"I am excited to share the progress of the Tennis Pavillion at @WhiteHouse."

[SteveG]

Melania's got nothing on Marie Antoinette.


Let them eat Prekmurska gibanica!


Social media users fired a volley of tweets at Melania Trump for tweeting about construction of a tennis court at the White House.

Her original tweet on Thursday showed her in a hard hat with workers and said, “I am excited to share the progress of the Tennis Pavillion at the @WhiteHouse. Thank you to the talented team for their hard work and dedication.”

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. pic.twitter.com/Wzown2ho26
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) March 5, 2020

Social media users saw that as an unforced error, with many responding, in essence, “YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!” for tweeting about a tennis court during the coronavirus crisis and all the other issues the country is facing.

"The only thing that comes to mind is “let them eat cake,” Twitter user Peter Shea wrote in one of the more polite returns. “The world and country is in the midst of a pandemic and she’s out talking about a private tennis court that only a small handful of people will ever use. Seriously, use some of DJT’s money to buy a fricking clue!”

One Twitter user, whose handle “LiterallyAnyoneElse2020” speaks volumes about her political leanings, wrote, “Aweeeee!! I don’t care what ya’ll say about Melania. It is nice as hell that she is having a tennis court built for the Bidens.”

[SteveG]

1789

June 20

Third Estate makes Tennis Court Oath

In Versailles, France, the deputies of the Third Estate, which represent commoners and the lower clergy, meet on the Jeu de Paume, an indoor tennis court, in defiance of King Louis XVI’s order to disperse. In these modest surroundings, they took the historic Tennis Court Oath, with which they agreed not to disband until a new French constitution had been adopted.

Louis XVI, who ascended the French throne in 1774, proved unsuited to deal with the severe financial problems he had inherited from his grandfather, King Louis XV. In 1789, in a desperate attempt to address France’s economic crisis, Louis XVI assembled the Estates-General, a national assembly that represented the three “estates” of the French people–the nobles, the clergy, and the commons. The Estates-General had not been assembled since 1614, and its deputies drew up long lists of grievances and called for sweeping political and social reforms.

The Third Estate, which had the most representatives, declared itself the National Assembly and took an oath to force a new constitution on the king. Initially seeming to yield, Louis legalized the National Assembly under the Third Estate but then surrounded Versailles with troops and dismissed Jacques Necker, a popular minister of state who had supported reforms. In response, Parisians mobilized and on July 14 stormed the Bastille–a state prison where they believed ammunition was stored–and the French Revolution began.

[Dennis S]

I hope Joe Biden remembers to send her a thank you note.

[Pam]

Who plays tennis? Melania? Barron?

[GGD]

Pam wrote:
Who plays tennis? Melania? Barron?

[Pam]

Ewwww!

[SteveG]

Pam wrote:
Ewwww!

That was back before he really put on the pounds!