Melania Trump tries to be inspiring in icy new video, fails miserably

It’s easy to forget that Melania Trump exists, what with everything that’s been going on lately, paired with the fact that she’s been the most absent First Lady in modern history. But every now and then, she does step out from her gilded cage to do the bare minimum of what’s expected of her.

Like today, when she spared an entire 47-seconds of her time to record a video in which she tried to inspire hope in the nation’s healthcare workers who are currently working tirelessly on the front lines of this ever-worsening coronavirus pandemic.

Related: Melania Trump tells people to go outside and “breathe in some fresh air” during coronavirus pandemic

“To all medical personal and the other frontline responders,” Melania says at the top of the video, “on behalf of a grateful nation, thank you.”

She continues,”It is because of you that the people of America are receiving the care and treatment they need.”

Giving credit where credit is due, she’s right about that. It’s doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel–who, until very recently, have been receiving virtually no help from Trump–that are caring for the sick and dying. They are heroes.

“Our prayers are with all who are fighting this invisible enemy,” Mrs. Trump continues.

So how are you feeling after watching that video? Are you inspired? Relieved? Hopeful about the future?

Yeah, nobody else is either.

The response to Mrs. Trump’s video has been about what we’ve come to expect anytime she tries to #BeBest. Let’s take a look…

Did we check to make sure this wasn’t a Michelle Obama speech?

— Brad Wollack (@BradWollack) April 8, 2020

Empty words from an empty vessel

— Betty Martinez (@Martinez55Betty) April 8, 2020

Where are the tests?
Where are the masks?
Where is the PPE?
Where is the federal coordination?
Where is the empathy?
Where is the oversight?
Where is the responsibility?

— Rhiannon (@WelshWitch07) April 8, 2020

Go back to your tennis courts or whatever project you think is necessary!

— D.L.P. (@DLP207) April 8, 2020

Did you cost extra to actually appear human? #BeBest

— Lesley Abravanel (@lesleyabravanel) April 8, 2020

Evidently Melania’s makeup crew and stylists are considered essential workers during the pandemic!!!

— nancy cronvich (@FT1965) April 8, 2020

13,000 AMERICANS DEAD.
Some hoax.#TrumpIsTheVirus

— Honolulu Haoles (@honoluluhaoles) April 8, 2020

But how are the tennis courts coming along ?

— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) April 8, 2020

This is the worst movie ever.

— Socially Distant Democrat (@shesnottrump) April 8, 2020

Tell us again how one gets an Einstein visa.

— Rick Britt (@RickBritt61) April 8, 2020

Your husband knew in Nov 2019 and did NOTHING. The Intel Community sent the briefings but he NEVER ACTED! He’s done now, start packing your bags, and don’t steal the towels on the way out the door.

— Robin (@trumpsatwit) April 8, 2020

I am deeply concerned about the lack of progress on your Tennis Pavillion (sic) … please do not let this minor “virus” interrupt the rush to establish your right to a swanky place to sit while others play tennis near you

— Abraham Lincoln (@SurrealALincoln) April 8, 2020

Related: Why is non-expert Laura Ingraham having secret meetings with Donald Trump about coronavirus?

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‘Friday’ Singer Rebecca Black Comes Out as Queer

Rebecca Black, who rose to fame when her song “Friday” went viral in 2011, has come out as queer.

Black spoke about her sexual orientation with co-hosts Jack Dodge and Amy Ordman on the podcast Dating Straight. Said Black, of not having spoken about it till now: “I made a conscious decision not to ‘come out.’ I guess people starting asking and I stopped not responding. I’m still in the process it feels like.”

Added Black, of how she identifies: “Every day is different. It’s something over the past few years, I’ve been having a lot of conversations with myself about. To me, the word queer feels really nice. I’ve dated a lot of different types of people and I don’t really know what the future holds. Some days, I feel a little more on the ‘gay’ side than others.”

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Queer “LEGO Masters” builder Sam Hatmaker talks “cycle of love and support” and how they are making Beyoncé out of LEGOs!

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Ellen just compared quarantining in her $24 million mansion to being in jail where “everyone is gay”

Ellen Degeneres can’t seem to catch a break these days.

When she’s not getting ripped to shreds for her casual friendship with George W. Bush or being accused of secretly mean behavior by her former employees, she’s drawing the ire of the entire world wide web.

Related: People are coming out of the woodwork to accuse Ellen Degeneres of ‘mean’ behavior

While broadcasting her first show from the living room of her $24 million mansion yesterday, Ellen cracked a joke about being in quarantine that didn’t land with, well, anyone.

“This is like being in jail, is what it is,” she said. “Mostly because I’ve been wearing the same clothes for ten days and everyone in here is gay.”

Related: People are having mixed reactions to learning Ellen Degeneres is secretly ‘mean’

The moment the words escaped from her lips, Ellen seemed to regret saying them, because then she clapped her hands together and awkwardly pretended to laugh: “Ahh, the jokes that I have!”

The jokes, indeed.

Not surprisingly, a backlash quickly ensued…

People are literally dying in jail from COVID-19 while Ellen is out here making jokes about it. t.co/Z8cdnMDF5b

— Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) April 8, 2020

Petition to stick her in an actual jail after quarantine is lifted. Just for a month or so, so maybe she can learn something.

— Sekhmet (@sekhmetreborn) April 7, 2020

“Hi my name is Ellen and I’m going to make fun of the incarceration of thousands of American citizens during a global pandemic and also imply that only queer folx are jailed and make it seem that being told to stay in my fucking house is like being in a cell in a jail ward.”

— JessPak(she/they) (@HealthPakStream) April 7, 2020

Ellen DeGeneres Comparing Isolation in Her Mansion to “Jail” Guess her designer clothes are her jumpsuit huh. pic.twitter.com/4otWe47QYI

— itsagundam (@GundamIsHere) April 7, 2020

also, nice of her to throw an “everyone in jail is gay/acts gay” joke in there as a cherry on top of her usual garbage

— Whitney McIntosh (@WhitneyM02) April 7, 2020

ellen: being in quarantine is like being in jail

the jail: pic.twitter.com/1Ro9IkdQJx

— grace (@graceisaaac2) April 8, 2020

Can we all just agree jokes about jail/prison are just…bad? Putting humans in cages is not funny. Things that happen there are not funny. And anything you’re going through right now in your apartment (or your fucking mansion, Ellen) is not comparable.

— Shana Knizhnik (@shanakn) April 8, 2020

People so far from being impacted by the criminal justice system love to use it as free labor and punch lines. Fuck you Ellen. Quarantine isn’t jail. Fame isn’t jail. Jail is jail. t.co/sgea84nk0q

— gia onomatopoeia (@missgiagiagia) April 7, 2020

me: so yeah idk if im going to be able to get my testosterone prescription and nobody is telling me anything about my finals and how tf do i even get into uni

ellen: my huge mansion is a jail cell

— ً (@qerscus) April 8, 2020

What a great look for Ellen as thousands of people sit in actual jail cells just hoping for the best without soap and basic protections t.co/RBytt0Kl4B

— Caroline Darya Framke (@carolineframke) April 7, 2020

Generally speaking, cracking passé jokes about all prisoners being gay or making light of a global pandemic that has, so far, killed almost 85,000 people around the world from the protection of one’s multi-million dollar luxury compound is ill-advised. But everyone messes up sometimes, especially comics, and especially ones who are worth an estimated $330 million.

Ellen has yet to respond to the backlash over the joke.

Related: Ellen says she “misses” her staff after ex-employees accuse her of being secretly “mean”

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Stevie Nicks Just Heard a White Winged Dove for the First Time, 40 Years After Writing ‘Edge of Seventeen’

Stevie Nicks shared a touching story on social media Tuesday, revealing something no one could have thought possible. Forty years after writing the classic track “Edge of Seventeen”, which begins with the lyric, “just like a white winged dove/sings a song/sounds like she’s singing’/whoo – whoo-whoo,” Nicks has finally heard a dove sing for the first time.

Nicks explained: “In 1980 I was flying home from Phoenix Arizona and I was handed a menu that said, “The white wing dove sings a song that sounds like she’s singing ooh, ooh, ooh. She makes her home here in the great Saguaro cactus that provides shelter and protection for her… As you well know, I was very taken with that whole picture and went on to write ‘Edge of Seventeen.’ But over the last 40 years I can honestly say, I have never heard a dove sing~ until now. Several days ago, outside my room, I started to hear the sound of a bird singing the same thing over and over. One little Ahhh~ and then three OOH’s~ over and over again. I thought it was an owl, but a friend said, ‘No, that’s a dove!’”

“I started to cry,” she added. “This dove had come here to watch over me.
So we filmed her singing her song & I’m sending her out to you. With love, Stevie Nicks. p.s. She’s been here for days. I think she’s here for good.”

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