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If Trump is so brilliant, why must he find a wife that can barely speak English. He obviously cannot speak a word of her native tongue?



Chelsea Handler has said she is not interested in interviewing Melania Trump because she thinks the First Lady can “barely speak English”.

The outspoken comedian, who was a Hillary Clinton supporter, insisted she would never have Donald Trump or his wife on her Netflix show Chelsea. She said she has zero respect for either of them.

Handler made her views about the President clear, saying he was “the grossest” and she would tell him to “f*ck off” if he was in the room.

When asked about whether she would have the First Lady on her show in a video interview with Variety, she said: “Melania? To talk about what? She can barely speak English!”

Of course Handler is a comedian so she might be joking. For the record, Ms Trump is multilingual and can speak English, Slovenian, French, Italian, and German.

This is by no means the first time Handler has taken aim at the First Lady. She poked fun at her accent several times during the presidential campaign.

“Trump said Melania will give two or three more speeches… Hopefully an interpreter will be present,” she quipped in October.
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“Sounds like he learned how to say China from Melania. #debate,” she also joked.

Tim Kaine delivered a speech entirely in Spanish. Still easier to understand than Melania.p
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) November 5, 2016

When pressed about what she thought about the First Lady in the Variety interview, she snapped back: “Exactly what I think about him as the First Man - nothing. I don’t respect either one of those people.”

“Gross. He is the grossest," she said of Mr Trump. "Physically, emotionally, mentally. Those statues they made of him were accurate. I bet you that is what he looks like naked with a little grape in between his legs.”

Handler said racism was the single issue which most concerned her under a Trump administration and planned parenthood was one of the issues which most worried her as a woman.

“No one has any right to tell us what to do with our bodies. Get off your religious bullshit soap box. I am my own person, no man gets to tell me what to do with my body, no-one, not your husband, not your politician.”

Handler explained she was going to register as an independent because she does not think the two-party system is working.

A representative for Chandler did not immediately respond to request for comment.

 


Posted - January 8, 2018

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  • 5835
    Yawn. And I am unanimous in that.
      January 8, 2018 12:26 PM MST
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  • 46117
    Oh.  I'm so interested in you and your bodily noises.  That is all you ever have to offer so don't blame it on me.
      January 8, 2018 12:46 PM MST
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  • 5835
    Why are you being so unfriendly? I didn't like your question, but I tried to give an amusing reply anyway.
      January 9, 2018 12:18 PM MST
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  • 46117
    I'm not being unfriendly.  I don't like the answer.  Nothing personal.  I am glad you came by to assert.

      January 9, 2018 1:06 PM MST
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  • 5835
    So you just have lousy manners, is that it? You really should try to improve that aspect.
      January 10, 2018 1:55 PM MST
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  • 22891
    maybe cause he liked her and wanted to marry her
      January 8, 2018 1:59 PM MST
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  • 46117
    I don't think he likes anyone.
      January 9, 2018 1:06 PM MST
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  • 13277
    What's your point? Who's claiming that he's brilliant? But look at it this way. If he's so stupid, how did he get himself elected president? Some folks thought Bush was stupid as well, but he wasn't and also got elected. This post was edited by Stu Spelling Bee at January 10, 2018 6:26 PM MST
      January 8, 2018 2:24 PM MST
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  • 16791
    He himself is claiming that he's brilliant, a "genius" despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. He got elected because the EC is gerrymandered up the wazoo and also due to Democrat complacency - they fielded a flawed candidate and still considered her a slam dunk, so a huge percentage of registered blue voters never bothered to show up and vote.
    GWB bought Florida's legislature in 2000 - again versus a flawed candidate. Many of his gaffes were due to his disability - dyslexic almost to the point of  illiteracy. Trump doesn't have that affliction, he's just senile.
      January 9, 2018 4:03 PM MST
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  • 46117
    I know this sounds like we repeat a lot of this over and over, but there is SO MUCH of it, we have to in order to keep track of the building mountain of shit that he keeps piling on top of all of his misdeeds.

      January 9, 2018 4:20 PM MST
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  • 3191
    "He got elected because the EC is gerrymandered up the wazoo..."

    You've gone on and on for over a year about how Trump won due to "gerrymandering".  Please explain how those four electoral college votes he got in districts that were redrawn in 2011 affected the 2016 election and gave Trump the win.  
      January 9, 2018 5:42 PM MST
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  • 13277
    There's no proof of Bush doing that. It's just your wishful thinking. Why don't you concern yourself with what's going on in your own country? You can't vote in the US.
      January 9, 2018 6:49 PM MST
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  • 17599
    Attaboy!
      January 10, 2018 3:16 AM MST
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  • 34284
    The electoral college is not gerrymandered at all. It is only broken down by the individual states and DC and all but 2 are winner take all. You can argue that the control of the House is gerrymandered but not the EC.
      January 9, 2018 7:27 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Your comment that the EC is gerrymandered demonstrates your ignorance. Do you know how the EC is composed and what gerrymandered means? FYI, the EC is made up of the number of US senators and House of Representatives members in each state.
      January 9, 2018 8:30 PM MST
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  • 46117
    He got himself elected President because he is a shameful opportunist.  I guess people can look impressed by that or not, but being in the right place at the right time, has more to do with entitled rich brats than it does with anything smart.  He is an ass and if you cannot see that, despite 20 comedians on tv nightly, then you are lost in space.

      January 9, 2018 4:10 PM MST
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  • 16791
    Comedians' opinions are not to be taken seriously. They're not supposed to be, bullshit is their trade.
    However, when a panel of eminent psychiatrists goes against convention and makes a public statement about the mental fitness of a man not their client, it's prudent to listen - and when that diagnosis us that the President is an unstable sociopath, it should worry people. The nuclear launch codes are in the tiny orange claws of a lunatic. A lunatic who is engaging in schoolyard name-calling with another madman over who has the biggest d!ck.
    https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/29/trump-mental-health-book/ This post was edited by Slartibartfast at January 9, 2018 4:40 PM MST
      January 9, 2018 4:39 PM MST
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  • 46117
    Re:  Comedian comment.  You mistake comedian for the stand up only kind.  This is the new kind.  This is the Bill Mahr kind who invites prominent minds to his show every night.  This is Stephen Colbert who while hosting a nightly TV show, manages to overtake in the ratings primarily because he found his legs after a year by going back to what he excells in.  BASHING THE GOP FOR GREAT REASON.   So, these funny men use facts and show the bizarre humor of the idiocy of it all.

    You know?

    I thought you did know this.
      January 9, 2018 5:47 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Everyone who gets elected president is an opportunist. It goes with the territory. You seriously believe that Obama, Clinton, and the Bushes weren't opportunists?
      January 9, 2018 5:56 PM MST
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  • 6477
    It is interesting why he chose two wives who were from countries where English isn't spoken.. there are many theories why... and those aren't very flattering to Trump or those of his ilk. 

    As for Melania.... aside from the fact that she chose very, very, very poorly and is most likely suffering from that error every day - I have respect for her.
      January 8, 2018 3:21 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Are you certain she chose poorly? Not many women get to be First Lady.
      January 8, 2018 3:26 PM MST
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  • 6477
    Yes, very certain... women know these things ya know.. it's possible she is willing to pay the price but most women would not be prepared to pay a price so high... it's really not worth it...
      January 8, 2018 3:47 PM MST
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  • 6477
    I would add to that... the evidence is surmountable... and much of it pretty self-evident.. She is a beautiful woman.. he is an ugly, repugnant man with very little charm or sex appeal. I defend people's right to make their own choices and we should not judge them for doing so... but inevitably the price paid is more than most are willing to pay and there are consequences.,,. let's face it the lure to her is NOT his charm, looks, intelligence or sex appeal.  He gets women for one reason only. 
      January 8, 2018 3:53 PM MST
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  • 13277
    But why are you so concerned about it? It's not like he asked you to marry him.
      January 8, 2018 5:08 PM MST
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