Donald Trump Slammed For Letting Melania Fly On Government Jet After Grounding Nancy Pelosi

“Melania Trump flew on a government plane today to go on vacation at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Trump cancels the government plane for the Speaker’s trip to Afghanistan to visit with troops. This is what corruption looks like. The definition of it. In so many ways. Abuse of power,” another person tweeted.

For those of you keeping score:

Nancy Pelosi going to Afghanistan to visit the troops on a military plane during a shutdown: not OK, because trump is petty AF

Melania trump flying to Florida for whatevs on a military plane during a shutdown: OK, because trump is petty AF.

— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) January 18, 2019

This afternoon Donald Trump denied Nancy Pelosi the use of a military plane so she could visit our troops in Afghanistan.

A few hours later Melania Trump used a military plane to fly to Palm Beach.

Any questions?

— Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw) January 18, 2019

Pelosi was also scheduled to visit Brussels, Belgium and Egypt in addition to Afghanistan and Trump told her in a letter that “Obviously if you would like to make your journey flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative” and seemed to imply she was taking a holiday by calling her trip “a seven-day excursion.” A Caribbean cruise is a seven-day excursion, not a trip for government purposes into a foreign war zone.

One person put it this way in a tweet, “Let me get this straight: It’s not okay during a shutdown for Pelosi to visit American troops in Afghanistan on official government business (which included diplomacy NatSec briefings)… …but it’s fine for Melania Trump to commandeer Air Force One to go on a Florida vacay?” Yep…that’s our president.

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