From her husband’s wars that harm children abroad to her ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Trump is far from an authority on children’s interests
3-MIN READ3-MIN1Alex Loin TorontoPublished: 5:30am, 7 Mar 2026I am a sucker for all kinds of humour, including tasteless jokes. But I draw the line at sick jokes being reported as serious news. As far as those jokes go, the Monday appearance of US first lady Melania Trump as chair of a United Nations Security Council meeting takes the cake.The topic of her speech? Children, technology and education in conflict. She declared that the US “stands with all of the children throughout the world”. Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up.
During her speech at the UN forum, Melania Trump paid tribute to several US service members killed when an Iranian drone hit a military base in Kuwait, but there was no mention of the dead Iranian girls. Apparently, there are children and then there are Iranian children.
But that wasn’t her fault, you say, since the speech was scheduled before the sudden outbreak of war. Well, suppose the Iranians dropped a bomb on an Israeli school full of children or a school with American kids in Dubai. Do you think the Iranian representative at the UN would get a free pass in the Western news media? I don’t think so. And most likely, Israel and the US would have levelled Tehran in response.
