As I see it | Why Melania Trump’s UN speech is an affront to decency
From her husband’s wars that harm children abroad to her ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Trump is far from an authority on children’s interests
The topic of her speech? Children, technology and education in conflict. She declared that the US “stands with all of the children throughout the world”. Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up.
During her speech at the UN forum, Melania Trump paid tribute to several US service members killed when an Iranian drone hit a military base in Kuwait, but there was no mention of the dead Iranian girls. Apparently, there are children and then there are Iranian children.
But that wasn’t her fault, you say, since the speech was scheduled before the sudden outbreak of war. Well, suppose the Iranians dropped a bomb on an Israeli school full of children or a school with American kids in Dubai. Do you think the Iranian representative at the UN would get a free pass in the Western news media? I don’t think so. And most likely, Israel and the US would have levelled Tehran in response.