Melania Trump is once again working her “ass off at the Christmas stuff” even though “you know, who gives a fuck about the Christmas stuff and decorations.” This year, her last as first lady, she’s carrying out her prescribed duties as if it were like any other year. She’s doing it all as though she wasn’t recorded besmirching the name of the holiday that her husband famously saved from the dreaded P.C. police.
On Monday she welcomed the Christmas tree.
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This year Don was not there, and Melania’s coat was herringbone, but otherwise, it was business as usual. She made some conversation with the two men steering the sleigh and dutifully smiled for the camera alongside the Taylors, who grew the Fraser fir—one photo with mask on, one mask off.
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It’s dissonant, too, to see the first lady do Christmas again after hearing in recorded phone calls her absolute displeasure with having to do Christmas. The placid smile, the polite conversation, reportedly ignoring a question about the president and instead saying “Merry Christmas.”
Vanity Fair
News of the first couple’s [Covid-19] diagnosis immediately overtook, well, all other news when it came overnight, including what was shaping up to be one of the most public displays of Melania’s private persona in her four years as first lady. On Thursday, CNN’s Anderson Cooper had Melania’s former adviser and inauguration czar Stephanie Winston Wolkoff on his show to discuss a phone call with Melania that Wolkoff had taped. It’s from July 2018.
On the call, Melania expresses intense frustration that media made a big deal about her holiday decorations the previous November and not her trip to the border the month before on June 21. It was the time of the jacket, if you recall. She alludes to trying to get a kid reunited with their mom, but said she “didn’t have a chance” because they had to go through “the process and the through law.” The media, she says, is not being fair.
“Who gives a fuck about Christmas stuff and decorations?” she asks Wolkoff rhetorically. “But I need to do it, right?”
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She had to do it, in her words, and she was supposed to revel in the work. It’s a big bummer cake any way you slice it.
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It’s here that some observers would start to feel a little sorry for her for having to pay lip service to Christians, cultural Christians, and those who like to see the first lady doing what first ladies have done. It would be terrible to be trapped in a white-columned cage in which one is only acknowledged for the three Ds: decor, dinner parties, and deference to king Christmas.
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But she managed to evade sympathy once again. In her next breath, as Wolkoff tries to get a word in edgewise, she goes in on immigration and the sorries come to a swift halt. She started hitting all the Fox News talking points. Kids were coached to say they were in danger, she said. The beds in the detention facilities are much better than the floors they were used to sleeping on; they love it there. She said that family separation was Barack Obama’s policy, which is in part true, though the policy wasn’t a blanket one at that time.
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On the call, the fact that “they” won’t do a story about her trying to reunite a family is proof positive to her that the liberal media is against her; Fox would do it, she says, but who cares about that.
Vanity Fair
And...what's this? "Happy Holidays" from a Trump property?
Can Trump have been conning his loyal followers about this war on Christmas?
Anyway, Merry Christmas!
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