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Melania Trump kisses firefighter in unearthed ‘New York’ cover
New York Post ^ | February 28, 2020 | Ebony Bowden

Posted on 03/04/2020 6:52:19 PM PST by ELS

First ladies don’t kiss and tell.

A racy “New York” magazine cover showing Melania Trump smooching a Big Apple firefighter in the wake of 9/11 has been unearthed nearly two decades later.

At the time of the photo shoot in 2002 — meant to be reminiscent of the iconic V-J Day smooch between a sailor and a nurse in 1945 — Trump was a little-known model named Melania Knauss who had been hired to pose on the cover of the publication’s Valentine’s Day “Singles” issue, according to New York.

Knauss — who at the time was dating Donald Trump, then known as a Big Apple property developer — was selected to star on the cover paying homage to New York’s first responders, who had become “rock stars” in the wake of the devastating 9/11 attacks months earlier.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History
KEYWORDS: flotusmelania; melania; melaniaphoto
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To: bobby.223

I know you’re joking, but FDNY firefighters have a rappelling harness built into their bunker pants.


61 posted on 03/05/2020 6:28:37 AM PST by Richard Kimball (WWG1WGA)
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To: KC_Lion
Thats one hot firefighter. 😊
62 posted on 03/05/2020 7:00:54 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ELS

Wow, so cool! Thank you! Hope you are fine, ELS!


63 posted on 03/05/2020 7:54:18 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Party that freed sIaves, passed Civil Rights is called racist by the party that started the KKK.)
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To: jazminerose
It strikes me as a modern take in the WWII sailor/nurse kiss.

It was a take on that iconic image in Times Square.

64 posted on 03/05/2020 8:12:36 AM PST by ELS
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To: dead

WOOF!


65 posted on 03/05/2020 9:10:07 AM PST by elteemike (lable)
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To: KC_Lion

Lucky firefighter, isn’t he???


66 posted on 03/05/2020 10:38:04 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: MeganC

:D


67 posted on 03/05/2020 12:10:10 PM PST by KC_Lion (Me and my homies woulda been stackin' bodies by now- G. Washington.)
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To: MeganC
They held the pose “a couple hundred times”

Super lucky! I could spend a day doing that with her, and die happy. 🥰

68 posted on 03/05/2020 12:20:41 PM PST by catbertz
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