Image: Melania Trump in June, 2016 (a katz / Shutterstock.com).
It seems New Yorkers have had enough of Ms. Trump and the kid refusing to move into the white house. They aren’t terribly interested in shouldering the staggering cost of her presence anymore, and who could blame them?
Nearly 50,000 people had signed a Change.org petition by Tuesday morning demanding First Lady Melania Trump move in with President Donald Trump in their new White House presidential pad in an effort to reduce the costly taxpayer expense of protecting the first family as they live in separate states.
New York City has been footing a daily bill from $127,000 to $146,000 so the first lady can continue living in her $100 million Trump Towers penthouse, according to New York Police Commissioner James O’Neil. The cost surges to more than $300,000 to secure the 58-story building each day the president visits his family.
New Yorkers and activists have begun speaking out against the added cost of living, ordering Melania Trump to move in with her husband or start paying for her family’s security in the Big Apple herself.
“The U.S. taxpayer is paying an exorbitant amount of money to protect the first lady in Trump Tower,” a statement accompanying the online petition Tuesday said. “As to help relieve the national debt, this expense yields no positive results for the nation and should be cut from being funded.”
Via Raw Story.
Nearly 50,000 people had signed a Change.org petition …
Jeez, New Yorkers didn’t even get that worked up over the Gotti family or Son of Sam!
Imagine the rethuglican outcry if a mum on welfare refused a job because she didn’t want her kid to change schools mid-term…
For the part of a second, I understand Melania. WE all know who her husband is. He is a not very smart narcistic controlling and manipulating asshole. She and the kid are probably getting room to breathe for the first time in ages.
On the other hand she happily and willingly married Trump and she is happily and willingly staying married to him, so fuck her.
Was not one of the main Trumpoints that Obamas costs the taxpayers way too much money for way too little work done? Funny how none of this applies to Lord Dampnut, whose family now sucks at the taxpayers money like a tick.
Charly:
Yes. And Obama had one wife, and they had two children, who all lived in the white house for eight years. Trump has multiple wives, and what, five effing kids, none of which are living in the white house, so the cost of protection has to follow all the kids and grandkids around, at at least the current wife.
Giliell, I dunno if she’s happy, but she’s certainly happy being married to all that money, so yeah, fuck her. She wants to stay in NYC, let her spend her own money.
Charly
Those rules only apply to the black man who should be working 24/7 for no wages at all…