Posted on 11/28/2018 7:56:26 PM PST by Cronos
First there was the ‘I really don’t care’ jacket. Now there are her sinister decorations. What is she trying to convey?
There is something exquisite about Melania Trump, and I am not talking about her appearance or what she (probably) smells like. She doesn’t defy interpretation so much as beguile it; you want to strip away the layers, but you know you do so at your peril; the layers might be all there is. Mystery piles on mystery: who owns a jacket sporting the words “I really don’t care”, like the one she wore to a detention centre for child migrants? What binds her to her husband, a man whose proximity seems to affect her viscerally, and not in a good way? Can she really freeze human organs using only a look?
This week, all eyes were on her Christmas trees: why were they red? Why were there so many of them? How can something made out of berries look so creepy? Was opulence the problem? First ladies traditionally play down their wealth, whether for Democrat reasons (the ugliness of inequality) or Republican ones (ostentatious display, while not immoral, is at odds with being relied on to make your own biscuits). But this is an altogether different first family: they occupy high office; they run their own clothing company; they have email accounts on multiple servers; no one expects pretend humility and down-to-earthness, the standards of the old school. And Melania wouldn’t get out of bed to defy a convention that was already dead, let alone deck her hallways blood red for it.
Possibly, as has been suggested already, she is trying to separate us from nature, with trees the colour no tree has ever been lined up in a harsh, firing-squad formation.
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JFK & Jackie Kennedy NEVER played down their wealth.
NEVER.
This author is assinine.
No trees are this color?
This author must live in the void of New York apartments & has been nowhere else.
Maple trees get very red in the fall.
First result was wapo article about Melania. Second was the site below which says red trees are "Sassy & Sophisticated".
My opinion of the way she decorated has been that it looks sort of Enchanted Forest looking. Especially that hallway of ice. Looks like something the MSM/Entertainment would rave about if it were in a Disney movie. Would probably win an award for Best [fill-in-the-blank]
The White House has a decorating staff who plan and choose each year’s Christmas decor with the FLOTUS approval.
Melania did not force these decorations on anyone. They weren’t her idea.
The liberals who write this crap remind me of hysterical thirteen year old girls swooning over the latest rumor about a rock music heartthrob.
She really did this???? How could I have missed that. It is so absolutely brilliant.
I thank God that we have a real President and First Lady again!!!
Zoe Williams is a nutcase. She has evil in her heart to say such things. I pity her.
Don't they have maple trees over there in England? Glad our forefathers left.
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