First Lady's Baggage Weighs Heavily on her Cause

With the continual media drama that has surrounded our TV reality star President since the first day of his inauguration, there appears to be little room for others in the White House to establish themselves as important voices in shaping America.   I am referring to the position of First Lady.  Over the years the presidents’ wives have always served as strong advocates for change in our society.

However, our present First Lady, Melania Trump certainly deserves all our sympathy as she struggles to establish her role as a social advocate.  It must be an extremely difficult task for her in light of the extra baggage she has inherited by having Donald Trump as her husband.  She really can’t pursue advocacy for the empowerment of woman as Michelle Obama did, for she is married to a repeated adulterer who continually objectifies women.  Being an immigrant she might have even pondered advocating for this group in our society, but with all the stereotyping and demonizing of immigrants by her husband’s tweets she must have thought better of it.

This week the media reported that our First Lady has finally settled on an advocacy cause, the problem of cyber bullying of children. While this is certainly a much needed advocacy, it may prove to be an extremely risky choice.

Everyone is well aware of President Trump’s illustrious tweets and I have to shamefully admit I have laughed at a few of his belittling tweets.  However, in reality, these tweets by the leader of the most powerful nation in the free world are a blatant form of cyber social bullying.  The extend of this bullying far exceeded  even my wildest imagination when it was reported last week that our president has maligned over 425 people, places or things since beginning his run for the office of president and his year in that capacity.   He would have obviously made it into the Guinness Book of Records if such inane, aberrant behavior was categorized by that group.

So I guess First Lady Melania will have her work cut out for her.   She will have to advocate for the stoppage of childhood cyber bullying, while at the same time accepting cyber bullying by her husband

To use a term recently thrown around by our Republican members of Congress regarding the recent school gun violence in Florida, she has my “prayers and deepest sympathy.”