Remember when Republicans went nuts when Michelle
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Remember when Republicans went nuts when Michelle Obama took their girls to Spain?
Wanna bet there will be crickets at this?
Melania Trump Spent Almost $100,000 at a Hotel She Never Slept In
For an Africa trip rife with colonial imagery, this somehow feels right.
by Erika Harwood November 2, 2018 12:48 pm
Melania Trump’s October trip to Africa may never stop being controversial. According to federal spending records, Trump’s hotel bill during her stop in Cairo cost taxpayers $95,050—even though, as spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham told Quartz, Trump did not even stay overnight at the InterContinental Semiramis hotel and was only in Cairo for six hours.
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In an hour-long ABC News interview filmed during the Africa trip, Trump insisted that people should be more focused on what she does rather than what she wears, in one of her few statements of actual substance. Does racking up a $95,000 hotel bill for no discernible reason count?
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/11/mela...hotel-bill