Posted on 06/17/2019 8:07:24 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Jackie Kennedy Onassis would “never have entered the country illegally to become an escort and never would have considered spending a moment with vile trash like Trump,” one critic tweets
President Trump sparked angry criticism on Friday, this time by comparing his wife, Melania, to former first lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis during a “Fox & Friends” interview.
The president made the comparison while talking about his decision to switch the paint job on Air Force One, which has been around since the early 1960s.
“You know the baby blue doesn’t fit with us,” Trump said. “It was Jackie O and that’s good, but we have our own Jackie O today, it’s called Melania.”
Air Force One will move towards a navy color scheme that also includes shades of gold and red, the president said. “We’ll call it Melania T, OK?” he added.
As you’d expect, Trump comparing his wife to a beloved icon who has been synonymous with grace and style for decades didn’t sit well with many of his critics.
“Jackie O was an educated woman of integrity and grace who gave mightily to this country. She would have never been a birther,” one Twitter user said. “She never entered the country illegally to become an escort and never would have considered spending a moment with vile trash like Trump.”
“If Melania is Jackie O, then today Stormy Daniels should sing a Marilyn Monroesque ‘Happy Birthday Mr President’ right before drawing a pic of Trump’s weird mushroom penis,” said another.
She was also part of the “never let a crisis go to waste” clique that got the 1965 Hart Celler immigration bill through, playing on public sympathy for JFK’s widow.
Well, I didn’t - and don’t - know anything about that. I know how she conducted herself as the First Lady and representative of my country in every way that I was able to witness.
And I don’t even know what ‘right wing’ really meant, at that time (all things being equal, JFK himself would probably fall somewhere along the Conservative spectrum, today.)
‘Right Wing’ may have been something I’d have thoroughly disagreed with at the time, if I’d been old and politically savvy enough - and I suspect there were aspects of it that I’d disagree with today.
You know, I’m not real interested in some of the rants that show up here. But I am VERY interested in Individuals, and their motives.
Why do you care so much about a dead woman who probably had little personal interest - or depth of thinking- with regard to politics, but may have been vulnerable to pressure after the harrowing experience of having her husband’s brains blown out at her side?
What’s your point?
Jackie did save Grand central terminal.
That was an unintended insult to Melania by DJT.
She is many levels above that person referred to as Jackie O in so many ways.
Perhaps DJT didn’t know what a sleep-about Jackie was purported to be when FLOTUS, just like her husband JFK.
Not disputing your posting.
Nixon was a Navy Officer.
JFK ran a PT boat and allowed it to be run over by a Japanese ship.
I think that the problem is people of the president’s generation tend to romanticize JBKO. Younger folks tend to think she was a hot mess.
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