The Washington Post’s Style section loves to write about Melania Trump. As we reported last Christmas, writers published at least four pieces about a hallway of red trees; this year the decorations were deemed lovely, but the first lady’s coat was “ridiculous.”
Now there’s a new book out by CNN’s Kate Bennett called “Free, Melania,” and the Washington Post had dedicated way too much thought to it. Is Melania Trump sending coded messages through her clothing?
Perspective: Is Melania Trump sending coded messages, or are we just talking to ourselves? https://t.co/5S6Xl3R5SB
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 5, 2019
From the Washington Post:
Is there symbolism in everything Melania Trump does, or not? Is Melania Trump playing five-dimensional chess against the rest of her checkers-playing family, or not? Will we ever know? Does it even matter? Does your pointed commentary about the administration’s immigration policy matter, if, to understand you’ve commented at all, the American public must intimately know the shopping habits of your grown stepdaughter?
Truly, which is the more unsettling interpretation of Melania Trump? That all of the odd stuff she’s done has been intentional, but she’s bizarrely choosing to communicate in fashion code, rather than to communicate using any one of the five human languages she speaks? Or that she has no plan at all — that she wakes up and throws on pussy bows and sloganed jackets, and nobody surrounding her thinks to say, Hmm? That the rest of the country is merrily rolling toward pandemonium, and meanwhile she’s again planning her holiday decorations six months in advance?
Wow, they really have a fetish about Christmas decorations at the Post.
— The Mane Event™ (@EliasTheodorou) December 5, 2019
— GOP Pouncer (@Mellecon) December 5, 2019
Wut pic.twitter.com/JnXwUIvXpd
— Dan Stringer, Copper Wire Arbitrager (@Danstringer74) December 5, 2019
— Sodalitium Pianum (@andy_ngi3) December 5, 2019
— Sam the Eagle ?? (@skglosson) December 5, 2019
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 5, 2019
There’s the brink and then there’s the abyss – you’ve clearly fallen into the abyss
— Me Chomper (@chmpr) December 5, 2019
Nah, you're just insane https://t.co/NxEkAz7zSO
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 5, 2019
Who wants to be the one to tell them? https://t.co/mrSoeHF0IV
— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) December 5, 2019
Is everyone there doing ok?
— Jessica Fletcher (@heckyessica) December 5, 2019
Is there somebody we can call for you?
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@jtLOL) December 5, 2019
I think there's a gas leak in the building
— Ganoble Merry™ ??☃️ (@ganobleberries) December 5, 2019
Just start with half the edible next time.
— TheCarston (@TheCarston) December 5, 2019
Seriously? This is journalism?
— socaljp (@socaljp) December 5, 2019
You’re really just talking to yourselves which, to be clear, is nothing new.
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 5, 2019
Your sanity is dying in darkness
— Keith Maniac, from Guatemala (@CutItOutPutin) December 5, 2019
"There's a hazard in believing we know what's going on in the first lady's head, but we're going to give it a shot anyway lol yolo"
It's fine. There isn't much else going on in Washington right now, anyway.
— yawning lit prof (@TraylorAlan) December 5, 2019
always good to get the perspective of absolute lunatics
— Harry Khachatrian (@Harry1T6) December 5, 2019
Way to make Alex Jones seem sane.
— Matt, The South is Not Enough (10-2) (@nflulrich17) December 5, 2019
https://t.co/UmO7byA7bJ pic.twitter.com/JZpbsm4VnU
— jon gabriel (@exjon) December 5, 2019
Malarkey isn’t a code, it’s a language
— Mercury (@mercuryroad) December 5, 2019
Coded messages to Putin!!!
— GR Hū✝söñ (@jess_reign_bass) December 5, 2019
Just read her last tweet backward and it said “Don’t forget to drink your ovaltine.”
— Jason Mitchell (@1JasonMitchell) December 5, 2019
2020 is going to be so fun omg
— Jessica Fletcher (@heckyessica) December 5, 2019
Related:
‘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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