They drank a LOT of coffee
Queen Melania’s PR person is furious about reporting on the queen’s lavish way of spending our money.
First lady Melania Trump racked up an astonishing $95,000 tab at a Cairo hotel at the end of her African goodwill tour last month, according to federal records.
That was more than the taxpayer bill for President Donald Trump for a two-day stay with his entourage in Scotland after a visit this summer to England, noted Quartz, which was the first to report the first lady’s Cairo tab.
The first lady’s spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, was furious that the initial report — later picked up by The Hill — said Melania Trump spent the night at the Semiramis Intercontinental Cairo. In fact, she spent only six hours there, Grisham told both Quartz and The Hill in angry Twitter posts.
Ah! Yes, spending 95k for a six hour pit stop is much better than spending it on an overnight.
Melania Trump stopped in Cairo after visiting children in orphanages and schools, meeting with leaders and viewing animals during her tour in Ghana, Malawi and Kenya.
A nice little junket for her, that we paid for.
The former model was criticized by the media and on social media for her out-of-date “Out of Africa” fashion choices, including a white pith helmet seen by many as a painful symbol of colonialist Africa.
She complained afterward that people should “focus on what I do, not what I wear.”
In an earlier provocative fashion choice on her way in June to visit immigrant children being detained in Texas, she wore a jacket that said on the back: “I really don’t care, do U?” She said later in an ABC interview that it was a direct message to the “left-wing media who are criticizing me.” She added: “I want to show them that I don’t care.”
She spends our money, but she doesn’t care…yet we should focus on what she does as opposed to what she wears? I think telling us she doesn’t care is what she does.
That, and pampering herself on our money. And modeling pretty outfits against a backdrop of exotic animals and exotic schoolchildren.
I like how she says not to focus on what she wears after saying she wore something specifically to send a message to the media.
She also “views animals,” which I think is admirable.
She had to see and speak with poor people. Surely she deserved a little treat after that ordeal.
How far would that $95,000 go in the budgets of those schools and orphanages?
It’s better than her stepson. At least she didn’t shoot them.
What? Are you suggesting spending our money on people who are not working, but are just lazily attending school? What a thought! /s