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Critics have claimed First Lady Melania Trump was hypocritical by defending Barron Trump, 13, from political attacks while President Donald Trump criticized far-left climate extremist Greta Thunberg, 16, on Twitter.
During Stanford Law School Professor Pamela Karlan’s testimony as an impeachment witness on December 4, she took a shot at Barron.
Melania responded, “A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics. Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it.”
President Trump retweeted Melania’s tweet.
President Trump responded on Twitter to TIME Magazine’s announcement that it was making Thunberg its 2019 Person of the Year.
Trump wrote, “So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!”
Melania’s BeBest campaign, which aims to combat bullying, fell under fire from liberal activists who claimed Melania was being hypocritical as President Trump attacked Thunberg.
However, Melania released a statement and highlighted the difference between her son and Thunberg:
“BeBest is the First Lady’s initiative, and she will continue to use it to do all she can to help children. It is no secret that the President and First Lady often communicate differently — as most married couples do. Their son is not an activist who travels the globe giving speeches. He is a 13-year-old who wants and deserves privacy.”
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Thunberg is a far-left climate extremist who travels the world warning of apocalyptic doom that is coming unless radical change occurs that she claims “colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled.”
President Trump trolled Thunberg after her meltdown at the United Nations earlier this year where she claimed that “we are in the beginning of a mass extinction.”
President Trump wrote on Twitter: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!”
