Mrs. Trump, tell your husband, not us
by Mark Weinberg
November 19, 2018 12:00 AM As unhappy as National Security Council staffer Mira Ricardel must be because of first lady Melania Trump’s office publicly calling for her firing, the real wronged person in this unseemly matter is President Trump.
What his wife’s office did put him in an awkward public position. It was disrespectful, downright emasculating, and undemocratic, considering that he was elected and his wife was not.
The fact that the president “reassigned†Ricardel to a new role in the administration rather than show her the door suggests that he may have been annoyed by his wife’s unprecedented public meddling. And good for him. The only reason she is first lady is because he was elected president.
Ricardel did not report to the first lady. She reported to the national security adviser, who reports to the president. And it was cowardly for Melania Trump to hide behind the “the Office of the First Lady†in conveying her personal distaste for Ricardel. If the first lady feels that someone should not be on the White House staff, she is certainly entitled to share that view with her husband. She might even be entitled to share that view publicly, but she should own it herself.
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