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Demovictory9

(37,113 posts)
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:29 PM Jun 2025

USA does not have a first lady. Least days spent in White House since Bess Truman. Usha Vance fills role

Where’s Melania? Usha Vance Steps in for First Lady to Launch Kids’ Reading Challenge

Second Lady Usha Vance, a self-confessed bookworm, took the spotlight Thursday to plug her White House–backed summer reading challenge, stepping into a role left vacant by the mostly absent Melania Trump.


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Biographer Michael Wolff recently told The Daily Beast Podcast that Melania and Trump are “separated” in all but name, living “completely separate lives.”

The Beast’s CCO Joanna Coles joked that “Melania is missing.”

The New York Times echoed that claim, calling her low profile a “sensitive subject” within Trumpworld. As of early May, she had spent fewer than 14 days at the White House since Trump’s second inauguration—an absence not seen since Bess Truman nearly 80 years ago, historian Katherine Jellison noted.

That distance contradicts Melania’s own pledge in a rare Fox News interview back in January. Asked where she would spend most of her time, she replied confidently: “I will be in the White House.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/usha-vance-steps-in-for-melania-trump-to-launch-reading-challenge/
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USA does not have a first lady. Least days spent in White House since Bess Truman. Usha Vance fills role (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jun 2025 OP
What, there wasn't enough crypto skim available to get a 3rd prenup renegotiation done? RockRaven Jun 2025 #1
I'm sure she sold her stake in her scam $melania coin fujiyamasan Jun 2025 #5
Oh my! Drum Jun 2025 #2
They could at least bring in the Slovenian statue of the First Lady for the White House Lawn... wcmagumba Jun 2025 #3
Whew! Drum Jun 2025 #4
I don't miss her.... markie Jun 2025 #6
Was she elected, or hired, to serve the country? Ms. Toad Jun 2025 #7
We barely have a president. Iggo Jun 2025 #8
Her own party considers Usha to be DEI. Vance apologized to his white supremacists that she was not white. Norrrm Jun 2025 #9

RockRaven

(18,719 posts)
1. What, there wasn't enough crypto skim available to get a 3rd prenup renegotiation done?
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:35 PM
Jun 2025

That's a shame.

fujiyamasan

(1,227 posts)
5. I'm sure she sold her stake in her scam $melania coin
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:09 PM
Jun 2025

Pumped and dumped! Sorry suckers! Dumbass magas holding got the rug pulled from under them.


Drum

(10,569 posts)
2. Oh my!
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:39 PM
Jun 2025

Usha as beard?
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Edit to add…they say in trumpworld (tm) that m’s absence is a “sensitive subject”? Heavens, it seems then that one shouldn’t even notice it.

Or, maybe we definitely should be. Is this a stone in trumps sandal?

wcmagumba

(5,629 posts)
3. They could at least bring in the Slovenian statue of the First Lady for the White House Lawn...
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:46 PM
Jun 2025
.webp

Ms. Toad

(38,282 posts)
7. Was she elected, or hired, to serve the country?
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:58 PM
Jun 2025

Expecting the wife of whoever is elected president to drop their own life to serve the country simply because her husband was elected is extremely sexist.

While I am grateful for presidential wives who choose to serve alongside of their husbands, I don't expect it.

And, with Melania, I think I'm more grateful that she is absent than the "service" she provided during his last term.

Norrrm

(3,998 posts)
9. Her own party considers Usha to be DEI. Vance apologized to his white supremacists that she was not white.
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 12:03 AM
Jun 2025
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