Mrs. Trump’s Sketchbook, Bully

She knew Donald Trump was Nelson Muntz when she married him. Poor, impossibly beautiful Melania may have imagined she’d be spared. Beauty has its privileges.

Bullies in fiction like Scut Farkus, Draco Malfoy and Nelson Muntz feed on the first sign of weakness. Donald Trump is everybody’s real-life playground nightmare. Even those who climbed aboard the Trump bus — like poor Jeff Sessions — end up being dragged under it.

Placing his wife in charge of an anti-bullying campaign was cruel even by Trump standards.

Pat Shiplett

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