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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 03:09 PM Dec 2020

Trump Hits Magazines for Not Giving Melania Cover Shot


December 26, 2020 at 11:51 am EST By Taegan Goddard

President Trump criticized glossy US magazines for not offering his wife Melania Trump a single cover shoot while he has been in office, Business Insider reports.

Trump retweeted a Breitbart post that said “elitist snobs in the fashion press” were snubbing the “most elegant First Lady in American history.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2020/12/26/trump-hits-magazines-for-not-giving-melania-cover-shot/#comment-5202458395
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Trump Hits Magazines for Not Giving Melania Cover Shot (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2020 OP
Whine. Cry. Sniff. Mean ole fashion LakeArenal Dec 2020 #1
Elegant like Jackie Kennedy or Michelle Obama? It is to laugh. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2020 #2
So true. How can he compare Melanoma to Jackie Kennedy or Michelle Obama? brush Dec 2020 #9
She suffers from Botox frozen-face as well. LakeArenal Dec 2020 #31
Oooooohhhh...he's such a victim. AllyCat Dec 2020 #3
Michelle Obama is 1,000 times more beautiful than Melania. LaMouffette Dec 2020 #4
Never seen too many underwear models make the cover malaise Dec 2020 #5
What underwear?! PJMcK Dec 2020 #13
That too malaise Dec 2020 #17
We've seen more than enough of her Ritabert Dec 2020 #6
What's wrong with The Journal of The American Society of Plastic Surgeons? C_U_L8R Dec 2020 #7
LOL! Ritabert Dec 2020 #10
K&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2020 #16
Perfect! pandr32 Dec 2020 #22
Does he ever ask himself why? Sucha NastyWoman Dec 2020 #8
Asking why involves wondering pandr32 Dec 2020 #25
Is Hustler in print any more? Miguelito Loveless Dec 2020 #11
That was my question...Playboy is too upscale dutch777 Dec 2020 #26
Oh, just go the fuck away, little man. You've ruined enough lives. Guilded Lilly Dec 2020 #12
THIS malaise Dec 2020 #18
All I can do anymore is smh and make a long silent scream!... Guilded Lilly Dec 2020 #21
I think the majority of the planet feel the same way malaise Dec 2020 #24
Totally. We survived this far, we'll watch him become irrelevant. n/t Guilded Lilly Dec 2020 #32
Fashion is run by open minded artists. Lunabell Dec 2020 #14
Cover of a porn magazine, but they have standards too! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2020 #15
330,000 Covid deaths so far and that's what he's whining about. tanyev Dec 2020 #19
What? Wellstone ruled Dec 2020 #20
Has he talked to Penthouse or Hustler? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2020 #23
If her photos sold magazines she'd be on the cover. badhair77 Dec 2020 #27
Proof that Trump has a strange definition for "elegant" karynnj Dec 2020 #28
It's ageist and sexist to be sure, but it's also true. rsdsharp Dec 2020 #29
Trump has no sway with Anna Wintour. no_hypocrisy Dec 2020 #30
What's his beef? She made the cover of GQ once, as Melania Knauss. On a fur rug. Minus clothes. Hekate Dec 2020 #33

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,899 posts)
2. Elegant like Jackie Kennedy or Michelle Obama? It is to laugh.
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 03:13 PM
Dec 2020

Malaria looks like a cross between a stick insect and a Barbie doll.

brush

(53,924 posts)
9. So true. How can he compare Melanoma to Jackie Kennedy or Michelle Obama?
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 03:19 PM
Dec 2020

Ridiculous. And she's had photo spreads in the appropriate, soft porn mags so what's he complaining about? And her fashion choices are not all that effin' elegant.

PJMcK

(22,056 posts)
13. What underwear?!
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 03:24 PM
Dec 2020

In many of her photo shoots, Melania was buck-ass naked.

I wonder what triggered Trump's ire about his wife's picture on a magazine. Did Melania read him the riot act that she's gotten very little out of her time in the White House?

Whatever. If Trump is upset, I'm happy!

A very good Boxing Day to you, malaise!

C_U_L8R

(45,025 posts)
7. What's wrong with The Journal of The American Society of Plastic Surgeons?
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 03:18 PM
Dec 2020

So mean of them to ignore Malignia.

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)
21. All I can do anymore is smh and make a long silent scream!...
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 03:41 PM
Dec 2020


and hope we all are still in one piece by the twentieth!

Lunabell

(6,127 posts)
14. Fashion is run by open minded artists.
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 03:27 PM
Dec 2020

The majority of them don't want their work to be modeled by the first "lady" of this hateful oppressive regime. She exemplifies the exact opposite of the love they pour into their art.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
20. What?
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 03:36 PM
Dec 2020

She did not make Biker Cover of the month! Damn. I guess the Skin Models with a few miles on them are not getting any Gigs.

badhair77

(4,222 posts)
27. If her photos sold magazines she'd be on the cover.
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 03:55 PM
Dec 2020

His followers aren’t known for their interest in reading anything but FB headlines or cable news captions.

karynnj

(59,507 posts)
28. Proof that Trump has a strange definition for "elegant"
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 03:57 PM
Dec 2020

I remember reading that Trump himself was never accepted by the Manhattan elite - in spite of his celebrity and presumed fortune. His taste in his properties that ran to gold plating is not "elegant" or classy.

As to his taste in women, his taste runs to men's magazines of a certain type. Character, intelligence, and classical beauty is not important to him. He ignores that Melania was NEVER a top choice for covers in fashion magazines even when she was a young model. He ignores that the Democrats treated his wife's soft porn campaign with more respect than the Republicans gave to the career of Michelle (BA Princeton, JD Harvard). Can you imagine if a Democrat's wife as a young woman would have posed as she did?

Maybe someone might mention to him that those magazines choose covers with the hope that they will sell a large number of copies. Obviously, that is why had many lovely Michelle Obama covers. People LIKED (LOVED) her and the class, warmth and kindness that she projected. Even Melania must have known how impressive Michelle is -- after all she plagiarized Michelle's speech.

rsdsharp

(9,214 posts)
29. It's ageist and sexist to be sure, but it's also true.
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 03:58 PM
Dec 2020

There’s not much call for 50 year old nude models, Donnie.

Hekate

(90,865 posts)
33. What's his beef? She made the cover of GQ once, as Melania Knauss. On a fur rug. Minus clothes.
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 04:31 PM
Dec 2020

Last edited Sat Dec 26, 2020, 06:25 PM - Edit history (1)

Jackie Kennedy was elegant. God knows Michelle Obama was elegant, and always will be.

Genuine warmth and charm was definitely part of that. They both loved the old White House, its history, and the people in it. They knew it is our home, too, and invited us in with books and television specials. They were very different women — Jackie’s stay was tragically brief, and afterward she wanted her privacy & not to be hounded by paparazzi, but she was never mean about it. Michelle has embraced a more public role, both during and after.

Body language, too. Melania looks as stiff as a mannequin at all times, teetering on impossibly high heels, face frozen by Botox.

The Don walked in and called the White House a dump. His consort never loved it or respected its place in our history for a minute. Being an immigrant and having a heavy accent is not the problem. She despises us, and it shows. Christmas decorations wouldn’t be a problem, except she made it one by despising us and letting it show.

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