‘Go and do something productive’: Melania Trump snaps back at trolls who accused her of not taking Coronavirus outbreak seriously after she posted photos of new White House tennis pavilion
- Melania Trump snapped back at online trolls who accused her of having a Marie Antoinette moment during the Coronavirus outbreak
- The first lady was criticized when she announced an update to work on the White House tennis pavilion
- ‘I encourage everyone who chooses to be negative & question my work at the @WhiteHouse to take time and contribute something good & productive in their own communities. #BeBest,’ she tweeted
- Twitter users accused Melania of being tone death
- ’29 people were killed by a tornado in Tennessee, the world is shuddering as a pandemic expands and what is a tennis pavilion?,’ wrote actress Mia Farrow
- Others compared first lady to Kirsten Dunst in movie ‘Marie Antoinette’
Melania Trump on Saturday snapped back at online trolls who accused her of having a Marie Antoinette moment during the Coronavirus outbreak when the first lady touted work being done on the White House tennis pavilion.
‘I encourage everyone who chooses to be negative & question my work at the @WhiteHouse to take time and contribute something good & productive in their own communities. #BeBest,’ Melania wrote on Twitter Saturday morning.
On Thursday, the first lady posted an update on twitter about construction being done on the White House tennis court, which included photos of her looking at construction plans and wearing a hard hat.
‘I am excited to share the progress of the Tennis Pavillion at @WhiteHouse. Thank you to the talented team for their hard work and dedication,’ she wrote.
Melania Trump snapped back at online trolls who accused her of having a Marie Antoinette moment during the Coronavirus outbreak
Melania Trump told her online Twitter critics to ‘contribute something good & productive in their own communities’ instead of questioning her work in the White House
She was accused of being thoughtless during the coronavirus scare – there have been 17 deaths in the U.S. as of Saturday – and while Tennessee suffered from being hit by tornados.
’29 people were killed by a tornado in Tennessee, the world is shuddering as a pandemic expands and what is a tennis pavilion?,’ wrote actress Mia Farrow.
About 102,000 people have been infected by the coronavirus across the world and more than 3,480 people have died from it. President Donald Trump visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Friday for an update on the fight against the disease.
He also visited Tennessee, where officials estimate at last 24 people died in the storms.
‘I have a message for the families of those that lost their lives: We love them. They’re special people,’ the president said.
The first lady was at the Department of Justice on Friday morning to deliver remarks to their National Opioid Summit, combatting the drug epidemic is one of the three pillars of her signature Be Best campaign, along with well-being and online safety.
She had on public events on Thursday when she posted the tennis update, which Twitter users were quick to react to.
One user wrote: ‘This is the most extraordinary thing to tweet in the midst of an epidemic. You really are amazingly out of touch with real live people.’
Other Twitter users posted photos of actress Kirsten Dunst from the movie ‘Marie Antoinette,’ with sayings that included ‘Let them Eat Cake’ and ‘Ugh, peasants.’
The first lady has 13.2 million followers on Twitter.
It is not the first time Melania Trump has been accused of being tone death.
The most infamous was in June of 2018, when she wore a jacket that read ‘I really don’t care, do u?’ during a trip to the Texas border to visit migrant children being held and separated from their families.
Melania Trump announced the building of the tennis pavilion in October, calling it her ‘legacy project’
The first lady has been accused in the past of being tone death, such as in June 2018 when she wore a ‘I really don’t care, do u’ jacket during a visit to children being held on the border
Melania Trump posted an update to the White House tennis project on Thursday and was accused of being insensitive during the Coronavirus outbreak
The first lady has said she hopes the tennis pavilion will be a ‘place to gather and spend leisure time for First Families’
The tennis pavilion is being built on the South Lawn of the White House and the first lady has called it her ‘legacy piece.’
‘I am pleased to announce the ground breaking of a new tennis pavilion on the White House grounds. This structure will be a testament to American craftsmanship and skill,’ she wrote on Twitter in October when she announced the project’s construction.
‘It is my hope that this private space will function as a place to gather and spend leisure time for First Families,’ she added.
Her posts included photos of her with a shovel, doing a ceremonial ground breaking and shaking hands with a group of people, who were presumed to be private donors to the project.
A planning permit for the pavilion describes it as approximately 1,200 square feet, made of limestone and with a ‘copper roof.’