Posted on 08/28/2020 12:08:35 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Bette Midler has walked back controversial comments she tweeted about First Lady Melania Trump during the 2020 Republican National Convention.
The stage and screen icon drew sharp criticism for calling Trump — who immigrated to the United States from Slovenia — an "illegal alien" and mocking her accent during her RNC speech.
"Well, all hell has broken loose because I said Melania 'still can't speak English' last night," Midler tweeted. "I was wrong to make fun of her accent. America is made up of people who speak with all kinds of accents, and they are all welcomed always."
In addition to inaccurately tweeting that Trump "still can't speak English," Midler knocked the first lady's "Be Best" initiative and challenged her mastery of other languages as well.
"beBest is back! A UGE bore!" Midler tweeted Tuesday. "She can speak several words in a few languages. Get that illegal alien off the stage!"
Among the many who shamed Midler for her outburst were former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and the forthcoming star of Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story," Rachel Zegler.
Amid mounting criticism, Midler followed up on her tweets Wednesday morning, claiming that her intent was to hold the Trump administration accountable for its attitude toward immigration. President Trump's stances and action on immigration have been widely condemned by many Americans as racist, xenophobic and cruel.
During Trump's presidency, authorities have separated and indefinitely detained scores of migrant families at the border. And amid the pandemic, authorities have expelled migrants — including unaccompanied minors — with no chance to seek asylum or access to COVID-19 testing in the name of "public safety."
"Just giving them a taste of their own immigrant bashing medicine," Midler wrote. "I guess they're not keen."
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Dear OLD has been Bette, so you apologized for ragging on her accent, but still call her an illegal alien. She because a legal resident in 2001 and then an American Citizen in 2006, you worthless slob.
She actually said “I was wrong”.
Good.
That isn’t said often enough.
Her agent told her to say “I was wrong”.
Bette Miller is a stupid goat ... it is the season to wander off into the wilderness you old destroyer ... I will never watch you via the ‘air waves’ as a civilized air breather again.
And she went flat trying to hit the note on that song. I cringe every time I hear it,
Bette Midler’s a xenophobe and a hater. She’s apologizing because her agent told her to...
The only foreigners Midler likes are the servant type... and the ‘gardener’ type. She’s an ass.
Bette Midler is a Democrat who also happens to be a bigot. She is a fan girl of Joe Biden and his intolerant running mate Kamala Harris. Does Miss Midler share Kamala Harris bigoted view about the Knights of Columbus?
Additionally, Bette Midler is a coward because she won't admit that she target Melania Trump because Melania is pretty and she, Bette, is ugly.
Midler like many others mock, deride slam, etc...someone ...its around fpr a couple of days in the news and then they give public “ apology”.
She is disgusting
Bette, how come, at your age, you didn’t immediately know you were wrong. Aren’t you a moral paragon? Haven’t you been since the 1970s?
Hmmm, Bette, maybe you’re not really a moral paragon at all...
I never understood the appeal. She was really good in Down and Out in Beverly Hills though.
Never got the whole Cher or Meryl Streep thing either. Hollywood affirmative action for homely chicks?
Well what do you expect from a broad who started her career in QUEER BATH HOUSES?
She’s ugly and should shut up.
What a sad, bitter old thing she’s become, in her old age.
What a way to live. Jeez.
As I recall, this wasn’t her first RACIST outburst against The First Lady. I seem to recall something similar happened several years ago.
Mark
#29 she looks like one of the women on the tv show “The View”
Joy Behar. Paid $7 million a year to hate America and any conservative.
There’s a big difference between a legal immigrant and an illegal alien. What a non apology.
te. “I guess they’re not keen.”
Bett’s sentence structure is lacking and what the heck does the above even mean.
Melania Trump is NOT PRETTY!
She is DROP DEAD ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS, she could wear a gunnysack and make it look like a royal ball gown.
Where as the WOOKIE could be dressed by the most famous designer on earth and she would still look like a knuckle dragging gorilla in a circus tent.
Depends on how much time they put in on WEINSTEIN’s casting couch.
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