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I'm so torn.

I want to open today's show talking about someone I hate, but God knows there's enough

hate in the world, and I don't want to add to the sum total, but forgive me, I have

got to get this off my chest. I fucking hate

Melania Trump. I'm not alone in loathing Donald Trump's third wife. She's married to a misogynist

after all. Odds are good. Her husband hates her too. But there are some folks on the left who not

only don't hate her, they view her as some sort of sympathetic figure. The pretty princess in the tower

locked up by the orange ogre with the bad comb over, a princess desperately blinking out

distress signals during swearing-in ceremonies and inaugural balls. I think we can credit that

undeservedly charitable view of our new First Lady to our propensity as humans as a species to think that

the insides of pretty people match the outsides of pretty people. And that may be true sometimes,

but only randomly and everyone always beware of confirmation bias. And you know what? It's definitely

not true in this case. Mrs. Trump, Melania Trump, is as ugly on the inside as she is

pretty on the outside. She is a birther. Pretty Melania went on TV to push the same racist

conspiracy theories about Barack Obama that her husband did. She's an immigrant who doesn't

give a shit about the plate of other immigrants. She's famously a plagiarist, and she's brought ruinous lawsuits against journalists and bloggers,

accusing them, amongst other things, of potentially interfering with her ability to profit off her role as first lady.

I don't know if you can impeach a first lady or how that would work, but I do know that we would have found out

pretty fucking fast if Michelle Obama had said the same during her husband's presidency.

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