On Spending: Melania vs. Moochelle

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There is no question that the Trump administration is different than all other presidential administrations preceding it. One thing Trump promised during his campaign run was to cut the crazy spending. It looks like he's taking the vow seriously.

The First Lady, Melania Trump, has become more active and public of late and in spite of that, she is running one of the leanest East Wing spending operations "in the entire history of the United States," Donald Trump would say if he was commenting on it.

According to Fox News, Melania has significantly cut spending and reduced the number of aides to the first lady from 16, Michelle Obama's number, to just four. Where Michelle's aides cost the taxpayers $1.24 million a year in salaries, Melania's cost $486,700.

And according to Melania's spokeswoman, the cuts in staff is intentional.

Evidently, Melania doesn't have to put on a show of royalty like others tend to do.

"As with all things that she does, she is being very deliberate in her hiring, focusing on quality over quantity," Stephanie Grisham, communications director said. "It is important to her that the team is a good fit for what she wants to accomplish as first lady, and that everyone works well together. She also wants to be mindful and responsible when it comes to taxpayer money."

Overall, the first lady has 9 people working for her and Michelle had 24, which has probably broken records as to who is the most ostentatious First Lady who spends other people's money, and it doesn't even include the separate flights she and Barack took for vacations and her entourage throwing rose petals at her big feet on the tarmac when she landed.

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Hillary Clinton had 19 staffers and Laura Bush had 18--so they weren't too far behind, according to FactCheck.org.

Melania Trump's staffers include a chief of staff, a communications director, a deputy chief of staff and a deputy director of advance.

Michelle Obama's staffers included those identical positions and a boat load of others: additional press aides, a director of policy and projects, a personal aide, a traveling aide and a director of correspondence.

Michelle's larger staff was probably due to her having a more aggressive agenda and embracing such initiatives like: "Don't Stand for the Damn Flag," "Let's Move Our Butts, Women," and "Look, Fat Kids."

After President Trump entered the White House, Melania and their son, Barron, stayed in New York City where he finished up the school year and had to take insults from alleged adults on the left.

Lately, however, Melania has become more publicly active and even hosted a roundtable discussion on the opioid crisis. She also traveled with the president to tour the destruction of hurricanes and had to endure insults from alleged adults on the left for not wearing appropriate hurricane viewing shoes as she stepped off Air Force One. 

Additionally, she went with President Trump to meet with the victims of the Las Vegas massacre, in which alleged adults on the left tried to blame President Trump for the act of one crazed individual for the killing of 58 individuals.

Andrew Och, a first lady historian, describes Melania more like Bess Truman and Pat Nixon, and thankfully nothing like Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama, both of whom have their evil eyes on the presidency.

The Trump administration has trimmed staff positions in other staff positions. Under Trump there are 110 fewer employees than Obama and the projected savings, according to June Forbes, could be over $22 million.

Put that in your hash pipe and smoke it, Barry.


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For Obama: One and a wake-up to go

White House -- They're on their way out the door on Friday and it can't be soon enough. There will be a mass exodus now that the so-called president held his last and most non-defensible press conference in his 8 long, long years in office. 

The press will miss him deeply, like a man missing his husband, and they asked him fluff questions, as is their wont with Obama.

Each member of the Obama wrecking crew will get to spend a few magic moments with their lead-from-behind leader. They will talk and reminisce about the old days when the president watched a ball game with his dad, Raul Castro in sunny Cuba.

Everyone will soon be busy packing up, putting into cardboard boxes their leather bound editions of "Rules for Radicals" and "The Koran for Dummies," and some will even have "The Communist Manifesto." 

There will be tears shed. There are always tears shed with leftists because anything can turn on the water spigots: a black man voting Republican; a president who will undo what their lead from behind leader had done with his pen and phone. 

The last days of a president's administration are always bittersweet and sadly nostalgic as the staff  finally realizes how far to the right their lead-from-behind leader has caused the country to swing, and how they will now be out of a cushy job, lose any power they had, and find themselves back to being ordinary civilians.

Many of Obama's staff are scared. Not scared of being out of work, but scared of our next president somehow getting us all mysteriously killed because he refuses to be the kind humanitarian Obama is as he shows whenever he frees an Islamic freedom fighter for ISIS or the Taliban or any Islamic religious organization.

"You're always aware that it's a special privilege to work there and not something to take for granted," Nate Lowentheil said. Nate worked for our lead from behind Obama on the National Economic Council. "It's particularly hard knowing the next wave of people coming are going to be working to reverse the things you were working to advance until your very last hour," he added, sounding as if he was going to die when he walked out the White House door.

But on a positive note, the next wave of people coming are going to be working to do the things the majority of the American electorate wants them to do, and while it includes ending and replacing Obamacare, it does not include letting traitors out of prison because they fit someone's folk hero image.

There were tears on the faces of some White House aides on Tuesday, and one, who will remain unnamed, had an actual snot-bubble popping out of their left nostril as tears flowed like a busted sewer pipe.

After the group photo, Valerie Jarrett was last seen wringing her hands together and then stirring a huge cauldron which emanated an odor reminiscent of eye of newt along and oil of dog.



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