Why Was Melania given credit for Trump's change on child snatching? @spockosbrain

Why Was Melania given credit for Trump's change on child snatching?

By Spocko


An NPR story today called Melania Trump, "a private lobbying force behind President Trump's change of heart on his controversial policy that resulted in thousands of family separations at the southern U.S. border."
A White House official confirmed to NPR's Sarah McCammon that Mrs. Trump pressed her husband to act to keep undocumented immigrant families together.
"She's been talking to him about it from the very beginning," the official said, who declined to speak on the record due to the sensitivity of the issue. The first lady's "Be Best" initiative is focused on the well-being of children. 
          NPR: Melania Trump Pressured President Trump To Change Family Separation Policy,
          by Jessica Taylor
Mrs. Trump, shown here during a viewing of the caged children.
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When Trump gets busted for something bad, he usually finds a scapegoat to take the heat. When he makes a change in a bad policy he doesn't want to acknowledge that any outside force caused him to change his mind.  Trump doesn't want anyone to think that his mind CAN be changed, especially by protests from Democrats.

Trump also doesn't want to give credit to Republicans who asked him to change his mind. That would be giving them perceived power over him. He won't acknowledge the actual reason, a disastrous public response.

Remember the change in policy after Trump saw the photos of kids in Syria? Was it really Ivanka who showed him the photos that changed his mind, or was she simply given CREDIT for it?

In general Trump doesn't want to acknowledge what leverage works on him. It would be admitting weakness.  By giving the credit to Melania, it makes her look like a person with power over the President.  Yes, she might have some influence, but saying Melania convinced him is really just an acceptable excuse to use for  the media instead of the actual reason. Plus, it helps push her her #beBest initiative. She's probably still pissed at him and giving her credit for this change is one way to appease her.

Baby Gitmo is Bad PR
We know that Trump watches a lot of TV, but it wasn't until images of the kids in cages reached him and his remaining staff, did he finally get the, "This is bad." feeling.

The reason that we never saw the girls who were separated from their parents? It's the same reason that factory farms pass Ag Gag laws.  They don't want people to see atrocities on their TV screens.

Going forward we should note that reaching Trump involves creating the images that get to him.  This is why everyone in the White House goes to Fox and Friends to reach him. To reach Fox and Friends you have to give them something to show, even it is so they can downplay it or lie about it or justify it.

Activists know the importance of photos and video. The media aren't going to get these images and videos by themselves.  We need to help them.

Sometimes we need to make our own videos, other times we need to tip off the media so they can get the images.  Now is the time for insiders or people who know insiders at the Baby Gitmos to act.  Here's a tip. Find a third party to get the story to the media.

For example, maybe you know the guy who delivers diapers to your local Baby Gitmo. You don't want to be the whistleblower, but if the diaper delivery guy gets the idea, totally out of the blue, to call his local TV station with what he noticed... well it's not your fault he noticed, you just work in shipping and receiving!