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America Needed Melania Trump to Talk About the White House Tennis Pavilion
Townhall.com ^ | March 11, 2020 | Douglas McKinnon

Posted on 03/11/2020 5:26:38 AM PDT by Kaslin

Anti-Trump NBC pundits Seth Meyers and Nicolle Wallace just mockingly asked if during the Coronavirus panic, it was proper for First Lady Melania Trump to give an update on the construction of the White House tennis pavilion.

Long-time President Trump despising talk-show host Meyers condescendingly opined to Wallace:

“If people want to play tennis, they should be able to play tennis. I feel very strongly about this. But…our first lady, in the middle of a pandemic, posted a photo about how the tennis pavilion is going. As someone who was in communications, do you think this is a good time to give people of America an update on the pavilion?”

Nicolle Wallace then looked at the photo of Melania Trump next to the construction site, burst out laughing, and obediently answered: “No.”

Even though Wallace passes herself off as an expert communicator who once worked in the White House for President George W. Bush as well as the late Senator John McCain, I would stress her answer demonstrates a bias-tainted, true lack of understanding of her chosen field.

Seeing as how much of the nation is in a full-blown mental melt-down precisely because networks like NBC have continually fanned the flames of Coronavirus panic in a transparent and destructive search of clicks, viewers, and increased advertising dollars, it was exactly the correct time for the First Lady to focus on anything other than the virus.

Not only is this mostly media-induced panic creating real emotional trauma for countless Americans, it is literally responsible for the closing of hundreds of businesses and the loss of thousands of jobs.

Americans truly are desperate for any lighter news which will take their minds off the fake-news Armageddon they are constantly told they are facing.

Trump-bashing CNN next got into the act by professing its shock that while addressing a national PTA gathering in Alexandria, Virginia, First Lady Melania Trump did not talk about the Coronavirus, choosing instead to focus on her “Be best” platform to combat bullying.

Again, seeing as how CNN is one of the main disseminators of Coronavirus panic, it’s easy to understand why the reporters, editors, and executives at that network would be perplexed by the wise and calming decision of the First Lady not to add to a panic which is having a catastrophic-effect on millions of Americans.

The advice First Lady Melania Trump gave earlier in the week when no-life-of-their-own Twitter-trolls began to criticize her for the update on the tennis pavilion most especially applies to Meyers, Wallace, CNN and anyone looking to politically, personally, or commercially benefit from spreading panic about the Coronavirus.

That advice from the First Lady being:

“I encourage everyone who chooses to be negative & question my work at the White House to take time and contribute something good & productive in their own communities. #BeBest.”

At the moment, “something good & productive” would be for the media and those politicians looking to use the virus as a partisan and pathetic way to weaken the reelection chances of President Trump to instead come together as one and move their collective feet off the gas pedal of purposeful panic and onto the braking-power of reassurance, facts, and hope.

If they need a lesson in how to accomplish that desperately needed task with class, dignity, and conviction, I have no doubt First Lady Melania Trump will be happy to show them the way.

After all, her “Be Best” program is also about turning bullies into productive members of society.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bebest; coronavirus; melaniatrump
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1 posted on 03/11/2020 5:26:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

After the cancellation of Indian Wells, this is a good boost for tennis.


2 posted on 03/11/2020 5:31:55 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: Kaslin
"If people want to play tennis, they should be able to play tennis. I feel very strongly about this."

Ahhhh BS. You feel very strongly about throwing crap at the wall hoping some of it will stick.

3 posted on 03/11/2020 5:40:41 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Kaslin
Screw them. I don’t give a rat’s 🐀 rear end what they think about anything.
4 posted on 03/11/2020 5:44:14 AM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go faster than Army tanks.)
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To: Kaslin

I saw a couple of ads for Meyers show last night. The jokes in the clips were just lame.

It’s not that I cannot appreciate a funny joke with my politician as the subject. I can. It’s that this stuff comes off as if it were written by sixth graders.

It’s not funny.


5 posted on 03/11/2020 5:46:51 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (“Everyone who needed to be tested were tested.” DJT at first presser. Absurd.)
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To: Kaslin

They’re building a tennis pavilion??? For who? The President is a golfer, not a tennis player.


6 posted on 03/11/2020 5:47:06 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

I wanna know how often the White House bowling lane is used?


7 posted on 03/11/2020 5:48:40 AM PDT by xp38
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To: xp38

It strikes me as not very often.


8 posted on 03/11/2020 5:59:17 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin

America Needed Melania Trump to Talk About the White House Tennis Pavilion>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

America Needed Michelle Obama to Talk About the White House Basketball Pavilion

Reggie Love ( Obama’s Body man) and Obama used to shower together after a daily, sweaty ‘bas-a-ball’ workout.

Melania’s tennis aspect is actually innocent and quite innocuous by comparison to the Reggy Love basketball situation with Obungo.


9 posted on 03/11/2020 6:01:20 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: DoodleDawg

Perhaps Barron and/or some grandkids have taken it up. Either way it is being done with private donations rather than taxpayer funds.


10 posted on 03/11/2020 6:02:47 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: DoodleDawg
There are most likely others in the White House that play Tennis.

The President isn't the only person in White House

11 posted on 03/11/2020 6:07:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I guess they can’t think about more than one thing at a time.


12 posted on 03/11/2020 6:08:51 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Elsie

:)


13 posted on 03/11/2020 6:10:10 AM PDT by xp38
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To: DoodleDawg

What are bitching about? It’s being done with private donations instead of taxpayers funds


14 posted on 03/11/2020 6:12:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Elsie
Oh I found a picture of it.....well seems deserted but the video screen seems to have Melania's influence. :)


15 posted on 03/11/2020 6:16:22 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Kaslin

Pres carter played tennis on the white house tennis courts


16 posted on 03/11/2020 7:05:24 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Kaslin

Ridiculous to go after Melania for anything, including this.

But also ridiculous to suggest that we “needed” her talk about the tennis pavilion.


17 posted on 03/11/2020 7:09:07 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Kaslin

Just shows the media will stoop to anything. The White House has/has had a bowling alley and two different pools? Not exactly necessities for our survival as a nation. Its not like the executive and his wife can just pop down to the gym for quick game of racketball every morning.

Its not like theyre anticipated to do anything unusual out there. Someone already commented on Broke Ourbanka’s boy prostitute. What about Andrew Jackson? He is supposed to have gone swimming nude in the Potomac and then doing the gardening before getting dressed. Imagine the coverage if D&M were doing something like that!


18 posted on 03/11/2020 7:39:21 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: mjp
President Carter played tennis on the white house tennis courts
. . . and micromanaged the scheduling of the use fo the courts by others.

His besetting sin was a failure to delegate - which goes all the way to failure to delegate to society the determination of the price, demand and supply of natural gas. Reagan corrected this, and the price of gas went down.

And since 1995, of course, shale fracking has utterly refuted the Carter “Peak Energy” conceit.


19 posted on 03/11/2020 8:09:54 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: Elsie

“It strikes me as not very often.”

Spare me your puns. Maybe we could split the difference.


20 posted on 03/11/2020 8:36:07 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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