying to fix her public image.
So, to promote the new effort, showing how deeply Hillary cares about children, especially sick children in hospitals, Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington got a call. Hillary Clinton would be coming over soon with children’s author Maurice Sendak. Hillary’s advance team would be showing up arranging the security and logistics. The team did show up. What they saw horrified them.
The kids in the hospital children’s ward really looked sick! Some of them had tubes sticking out. Some had lost their hair to chemotherapy. Some were groggy because of the pain killers they had to take.
Hospital officials were quickly told this would not do. Hillary would look bad in a newspaper photo if she posed with sickly looking children. They were told. “No children that look drowsy, skip bald kids, sick looking kids, or kids with tubes sticking out.”
So here’s what the hospital actually did. They outfitted a hospital conference room with toys and kids decorations. They ordered hospital staff members to bring in their healthy children who would pose as sick children in photos with the great St. Hillary.
So, on January 10th, Hillary Clinton showed up to Georgetown University Medical Center and read to a bunch of kids with author Maurice Sendak. Had you read the papers or heard the news the next day, you might have been bowled over by her compassion. Actually she demonstrated the opposite. You see the real sick kids, who were originally told they would be visited by the first lady were originally extremely happy and excited at the prospect of her visit.
When they were later told, they were too sick looking to be with the great Hillary, some became deeply depressed. After all how would anyone feel not being good enough for Ms. compassion herself.
Of course the press published the photos of Hillary reading to the cute kids the next day. They just forgot to tell you that Hillary, in the quest of the perfect photo could not bring herself to be photographed with an actual sick child.
The phony mask of compassion that Hillary hides behind has slipped once again. Just around Purim time too!
Only an AhOLe would see something wrong with this. Some children aren’t into hugging other people they don’t know. I mean come on. The kid probably didn’t even have a clue who Melania Trump is. This is moronic. OTOH: Maybe the kid didn’t want to put up with all the death threats from the crazy snowflakes.
Sick kids are very moody.
Sick kids hurt.
Didn’t even watch because their video service sucks.
That’s true. Sick kids can be very moody. Many are still too young and too honest to pretend they are not in pain or a state of great discomfort. That false happiness or stoicism doesn’t usually start till the child is at least eight or nine.
one day the kid will probably wish they had hugged the First Lady, their loss.
.... She has been criticized for taking longer than usual to do so.....
What isn’t criticized about the Trump family?
Wish there was a like button for that !
Did the idiots at AOL think for one minute that this child is ILL..after all this child is in the HOSPITAL.!
wait. The articles state Trump tried to read. Funny I do not remember ever Michelle obama ever being refereed to as obama, but I do remember the media always using her first name.
Yet again more vile writing. We have by far the most beautiful, classiest first lady the White House has ever had, and she is attacked.
On the other hand we have boob belts, and big butts walking about , and then we are told she is so stylish, beautiful, and caring.
They refer to her as Trump, but it was always Michelle when boob belt was in an article.
FAKE NEWS ALERT!
This just in: Sources have confirmed that the child who refused to hug Melania was sick because she lost her obamacare and wanted to hug PIAPS. The children who did hug Melania only did so because they were coerced by the (drum roll please)...
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