Grievances have been aired.
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Internet hosting the Congressional Ball looks like it needs to be one of many best duties on the Trumps’ agenda. The annual social gathering is a bipartisan occasion the place members of the Home of Representatives and Senate collect to have a good time the vacations on the White Home. All of the president and First Woman must do is present up in one thing festive, challenge some generic vacation well-wishes, and smile.
But Donald and Melania Trump discovered a solution to make issues awkward.
Melania’s strategy to the vacations has at all times been weirdly spooky, and her apparel on Thursday evening stored along with her inexplicably goth Christmas aesthetic. She wore a black velvet blazer and pants by Dolce & Gabbana over a sheer, high-necked black lace shirt.
Everyone knows Melania could or could not give a fuck about Christmas, so there’s actually no purpose to attract consideration to her odd imaginative and prescient for the vacation. However the president selected to go with his spouse’s efforts this yr by reminiscing about her earlier vacation adorning debacles.
“I might say that is the very best. Though, I favored the pink timber,” he stated. “She obtained criticized for the pink timber. Then I favored the white timber and he or she was criticized for the white timber. Then I favored the inexperienced timber and he or she obtained criticized and he or she went again to inexperienced, and so they find it irresistible.”
Donald examined Melania’s skill to stay expressionless once more a couple of minutes later, when he breezily recalled how distraught Home Majority Chief Steve Scalise’s spouse was when he was shot and almost killed in 2017. He famous that some wives — like perhaps the lady standing subsequent to him? — might need had a distinct response.
“I came upon that evening you could have a spouse who loves you dearly,” Trump stated. “I do know many wives who wouldn’t even be crying.”
In her personal temporary remarks, Melania thanked lawmakers for supporting the Take It Down Act, which she proudly referred to as “our best triumph in my workplace, within the First Woman’s workplace, in 2025.”
She concluded by teasing that she has one other legislative undertaking deliberate for the New 12 months.
“I hope you’ll be excited to assist my new legislative initiative in 2026,” she stated. “A few of you already find out about it as a result of it’s already within the works.”
Then Donald Trump took the mic once more and quipped that he has no concept what the First Woman is speaking about.
“Properly, I simply heard about that for the primary time,” he stated, drawing laughter from the group.
“The one factor I can let you know — I do know one factor for positive, Mr. Speaker — it’s going to be nice for youngsters,” he added. “I don’t know what it’s she’s doing, however it’s going to be nice for youngsters.”
So clothes and décor selections apart, the individual making issues bizarre on Thursday evening was actually Donald, not Melania. However don’t really feel too dangerous for our First Woman. She (or somebody on her social-media group) obtained the president again by posting this video. Initially, it seems like Melania helps her decrepit husband as he slowly struggles to get down the steps.
Different movies present that Trump had no issue descending the steps. The clip posted by the First Woman’s workplace seems off as a result of the video is in slow-motion however the audio is regular velocity. Possibly Melania’s group was simply making an attempt to be artsy, however it’s an odd factor to publish when persons are chattering in regards to the president’s mysterious well being points and a (pretend) photograph of Trump utilizing a walker goes viral.
Both means, hopefully the Trumps can work out their points and Be Greatest this Chrismas (no matter meaning).
