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Melania Was Unwilling to Change Out of Her Bathrobe to Accept Award for All Her ‘Hard Work’ for Children — So Donald Accepted on Her Behalf

I mean, seriously?

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Something called the “Child Advocacy Award” should, at the very least, be accepted by the advocate who’s being awarded.

That was definitely not the case with Melania Trump. Her “Be Best” campaign, while tainted briefly by her “I Really Don’t Care Do U” jacket, was intended to help children. But it did very little.

Regardless, the Donald Schiff Child Advocacy Award is named for a doctor and professor who actually did a lot of good stuff for kids.

Melania’s “advocacy” was essentially limited to telling them to behave.

But the biggest offense of all is the fact that the man awarding the prize said, while handing the trophy to Donald Trump, “I know the First Lady couldn’t get here, but…”

Um, it was held at Mar-a-Lago. Doesn’t she actually live there?

There has never been a political dynasty that more represented, by every member with the last name, more hypocrisy. The Trumps turned JFK’s “Camelot” into “Spamalot.”

Child advocacy is something that MUST be done, because children are rarely able to advocate for themselves. They are victims of bullies and molesters and abusive parents, and can do nothing about it.

Melania did nothing about it.

For her to even get this award is disgusting. But for her not to even show up to physically receive it is actually appalling.

I understand her tendency to stay mostly out of the public eye since her husband was adjudicated as a rapist, and fined a total of nearly half a billion dollars for both his offense against E. Jean Carroll and his rape of New York City.

And it’s well known that she doesn’t like her husband that much to begin with. The endless supply of videos of her slapping his hand away in public or making a sour face after he turns his head are evidence of that. I get that you don’t want to hang out with him, Mel. We all don’t want to hang out with him.

But to accept an award via proxy through a man who alluded to dating his own daughter when she was only a teen is definitely not child advocacy. Could you not have accepted it?

Of course not.

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