Last year, after the White House revealed a hallway decorated with red Christmas trees, we counted the stories slamming the decorations. Slate called them Melania Trump’s “red Christmas trees of death,” but that was nothing. We counted at least four stories from the Washington Post alone slagging on the decorations, calling them “spooky” and “Melania’s nightmare forest” and writing that they induced “flashbacks to phantasmal nightmares.”
Oh, also? In Europe, red Christmas trees are a bad sign. Good thing the White House isn’t in Europe, huh?
Now, a year later, the Washington Post has changed its tune: the Christmas decorations are lovely, but the first lady’s coat? It looks ridiculous.
Perspective: Melania Trump’s Christmas decorations are lovely, but that coat looks ridiculous https://t.co/7HieL5jRT6
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 2, 2019
Democracy dies in darkness. https://t.co/cEJfEhsTWy
— Larry O'Connor (@LarryOConnor) December 3, 2019
I call malarkey on the Washington Post
— Chas for Trump (@Chas32119696) December 3, 2019
They can't help themselves, it's called Trump Derangement Syndrome.
— James Groom (@ndmax56) December 3, 2019
The WP cannot deny that the decorations are exquisite, so they have to be catty about what FLOTUS is wearing. #Patheic
— Lisa (@Lisacpc1) December 3, 2019
How many eyes did this pass by at the Post and it still got published?
— CrustyB (@cburgerhead) December 3, 2019
Don’t you miss the days when there were entire stories about how awesome Michelle Obama’s arms were?
There is no way anyone needed that many words to write this https://t.co/FoKmtDo92A
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) December 3, 2019
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“Perspective” https://t.co/zxKbzWM5Bn
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) December 3, 2019
Perspective: Melania’s coat is stunning and this story makes @washingtonpost look ridiculous. https://t.co/65GANprM24
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) December 3, 2019
Perspective: You’re petty. https://t.co/4DGlOMH9e3
— Nathan E. Yates (@FVNate) December 3, 2019
unsolicited take : Melania is refusing to performatively present herself as America’s housewife and everyone’s just mad the gig is up https://t.co/dkk2RPe05N
— Anagha Srikanth (@anasrikanth) December 2, 2019
This isn't a silly thing to fixate on at all https://t.co/DZ4wGptF2I
— Clark Mindock (@ClarkMindock) December 2, 2019
Has the heat been turned off in the White House? Is that why the Trump's are always so bundled up in heavy coats? ?
— East2West (@CarolynEast2) December 2, 2019
It actually is turned down in this part of the WH in order to preserve the trees.
— Christian Washington (@ChrWashington) December 2, 2019
Not up on the Beltway’s Christmas etiquette. Does loathing Trump require snarking at the man’s wife too? https://t.co/VZ5U1xOGy9
— Bill McGurn (@wjmcgurn) December 3, 2019
I think you mean “Crazy Person’s Perspective.” I’d even settle for “TDS Perspective” https://t.co/rDgwGnBabP
— LB (@beyondreasdoubt) December 3, 2019
See your doctor and pray that your dose is upped indefinitely. https://t.co/z0oVAgKwTp
— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) December 3, 2019
This??is??not??journalism?? https://t.co/UXozWl8xS5
— Glynis OMeara (@GlynisOMeara) December 2, 2019
Pretty sure they’re just reposting articles from Christmases past.
It’s so tiring. https://t.co/IwhcbsDuNs
— m/ -=EdVT=- m/ (@CargoShortLife) December 3, 2019
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‘It’s OK to notice she dresses extremely well’: Mollie Hemingway didn’t find Melania Trump’s coat ‘macabre’ https://t.co/7OCqrSvwiv
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 25, 2019
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