Melania Trump attacked for reciting 'The Lord's Prayer' at campaign rally
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Leftists on social media tore into First Lady Melania Trump, mocking her accent and religion and branding her everything from a hostage to a whore – all for the secular offense of reciting “The Lord’s Prayer.”
Melania Trump began President Trump’s rally Saturday in Florida by delivering the prayer, which Christians – many of whom recite the prayer in church each week – believe was first said by Jesus Christ. The crowd at Orlando-Melbourne Airport received the prayer enthusiastically.
Left-leaning social media users were a different story, however.
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“Melania starts the dictatorship rally with the Lord’s Prayer? NOT EVERY AMERICAN IS CHRISTIAN!!!! Country over party,” tweeted @JaimePrimak.
Melania starts the dictatorship rally with the Lord's Prayer? NOT EVERY AMERICAN IS CHRISTIAN!!!! Country over party. pic.twitter.com/CX9MxvP915
— Jaime Primak (@JaimePrimak) February 19, 2017
@splattne wrote: “Melania prays (reads) the Our Father. Makes Jesus turn in his grave. Oh wait…”
Several Twitter users harkened to the controversy over Melania Trump plagiarizing a section of her Republican National Convention speech from a previous speech given by former First Lady Michelle Obama.
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“At least this time Melania plagerzed [sic] the Lord’s Prayer from the Bible instead of Michelle Obama. #TrumpRally,” @ParaComedian09 wrote.
At least this time Melania plagerized the Lord's Prayer from the Bible instead of Michelle Obama. #TrumpRally
— Michael Blackman (@ParaComedian09) February 19, 2017
Noticing that Melania appeared to read the prayer from a sheet, some questioned the degree of Trump’s religious devotion, with many deriding the Slovenian immigrant’s accent.
“With an hour’s practice I could probably say the Lord’s Prayer better in Slovene than Melania Trump does it in English,” @adrianshort wrote.
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With an hour's practice I could probably say the Lord's Prayer better in Slovene than Melania Trump does it in English. https://t.co/Q4ofdqeGmz
— Adrian Short (@adrianshort) February 19, 2017
@NicoleAngeleen tweeted: “I could recite the Our Father backwards, drugged with a gun to my head. If you need to read this prayer, you’re not Christian (re: Melania).”
“God Bless her, but listening to Melania do 'The Lord’s Prayer' sounds like someone getting cursed to become a 'Dracula,'@carnojoe wrote.
And a few Twitter users even attacked Melania personally.
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“….plus Melania read the ‘our father’ like a whore in confession after a night of escorting,” @TrumpUriNation tweeted.
@HamiltonElector plus melania read the 'our father' like a whore in confession after a night of escorting
— Harry Benson (@TrumpUriNation) February 19, 2017
@MattDonnelly wrote: “The way Melania choked through that Our Father tells me she has not spoken aloud for weeks.”
President Trump didn’t escape unscathed, either.
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“Trump is still there, so Melania’s prayer didn’t work,” @GerryDuggan wrote.