Posted on 11/12/2024 6:30:20 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Melania Trump is not expected to attend the traditional White House meeting with first lady Jill Biden, sources familiar with her plans said.
It’s a decision that underscores Melania Trump’s long-held willingness to buck tradition as she prepares to retake the high-profile – but unelected – role of first lady, one with no manual and an automatic global platform.
The sources cited a prior scheduling conflict for the former first lady related to her newly released memoir. One source said the decision had not been finalized.
Jill Biden extended Melania Trump the customary invitation last week as her husband also invited the president-elect to the Oval Office, a symbolic gesture to show the country and the world that there will be a peaceful transition of power – and an implicit rebuke of Donald Trump, who refused Joe Biden the same meeting in 2020 as he contested that election’s results. The two are set to meet Wednesday at 11 a.m., according to the White House.
There was discussion about encouraging Melania Trump to come to Washington for the meeting, as some members of the president-elect’s team felt it was important. But the incoming first lady, who spent her first four years in office redefining the role and what was expected, is laying an early marker indicating she will have even more autonomy the second time around.
Aside from 2020, it has been tradition for the current first lady to host the incoming first lady at the White House. In 2016, then-first lady Michelle Obama hosted Melania Trump for tea in the White House’s Yellow Oval Room and took her on a tour of the private residence.
CNN has reached out to the East Wing for comment.
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“But, thanks for voting for my husband, Jill.”
Meliana didn’t get on the stump spewing hate about her husband’s political opponent like Jill did. And Jill’s smears about how Trump would treat women were beyond the pale.
I hope this at least makes Democrats think twice about decency when campaigning.
Melania ROCKS!!!
LOL…yep. “I just loved that red dress you wore when you voted, Jill.”
“hideous Christmas Decor”
lol - funny ‘cause it’s true
Good for Melania. I couldn’t imagine - protocol or not - her sitting down to tea and playing nicey-nicey with someone who spewed garbage about her husband on the campaign trail. Let bygones be bygones? NO!!! Remember how that obozo woman complained that Melania handed her a gift when arriving at the WH. She never had to own up to the fact that she had done the same thing with Laura Bush...Democrats never have to admit blame or say they’re sorry!
2023 was 'Candyland' ('Nose candy' nod to Hunter? LOL!)
Triple win.
Tells the husband-humping babysitter to buzz off because her cheating husband raided Melania’s panty drawer.
Denies the “Dr.” another media platform.
Reminds them both that payback is a b!tch. Like maybe a midnight SWAT team of Feds to “search” for missing documents?
And, yes. I’m catty about this. I used to set up the ‘Easter Bunny Palace’ at ‘The Mall’ in town back in the day.
I have 18+ years in Retail Merchandising. Display Windows were a specialty. ;)
Last Christmas was soooo gross...It was a freak show. Disgusting.
Melania should send Lunden Roberts as a fill in.
Who can blame her? The whole place will have to be fumigated.
Oh, they don’t include ‘that’ Grandchild in the festivities! Not ‘that’ one!
What a selfish, evil woman Jill is. It’s not the kids fault! But, the kid is probably better off in the long run not associating with ‘that’ family. ;)
Remember that hideous video from last year? Good Lord. Jillie is bereft of any sense of style or good taste, and is given to indulging the more disturbing and unstable elements of society. Avoiding interaction with her is a matter of self-respect, and I’m happy to hear Melania has a previous engagement that unfortunately prevents her attendance...
She’s all you’d ever want
The kind you’d like to flaunt
And take to dinner
Whoa whoa oh
Pedo Pete’s FBI ransacked her home, trashed her only son’s bedroom and literally stole things from her underwear drawer.
I too would want nothing to do with these pigs.
I can only imagine the massive clean up effort it’s going to take inside the white hospice to make it liveable again.
4 years of disgusting xiden family filth needed to be deep cleaned.
Agreed. But I think it’s also true that if you must force yourself to be decent, you’re not capable of actually being so.
Melania is still really pissed about the Mar-a-lago raid by the FBI at the behest of the regime. They went through all her things and raided her privacy.
I do not blame her.
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