{"id":4337,"date":"2018-10-15T02:28:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T09:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2018-10-15T02:28:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T09:28:55","slug":"the-view-on-melania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/the-view-on-melania\/","title":{"rendered":"The View on Melania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Melania Trump <\/strong>recently declared, \u201cI\u2019m the most bullied person in the world\u201d \u2013 a statement which has some credence.&nbsp; To put it into context, the day she made this statement happened to be the 20th anniversary of the murder of <strong>Matthew Shepard <\/strong>\u2013 a young gay boy who was beaten and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming.&nbsp; In a twist which further connects these two stories, it was announced on this sad anniversary that his ashes will be interred at Washington\u2019s <em>National Cathedral<\/em>.&nbsp; Yes, that Washington \u2013 within sight of the place Melania occasionally hangs her pith helmet.<\/p>\n<p>Actress <strong>Yvette Nicole Brown <\/strong>was filling in for <strong>Joy Behar <\/strong>on <strong><em>The View<\/em><\/strong> last week.&nbsp; On Friday, reporter <strong>Tom Llamas <\/strong>was promoting his sit-down with Melania.&nbsp; One of the topics was the accusations of infidelity against Mr. Trump.&nbsp; Yvette said, \u201cIs it possible that she\u2019s not concerned with his mistresses because she was one of them?\u201d&nbsp; The response from the <em>White House <\/em>was swift.&nbsp; A spokesperson for the First Lady said, \u201cCheck your facts before you accuse someone of being a mistress.&nbsp; She\u2019s your @FLOTUS &#8211; she deserves your respect &amp; certainly not your lies.&nbsp; Disgusting.\u201d&nbsp; <strong>Sarah Huckabee Sanders <\/strong><em>Tweeted<\/em>, \u201cSad @TheView continues their disgusting attacks on @FLOTUS.&nbsp; The left\u2019s \u2018war on women\u2019 they disagree with is a disgrace.&nbsp; @FLOTUS is strong, accomplished, and has a lot more class than the women who bully her.\u201d&nbsp; Yvette said, \u201cI stand by every word I said.&nbsp; My mom taught me that respect is earned.&nbsp; And thankfully we live in a nation \u2013 at least for now \u2013 where I don\u2019t have to bow down to dear leader or his third wife.\u201d&nbsp; She added, \u201cMy views are my own.&nbsp; And I own every one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melania Trump recently declared, \u201cI\u2019m the most bullied person in the world\u201d \u2013 a statement which has some credence.&nbsp; To put it into context, the day she made this statement happened to be the 20th anniversary of the murder of Matthew Shepard \u2013 a young gay boy who was beaten and left to die in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4346,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions\/4346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}