In what might have been history’s softest of softball interviews, Fox News host Pete Hegseth sat Melania Trump down and basically asked her to comment on how great she is, especially in light of how awful everyone else is. These are, of course, the only subjects with which Melania feels comfortable discussing.
The video is below but to give you a couple of examples as to just how big a poodle lap lick this was, Hegseth actually asked Melania what she feels about how everything being so great when Trump was president versus now, while tens of thousands of white babies die of starvation everyday in America. (He didn’t put it quite that way but close enough for your 75 year old uncle.) Melania, of course, is very sad how bad things have gotten.
Now, this is odd, because we recall things being pretty damned bad during the Trump years, at least with respect to the government stealing babies, being mocked by the world, and then letting COVID wash over the United States as Trump both “took no responsibility at all” and his plan was having it “go away like a miracle someday.” Our economy is also partly a reflection on the Trump administration basically doing nothing about COVID.
Last example, Hegseth asked how she handled it with all the criticism, even about a stupid jacket. He is, of course, referencing the “I don’t care, do you?” jacket as she went to visit children on the border, and didn’t even ask, “Why did you wear it?”
Regardless, even in this softball interview, Melania was required to lie: “I enjoyed living in the White House. I enjoyed taking care of the White House.”
Hang on. “Fok Christmas.” That didn’t sound like “enjoying” living in the White House. It sounded like anger that she was asked to do something that she didn’t want to do because it wasn’t Melania’s priority.
Then we get to the nightmare:
“It was my home for a while.”
Hegseth remembered where his money comes from and asked: “And maybe it will be your home again?”
“Never say never.”
NO. We do say never, we say it all the time. And we never, ever, want you in the White House again. Fok you.
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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman