Jill Biden memoir shares frosty encounter with Melania 'who only wanted to talk about the weather'

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Former first lady Jill Biden has described a frosty encounter with her successor, Melania Trump, during Donald Trump’s inauguration in her newly released memoir.

In the penultimate chapter of A View from the East Wing, Dr Biden details the moments before the handover between her husband Joe and his successor on January 20 2025, after months of ill-tempered clashes on the campaign trail.

Describing a bitterly cold winter’s day, the Democrat explained how even her choice of outfit was made with a view to appeasing the Trumps.

“The blue was an obvious political choice, but purple signified unity. I still believe in that,” she wrote, after deciding between two Ralph Lauren suits for the ceremony.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/jill-biden-memoir-shares-frosty-164459669.html

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In a wide-ranging interview with “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg to promote her White House memoir, the former first lady said Tuesday that she had put life in perspective after her husband, former President Joe Biden, was diagnosed with prostate cancer that spread to his bones.

She said she is no longer angry about the way Democrats pressured her husband to end his reelection bid after performing disastrously in a 2024 debate against Republican Donald Trump.

“No, I’m not angry. I mean, what’s the purpose of anger now?” Jill Biden said at the first event for her book, held at the 92nd Street Y in New York following publication earlier Tuesday.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/jill-biden-says-shes-sorry-021448704.html

[ITAL]

7. Yahoo is an aggregator

They tailor it to what they record that you interact with on their site. It really depends on what the person tends to open up and read. I don't feel like I see that many right wing pieces on yahoo at all.

[choie]

2. Personally I wish she hadn't written the memoir.

What good does it do? She certainly doesn’t need the money.

[leftstreet]

3. Picking at scabs. Never a good idea n/t

[Tanuki]

4. ..."historic treasure being treated like a fixer-upper on Property Brothers"

"....During the demolition of the East Wing… I received pictures of the destruction step by step from people in D.C.,” Biden wrote. “I could barely look. The social offices, gutted. The military office, flattened. What had been my office, gone."....(more)

“A major landmark and historic treasure was being treated like a fixer-upper on HGTV’s Property Brothers. It wasn’t the loss of the blue-and-white striped drapes, the velvet sofa, the bookshelves filled with memorabilia that pained me – it was the symbolic bulldozing of history and the eradication of institutional memory.

“I kept thinking of everyone across the country that took pride in that building. I felt a sense of loss and grief with every blow from the wrecking ball. The innards of the East Wing were spread out for everyone to see, like a rare and precious animal that had been hunted down and killed.”

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I haven't read the book, but from the excerpts I think she has some interesting and poignant observations. She has a unique perspective and might as well have a say.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/jill-biden-memoir-shares-frosty-164459669.html

[choie]

8. Sometimes, you have to care more about your country and how the Democrats can beat

the authoritarian party in the next election instead of 'having her say". We don't need a rehashing of what happened during Biden's tenure. As Leftstreet said, it's not good to pick open a scab.

[FascismIsDeath]

10. Because she wanted to tell her story? Joe is slowly dying and Jill is getting up there in years.

No one is going to be thinking about Jill Biden when they go vote in these next 2 major elections. If she felt she needed to get this off her chest and do it in a public way by writing a book, then more power to her.

She has a place in American history. She is an accomplished woman. She is someone to be looked up to.

No one is forced to read it. And its no one's business but her own as whether or not to write it.

[Rob H.]

5. I hate to have this thought, but Melania may not be capable of normal human interaction

after marrying into a family whose relationships with one another are entirely transactional. (Note: I'm not expressing sympathy toward her by any means; she knew what she was getting into and could've left Hair Furor at any time.)

[RockCreek]

6. Wonder if she considered a title such as "The view from the Destroyed East Wing"?

[mr715]

9. "No, I'm not angry"

I don't entirely understand the goals of this book, at this time.