Hard Hat Melanie: "I am excited to share the progress of the Tennis Pavillion at the White House"

[Miles Archer]

First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday tweeted out a photograph of her wearing a hardhat while supposedly overseeing renovations to the White House tennis pavilion.

“I am excited to share the progress of the Tennis Pavillion at [the White House],” she said. “Thank you to the talented team for their hard work and dedication.”

The first lady’s tennis court photo op came at a time when America is still lagging far behind other countries in its response to coronavirus, as the White House admitted earlier in the day that it would not have 2,500 coronavirus test kits ready by the end of the week as it had previously promised.

Given this, many of Melania’s followers had unkind words for her “tone deaf” photo op — check out some reactions below.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/tone-deaf-melania-trump-slammed-for-white-house-tennis-court-photo-op-while-coronavirus-spreads/

[dewsgirl]

1. I am picturing them quite literally throwing together a photo shoot.🙄

[Turbineguy]

2. 6 inch

stiletto work boots?

Maybe the Biden's play tennis?

[smirkymonkey]

3. The most useless First Lady in American History.

Ugh!

[a kennedy]

19. Got that right.......useless is right....

[hlthe2b]

4. Yet another "let them eat cake" moment from The sociopathic First Lady...

Seems I recall something about the namesake for "let them eat cake" that really ought to make most prefer not to emulate. But, I guess she's too busy to learn any history.

[lagomorph777]

16. Just wait 'til she cuts the ribbon on the new polo field!

MAGAts will line up for blocks to buy tickets.

[calimary]

31. Well they may be allowed to buy tickets to the opening

but they sure as hell will NEVER be invited to play.

[lagomorph777]

44. Of course they'll be on the field

Somebody has to scoop the poop.

[rusty fender]

70. Let them eat tennis pavilions

Sincerely,

Melmarie Antoinette Trumpass

[dawg day]

5. So serious looking! You would think she is looking at the figures on coronavirus infections...

but no. It's about a tennis court? Who exactly is going to use this tennis court? Somehow I don't think it's the local DC kids who want to learn the game.

[rusty fender]

71. But she has a degree in architecture

so surely she can read blueprints

[Farmer-Rick]

6. Wow, her face looks like a plastic doll.

I'm sure they had remind the Slovenian sex worker to keep her clothes on after the cameras came out.

"No, no Malania, this is not like your regular photo shots....you don't get undressed."

[dawg day]

7. I can just imagine her PR person texting her frantically --

"You have to come down from Maryland and help! We are desperately in need of your wise decision on the colors of the lines on the tennis court!"

[Ohiogal]

8. Don't forget

She has claimed she has a degree in architecture!



Exactly who is going to play tennis at the WH? Certainly not her lard butt husband.

These people are so tone deaf and such a waste of protoplasm. Americans are stressed out and needing help because of coronavirus worries, and she is showing off her new foo foo project. They make me sick!

[musette_sf]

25. Architecture??

More like horticulture.

[rzemanfl]

28. Good one. n/t

[treestar]

50. lol

[Javaman]

9. "what are these lines on this thing you call paper?"

"you mean I have to walk on ground without pavement????"

"quick take the photo, I can't stand being around lower humans".

[smirkymonkey]

21. And turned into a vegetable garden!

Jill Biden can invite Michelle back to do something useful with the land.

[GoCubsGo]

24. They can turn it into a basketball court.

[bronxiteforever]

11. You scratch the surface of her you just

Get more surface.

[underpants]

26. 😆

I’m stealing that

[bronxiteforever]

33. Please do ! I stole it from a friend but

it was not about a public figure. Seems like Melania fits the bill!

[musette_sf]

36. + 1

and may I add, Dorothy Parker seems to have anticipated this gold digging mannequin:

[likesmountains 52]

12. Anyone for tennis?

[onethatcares]

57. my friend, you hit the hammer with the nail

thank you.

[likesmountains 52]

58. Thanks!

[procon]

13. Who plays tennis?

I can't see Malrovia in tennis togs, even with her high heeled sneakers and the over the shoulder trench coat. I'm unable to picture the porcine Trump making a rapid fire volley of anything but fried chicken legs.

So who is paying for this ode to the nouveau riche? Better yet, who will use it? Maybe Princess Ivanka needs a posh backdrop to promote her new summer collection of fashionable ladies sportswear.

[calimary]

38. Malrovia!

[Submariner]

41. This is not for tennis

This is nothing more than a very visible White House lawn structure meant to be a finger in the eye to all future presidents. Just because he's an a*****e and that's how psychotics roll.

Knowing that he is hated, it is also a "I dare you to tear this down when I'm gone" structure. He's daring the next Democratic president to mess with it

[Kali]

68. well, at least that one time... (weak stomach warning)

[lunatica]

14. Whatever brains she may have once had have been subsumed by Trump

She’s no longer a human being in public. He’s worn her down to the mental acuity of a vapid mannequin he can jerk around at will. All just to make him look good.

He’s failing on the looking good part though.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Because Donald Trump looks so cute playing tennis

[lagomorph777]

17. Aaaaauuuughghh! My eyes!

Ow!

[a kennedy]

22. OMGAWD........PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE warn us before posting this piece of shit photo.

[magicarpet]

30. Pardon me....

... is that cellulite or cellulose or old fashioned pig lard ?

[a kennedy]

62. I know huh??

[Initech]

42. My eyes!!!! The goggles they do nothing!!!!

[Totally Tunsie]

46. Chump has a serious case of OPL...

Obvious Panty Line. Also a case of Fat Azzzzzz.

[Brainfodder]

51. "Dude Looks Like A Lady" started playing in my head?

[BlueJac]

18. Asshole

Quit sending me mail that says a check is enclosed. I RTS minutes after I received it! Fuck the R NC I am a registered Democrat !

[mokawanis]

20. "Is Donald going to pay for it or can we use peasant, I mean taxpayer, money?"

[world wide wally]

23. After all, she is an award winning architect according to Donnie

[brokephibroke]

27. Infrastructure week!

[onethatcares]

59. uhhh, it's

infrastructure weak.

Geez, he's coming out with a plan in a few days or maybe weeks or some time in the future. All the people acting like they know what they are doing are set on it.

[Norbert]

29. Well at least she is in a picture with two other women and all have their clothes on

[Newest Reality]

32. Awwww...

A new, Moscow Barbie outfit. How impressive and empowering.

We all know how important tennis courts are. I don't think I could live without one.

[calimary]

40. Moscow Barbie!

[Norbert]

34. Build this here. Melania, this is the Hoover Dam

Sorry, I just had to caption this.

[CatMor]

35. Their hard hats are all clean shiny white ...

ordered just for the photo op with the phoney architect reading the blueprints. It is so laughable. Reminds me of her wearing the pith helmet in Africa.

[stillcool]

37. lights, camera, action...

the show must go on! She's got that stern stuff down. Does she ever smile...other than when she's at a funeral, sitting next to Obama?

[llmart]

66. I've seen her smile...

when she was standing next to Trudeau. Not only was she smiling, I think she was drooling.

[obamanut2012]

39. Really a bad look considering the Covid-19 stuff n/t

[Newest Reality]

43. Give it time...

Hazmat Barbie is on the way! The designer colors just scream, "Be Best!"

Barbie's outfit will come with the Barbie Designer Hazmat Fashion Ensemble.

[greatauntoftriplets]

45. Do the Bidens play tennis?

[maxrandb]

47. Is it just me

or do you hear 1970's era porn music when you see this photo?

[GemDigger]

48. Do any of them play tennis?

She is a shallow woman just like her shallow husband.

[Hekate]

49. Is it being built over Michelle's vegetable garden?

[OnDoutside]

52. Let them eat cake....

[onethatcares]

53. the talent and unwavering dedication

will soon be rewarded for their continued construction during the 2nd Bowling Green massacre with a Medal of Freedumb in a ceremony held in the defunct vegetable garden left over from the last administration.

[Totally Tunsie]

56. Ooooo, maybe they should invite Frederick Douglass!

[NurseJackie]

54. I'll bet they built it on top of Michelle's vegetable garden.

[sarcasmo]

55. Hard hat Melania is supervising an escape tunnel under the tennis courts.

[kskiska]

60. That's her safari hat from Africa.

[HDSam]

61. Looks like the standard

North Korea propaganda photo featuring Kim Jong-un providing “guidance” to functionaries.

[friendly_iconoclast]

63. It's Melania Antoinette's Hameau de la Reine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hameau_de_la_Reine

The Hameau de la Reine (French pronunciation: ​[amo də la ʁɛn], The Queen's Hamlet) is a rustic retreat in the park of the Château de Versailles built for Marie Antoinette in 1783 near the Petit Trianon in Yvelines, France. It served as a private meeting place for the Queen and her closest friends, a place of leisure. Designed by the Queen's favoured architect, Richard Mique with the help of the painter Hubert Robert, it contained a meadowland with lakes and streams, a classical Temple of Love on an island with fragrant shrubs and flowers, an octagonal Belvédère, with a neighbouring grotto and cascade. There are also various buildings in a rustic or vernacular style, inspired by Norman or Flemish design, situated around an irregular pond fed by a stream that turned a mill wheel. The building scheme included a farmhouse, (the farm was to produce milk and eggs for the queen), a dairy, a dovecote, a boudoir, a barn that burned down during the French Revolution, a mill and a tower in the form of a lighthouse. Each building is decorated with a garden, an orchard or a flower garden. The largest and most famous of these houses is the "Queen's House", connected to the Billiard house by a wooden gallery, at the center of the village. A working farm was close to the idyllic, fantasy-like setting of the Queen's Hamlet.

The hameau is the best-known of a series of rustic garden constructions built at the time, notably the Prince of Condé's Hameau de Chantilly (1774–1775) which was the inspiration for the Versailles hamlet Such model farms, operating under principles espoused by the Physiocrats, were fashionable among the French aristocracy at the time. One primary purpose of the hameau was to add to the ambiance of the Petit Trianon, giving the illusion that it was deep in the countryside rather than within the confines of Versailles. The rooms at the hameau allowed for more intimacy than the grand salons at Versailles or at the Petit Trianon...

It shows up in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette

Same mindset, different century...

[demtenjeep]

64. the first nude is as disgusting as her sugar daddy

maybe worse because she supports the fucker

[Stinky The Clown]

65. Costume Barbie

[SammyWinstonJack]

67. Are proposed cuts to SS/Medicare from The Maggot going to pay for this crap?

[OKNancy]

69. LOL -ol' George Conway sticks it to the Trumps again

Link to tweet

I don’t understand why people are attacking Melania. I think it’s really nice of her to be building Joe Biden some new tennis courts.

[Celerity]

72. ...

Link to tweet