The Speech of a Hypocrite

Melania Trump stood on Monday at the podium of the UN Security Council and spoke about children, about peace, about hope. She stood there while the bombs were falling. This is not irony, this is business. This is normality in a world that long ago stopped contradicting itself. The First Lady sits in the president’s seat of the most powerful body of the United Nations - a first for the spouse of a head of state - and speaks of the United States standing alongside all children worldwide. At the same moment, American aircraft are bombing Iranian cities. At the same moment, bombs hit a school in southern Iran. 165 dead. At least. This is not new. But it is done without any hesitation.

What kind of reality are we actually living in here?

Iran’s UN ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani said what had to be said: This is deeply shameful. This is hypocrisy. America preaches the protection of children and bombs schools. This is no longer a contradiction, it is a strategy. It is the language of a superpower that has learned that reality is negotiable if one only speaks loudly enough. Guterres, the UN Secretary General, did condemn the strikes. Half heartedly. Protocol. The great powers speak their sentences, and afterward life goes on, and the bombs do as well.

But there is something else that is even more interesting. In January, the Trump administration cut funding for the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict. That is the department that documents what wars do to children. The reports that uncover violence and rape. The reports that can trigger measures. Trump turned it off. UNICEF received less money. UNESCO was left.

Melania speaks of education, and her husband’s administration strangles the institutions that are meant to protect education. That is the logic of this government: Speak the opposite of what you do. And if it is loud enough, if it is said on the right stage, people will believe it - or they will give up believing anything at all.

In the summer, Melania Trump wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin before he met her husband. She later said that it helped a group of Ukrainian children return to their families. Melania Trump had nothing to do with the return of those seven children. Her portrayal was politically motivated and tasteless.

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Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell at a party in Mar a Lago in Palm Beach February 12, 2000

Photo: Davidoff Studios, Getty Images

But here is the question that really should be asked: If Melania Trump is so deeply engaged with children, if she advocates for their release - why is she silent about what she must know? Melania Trump was not unfamiliar with Epstein. The contacts were more than incidental. And if the United States truly were a nation of law when it comes to children, then she would have to testify before the Oversight Committee. Not as First Lady, but as a witness.

Melania Trump, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, Gwendolyn Beck and Jeffrey Epstein at a party in Mar a Lago in Palm Beach, February 12, 2000

Photo: Davidoff Studios, Getty Images

But that will not happen. Instead, she will continue to stand on podiums and speak of peace while the bombs do their work. That is America today: A country that stands for hypocrisy. For religious zeal disguised as morality. For corruption that does not even bother to hide anymore. World leaders remain silent. They know what is happening. They know who is bombing whom and who is financing what and who is telling which lies. Melania Trump speaks. That is all.

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