Irony certainly is dead in this world— Melania Trump on her major speech yesterday says her main objective as the hopeful first lady of the USA would be targeted at combating cyber bullying.
These are the words of someone whose husband is a cyber-bully of all time. Trump is known for taking to Twitter to mock and degrade women and his opponent.
Read the Times full report:
“In a rare campaign speech, Melania Trump said that one of her key issues as First Lady would be to combat cyber-bullying.
“Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough, especially to children and teenagers,” Trump said Thursday afternoon in Pennsylvania. “It is never OK when a 12-year-old girl or boy is mocked, bullied or attacked … It is absolutely unacceptable when it is done by someone with no name hiding on the internet.”
“We have to find a better way to talk to each other, to disagree with each other, to respect each other,” she continued. “We must find better ways to honour and support the basic goodness of our children, especially in social media. It will be one of the main focuses of my work if I’m privileged enough to become your First Lady.”
Trump made no allusion to the fact that her husband has engaged in numerous Twitter wars over the course of his campaign and that he’s often the instigator of those Internet fights. (For example, in 2015 he referred to Fox News host Megyn Kelly as a “bimbo” and in September he urged his followers to “check out” a nonexistent sex tape of former Miss Universe Alicia Machado.)
Her only oblique reference to her husband’s numerous campaign controversies came at the beginning of her speech, when she smiled at the crowd and said, “He certainly knows how to shake things up, doesn’t he?”