I know the band Foreigner had no idea when they released “Cold As Ice” in 1977, they provided a more accurate description of Melania Trump than this weekend’s mainstream media suggestion Mrs. Trump has a conscience.

I’ve seen it before
It happens all the time
You’re closing the door
You leave the world behind
You’re digging for gold
Yet throwing away
A fortune in feelings
But someday you’ll pay.

In contrast, the Washington Post on Saturday reported, “Melania Trump weighs in on her husband’s cruel policy.”   The Corpus Christie Caller-Times suggested, “Melania Trump takes a brave stand against her husband’s policies.”  Cosmopolitan.com wrote, “Melania Trump and Laura Bush have openly criticized the U.S. government’s family separation policy.”

Brave stand?  As the Parkland students would say, “I call BS.” Let’s be honest, Melania Trump has personally SAID nothing.  Her office released a statement in which they claim she (in the third person) “hates to see children separated from their families.”  A dispassionate (cold as ice) statement which then parroted her husband’s claim others are responsible for the situation, forgetting this injustice she supposedly abhors was perpetrated by the cruel narcissus with whom she shares a residence.  Who drafted this statement?  Maybe it was the same person who dictated the now infamous explanation of the June 2016 meeting with Russians in Trump Tower?

The last time I checked Mrs. Trump is not a mute.  If she wanted to speak out against her husband’s policy, she would have been welcomed on any of the Sunday talk shows.  Or she could have submitted to an interview with any magazine or newspaper.

Nor did she follow Laura Bush’s example.  In an op-ed published in the Washington Post, the former First Lady, wrote in the first person.

I live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.

Unlike her RNC convention speech, there is no chance FFLOTUS (faux first lady of the United States) plagiarized Michele Obama who seconded Laura Bush, tweeting, “Sometimes truth transcends party.”

Or Rosalynn Carter who tweeted, also in the first person.

When I was first lady, I worked to call attention to the plight of refugees fleeing Cambodia for Thailand.  I visited Thailand and witnessed firsthand the trauma of parents and children separated by circumstances beyond their control.  The practice and policy today of removing children from their parents’ care at our border with Mexico is disgraceful and a shame to our country.

And finally, Hillary Clinton shared a sentiment felt by many, as Melania’s ghostwriter said, “…on both sides of the aisle.”

What’s happening to families at the border right now is a humanitarian crisis. Every parent who has ever held a child in their arms, every human being with a sense of compassion and decency, should be outraged.

Suggesting Melania Trump is just one more voice in a chorus of first ladies who have actually spoken out against this atrocity is an insult.  A more apt comparison would be Princess Elsa of Arendelle who, in the Disney animated film Frozen, possessed cryokinetic powers and exiled herself to a fortress of ice.  The only remaining question is whether Mrs. Trump continues to be an accomplice in sustaining the moral winter which now blankets America.  If this is what she meant by “BE BEST,” I nostalgically prefer a time when Nancy Reagan told us, “JUST SAY NO!”

For what it’s worth.
Dr. ESP