Interesting development, although most definitely not an unforeseen one: You’ve noticed that Donald Trump has been hot on the campaign trail. You’ve also noticed that his wife has not been there. Nor, has she accompanied him to either of his two arraignments, as a loyal wife would. Now the New York Times and other outlets are reported that Melania has “zero interest” in campaigning with Donald. So, we can infer that translates as zero interest in him getting re-elected and for once, Melania’s interests align with ours. Isn’t that an interesting development? The Independent:
Melania Trump has reportedly rejected multiple requests to appear alongside her husband, former president Donald Trump, at campaign stops and appearances as part of the multiple criminal cases against him in New York and Florida.
The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the ex-first lady, who has eschewed the typical post-White House activities of her predecessors, has put most of her energies as of late into helping her 17-year-old son, Barron Trump, search for and apply to colleges. She also reportedly keeps her social circle small by choosing to spend time with her parents, her son, and “a handful of old friends” in addition to visits to hairdressers and consultations with longtime stylist Herve Pierre.
And while she is seen some Fridays meeting her husband, the twice-impeached and twice-indicted ex-president, for dinner at one of the properties he owns, she reportedly has zero interest in accompanying him on his quest to return to the White House by winning next year’s presidential election, and has not been by his side during arraignments in the two cases that have been brought against him thus far.
She has zero interest in seeing him return to the White House and we have 100% interest in seeing that he stays away as well. You see how politics makes for strange bedfellows? Here we are, right on the same page with Melania. Whuduh thot?
As for her spending all her time helping Barron apply for college, c’mon. Unless that process has changed significantly in the past 50 years (and maybe it has) there’s only so many catalogs to look at. It’s not like it’s a 40-hour-a-week job.
My unsolicited advice to Barron is go to college abroad. Somewhere where they know who your father is, which is everywhere, and a lot of people hate him, which is also everywhere, but where maybe the name Trump isn’t going to automatically tank you. In the UK or Ireland, for example, they’re far more likely to give you a break. Just a thought. Or, go to school in some deep red state. We don’t recommend Florida. Education there is screwed from kindergarten all the way through grad school, from what we can discern.
Didn’t trump’s daddy get him into Penn State? Unless things have changed at Penn State (or wherever his dad sat on his ass for four years), he’s a legacy isn’t he? I know a few colleges are getting rid of legacy admissions but I haven’t heard that Penn has.
Actually he went to Penn. A private school that’s one of the Ivy League universities. And yes, daddy had to pull some strokes to get him in and probably his diploma too. Way back in the early 90s after Trump had become famous and sometimes touted his “Wharton” (Penn’ famous and elite business school – an MBA from there means something) implying he’d gotten an MBA from Wharton. That’s what most people assume when Wharton is invoked by grads. Trump only got a Bachelor’s degree and as I said it’s dubious he actually earned the necessary grades. But there was a well known (in economics) professor who got fed up and talked to some journalist, calling Trump “the dumbest goddam student I ever had!”
It will be interesting to see how this whole issue of legacy admissions at elite schools plays out. They do love having hefty endowments and count on rich grads to keep upping the amount in them. Or come up with some ready cash for a new building or wing of one, or to endow a chair in one of their departments. The endowments for some schools wouldn’t really suffer much (if any) if new donations declined some, but that other stuff? That would sting some. A lot of these uber rich a-holes have already been leveraging major donations for “directed” purposes including funding some conservative hobby-horses. No great loss if that part was to stop but others who get pissy because their little Johnny or Susie didn’t put in the academic work to rate admission or even be seriously considered on their own merits were to be denied admission because the legacy card couldn’t be played it will affect these schools.
Bring me moose and squirrel…DO NOT bring the fat bald man who pays me.
I’m willing to bet she doesn’t visit him in prison either.
I doubt Ireland would give him the benefit of the doubt. They loathe Daddy Dearest. They leaked their plan to lug around a life size cutout of Obama (whom they like a lot) so he would be greeted with it at every stop by the man he hates most) and got hold of the,Baby Blimp. He is disliked profusely.Barron might try Saudi. Dad is at least tolerated thete.
If Barron decides to study for a degree here he has a LOT of catching up to do as US education standards are well behind ours.
A friend of mine took some of his students on an exchange visit to the US and, one day, he started explaining basic calculus and was called in by the principal and informed that calculus was college level
Over here, calculus is taught from about 17 years of age and other subjects are at roughly the same level. US students are at least a year behind Irish (or UK) students
Daithi…when I went to HS 68-71, I took calculus and trigonometry. At UNC I aced a calculus/ trigonometry course, and got credit for two courses.
Of course, those were the days you actually had to read MANY books, understand what the hell you read, and be able to extrapolate ideas, conclusions and lessons from the material. Evidently 40% of our adults received their education from Jerry Springer and honey boo boo type of shows. They think losing a 300million dollar inheritance makes one a dynamite businessman because ‘reality’ tv said so. God help us…but don’t plan on it. Either way you go…the book said we had free will to not eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge in the garden; or just go with the math laid out by the scale of the known universe. Either way we’re on our own and stuck here. We’re all stuck in a bad reality show.
I’m four years behind you and took those same courses in high school. There were a LOT of great teachers in my high school and I feel lucky to have had them, even a couple that were awfully tough. Having been placed in a then new “accellerated” class starting in second grade I had great teachers even in grade school except for sixth grade. Not that she wasn’t a great teacher but just before the end of the first day of school she got called to the office. She rushed back to the classroom to tell us her husband had had a heart attack as she grabbed her purse (needed her car keys) but he was dead before she got to the hospital. Frankly, since I lived in that town until I was 26 I can say with certaintly she never got over it. But as a teacher she was worthless to our class and it was a lost year in my education. Made more so as there was a switch in my school district to a “new math” and I wasn’t thrown off by that lost year. Some overcame it better than others as we in that class got our first year of algebra in eighth grade. Then Geometry as h.s. freshmen and Algebra 2 as sophomores. Then Trig our junior year and for those of us that chose it an honors course called Math 5 that included calculus and other advanced stuff. I had difficulties at times with algebra, probably in part due to that lost sixth grade and the changeover in teaching methods for math. I managed to overcome a bad start with algebra my sophomore year which was due in part to my not working at it like I should have. My dad had one question for the teacher who contacted him at the end of the first quarter – is he capable of learning it? Leroy said sure, but that I wasn’t applying myself. My ole dad laid down some law and I worked like hell to catch up.
Still, my senior year when we moved from differential to integral calculus I seemed to it a wall, and it was then I first thought maybe what all of us missed in sixth grade might have impacted me more than others. I’d take another round of calculus my freshman year in college (it had a heavy dose of analytic geometry) and I knew for sure then I not only wasn’t all that interested in fulfilling my dad’s dream that I’d become an engineer, but that I likely didn’t have the makings of one because I didn’t have the requisite math skills. Oh well.
But again, I feel lucky to have gone through school when I did. Education was valued, even in small podunk towns like the one I grew up in.