GET ME REWRITE: Trump's "simple trick" to keep his wife at home is to demolish her workplace

 

Top headline:  Vox, 6/26/2025

Photo credit:  CNN

Bottom headline:  AlterNet. 10/24/2025

Lesley Abravanel reports for AlterNet:

Melania's silence, Brown says, "highlights her approach to much of her husband’s second term — and how little she likely cares about the ways her husband’s unnecessary vanity project will affect her potential successors." 

The East Wing became the traditional home for the offices of the first lady and her staff, starting with Eleanor Roosevelt. An office formally dedicated to the first lady was established during the Rosalynn Carter administration. [emphasis added]

Former staffers to Melania's predecessors told East Wing Magazine that seeing their former offices demolished was “’jarring,’ ‘a gut punch’ and ‘revolting,'" Brown writes.

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