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demmiblue

(39,558 posts)
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 12:39 PM Yesterday

Melania Trump to chair a meeting of the UN Security Council, White House says

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - First lady Melania Trump will chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Monday as the U.S. takes over the monthly rotating presidency, the White House said.

Melania Trump will emphasize education as a way to advance tolerance and world peace at the meeting, which will be the first time a sitting American first lady presides over the 15-member council, the first lady's office said in a statement Wednesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump has been a vocal critic of the United Nations since his first White House term, saying the 198-member world body was ineffective and needed reforms.

Trump struck a more conciliatory tone last week at the first meeting of his Board of Peace, an initiative he said aims to resolve conflicts globally but one that many world leaders have failed to embrace amid concerns it was designed to replace the United Nations.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/melania-trump-chair-meeting-un-security-council-white-house-says-2026-02-26/



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Melania Trump to chair a meeting of the UN Security Council, White House says (Original Post) demmiblue Yesterday OP
what a joke - she has no qualifications samsingh Yesterday #1
Hey - she's an Epstein scholar! rurallib Yesterday #23
My first thought also: seriously? ananda Yesterday #43
because of Trump, obviously RussBLib 7 hrs ago #49
Is there anything good about her? ananda 4 hrs ago #58
Depose her publicly under oath about trumpstein instead SheltieLover Yesterday #2
Will she be showing off her language skills? jls4561 Yesterday #3
The closed caption boys will be taxing their skills trying to interpret what she is saying. Brother Buzz Yesterday #9
It will be easy. She'll just repeat Michelle Obama's ideas and words or focus over and over on Be Best. Lonestarblue 6 hrs ago #53
No. Just her tits. Grins Yesterday #13
She'll be showing off her oral skills. cloudbase Yesterday #39
Like she knows fuck all about security Jilly_in_VA Yesterday #4
Naked or with clothes on? n/t rzemanfl Yesterday #5
With a useless hat Layzeebeaver Yesterday #26
Once again we will be the laughing stock of the world. walkingman Yesterday #6
Not the Onion? Tasmanian Devil Yesterday #7
Pity the translators Dear_Prudence Yesterday #8
Caligula allegedly appointed his horse to high office. Frasier Balzov Yesterday #10
If Orange Julius Caesar were to appoint his horse to high office, the horse would be missing its hindquarters generalbetrayus Yesterday #31
Talk about the Whore of Babylon peppertree Yesterday #11
Wow... that's deep, Pepper... worth losing a non-productive afternoon slightlv Yesterday #33
Why, thank you. peppertree Yesterday #36
She might be self aborbed and boring but at least she's sawake Warpy Yesterday #12
Well..she's no Eleanor Roosevelt and that's for damn sure Deuxcents 7 hrs ago #51
Of course not Warpy 6 hrs ago #54
" Melania Trump will emphasize education ...." Botany Yesterday #14
She did get quite an "education" RussBLib 7 hrs ago #50
😂😂😂 bamagal62 Yesterday #15
Will there be a pole? I heard there will be a pole! Floyd R. Turbo Yesterday #16
;-{)....seriously? Goonch Yesterday #17
Pitching her OnlyFans page is my guess Torchlight Yesterday #18
Who is going to translate her gobbledygook into English? efhmc Yesterday #19
This is how Chump regards the United Nations FakeNoose Yesterday #20
lolololol Solly Mack Yesterday #21
He has to outsource now KT2000 Yesterday #22
Gag me! lark Yesterday #24
Maybe she'll suggest cutting spending on education. JohnnyRingo Yesterday #25
It's not even April 1st. colorado_ufo Yesterday #27
The Red Sparrow will be conducting some manner of dead drop with Russian intelligence Prairie Gates Yesterday #28
After Security Council Chair Melania, we will release Astronaut Melania (thanks, Jeff!), and then muriel_volestrangler Yesterday #29
Hope there are empty seats /nt bucolic_frolic Yesterday #30
What, Don Jr. wasn't available? generalbetrayus Yesterday #32
Will she tell them TurboDem Yesterday #34
Will she tell the other members of the Security Council when she expects her husband to become educated? Vinca Yesterday #35
Who gets tasked with the job of interpreter? The Wizard Yesterday #37
Maybe the other members... 2naSalit Yesterday #38
I thought this was something from The Onion. nt moniss Yesterday #40
"A way to advance tolerance" ??! electric_blue68 Yesterday #41
Lemme guess... there'll be an admission charge, and then they'll have to watch her movie. Talitha Yesterday #42
That's just a big fat insult to the UN, Bayard Yesterday #44
I love The Onion! Or is it Borowitz? 😂🤣😂🤣 QueerDuck Yesterday #45
Being well schooled in diplomacy . . . Aussie105 Yesterday #46
It just keeps getting worse and worse sakabatou 18 hrs ago #47
The only chair she should be sitting in is bluestarone 7 hrs ago #48
Representing Putin. blm 7 hrs ago #52
I hope the UN has a translator fluent in "whiny, Slovenian sex worker English", otherwise... LudwigPastorius 6 hrs ago #55
Does she think there is a mercuryblues 5 hrs ago #56
what could possibly go wrong? CTyankee 5 hrs ago #57

samsingh

(18,387 posts)
1. what a joke - she has no qualifications
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 12:40 PM
Yesterday

and a horrible person married to an even more horrible person

maybe she's better than ivanka

ananda

(34,708 posts)
43. My first thought also: seriously?
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 05:27 PM
Yesterday

Why is she even allowed to have anything
to do with the UN?

RussBLib

(10,508 posts)
49. because of Trump, obviously
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:22 PM
7 hrs ago

…. I’d like to hear her speak clearly in some of those other languages she is supposedly fluent in. Her English is pretty bad.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

Brother Buzz

(39,807 posts)
9. The closed caption boys will be taxing their skills trying to interpret what she is saying.
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 01:01 PM
Yesterday

Lonestarblue

(13,386 posts)
53. It will be easy. She'll just repeat Michelle Obama's ideas and words or focus over and over on Be Best.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:54 PM
6 hrs ago

Imagine her telling the world's UN ambassadors how to do their jobs!

Jilly_in_VA

(14,243 posts)
4. Like she knows fuck all about security
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 12:47 PM
Yesterday

Ask her about Epstein. Also about the boxes in the Mar-a-Lardo bathroom.

Tasmanian Devil

(104 posts)
7. Not the Onion?
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 12:57 PM
Yesterday

Well I think this fits.

First you make the UN a bad joke, then you continue to refuse to pay the dues we owe the UN because ... it's a bad joke.

Dear_Prudence

(1,145 posts)
8. Pity the translators
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 12:59 PM
Yesterday

Who must translate her proto-pidgin English into standard English, then into the other official languages of the UN (Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and French). Hers is not a fully developed pidgin because there is no other group that uses her "be best" language. I have huge respect for people who are multilingual, but none for linguistic posers.

Frasier Balzov

(4,985 posts)
10. Caligula allegedly appointed his horse to high office.
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 01:01 PM
Yesterday

We've seen this repeatedly with Trump.

generalbetrayus

(1,715 posts)
31. If Orange Julius Caesar were to appoint his horse to high office, the horse would be missing its hindquarters
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 02:54 PM
Yesterday

because the horse's ass will still be in the Oval Office.

slightlv

(7,667 posts)
33. Wow... that's deep, Pepper... worth losing a non-productive afternoon
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 03:09 PM
Yesterday

to endless thought, tho...! thanks!

Warpy

(114,546 posts)
12. She might be self aborbed and boring but at least she's sawake
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 01:03 PM
Yesterday

unlike that orange pile of putrefaction she's married to.

Offhand, I'd say expect a lot of this in the future. Other First Ladies of decrepit husbands have had to do the same thing.

Botany

(76,942 posts)
14. " Melania Trump will emphasize education ...."
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 01:06 PM
Yesterday

Really didn’t she drop out of college and move to Italy after 1 semester and @ some point became
a “sex worker” of some kind?

Torchlight

(6,659 posts)
18. Pitching her OnlyFans page is my guess
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 01:20 PM
Yesterday

and gauging whether the UN would be open to having stripper poles installed (at their own expense, though).

FakeNoose

(41,116 posts)
20. This is how Chump regards the United Nations
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 01:32 PM
Yesterday

Yes it's a total insult to a real Security Council, but he doesn't care.
He has his own "Board of Peace" where the real "billion-dollar" men sit.

KT2000

(22,066 posts)
22. He has to outsource now
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 01:56 PM
Yesterday

saving himself for the income generating rallies and sales pitches.

lark

(26,027 posts)
24. Gag me!
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 02:00 PM
Yesterday

How horifically horrible that first ho, Epstein girl and mean as a snake person, who is in the country illegally havin lied to get an Einstein visa (she doesn't speak 4 languages, that is a lie) should have this honor is beyond vile.

JohnnyRingo

(20,741 posts)
25. Maybe she'll suggest cutting spending on education.
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 02:07 PM
Yesterday

WTF is this centerfold skank even considered viable to speak to the World Body? How can she begin to address any issues that face global crisis?

Will she be wearing her coat that says "I don't really care, do you"? This is an insult to The UN. Britney Spears would make more sense.

Pardon my language, but I'm sick of it.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,965 posts)
29. After Security Council Chair Melania, we will release Astronaut Melania (thanks, Jeff!), and then
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 02:25 PM
Yesterday

News Anchor Melania (thanks, Bari!), and then United States Air Force pilot Melania (thanks, Pete!), followed by Surgeon Melania (thanks, Robert!), Musician Melania (thanks, Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts board!) and Ballerina Melania (hey, board, you again - double work! Give yourselves all a Trump Kennedy Center Honor!)

And to think Barbie only got as far as UNICEF ambassador ...

Remember, kiddies, this is the Western Culture that we must defend from the Somali Pirates Who Invaded Minnesota.

Vinca

(53,694 posts)
35. Will she tell the other members of the Security Council when she expects her husband to become educated?
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 03:18 PM
Yesterday

2naSalit

(101,681 posts)
38. Maybe the other members...
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 04:17 PM
Yesterday

Will not give her any time to speak after her intro. She's probably there to pass info to the ruzzians.

Talitha

(7,874 posts)
42. Lemme guess... there'll be an admission charge, and then they'll have to watch her movie.
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 05:02 PM
Yesterday

Bayard

(29,221 posts)
44. That's just a big fat insult to the UN,
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 05:30 PM
Yesterday

Send someone who's main qualification is strewing the White House with horrendous xmas decorations.

Aussie105

(7,769 posts)
46. Being well schooled in diplomacy . . .
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 07:28 PM
Yesterday

members of the Council will listen politely to Melania's vacuous utterings, then go off and have separate and productive dialog behind closed doors.

LudwigPastorius

(14,490 posts)
55. I hope the UN has a translator fluent in "whiny, Slovenian sex worker English", otherwise...
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 02:40 PM
6 hrs ago

nobody is going to understand a damn thing she says.

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