Melania Trump:Looking for a platform, and a stylist.

[AmazonGrace]

It's pointless to ask her opinions about Trump. Even if she has any, she has probably signed something that promises slow agonizing death if she ever says anything half critical.

[AmazonGrace]

Remember when her spox assured everyone that the jacket definitely wasn't chosen because she is evil 

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[Cartmann99]

Sounds like they are trying to convince Melania to grab her pith helmet and go campaigning with Junior and his mistress.

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[Howl]

“[Melania Trump] brings a beautiful sophistication and elegance to the office of First Lady”

I don't care for her fashion "taste" but sadly, even if true, that's the end of her contribution.  She's pretty much a zero in all other regards. And the irony of her #bebest anti-bullying campaign is a joke; her husband bullies in the ugliest way every day on twitter...Every.Damn.Day......I can't even. 

Edited October 14, 2018 by Howl

[Smoochie]

2 hours ago, Cartmann99 said:

Sounds like they are trying to convince Melania to grab her pith helmet and go campaigning with Junior and his mistress.

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Of course, if you don't count her soft porn pictures ... so much for the family values and moral majority party.  Could you even imagine the uproar if Michelle Obama, Hillary or pretty much any democrat had posed for said pictures? 

It truly is all about the 'R' at the end of the name and has nothing to do with the person behind it!

[Cartmann99]

1 hour ago, Smoochie said:

  Could you even imagine the uproar if Michelle Obama, Hillary or pretty much any democrat had posed for said pictures? 

Yup. Republicans would have immediately started impeachment proceedings against any Democratic president whose wife had posed for nude pictures. Such an act would have been presented to the nation as a stain on his presidency, and the televangelists and hucksters from the various "family" groups would be on television bemoaning said president and his morally bankrupt wife.

Thankfully, the Trumps are Republicans, so If they start running a high-end escort service out of the White House, Faux will give Donnie a weekly segment where he tells the viewers about the coupon codes to access each week's special discounts. 

[Gobsmacked]

Melania (IMO) appears to be an empty emotionless robot. I can't decide if she is actually is or if the guarded stiffness is a veneer she desperately hides behind to prevent herself from falling to pieces. When they married he was a busy business man, her job was to be his arm candy. Baron was born, he became her reason to get up every day. Now she finds her self in a spotlight she didn't choose. Her team did her no favours choosing the Be Best campaign for her in light of McFuckface's character. The whole idea is just laughable or would be if not so sad. Melania was thrown under a bus bigly. 

I dislike the Melania persona we see in the Media. If the true Melania is hidden in there somewhere then I feel sorry for her. If the Melania we see is the real deal then they deserve each other. Poor Baron. 

(Hope this all makes sense!)

[Cartmann99]

I watched this old interview a while back. Melania seems relaxed and genuinely happy and Trump was more articulate back in 2005.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

11 hours ago, Gobsmacked said:

Her team did her no favours choosing the Be Best campaign for her in light of McFuckface's character. The whole idea is just laughable or would be if not so sad. Melania was thrown under a bus bigly. 

Sadly, what cause could she have championed that wouldn't have been ridiculous thanks to the orange menace? Let's see:

• Literacy -- he's proudly functionally illiterate, as are many of his fans
• Homelessness -- he is trying to take away social security
• The needs of the aged -- he's trying to take away social security AND medicare
• Any sort of health/disease -- he's a germaphobe who is trying to take away our healthcare
• The military -- his foreign policies have not helped our soldiers overseas and domestic policies hurt soldiers and their families at home.
• Nutrition -- he seems to have a steady diet of fast food and diet coke
• Beautification/nature/conservation -- he wants to build ugly buildings with his name sprayed all over them like urine. Plus he wants to sell all our natural lands to developers.
• Mental health -- 'nuff said
• Financial literacy -- he's claimed bankruptcy a bunch of times and is trying to bankrupt the country
• Animal welfare -- he's a germaphobe who seems to dislike animals

I know there are many more examples, this is just an off-the-cuff list. She was going to look clueless no matter what cause she decided to champion.

Edited October 20, 2018 by GreyhoundFan

[onekidanddone]

5 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Sadly, what cause could she have championed that wouldn't have been ridiculous thanks to the orange menace? Let's see:

• Literacy -- he's proudly functionally illiterate, as are many of his fans
• Homelessness -- he is trying to take away social security
• The needs of the aged -- he's trying to take away social security AND medicare
• Any sort of health/disease -- he's a germaphobe who is trying to take away our healthcare
• The military -- his foreign policies have not helped our soldiers overseas and domestic policies hurt soldiers and their families at home.
• Nutrition -- he seems to have a steady diet of fast food and diet coke
• Beautification/nature/conservation -- he wants to build ugly buildings with his name sprayed all over them like urine. Plus he wants to sell all our natural lands to developers.
• Mental health -- 'nuff said
• Financial literacy -- he's claimed bankruptcy a bunch of times and is trying to bankrupt the country
• Animal welfare -- he's a germaphobe who seems to dislike animals

I know there are many more examples, this is just an off-the-cuff list. She was going to look clueless no matter what cause she decided to champion.

I wish the woman no harm. That being said, she knew who her orange headship was from the get go. So unless she was forced into wedlock she was okay making a pact with evil. 

Again, I don’t wish her ill but I would like her to STFU and go away.

[fraurosena]

8 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Sadly, what cause could she have championed that wouldn't have been ridiculous thanks to the orange menace? Let's see:

• Literacy -- he's proudly functionally illiterate, as are many of his fans
• Homelessness -- he is trying to take away social security
• The needs of the aged -- he's trying to take away social security AND medicare
• Any sort of health/disease -- he's a germaphobe who is trying to take away our healthcare
• The military -- his foreign policies have not helped our soldiers overseas and domestic policies hurt soldiers and their families at home.
• Nutrition -- he seems to have a steady diet of fast food and diet coke
• Beautification/nature/conservation -- he wants to build ugly buildings with his name sprayed all over them like urine. Plus he wants to sell all our natural lands to developers.
• Mental health -- 'nuff said
• Financial literacy -- he's claimed bankruptcy a bunch of times and is trying to bankrupt the country
• Animal welfare -- he's a germaphobe who seems to dislike animals

I know there are many more examples, this is just an off-the-cuff list. She was going to look clueless no matter what cause she decided to champion.

Yep, your list pretty much shows that she can’t champion any causes without looking totally tone deaf.

One little remark though. The presidunce being a germophobe is something we only ‘know’ because he stated it. And he stated it as a defense of the golden shower accusation...

[Cartmann99]

Be Best, Stephanie.

 

[Howl]

Holy MOLY!  Melania is in the thick of it and the damn gloves are off.   You may not know Mira Ricadel, but she's deputy national security adviser to John Bolton. She has been cited in recent weeks, along with Bolton, as starting a "whispering campaign" against SecDef Mattis.    Now Melania is on a tear and wants Mira OUT.  It kinds of sounds like there is the WH equivalent of face scratching and hair pulling.  Again, palace intrigue and massive dysfunction.  This administration attracts these kinds of personalities. 

This article from CNN has some speculations about the origins of the issue.  In a stunning move, Melania Trump calls for ouster of a top national security aide

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Her [Ricadel's] potential departure would leave national security adviser John Bolton without one of his key allies in the administration, a deputy who has also shared his penchant for bureaucratic infighting.

It was those sharp elbows that sources said led to the first lady's stinging statement, with Ricardel most recently feuding with members of the first lady's staff over her trip to Africa. One person familiar with the matter said Ricardel quarreled with the first lady's staff over seating on the plane and use of National Security Council resources.

A White House official accused Ricardel of being dishonest about the feud and subsequently leaking stories to try to cover her behavior.

And before her spat with the East Wing, Ricardel butted heads repeatedly with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, a rivalry that was well-known within the Trump administration. Her disputes with Mattis preceded her time as deputy national security adviser, going back to the presidential transition when Ricardel sought to block Mattis from hiring certain people who had been critical of Trump or were viewed as insufficiently loyal to Trump.

Tensions have also been rising between Ricardel and chief of staff John Kelly and his deputy Zach Fuentes in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. Kelly and Fuentes believe Ricardel was leaking negative stories about them to the press, the people said.

 

Edited November 13, 2018 by Howl

[Howl]

Holy crap!  Ricardel is OUT!  This is NUTS!  

 

[AnywhereButHere]

Well, damn. She's gone after Ricardel and apparently Kelly. I guess she's aiming at Be(ing)Best at cutting a swath through White House personnel. Now if she could only set her sights on her husband...

[Howl]

Can you imagine the current insanity?  Trump's in a massive sulk over Macron, nobody knows whose horse to back now that things are in even more turmoil than usual....surreptitious shiv sharpening is happening, who can you even trust?

[Howl]

And I'm happy to report that I am not irony impaired, even after six hundred, fifty something days of this mind fuck of an administration or as one tweeter put it, the Vladministration!  Melania surprised visitors to the White House by greeting them in person at the door because.....wait for it.....it's Kindness Day!  #BeBest! 

Edited November 13, 2018 by Howl

[GreyhoundFan]

Why did taxpayers pay for hotel rooms for a day trip?

 

[AmazonGrace]

8 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Why did taxpayers pay for hotel rooms for a day trip?

 

Was it a Trump brand hotel? 

[Howl]

On 10/20/2018 at 5:32 PM, GreyhoundFan said:

Animal welfare -- he's a germaphobe who seems to dislike animals

Just wanted to note that Joe Biden & Jill just adopted a German shepherd they'd been fostering for a shelter.  

Biden adopts German shepherd named Major

And remember, Melania is 50-ish (49?).  She's a grown woman, not a naif.  I have zero sympathies for her, although I suspect she loves her son deeply and is a good mom.  I also saw a pic recently of Trump with Barron. There is a genuine smile on Trump's face.  Barron may be the only glue holding that family together. 

 

[AmazonGrace]

59 minutes ago, Howl said:

  Barron may be the only glue holding that family together. 

 

Barron? That's what you call your currency these days? 

[Smoochie]

13 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

Was it a Trump brand hotel? 

LOL nope, we got rid of that brand in Toronto!

[fraurosena]

Melania decorated the WH for Christmas...

[GreyhoundFan]

"Melania Trump didn’t show up to explain her spooky Christmas decorations. So what about those red trees?"

Spoiler

First lady Melania Trump skipped the traditional press preview of the White House holiday decorations Monday, tweeting out a 56-second video of herself wandering through the glittery, dressed-up rooms in a dark coat and boots.

Was she upstairs baking Star Sugar Cookies using her recipe, which appears in the official White House holiday printed program?

Her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, said Trump decided “to let the decorations speak for themselves.”

Members of the media were invited on a brisk 30-minute self-guided tour through the holiday wonderland of more than 20,000 feet of lights and 12,000 bows, put up over the past few days with the help of 225 volunteers. Official theme: American Treasures. The color red was big, appearing in a dramatic forest of 40 towering crimson topiary trees in the East Colonnade and on 14,000 ornaments in the Grand Foyer and Cross Hall.

The first lady’s office described the red motif: “The choice of red is an extension of the pales, or stripes found in the presidential seal designed by our Founding Fathers. It is a symbol of valor and bravery.”

However, the unconventional grove of red trees evoked an immediate reaction online. They were described as scary and referred to as the “hallway of Yuletide murders,” “the avenue of blood red trees” and ominous.

Green Room decorations celebrate the country’s harvest and include fruits, grains and vegetables, including aptly colored artichokes and tomatoes, which were artfully arranged on mantels and antique tabletops. The East Room featured mantel pieces trimmed with silhouetted skylines of New York, St. Louis, Chicago and San Francisco. The China Room presented table settings of three state dinners, including the Trump administration’s sole such soiree for the president of France.

“This is a joyous time of year when we decorate the White House for the Christmas season,” the first lady said in an official statement. “Our theme honors the heart and spirit of the American people. . . . On behalf of my family, we wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.”

On the second year of Trump Christmas, the first lady decided not to appear in person to unveil the work of her staff and volunteers, a gig first ladies since at least as far back as Nancy Reagan made a part of their official White House duties.

Over the years, first ladies have appeared in blinking Christmas tree pins and emerald green dresses. Some served long buffet tables of artisan cheeses, lamb chops and spiked eggnog that would be on the menus of that year’s holiday parties. Sometimes the artist of the official White House Christmas card would be introduced, or the White House chief florist would be around to answer questions.

Sometimes it wasn’t all festive. Facing reporters at the 1986 media preview of holiday decorations, Reagan denied that she and President Ronald Reagan had been bickering over whether Chief of Staff Donald Regan should be fired.

At the 1991 preview, Helen Thomas, longtime White House correspondent for United Press International, asked Barbara Bush how she thought the economic “depression” (a word never uttered at the White House) would affect Christmas 1991. “I hope it will make people think of others and give more to people in need,” said the first lady.

At a Clinton holiday preview at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Hillary Clinton fielded questions in front of the Blue Room tree. When asked about an allegation from Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) that a quarter of White House staffers had used drugs before coming to work there, she deemed the accusation “unfair” and said she was sure the White House chief of staff would respond.

During her years in the White House, Michelle Obama appeared at the holiday decor unveiling with her dogs for photos but did not take questions from reporters.

At last year’s media event, Trump in an off-white dress and gold stilettos made a dramatic entrance down the stairs into the White House’s Grand Foyer to the tune of “The Nutcracker Suite” as ballerinas danced around her. Although she didn’t speak to reporters, she wandered through the decorated rooms interacting with schoolchildren and was available for photo ops.

This holiday season, the White House will host 100 December open houses and receptions, the same as last year. And they expect 30,000 visitors to walk through the halls on holiday tours.

A couple of new traditions for the Trumps were also visible: The Melania Trump “signature wreaths” (pine circles with red bows) that made their debut last year have returned, displayed on White House exterior windows. At the end of the media tour, reporters were handed small custom green-and-red boxes of Hershey’s Kisses, the official token of Christmas at the White House 2018.

 

[AnywhereButHere]

Seriously. What is up with the "Be Best" golf balls used as decorations? And yeah, the hallway of blood red trees is creepy as hell. Holy crap do these decorations suck, but I guess if you're going to symbolize your administration through Christmas decorations - they're on point!

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-white-house-continues-its-tradition-of-turning-chri-1830653485

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We’re in the maws of a darkened cavern where thousands of innocent souls have been swallowed whole, their innards slowly dripping down over millions of years to form red, bloody stalagmites. Can you imagine walking down that hallway and not instantly feeling like those cones of death are filled with the dozens of people who’ve quit or been fired from the White House in the past two years alone? That hallway isn’t a festive treat. It’s a graveyard.

But hey, if the White House can make this an annual tradition, so can I. Let’s conjure up some all-new festival comparisons for this new year of horror:

That Tom Cruise War of the Worlds movie after the aliens liquified all the people into bloody planet fertilizer.

What happens to anyone who spies on secret rituals in Suspiria.

“Come play with us, Melania. Forever and ever and ever and...”

The creepiest cavern in The Descent.

A shrine to all the Handmaids Trump had executed for not fulfilling their procreational duty.

That wave of blood from The Shining.

If Richard Dreyfuss had made his Close Encounters mesa out of something far ickier than mashed potatoes.

The world’s most-terrifying game of Cones of Dunshire.

Again, basically any episode of American Horror Story.

And a special bonus for all the bloody boil balls gracing every other room in the White House this holiday season. Can’t look at them without seeing Tim Curry’s Pennywise asking if I want a balloon.