TOn the White House, a scene that has gone viral is being staged and tells a lot about the dynamic between the Trump couple. During an event dedicated to military mothers, Melania Trump he tried to paint an unpublished portrait of her husbanddefining it a man whose «empathy goes beyond the role, outlining a sensitive leader”. It’s a shame that the audience couldn’t hold on the laughter before the sentence even finished. There compassion it’s not exactly the first adjective that the public associates with the tycoon.
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The amused reaction of the room forced the First Lady to a brief awkward pausewhile Donald took the blow with a sly smileenjoying the irony of the moment. Melania did not lose heart and, after a laugh and a gesture of understanding with her husband, she finished her speech. According to her story, her husband would never forget that “Every single American soldier is someone’s son”an attempt to touch the emotional chords of the electorate. However, the contrast between his wife’s solemn words and the public perception of Trump has created a comic short circuit immediate.
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If Melania focused on emotion, Donald preferred to transform the embarrassment into a sketch. Taking the floor immediately afterwards, the tycoon diverted the discussion to an unlikely technical problem: the checker on his smartphone which systematically transformed the name Melania in «Melody».
Imitating the gesture of typing quickly on the keys, he joked about being accused of not knowing his wife’s name. To resolve the “state case”, Trump admitted that he had even asked the military for help: «I said: come here, you have to fix this, you are killing me». An anecdote that transformed the initial derisive laughter into a thunderous collective laughter.
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The event, created to honor the mothers of soldiers ahead of Mother’s Day, turned into yet another demonstration of the absurd dynamic that binds the Trumps. While she tries to protect her reputation with institutional definitions bordering on the ridiculoushe prefers the via shameless irony and self-parody. Whether it’s a drug denial or a wayward autocorrect, the Trump narrative always ends up being a show. And this is not necessarily a good thing for America.
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