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Prairie Gates

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5. Tim Miller of the Bulwark has really been going in on Melania barely being able to speak English
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 12:20 PM
Apr 12

He was joking that reporters have been agreeing with him privately but nobody wants to say it publicly. It really is true, though. Her presser the other day was jaw-dropping, apart from the Epstein content, because it was clear that she was really struggling even reading the English on the teleprompter. This woman is not even close to a fluent English speaker, and, in fact, her English (as miller correctly points out) has seemingly gotten even worse, which means she speaks it rarely. She's lived in the US for nearly 30 years!

Einstein visa my left foot. (That's an English language idiom, Melania: you're probably not familiar)

Now, I can see the incoming. What's wrong with not speaking English? Aren't you Libs the open borders celebrate divesity types Huh? Huh? Hypocrites! Yeah, no. There actually isn't anything wrong with moving to the US and never quite learning English. My own father spoke with a heavy accent his whole life, and often struggled in faster, more colloquial conversation. here's the thing:

He wasn't at the head of an aggressively nativist, anti-immigrant, assimilationist, reactionary social movement!

Melania Trump does not know how to speak English beyond maybe A2 level foreign language learner.

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