Charm and grace in the White House

 

Melania Trump: Enigmatic and fiercely independent first lady is back   . . ."Prof Vigil says one of the biggest challenges that Mrs Trump faced in her first term was her political inexperience as well as a revolving door of staff, who were equally inexperienced and at times disloyal.

"But Mrs Trump kept quietly busy regardless, Prof Vigil adds, advocating for issues like children’s welfare through her Be Best campaign against online bullying.

" 'She was forced to defend that campaign given her own husband's aggressive use of social media, telling CBS in 2016 that how he conducted himself online got him in trouble - and boosted his followers.

"She also advocated for children affected by the opioid crisis, and has since started a foundation that raises education funds for children in foster care.

Melania Trump - White House Historical Association  "Melanija Knavs (Melania Knauss) was born on April 26, 1970, in Novo Mesto, Slovenia (the former Yugoslavia) to parents Viktor and Amalija Knavs.

"As a young woman, Melania studied design before pausing her studies to pursue a modeling career abroad. She became a successful fashion model, appearing in television advertisements, fashion magazines, and billboards. She came to the United States during the 1990s and continued her modeling career. On January 22, 2005, she married businessman and real estate mogul Donald J. Trump at the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, Florida. The following year, the couple welcomed their son, Barron.

"When Donald J. Trump was elected president in 2016, Melania Trump became the second first lady born outside of the United States (the first being Louisa Catherine Adams) and the only first lady to become a naturalized U.S. citizen (2006)." . . .

Melania Trump blames Democrats and media for 'fuelling toxic atmosphere' against husband

The Full List of President Donald Trump’s Executive Orders on Day One

Joel B. Pollak  "President Donald Trump signed 118 executive orders, actions, and memoranda on January 20, 2025, within hours of taking the Oath of Office." . . .

"More such executive orders are expected in the days to come, as Trump is expected to issue over 200 executive orders, actions, and memoranda — as suggested by The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days."

Broc Smith toon added

1. Rescinding 78 executive orders by President Joe Biden. Revocations include:

• Biden’s order to make “equity,” rather than “equality,” the focus of federal policy;
• Biden’s order to include illegal aliens in the Census;
• Biden’s order to impose coronavirus mandates and restrictions;
• Biden’s order to allow transgender individuals to serve in the military;
• Biden’s order to ban private prisons;
• Biden’s order to prioritize climate change; to ease immigration enforcement;
• Biden’s order to revoke sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC);
• Biden’s order to establish a court-packing commission to make the Supreme Court permanently liberal;
• Biden’s order to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in federal hiring;
• Biden’s order to restrict offshore oil and gas development;
• Biden’s order to impose sanctions on Israelis linked to the political right;
• Biden’s order to rescind Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism; and
• Biden’s order to revoke many of Trump’s executive orders from his first term.

Full list as of this morning, 1/21.

President Trump Will Pardon 1,500 Jan 6 Political Prisoners and Commute Sentences of 6 Tonight—Tells Reporter Who Questioned His Actions “Go stand over there with your friends”

 The Gateway Pundit

"January 6th political prisoners have been languishing in prisons across America for the past four years, many without a trial. Many of them never had a criminal record, many never committed a single act of violence, including on January 6, 2021, and most of them have had their lives destroyed by the Democrat Party machine’s punishing injustice system.

 

Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio RELEASED With Full Pardon From 22 Year Sentence! List of 14 Commutations Released by President Trump – All Other Related Convictions Granted “Full, Complete and Unconditional Pardons”

There are Trump's pardons and then there are Biden's pardons

Schiff’s shocking words to Joy Reid haunt him after Biden ‘preemptive pardon’… "Joe Biden was handing out preemptive pardons to some of the Swamp’s creepiest and slimiest characters. From Fauci to Milley, Cheney to Kinzinger, and plenty of ghouls in between including the one we’re focusing on today: Adam Schiff.

"Schiff happily accepted the blanket pardon—but why? If he did nothing wrong, why would he need one?

"That’s the question that is coming back to haunt Schiff, even as we speak.

"After all, it was Schiff who showed up on Joy Reid’s low-rated show to discuss these preemptive pardons, and how innocent people don’t need them." . . .

"Schiff once claimed that these types of pardons were “presidential abuse” and needed to be stopped. But, of course, Schiff isn’t raising a fuss over Biden’s preemptive pardons. Because, as we all know, it’s always (D)ifferent for (D)ems." . . .

"December, 2020. Joy Reid: Have you ever heard of somebody getting a preemptive pardon who is an innocent person?
"Adam Schiff: No.
"Today Adam Schiff got a preemptive pardon. pic.twitter.com/s83ghqk0rs

— MAZE (@mazemoore) January 20, 2025 

Office of the Pardon Attorney | Pardons Granted by President Joseph Biden (2021-Present)   Office of the Pardon Attorney    Here's a spread sheet for you.

Much more on the Trump-Schiff conflict during Trump's first term

Adam Schiff performs a fake Trump conversation    pic.twitter.com/ogkKnvGp9M

Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for siblings, Fauci and 6 Jan riot committee   . . ."As he prepared to leave the White House, Biden also commuted the life sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was serving a life sentence for the 1975 murder of two FBI agents. Peltier will transition to house arrest, Biden said in a statement.

"On Monday morning, a Trump spokesperson called Biden's pre-emptive pardons "the greatest attack on America's justice system in history".

" 'With the stroke of a pen, he [Biden] unilaterally shielded a group of political cronies from the scales of justice," Taylor Budowich, Trump's incoming deputy chief of staff for communications and personnel said in a post on X.

Liz Cheney Slams Trump’s Inaugural Speech After Biden Hands Her Preemptive Pardon

Root causes of the #WalkAway movement

The #WalkAway Campaign I Patriots Fighting for America I Home

"#WalkAway Mission: Encourage others to #WalkAway from the Democrat Party through the restoration of the people's voice, a return to our founding principles, and support of politicians who personify #WalkAway values. 

Long disappointed in the Democrat Party, the Biden Democrat Party was the final straw for so many including the founders of this movement, Brandon Straka and Cait Corrigan. TD

"Truth!

We tolerated President Obama for 8 years and kept quiet. Here is my issue with the whole, “let us all be a United States again” that we heard from President Biden. For the last 4+ years, the Democrats have gone and scorched earth. You have salted the fields and now you want to grow crops. The problem is 75+ million of us have memories longer than a hamster.

We remember the women’s march (vagina hats and all) the day after inauguration.

We remember the 4 years of attacks and impeachments.

We remember “not our president” and the “Resistance…”

We remember Maxine Walters telling followers to harass us in restaurants.

We remember the Presidents spokesperson being kicked out a restaurant.

We remember hundreds of Trump supporters physically attacked.

We remember Trump supporters getting Doxed, and fired from jobs.

We remember riots, and looting.

We remember “a comedian” holding up the President’s severed head.

We remember a play in Central park paid with public funding, showing the killing of President Trump.

We remember Robert de Niro yelling “F" Trump” at the Tony’s and getting a standing ovation.

We remember Nancy Pelosi tearing up the State of the Union Address.

We remember the total in the tank move on the mainstream media.

We remember the non-stop and live fact checking on our President and his supporters.

We remember non-stop in your face lies and open cover-ups from the media.

We remember the President and his staff being spied on.

We remember five Senators shot on a ballfield.

We remember every so-called comedy show turn into nothing but Trump hate fest.

We remember 95% negative coverage in the news.

We remember the state governors asking and getting everything they ask for and then blaming Trump for their problems.

We remember a Trump top aid verbally assaulted in two DC restaurants.

We remember people banging on the Supreme Court doors.

We remember that we were called every name in the book for supporting President Trump.

We remember that Hollywood said they would leave after Trump was elected but they stayed.

We remember being called Nazis

We remember being called Deplorables

We remember being called Fascists

We remember our sitting President calling us "garbage" and Kamala (and the media) trying to tell us to "get past it because Biden doesn't matter anymore"

This list is endless, but you get the idea. My friends will be my friends, but a party that has been on the attack for 4 long years does not get a free pass with me.

I will never give the Democrats a break for all the trouble they’ve caused. They’ve dug a very very deep hole and it’s going to take a very long time for them to crawl out of it." 

Brandon Straka #WalkAway

6 Years Later: Why I Still #WalkAway From the Democrat Party
On May 26, 2018, Brandon Straka shared a video about why he was walking away from the Democrat Party. That video went viral and launched the #WalkAway Campaign, a movement that led to hundreds of thousands of people… pic.twitter.com/R4Q9Ivbiv7

— Brandon Straka #WalkAway (@BrandonStraka) August 16, 2024

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I’m not making fun of this at all because it’s too horrible… but how on Earth could this person consent to having her breasts removed and having gender dysphoria? pic.twitter.com/GpI8jYDQhW

— Brandon Straka #WalkAway (@BrandonStraka) January 16, 2025

‘Elon’s Nazi Salute’ Marks First Media Hoax of Trump’s Second Term

 John Nolte; Breitbart   

UPDATE, 1/21 70pm est;CNN's New Star Talks Trump's Inauguration Speech, Absolutely Skewers the Biden Administration  . . ."There's real work to be done in this country. This stupid game Murphy is attempting to play doesn't work anymore, and it's an insult to Americans who expect their politicians to work for them instead of virtue-signaling for the too-online far-left. Newsflash: The legacy media doesn't have a monopoly on information anymore, which is why the claims about Musk were debunked almost immediately. Murphy can continue to beclown himself if he'd like, but all he's doing is showing exactly why his party got its tail whipped in November.

Right; the leader who had the nerve to move the US embassy to Jerusalem; who has brought joy to the leaders of Israel for assuming America's Presidency is leader of a Nazi movement.

 They clipped the hand raise to isolate it from many gestures he made. Here it is in context.

"The regime media wasted no time launching its Hoax Machine. Within hours of Donald Trump being sworn in as our 47th president, these disgraced and increasingly irrelevant serial liars tried to fool America into believing Elon Musk threw out a couple of Nazi salutes.

"What Musk did was not at all confusing to decent people. Speaking to a crowd of Trump supporters Monday at the Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, he said, “I just want to say thank you for making it happen. Thank you.”

"Then he touches his heart and makes a gesture throwing his heart out to the crowd. Then he literally says, “Thank you. My heart goes out to you. It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured, thanks to you.”

"CNN just lost a defamation suit and here are a couple of CNN’s basement-ratings harpies defaming Elon Musk by removing all of the context from the moment — and by “context,” I mean the audio where he says “My heart goes out to you.” Without the only context that matters, of course, it looks like a Nazi salute.

"CNN sucks.

                                       Choose one to fit your favorite news channel:

Prefer upper right? You must watch CNN and MSNBC

ADL defends Musk as CNN flogs big lie about ‘Nazi’ salute

Biden ends his presidency with hypocritical and terribly dangerous pardons

Andrea Widburg 

 . . ."The last thing I would do is let congresspeople ask the questions because the politicians will just bloviate and bluster. Instead, Republicans need to find the sharpest, best prosecutors in America to make sure that Fauci, Cheney, Milley, et al. tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, with no hiding behind squirrely language or bad memories."

. . ."Naturally, Biden wrapped the pardons in language saying that the people pardoned would be unfairly persecuted:  

Our nation relies on dedicated, selfless public servants every day. They are the lifeblood of our democracy.

Yet alarmingly, public servants have been subjected to ongoing threats and intimidation for faithfully discharging their duties.

In certain cases, some have even been threatened with criminal prosecutions, including General Mark A. Milley, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, and the members and staff of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. These public servants have served our nation with honor and distinction and do not deserve to be the targets of unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions.

"This is rich coming from an administration that, working on its own and in conjunction with corrupt state prosecutors and even corrupt bar associations, did everything possible to destroy anyone who was or worked for Trump. It’s also the same administration that has conducted a Soviet-style purge against almost 2,000 Americans for daring to assemble at the Capitol and, when the Capitol police opened the Capitol’s sealed doors, walking reverently through the building.

"But aside from the disgusting hypocrisy and the problem of pardoning a military officer who could rightly be charged with treason for boasting that he would consult with the Chinese before following an order from his Commander-in-Chief, there’s a greater danger in what Biden did with his preemptive pardons.

"Our nation is founded on the Rule of Law. Our Constitution is the bulwark for a government that is constrained by a contract with the People and the legal principles that flow from that contract. However, Biden created a new precedent that undercuts the rule of law entirely and unleashes the executive branch in a way that threatens to undermine the Constitution." . . .