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Posted on 02/27/2017 5:47:14 PM PST by drewh
Melania Trump is featured on the cover of February’s Vanity Fair Mexico in diamonds – a must see.
The First Lady is wearing diamond rings and bracelets and posed as if she is “eating” a bowl of stringed jewels like spaghetti. Inside the issue, there is another photo of Melania drinking a jewel-laced cocktail through a straw.
Her cover photo is being criticized as insensitive and out of touch, coming at a tense time between Mexico and the U.S.
This is a time when Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is refusing to pay for the border wall Trump intends to build. As nearly half the Mexican people live in poverty, Melania is seen literally playing with her jewelry.
Yet the cover photo is less known in the U.S. and nobody I have talked to about it has heard of or seen it themselves.
Looking at these images, a certain phrase came to mind: “Let them eat cake.”
Historians argue whether or not this is something that the infamous French Queen Marie Antoinette actually said but nevertheless, Antoinette is bound to it forever.
After having this first revelation, I began to realize our First Lady and the former Queen of France have more in common than meets the eye.
For those of you who aren’t as familiar with past French monarchs (or who haven’t seen the film “Marie Antoinette” with Kirsten Dunst), here is a quick history lesson.
Marie Antoinette was born in Austria as Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna – not very French. She married the crown prince of France, Louis XVI at the age of fifteen.
The French people thought Marie Antoinette did not know her people at all and rumors spread the Antoinette was a foreign spy.
Antoinette also became known as a spendthrift or, in simpler terms, the girl had a shopping problem.
She frequently wore the most high-end fashion, gambled all night in Versailles and lived in luxury as her people starved. The French blamed their economic depression in part on her spending habits.
The two also married powerful men from other countries.
Antoinette was born in Austria and moved to France upon her engagement to the Dauphin whereas Melania is from Slovenia and married Donald Trump. She did not know it at the time but she married the future president of the United States.
Currently, the First Lady is residing in Trump Tower with her and Trump’s son Barron. This is occurring at the same time as New York City foots the bill for her stay.
Many people are outraged that our country can afford to support her lifestyle as the people in Flint, Michigan still have lead-poisoned water. This does not even include the cost to cart President Trump back and forth to Mar-a-Lago every weekend to work on his golf game.
Melania Trump is miserable and this is not the life she wanted, according to a recent article published in the New York Post.
She feels trapped by Trump’s decision and rarely leaves their $100 million penthouse in Trump Tower.
One positive attribute the two women seem to share, however, is a love for their children. The reason the First Lady is staying in Trump Tower alongside Barron is so he can finish the school year uninterrupted.
On the campaign trail, Melania’s appearances were rare due to her primary devotion to raising her child. Marie Antoinette is described as also being very focused on her children and their education.
But was Marie Antoinette really the reason France went bankrupt followed by a subsequent revolution and fall of the French monarchy? Or was she a scapegoat, a woman to put the blame on during difficult times?
Sure, Melania Trump gracing the cover of a magazine appearing to eat a string of jewels as if they were spaghetti isn’t the best thing to do given the current state of the world.
It does, nonetheless, beg the question if she is really the person we want to be aiming our anger and frustration at.
Will she prove to be careless with the American people’s money? And most importantly, could this presidency in any way lead to another American Revolution?
But we never heard a word about Michelle’s multi-million dollar vacations from the MSM.
Was this a picture promoting MELANIA’S jewelry line BEFORE she became FIRST LADY?
Marie Antoinette lived off of the taxes of the peasants of France. Libelous pamphlets also spread lies about her personal morality.
Melania Trump’s luxurious lifestyle was earned by her husband, who came up with hundred of creative ways to build stuff, make stuff and sell stuff to many, many people, making money off of it that he chooses to spend in part on her. You may as well go after Melinda Gates or John F. Kerry.
Surfing around on Fakebook I found this scurrilous misinformation on President Trump
http://www.learnprogress.org/trump-the-same-hitler/
Yes, it’s as bad as it looks from the title. This is the kind of hatred that is going to cause civil strife in the USA.
wait until they find out Ivanka went to the monster truck show yesterday!
What the H311 is that drivel above? The writer c s not be serious. The tax payers are not paying for a thing for the Trumps except their protection which they full well deserve.
The First Lady bothers no one, mostly caring for her son, looking beautiful and supporting the President
Now IF the blasted article were about Michelle Obama it would have a great point.
Moochelle Fatoinette.
Did some searching.
The picture was taken as a photo shoot to advertise her jewelry line. ANTI-TRUMP are accusing the FIRST LADY of ‘advertising’ her jewelry line on her WHITE HOUSE bio. The fine print is ‘QVC NO LONGER carries MELANIA jewelry and all the information on the bio was information only.
THESE ANTI-TRUMP MEDIA ARE EVIL PEOPLE.
To add to the ridiculousness, this cretinous author quotes ANOTHER hit piece just as scantily supported, from the NY Post. That is their idea of building a case. No, my friend, you are just an epithet-hurling little girl, thinking that by taking a bit of this hateful unfounded article and that hateful unfounded article, you could build yourself some credibility. Well, all you've managed to do is set yourself up as a laughing stock. Are you holding a placard proudly proclaiming your status as a FOOL? You might as well be.
Melania Trump is the beautiful wife of a very wealthy man. If she chooses to adorn herself with costly baubles, that is her business and his. Not yours, pathetic wannabe drooling from the sidelines.
If you are dependent on your writing skills as your stepping stone to such great wealth, I think it's time to seriously downsize your ambitions. You can't write your way out of a wet paper bag. And you can't string two logical sentences together. Poor baby, you are simply a contemptible, odious hater.
You know they wanted to do the same photo shoot with the Mooch...........but they were afraid she’d swallow the loot and scoot before it flew out her patoot!
These continued references to the Trumps as Bourbons or Romanovs reflects the leftists’ desire - conscious or othewise, to kill them all; to liquidate the entire family.
Antoinette was a parasite royal, claiming unjust power and wealth that was stolen.by force. Melania earned hers personally.in a free society, and now has other resources from marriage. Resources that her husband earned legally and morally.
Pictures of Melania Trump from Philadelphia Style Magazine Pictorial [United States] (December 2011)
Hey, I get it, Molly Dietz, I really do.
Melania Trump is smart and attractive and gracious, all qualities which you lack.
So of course you’re going to write ridiculous things with little or no basis in reality.
As the saying goes, Melania Trump is living rent-free in what passes for your mind.
If you’re actually so concerned about the “nearly half the Mexican people” who live in poverty, what, exactly, have you ever done to help them. Nothing, right?
You are grasping, Molly Dietz, grasping for any possible tidbit that you can use to denigrate Melania Trump, no matter how silly or far-fetched or inapt it may be.
But there’s nothing novel or interesting about doing that for a ‘progressive’ like you, Molly. Progressives have a long history of being unafraid of appearing (to normal people) to be jackasses, as long as they can pat themselves on the back over how wise and enlightened and virtuous they believe themselves to be. You’re living in a fantasy world of your own making, Molly - a world where you’re fighting the valiant fight against Nazis and the KKK and evil white, heterosexual people, while in reality you’re just a poor, misguided imitation of Walter Mitty.
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