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Remember when First Lady Michelle Obama was off-limits to political satirists? Comedians know not to cross certain lines with their jokes. Take the First Family. It’s all well and good to mock the president, but the First Spouse is a different matter. That’s how it was for eight years when First Lady Michelle Obama lived in the White House. And good for that. She wasn’t the president. It’s certainly reasonable to send a gentle barb or two her way. She’s a public figure, after all. More than that? Inappropriate. Now that Melania Trump is the country’s First Lady, all bets...

MELANIA TRUMP, first lady of the United States, and Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, wore lavish and stylish outfits to watch the president’s first address to a joint session of congress last night.However, the two glamorous women were widely criticised for their outfit choices, which were branded “inappropriate” after social media commenters noted the hefty price tag of the extravagant garments. Melania Trump wore an outfit from Michael Kors’ Spring 2017 collection that retails for $10,000, or over £8,800. The black skirt was cinched in at the waist with a wide black belt with a square buckle,...

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...

Remember that New York Times reporter who allegedly told model Emily Ratajkowski that “Melania is a hooker” over the weekend? You wouldn’t remember his name, of course, seeing as the New York Times was oddly silent about that. All we knew is that they had supposedly reprimanded the guilty party. Well, this afternoon, the guilty party finally came forward: You needed your editors to make it clear that you shouldn’t go around calling the First Lady a hooker?

Melania Trump is secretly miserable as first lady, a new report claims. Private, self-conscious, and smarting from some harsh, even mocking press, Melania is “struggling with the realities of her new role and the scrutiny that comes with it,” US Weekly says in its Feb. 27 cover story, citing family sources. “This life wasn’t her dream. It was Donald’s,” a Trump family friend, stylist Phillip Bloch, told the magazine. “Truthfully, it’s a lot to cope with.” Since Inauguration Day, Melania has spent almost all her time hiding inside the “gilded cage” of the family’s lavish, $100 million Trump Tower penthouse...

The New York Times reporter who called Melania Trump a “hooker” at a private event on Sunday has apologized, saying he wants to “take ownership of a mistake” he made. Jacob Bernstein, the son of Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein and the late writer-director Nora Ephron, came forward on Tuesday to identify himself as the journalist who repeated what he called “unfounded rumors” about the first lady in a conversation with model-actress Emily Ratajkowski. “Speaking at a party in what I thought was a personal conversation, I nevertheless made a stupid remark about the first lady,” he wrote in a series...

Melania Trump thanked actress Emily Ratajkowski for standing up for her when a New York Times reporter called the first lady a "hooker." "Applause to all women around the world who speak up, stand up and support other women!" Trump tweeted at the actress. Ratajkowski unloaded Monday on the unnamed reporter via Twitter after the journalist called Trump "a hooker" at a fashion show. Stay abreast of the latest developments from nation's capital and beyond with curated News Alerts from the Washington Examiner news desk and delivered to your inbox. "Whatever your politics it's crucial to call this out for...