I wonder if the stylist that Melania used to pay big bucks to has stopped working for her? After all, there was significant scrutiny of the fact that a hairdresser/stylist would be getting paid big bucks “consulting” fees out of the RNC coffers. But now the RNC coffers are the Trump family’s piggy bank so perhaps Melania can get the guidance she needs. Or, maybe she’s dressing this way deliberately. You well remember the famous pea coat incident, I Really Don’t Care, Do U? and even her choice of a pussy bow blouse the day after Trump’s Access Hollywood tape broke raised some eyebrows. So what’s up with the white blazer?
Melania has to make one of her rare, contractually obligated personal appearances tonight for the Viktor Orban dinner. She looks thrilled. pic.twitter.com/vLNOuopZZD
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 9, 2024
That is a summer business luncheon outfit. The “rule on white” is that white is to be worn from Memorial Day to Labor Day, although like so many rules, people break them all the time. I’m not sure why Melania is showing up in a coat of any color, when every other woman looks to be dressed in a cocktail dress or evening wear. But at least she’s not wearing nine yards of flamboyant material like when she presented at the Court of St. James the last time.
I’ll tell you what occurred to me: I think she’s messaging. I think the message is, “I’m the white elephant.” A white elephant is defined as an expensive extravagance, something that is difficult to maintain.” Maybe that’s her way to getting back at Trumpty.
Or, maybe I give her credit for too much intelligence. But she is far and away the only woman dressed in white, much less a white coat, at least what we can see in this photo. So the inappropriate dress, just like her grey coat at Rosalynn Carter’s funeral, is a message. It says, “I refuse to go along with protocol. I need to stand out.” And in this case, the protocol she’s rebelling against is her hubby’s. She’s not wearing some form fitting, glittering, gown. She’s hidden under white linen. Now here’s another thought: is it suffrage white?
She is wearing the same outfits as all the Democratic women wore during Biden’s SOTU address.
Is she protesting against her husband, too 😆 pic.twitter.com/fmP4lrEoz3
— CurlyQ 🌼♥️🌼 (@Girlwthcurls) March 9, 2024
I seriously think it is a body double. Has she always been taller than Trump even with heels? Also has she ever used so much mascara around the eyes? pic.twitter.com/1EY7nsn8qP
— Cotsdi (@cotsdi) March 9, 2024
Who can say? We’ll update this if and when more becomes available. Wonderful now that Trump has destroyed the GOP, taken over the RNC coffers and now he’s entertaining one of the world’s most brutal dictators on the planet — because they have so much in common.
I hope Melania enjoys going down in history along with the likes of Eva Braun and Clara Petacci. I daresay that is not what she thought she was signing up for.
My guess is that she wasn’t happy with her “appearance fee” so she didn’t make any effort to get all styled up. It’s FL and wearing white during this time a year might not be unusual down there (it’s one of the handful of states I’ve never been to, even for a stopover during a trip by air) and she just happened to be wearing a white pantsuit when she was summoned for her walk along. Had she been wearing a different color pantsuit, or an everyday dress then that’s what we’d have seen. My guess is it was a last minute appeal from Trump to her to show up for a little while. Can you imagine the conversation? Trump calling her at whatever part of his club she was in saying:
Trump: Uh, Melanie I’ve got this Orban guy coming soon and need to make a good impression. He said he’d like to meet you. Will you show up for a bit?
Melania: I’m bees-ee.
Trump: I’ll pay you
Melania: How much?
Trump: How about a hundred thousand? Money’s tight right now
Melania: Are you keeding me? You are only so broke bee-cause you are bad biz-nees-men and worse creeminal about mon-ee laund-reeng. And you screw en-ee-theeng even if you have to rape them!
Trump: How about 250k then? And could you put on something nice and flattering? It’s a fancy event and women will be dressed up.
Melania: Fore on-lee that much I show up but I’m not get-eeng all dressed up. And your guy better bring my mon-ee in CASH when he comes to bring me to where you are. And ree-member one of MY agents was actual treasury agent and can spot counter-feat mon-ee!
Trump: (mumbles “shit” while covering his phone) Okay. It’s a deal. (Hangs up and throws ketchup bottle against the wall shouting what did I ever see in the cheap whore? I should have cut her loose after I lost to Biden and gotten a new trophy wife for this campaign!)
Once for sale…always for sale.
She probably feels at home with Orban and would probably settle comfortably into Budapest if she and a certain convicted felon were forced to flee. Maybe that’s purpose of the trip.
Yesh, I agree, that’s a body double. The nose is too big
My mother was the Queen of Etiquette (or at least she thought she was!), and she always said white could be worn starting on Easter Sunday until Labor Day. I think Melania IS MOST DEFINITELY making a statement! She’s had a rough go here lately. Her husband was found quilty of sexually assaulting a woman in a department store dressing room, for crying out loud! And because he can’t keep his pie hole shut for even a few days, he now owes this woman a boatload of moolah plus interest. And his case is coming to trial about paying off a flipping porn star to protect his gilded reputation during the 2016 election, and said porn star will seat her–a-HEM– ample-busoomed porn star body across from Melania’s Donny Daddy War-Bucks. Melania is “acting out” because…Melania. So she chose for herself the sartorial masterpiece from the Ice Cream Man line. Very fashionable, for ice cream men! Wait till her first campaign experience, when Malaria will sport her new green pea jacket lettered in white with the message, “I don’t want to be First Lady! Do you?” A cry for help? Perhaps only Mary Trump knows!
I agree that something looks slightly off about Melania’s face. In Florida, the “white” rule hasn’t ever really applied since I have been here for the last 21 years.
Melania and Katie Britt ought to get together and have a “Support Trump” rally.
When dining with the Queen, it not done to bare one’s shoulders. I imagine that the State Department expert on protocol told her and she thumbed her nose at good taste.