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href="/article/president-trump-mika-brezezinski-tweets" data-reactid="148"><!-- react-text: 149 -->unquestionably the greatest cyber bully in political history<!-- /react-text --></a><!-- react-text: 150 -->—and now this!<!-- /react-text --></p><div class="ad __no-background" data-reactid="151"><div class="ad--inner" data-cns="intext_first_page_1" data-reactid="152"></div></div><p data-reactid="153"><!-- react-text: 154 -->This morning, Mrs. Trump <!-- /react-text --><a href="/article/first-lady-melania-trump-snakeskin-heels-hurricane-harvey-celebrity-style" data-reactid="155"><!-- react-text: 156 -->boarded Air Force One<!-- /react-text --></a><!-- react-text: 157 --> wearing a pair of towering pointy-toed snakeskin heels better suited to a shopping afternoon on Madison Avenue or a girls’ luncheon at La Grenouille.<!-- /react-text --></p><p data-reactid="158"><!-- react-text: 159 -->While the nation is riveted by images of <!-- /react-text --><a href="/article/hurricane-harvey-houston-a-city-unready-for-disaster" data-reactid="160"><!-- react-text: 161 -->thousands of Texans wading with their possessions, their pets, their kids, in chest-high water<!-- /react-text --></a><!-- react-text: 162 -->, <!-- /react-text --><a href="/article/guide-helping-victims-hurricane-harvey" data-reactid="163"><!-- react-text: 164 -->desperately seeking refuge<!-- /react-text --></a><!-- react-text: 165 -->; while <!-- /react-text --><a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/348030-texas-mayor-tells-those-not-evacuating-to-write-names-social-security-numbers-on" data-reactid="166"><!-- react-text: 167 -->a government official recommend<!-- /react-text --></a><!-- react-text: 168 --> that those who insist on sheltering in place write their names and social security numbers on their arms, Melania Trump is heading to visit them in footwear that is a challenge to walk in <!-- /react-text --><em data-reactid="169"><!-- react-text: 170 -->on dry land<!-- 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