Where in the World Is Melania Trump? | Damage Control (Ep. 478)

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The Ringer's Justin Charity and Kate Knibbs try to understand why there are so many conspiracy theories around the lack of public Melania Trump sightings (0:52) and how the first lady is different from both her family and her predecessors (4:37). They also discuss the rap beefs that are currently ruling the music world and how people remain entertained even as the public spats turn violent (17:20). More from The Ringer: Solitary Confinement: Seriously, Where—and Who—Is Melania Trump? Rap Beef Emergency: Drake vs. Pusha-T Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Justin Charity and I'm Kate Nebs.
0:06.9	Welcome to Damage Control on the Channel 33 Network, a podcast where we unpack what upsets,
0:11.8	excites and divides us in popular culture.
0:14.5	A tale of two rap feuds.
0:17.6	This week we're going to talk about Drake, Pusha T, Chief Keith and Takashi 6'9 and their
0:23.2	respective escalating conflicts.
0:25.8	At first we're talking about Melania Trump, the missing first lady who's disappearance
0:31.1	from public view for the past few weeks inspired a lot of admittedly silly conspiracy theories
0:36.7	online and also underscored the inscrutable nature of the Trump family's most mysterious
0:42.9	member.
0:46.9	Okay, so Kate, Melania Trump, you know, the first lady that we all know and love Melania
0:59.0	Trump went missing for a few weeks.
1:02.1	I'm putting missing in care quotes as I say this, but she went missing.
1:05.8	We didn't see her.
1:06.8	We the American people.
1:08.6	First she was at Andrew's Air Force Base at a welcoming ceremony with the president,
1:13.8	then she was hospitalized on May 10th for a kidney treatment and then she just seemed
1:19.8	to disappear.
1:22.6	She had no public events, her appearances were canceled, strange statements started coming
1:29.2	from her Twitter account.
1:30.5	It didn't seem like she was necessarily writing some of her tweets.
1:34.3	And gradually this became a bizarre scandal as everything in the Trump age does.
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