Melania Trump has a whole new problem
Just four days before an election which is shaping up to be a historic rejection of Donald Trump and every anti-American thing he stands for, one might think that Trump’s family would have the sense to lay low. Instead a curiously bearded Donald Trump Jr – who is likely headed to prison for treason – is out campaigning for Republican candidates. Now Melania Trump has a problem of her own.
Remember when Melania Trump traveled to Africa and posed in one idiotic outfit after another, even while demanding that the media stop judging her by her ridiculous outfits? It turns out she made an even bigger mess while she was there. During her stop in Cairo, she booked a hotel room despite not staying the night, and it caused the taxpayers to get stuck with a nearly hundred thousand dollar tab.
I’m usually hesitant about any storylines involving any politician, on either side, who has run up a big travel tab. Back when the Obamas were in the White House, conservative racists loved to take travel costs out of context to try to paint them as moochers, while ignoring the obvious security costs built in. But when it comes to Melania Trump running up a nearly six figure hotel tab, when she didn’t even spend the night? Come on.
Did Melania Trump really need the hotel room? Of course not. This just her being a spoiled brat, spending taxpayer money on the kind of extravagance that her broke and deeply-in-debt husband Donald Trump can’t afford. This kind of travel scandal is going to play particularly poorly within the context of the numerous travel scandals on the part of Trump’s various cabinet members.
