First lady Melania Trump will deliver her Republican National Convention speech Tuesday night from the garden, famous for its close proximity to the Oval Office. The three weeks of work on the garden, which was done in the spirit of its original 1962 design, were showcased to reporters on Saturday. White House officials said the renovations were paid for by private donations. They declined to reveal the cost of the work. “Protecting the historic integrity of the White House landscape is a considerable responsibility, and we will fulfill our duty as custodians of the public trust,” Melania Trump wrote in a report released when the renovations were announced. (as an aside, she did not write this, because she has no regard for the term custodians of public trust, nor the definition of integrity!) /Associated Press
Dear Melania, PUBLIC TRUST: The concept of the public trust relates back to the origins of democratic government and its seminal idea that within the public lies the true power and future of a society; therefore, whatever trust the public places in its officials must be respected. Dear Melania, INTEGRITY: the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. the state of being whole and undivided. Dear Melania, your husband defies the two ideals your speechwriters will have you read from a teleprompter. Your impersonation of a person who cares will most likely be as vapid and feckless as has been your response to the almost 70, 000 children still separated by your husband's administration, from their parents, who by all estimates if not suffering from COVID-19, traumatized by no nurturing families, and many traumatized by the sexual abuse initiated by ICE, still rot in habitats, in which you would never wish your own son to even pass by!
Dear Melania, there remain at least 1.1 million Americans unemployed, and living day to day without any acknowledgment from your husband's administration as to whether enough money will be provided for food, shelter, medical bills. There have been 174,645 deaths from the CORONAVIRUS, a Pandemic from which your husband runs, hoping that by ignoring its existence, it will just vanish and he will somehow be re-elected. Dear Melania, we are without enough money to pay for testing, for PPE’s, safe and healthy return to school, but you still travel to NYC for your hair appointments, your husband continues to fly off to his various Private Golf Clubs, your stepchildren use public taxpayer dollars to live the life of Royalty, and you will have the audacity to mention words like PUBLIC TRUST and INTEGRITY! Have you no decency!
