Posted on 02/21/2025 5:07:09 PM PST by simpson96
Chinese social media is lighting up with love for Melania Trump as she returns to the White House — with users praising her ability to stay stylishly unattached yet supportive of her powerful husband.
The two-time first lady is winning thousands of female fans in the authoritarian country — where women must strike a balance between modern and traditional — for her stoic loyalty and fashion taste, according to users and experts.
“She looks heroic, elegant and resolute, so powerful and majestic, loving it so much,” Joyce Yip, a 39-year-old entrepreneur wrote on Xiaohongshu — China’s equivalent of Instagram — after husband Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration last month.(snip)
When Melania, 54, wore a wide-brimmed hat to the inauguration, similar products quickly popped up in online shops in China as influencers posted videos showing people how to make their own version.
By conventional standards in China, women are expected to be supportive of their husbands and focus on raising children.
But Melania Trump’s streak of “independence” also appeals to Chinese fans — along with her social climb from small-town Slovenia, experts said.
“Chinese fans like her having both traditional and modern sides of a woman,” said Jingsi Wu, an associate professor of media studies at Hofstra University in New York.
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*ping*
Thank God the turkey-necked evil virago Jill is gone.
Hey Forbes—eat your heart out, Ana the whore Wintour!!!
Vogue too....
I always like seeing her in heels.
Wow 🤩
Compare our President and his wife to the grifters with no class who just left the White Hospice...
I truly admire her resilience. This time around, she is doing what SHE wants. She learned that no matter what she does, wears, doesn’t wear, eats, doesn’t eat, etc…she’ll get hate. NOW…it’s on her terms. That is a confident woman.
Good and evil.
I can hardly wait to see what she does with the White House next Christmas.
Where is the First Lady?
I don’t recall seeing her on TV since the Inaugural Balls the night of January 20th.
A crazy woman on crystal meth would look stoic standing next to Trump.
President Trump is pointing and saying, ‘See that Great Wall of China? Yep. Gonna tear it down!’
*WINK* MAGA! :)
That was a GORGEOUS floral gown with just the right touches of ladylike pink. Fit for an Empress. :)
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