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Melania is discarding an important tradition as the Trumps depart the White House: analysis
January 18, 2021
Writing for CNN Opinion this Monday, Kate Andersen Brower says that Melania Trump will be the only first lady in modern history to forgo the tradition of giving the incoming first lady a tour of the private living quarters on the second and third floors of the White House.
"...this tradition has long been one of the first lady's many unwritten obligations. And Melania Trump has discarded it," Brower writes.
<p>"It's perhaps unsurprising that Melania Trump has flouted a social norm of her position. Every one-term president -- and his wife -- have felt the sting of defeat, but unlike her husband, none of them have refused to accept the election results," she writes. </p><p>According to Brower, tradition matters. Expectations about what's normal and civil behavior in our society matter as well. </p><p>"These visits make the presidency -- and all the family roles that go with it -- more connected to the humanity of the people who hold them," writes Bower, adding that former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama will attend Joe Biden's inauguration followed by a wreath laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery -- all events where Michelle Obama, Laura Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton will be in attendance. </p><p>"This display of unity will bring Melania Trump's decision to do away with tradition into stark relief," Brower notes.</p><p>According to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/17/politics/melania-trump-favorability/index.html" target="_blank">a recent CNN poll</a>, 47% of Americans now have an unfavorable view of Melania. </p>
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CNN host blasts Trump sycophant: 'The shell that occupies the space that Lindsey Graham once did'
January 18, 2021
CNN host John Berman on Monday noted that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has become a "shell" of his former self after turning into a sycophant for President Donald Trump.
During a segment about the pardons that Trump could issue before leaving office, CNN host Alisyn Camerota reported that Graham had urged the president not to let Capitol Hill rioters off the hook.
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"I think it would destroy President Trump and I hope we don't go down that road," Graham told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday.
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"It impossible to know who President Trump listens to," Camerota observed on Monday.
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"It's impossible to know if Lindsey Graham listens to himself," co-host John Berman agreed. "The shell that occupies the space that Lindsey Graham once did."
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CNN contributor David Gregory called Graham "Captain Obvious" for the recommendation not to pardon insurrectionists.
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"We don't know if that calculus means anything to President Trump," he pointed out.
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'Seditious' Trump is leaving office in shame and has lost 'command of his own faculties': Carl Bernstein
January 18, 2021
On CNN Monday, legendary Watergate reported Carl Bernstein broke down how outgoing President Donald Trump's final week in office differs from the end of Richard Nixon's presidency.
"Carl, [Nixon and Trump] are both leaving in shame and anonymity," said anchor John Berman. "What is the comparison?"
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"No comparison," said Bernstein. "Richard Nixon isn't a madman. These pictures that you have shown this morning, we have been looking at the landscape of Trumpism. A map of his mind and what the logical result of his mindset and sensibilities are. Who is Donald Trump? We now know he is a seditious, uncontrolled, out-of-control madman. That's what we have seen. We haven't seen anything in the history of the United States presidency such as we witnessed in these final days. The final days of Donald trump are something that is so out of total comparison to anything in the history of this democracy."
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"He is an autocrat," said Bernstein. "He has no command of his own faculties at this point, according to those closest to him, who are surrounding him. They're trying to put him in a constitutional straitjacket in these last days because of his total inability to govern as the president of the United States with sanity, with sensibility. And also he is a criminal president. Nixon was a criminal president. He is a constitutional criminal and we are seeing every evidence of it as he leaves office. Let's hope the next few days as he leaves that nothing terrible, more terrible than what we have seen occurs."
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