I think that Michelle actually foots the bill for the dress. This same TV interview also suggests that she pays a deeply discounted price for the advertising afforded the designer. I like to buy nice things and have no problem with her purchasing this dress for herself.
The problem comes because her and her husband preach to others that they should not enjoy the same freedom when spending their own money and it should redistributed in as many creative ways as possible.
I know I will catch heat for this here but I don’t have as much of a problem with the cost of state dinners as I do say for their Hawaiian vacations and especially that jaunt they took to try to secure the Olympics for Chicago. State dinners serve diplomatic purposes and help us appear as a generous country. Reagan hosted 35 of them. Elaborate first family vacations all over the world on the taxpayer dime on the other hand are absurd and offensive.
I don’t think it is appropriate timing, when so many are out of work, for this dress. Maybe Robinson didn’t pay a dime for it, and Herrera was thrilled to make it for her, but it is still profligate and confirms that she is in it for the spoils and the graft and thinks she is Beyonce and doesn’t care about the abysmal state of our country.
She is not just some dame who married a millionaire. No one cares what that dame blows her husband’s money on.
She is supposed to be First Lady, but she is more like Porky Pig.
You are right about the redistribution and they have made sure they redistribute some of it to themselves. It is an American tradition and value to stretch a dollar until it squawks and blowing money on garbage is not good stewardship. It is disgusting.
Please. They are ghetto trash grifters who act like they
just won the lottery.