Why hate melanya trump and other wives of presidents

The work of the first lady only seems simple. There will always be critics who are ready to blame the president’s wife for all sins, unearth any compromising evidence and dissolve the most ridiculous rumors. The wife of the elected president of the United States, Donald Trump, is also not inevitable, and in double volume. The attacks have already begun: at the ceremony of the American Music Award, Melania was offensively mocked by model Gigi Hadid. And the statistics confirm that the Americans never treated the first lady so badly. But her predecessors, too, got it. Let's remember for what and how the wives of the presidents of the United States were harassed.

Easy prey

Before the election, the sociological service Gallup reported that an unprecedented number of Americans were opposed to Melania Trump. As a rule, the rating of potential first ladies does not fall below 50%. Melania's rating is only 28%. At the same time 32% of respondents said that they did not like it.

New First Lady of the country Melanya Trump. Photo: twitter / MELANIA TRUMP @MELANIATRUMP

This in the history of the country has not yet been. True, Melanya herself is not quite an ordinary first lady. Unlike its predecessors, she was born not in the USA or even in England, but in socialist Yugoslavia. The 16 years became a model. After 2, after arriving in America, she met Donald Trump and, despite the 24-year age difference, immediately started an affair with a billionaire. In 2005, they celebrated their wedding.

Melania Trump has a long-standing reputation as an unprincipled “captured wife” from Eastern Europe, who was married for money. Such a biography makes it an easy victim for detractors. Take, for example, rumors that in her youth, the future First Lady provided escort services. And many believe this, because they know that, while working as a model, Melanya participated in erotic photo shoots.

Photo: twitter / MELANIA TRUMP @MELANIATRUMP

In addition, she regularly falls into various scandals. During the election campaign Trump's wife gave a speech, a fair amount of which was literally copied from a similar speech by Michelle Obama. The scapegoat was quickly appointed the scapegoat, but the trouble was that Melanya had already assured the journalists that she was making the speech in person. She is still remembered of this story: it was she who was the reason for the jokes at the American Music Award. The host of the ceremony parodied Mrs. Trump, pouting and stating with a strong Eastern European accent that “she loves her husband Barack Obama and children, Malia and Sasha.”

Enemy of the people

In fact, so far the attacks on Melania are dimmed against the background that Barack Obama’s wife had to endure. Conservative Americans hate Michelle and do not hide it. Whatever she does, they find a reason for complaints: she does not dress like this, she is too upset, she ignores ordinary people. It is ridiculous: when Barak and Michel, celebrating their victory in the elections, knocked their fists, they called their gesture “social greeting” in social networks.

Barack and Michelle Obama.
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In one of the interviews, Michelle recalled how she was discouraged by the cover of the magazine New Yorker, where the first lady was portrayed as a radical from Black Panthers with a gigantic afro-head on her head and a machine gun at the ready. With political opponents, everything is clear, but the New Yorker is a liberal magazine that supported Obama. Even if Michel is turned into a walking racist stereotype, what can we expect from others? “It made me think about how I seem to people,” she admitted.

But according to conservative radio host Alex Jones, Michelle Obama is a man who has undergone a sex change operation. “Her daughters are not at all like her,” he remarked. “I’m quite sure that this is again some kind of strange hoax, like that time when Obama swore on the Koran instead of the Bible.” Although Michel is not a transgender, the president of the United States never swore on the Koran, but Alex Jones himself is a mad conspiracy theorist who believes that the authorities kill people with the help of man-made tornadoes, Obama's ill-wishers willingly picked up his theory.

Two presidents for the price of one

In 1919, US President Woodrow Wilson, after a stroke and partial paralysis, moved from the White House to an apartment and did not meet with anyone without the permission of the wife of Edith. Neither the vice-president nor the ministers had direct access to it. Only the first lady decided which letters and documents Wilson would see, whose opinion would be heard and that the public would learn about it. Many historians believe that over the next 2 years, she actually ruled the country.

Political rivals could not stand Edith Wilson and believed that she takes on too much. In the Senate she was dubbed the “iron queen”. “This presidency fulfilled the dream of suffragistic women and from the first lady turned into the first gentleman invested with power,” said one of the senators.

Perhaps he was not so far from the truth when he remembered the suffragists. The nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, giving women the right to vote in elections, was adopted in 1920, when Edith was in charge of the affairs of the president. Before Woodrow Wilson planned to give a solution to this issue at the mercy of the states.

Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin Roosevelt, who led the United States during World War II, has fought all her life against Lynch courts, anti-Semitism, and racist laws in the southern states.

Her views were too progressive for that time. The first lady was suspected of being anti-American and accused of aiding the communists. Published caricaturesdepicting the first lady as a pawn in a Zionist conspiracy. On the instructions of the FBI director Edgar Hoover, thousands of pages of compromising materials were collected on the wife of the president on 3.

Republicans disliked Hillary Clinton back in 90 when she was the first lady under President Bill Clinton. From the very beginning, Hillary planned to participate in her husband’s political activities: her election slogans honestly promised that America would get 2 presidents for the price of one.

Once in the White House, Hillary began to promote health care reform, which promised to make medicine accessible to every American. Her proposals caused such rejection of a part of society that political opponents switched from insults to outright threats. Hillary had to wear a bulletproof vest.

Sample wife

Melanya Trump has already announced that she wants to be a “very traditional first lady” and is not going to get into politics. However, such wives of the presidents are not satisfied with many: they are accused of frivolity, empty spending, finding fault with every little thing.

That is what happened with Nancy Reagan. Her spouse was called "Teflon President" because no scandals caused him any harm. And Nancy dubbed the "sticky lady" - any accusations, even the most ridiculous, pursued her for years.

Ronald Reagan’s detractors condemned Nancy’s love for luxury and overly expensive clothes (in fact, luxury outfits were usually given to the first lady as a gift). From the order of the new dishes for the White House, which cost $ 200 thousand to the taxpayers, the press inflated a huge scandal.

When it turned out that Nancy constantly consults with an astrologer, she was not only ridiculed for prejudice, but also suspected of divulging secret information. Suddenly an astrologer reports everything to the Soviets? The attempt to resist the critics only aggravated the situation: the first lady was considered too aggressive and gave her a new nickname: “Lady-dragon”.

The story of President Richard Nixon’s wife is even sadder. Pat was painfully shy all her life and tried to avoid the attention of the public. Her husband’s political career turned her life into hell. While Nixon exposed the Communists and enemies of the American people, she sat at home with the children, but hated both of them.

During the election campaign, the first lady with a humble smile traveled all over America and half of the world, campaigning for her husband. Demonstrators protesting against Nixon threw stones at her, and the enemies in the media argued that there was a falsity in any of its actions. She was christened "plastic Pat", passers-by on the streets spat after her when Nixon resigned after Watergate.

Comforts in such cases can be only one: opponents, as a rule, in the minority. In the midst of McCarthyism, Eleanor Roosevelt was approved by 68% of Americans. Nancy Reagan's rating did not fall below 57%. In 90, Hillary Clinton had more supporters (64%) than her husband (55%). And even Melania Trump can count on support: she will definitely be happy for those who could not stand Michelle Obama.

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