For nearly 140 years, the annual Easter Egg Roll has been the biggest single public event held at the White House, drawing over 35,000 people from around the country, including local schoolchildren, military families, Congressional guests, and members of the general public.
Until now.
According to sources, the high-profile 138-year tradition is being significantly scaled back due to lack of planning by the White House. More specifically, due to lack of planning by Melania Trump.
Apparently, she’s been too busy squeezing that $2.9 million out of the DailyMail for publishing that unflattering story about her last year to focus on her role as first lady. #Priorities.
Since 1878, the Easter Egg Roll has always been coordinated by the first lady. Seeing as how Mrs. Trump not only lives 200 miles away from the White House, but has yet to bother putting together an official staff, this year’s event, like Trump’s numbers in the popular vote, is expected to underperform bigly.
The New York Times reports the event is being “quickly thrown-together” and is expected to draw about 20,000 people. That might seem like a lot, but it pales in comparison to the 37,000 that attended last year.
But that’s not all.
Each year, the White House orders wooden Easter eggs from Wells Wood Turning in Maine. The eggs are handed out as gifts and sold as souvenirs. But this year, Melania failed to get the order in on time, despite the company’s attempts at alerting both she and her husband, as well as Ivanka, via Twitter to let them know time was running out over a month ago:
@FLOTUS @realDonaldTrump @POTUS @MELANIATRUMP @IvankaTrump FYI manufacturing deadlines for the Easter eggs are near. Please reach out! pic.twitter.com/D78YqWVPBi
— Wells Wood Turning (@WellsTurning) February 20, 2017
As a result, the eggs could not be manufactured in time.
On top of all that, a spokesperson for the D.C. area public schools, which usually gets around 4,000 tickets to the event, tells the New York Times that they haven’t even been approached this year. Neither has the American Military Partner Association, an organization that represents military families. Oh, and no tickets have been distributed to members of Congress to give to their constituents either.
Also, the event typically features Sesame Street costumes provided by PBS Kids, but because the first lady submitted her request so last minute, only one costumed character will be able to attend.
Finally, no celebrity entertainers have been announced or are even expected.
Of course, the White House, being the White House, insists that everything’s totally fine! It says the Easter Egg Roll is going to be the best, the greatest, the most tremendous, the most incredible Easter Egg Roll ever. Just you wait!
How could it not be with the Trumps in charge?
Related: Melania Trump was just paid $2.9 million, or roughly what we spend to protect her for 3 weeks
Alan down in Florida
They asked Melania what she had in mind for the egg roll and she replied “I don’t like Chinese food.”
pcorm00
That was so funny!
1EqualityUSA
“Hello, children. Easter is not all it’s cracked up to be. No yolk intended. I shell not forget this most eggscellent day, hastily put together by staff whom I have yet to meet. There must be a dozen of you. Enjoy this pagan ritual and praise Ishtar, the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility and sex. Ova and out.”
olfwob
I guess Melania ordered the eggs weeks ago…. in China – as her husband did with the steel for his buldings.
pcorm00
Thank you for supporting globalism!
whatevz
one would think the stupid homeschooled inbred fake christian conservative crowd would be outraged about this but their old racist president hates brown people just as much as they do so whatevz
kurt_t
“at alerting both she and her husband”
at alerting both her and her husband. The pronoun takes the objective form in this context, as it is the object of the gerund “alerting.”
With regard to the content of the story, the First Lady can’t even find a dress designer willing to work with her. How is she going to round up enough gays to throw an Easter party for 37,000?
jckfmsincty
How laughable. These people can’t do anything right.
pcorm00
It’s a stupid tradition. It was limited to a few lucky kids. What about all the rest of us. Let’s do something where everyone can benefit. That event was just a publicity stunt!
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
PBS should have told the Eastern Bloc whore due to her husband’s budget cuts they couldn’t afford to send anyone at all.
pcorm00
Well, what do we have here, a patriot or a person who is totally against why we started this country. Your smearing name-calling and the use of ad hominem reflect your command for practical reasoning.
Eddie Jr
Oh, not to worry I’m sure the official count of attendees will be well over a million.
natekerchel
This story contains two of my favorite targets – the self-styled Mrs.Rochester of Jane Eyre fame who is allegedly the ‘First Lady’, and the British Daily Mail. That newspaper is the most extreme right wing newspaper in the UK. If you look into its history you will find that it praised Hitler as a good man in the 1930’s. So I am glad to read that they had to pay this money. It also meant that what they originally printed about the lady was repeated again and again.
It comes as no surprise that she has once again failed in her duties. After all, no trump is going to make a profit on this event, and that will always be their motivating factor – personal or political gain. Who would want to enter that house of horrors anyway. Creeps – the whole lot of them.