Melania Trump Deliberately Reduces First Lady Staff

Melania Trump is under constant scrutiny. Mostly because she’s married to The Donald. Liberals are wholeheartedly convinced that she’s Actually Miserable. They’re so sure of this that they floated a theory about Melania having a body double. You know– that way she doesn’t have to endure the pain of traveling with her eeeeeeeevil president husband, Donald.

I kid you not. Everyone was freaking out about that on Wednesday.

All that absurdity aside, Melania Trump is doing some cool stuff. And by cool stuff, I mean SAVING MONEY. According to this, she’s reduced the First Lady related payroll dramatically. I’m talking, she cut down Michelle O’s 16 staffers down to just four. (Although some say Michelle O had as many as 24 at one point.)

According to a Fox News analysis of White House personnel reports, Melania Trump has significantly reduced the number of aides on the first lady’s office payroll in comparison to her predecessor, Michelle Obama.

 

During then-President Barack Obama’s first year in office, 16 people were listed working for Michelle Obama, earning a combined $1.24 million a year.

Melania’s staffer salaries add up to an estimated $486,700 a year.

How about THEM apples?

The details are contained in an annual report the White House sends to Congress showing the names, positions and salaries of all its personnel. Both the Obama and Trump administrations acknowledged several additional staffers beyond those listed in the report with the term “first lady” in their titles. But even counting all those employees — 24 for Michelle Obama and nine for the current first lady — Melania Trump’s office is relatively small.

And it’s not by accident either.

“As with all things that she does, she is being very deliberate in her hiring, focusing on quality over quantity,” communications director Stephanie Grisham said in an email. “It is important to her that the team is a good fit for what she wants to accomplish as first lady, and that everyone works well together. She also wants to be mindful and responsible when it comes to taxpayer money.”

 

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According to those personnel reports, Melania Trump’s staffers include a chief of staff, a communications director, a deputy chief of staff and a deputy director of advance.

Sounds pretty basic to me.

However, some say Michelle O had a bigger staff because she was constantly in everyone’s business. If Melania decided to get into the business of telling us what to eat…

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…she’d probably need more staffers too.

Michelle Obama’s staff included those same positions and a slew of others: additional press aides, a director of policy and projects, a personal aide, a traveling aide and a director of correspondence.

 

Michelle Obama’s office did not return a request for comment.

So there you have it. Melania is deliberately trying to be more “low maintenance.” Well, low maintenance for a First Lady, that is.

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h/t Fox News