NBC News
@NBCNews
First Lady Dr. Jill Biden visits National Guard troops stationed outside the US Capitol in DC:
"I just wanted to come today to say thank you to all of you for keeping me and my family safe ... The White House baked you some chocolate chip cookies." //
In response, actor Tim Matheson (known for being Otter in Animal House and mostly forgettable roles), tweeted a fawning homage to Jill Biden. But in it, he also took a backhanded bigoted slap clearly aimed at Melania Trump.
“So wonderful to have a First Lady with class and heart,” he said. “And, can speak English!” //
The Voice of America
@VOANews
▶️ First lady Melania Trump visits the Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, for Valentine’s Day.
👉 First Lady Makes Valentine's Day Art With Pediatric Patients
https://voanews.com/a/first-lady-m //
Tegan Hanlon
@teganhanlon
Melania Trump visits Anchorage military families today at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson via @lisa_demer and @lorenholmes: https://adn.com/alaska-news/military/2017/11/10/melania-trump-visits-military-families-at-jber/
Andrew Malcolm
@AHMalcolm
First Lady Melania Trump made holiday visits today to 3 military installations including CVN 77 the nuclear carrier George HW Bush in the Atlantic. Did you see it in #MSM ? //
Skeptical Techie
9 hours ago edited
Two points:
1 - First Lady Trump went to the troops disturbing their off-duty time as little as a First Lady with all that entails may. Conversely, First Lady Biden stood out on the firm and dry blocked off street and sidewalk and had the troops called from their free time to fall-in in front of her (some of them lined up in cold, possibly soggy grass) for her to bring a couple baskets of cookies. A - I only saw two baskets with too few cookies to show over the rims. I wonder if there was even a cookie a piece for the unit so presented to her. B - I hope none of the troops had to abandon their place in line for the bathroom to fall in for her.
2 - Regarding language acumen: While First Lady Trump is an ESL speaker (and also fluent, as noted, in other languages), certainly as this article and the ratio pointed out, that is patently not a bad thing in this diverse country. However, it seems a mistake to make accusations of linguistic shortcomings given the quality of the paper which was the pinnacle of First Lady "Doctor" Biden's vanity degree. Were she not at the time the Senior Senator's Wife, it is questionable that she would have been awarded a doctorate of any flavor based on such a flabby, shabby and uneven submission. She could not blame that on being an ESL speaker either.
