{"id":7673,"date":"2018-06-25T11:36:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T09:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7673"},"modified":"2018-06-25T11:40:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T09:40:11","slug":"melanias-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7673\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania&#8217;s Jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrating the gravity and rigour which justifies their unique funding model, the BBC offers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-44574499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five reasons<\/a> why Melania Trump chose to wear a green jacket with <em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care. Do you?&#8221;<\/em> printed on the back. Personally, I think it was her reaction to weeks of gleeful speculation from the press that her absence from public appearances was due to abuse at the hands of her husband rather than <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/05\/14\/politics\/melania-trump-surgery\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kidney surgery<\/a>, but others differ.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC doesn&#8217;t go this far, but some commentators believe her choice of attire was a deliberate snub to Donald Trump, who &#8211; as the speculation around her medical absence proved &#8211; are desperate to believe she hates her husband and is deeply unhappy. Now it may be that Melania&#8217;s marriage is an unhappy one, but you&#8217;d hardly rely on the modern media to give an appraisal of what makes a satisfied wife: half of it&#8217;s made up of crazed feminists raging about how awful men are, with the other half being pencil-necked omegas who think white-knighting for women who despise them will get them laid. And speaking of crazed feminists:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Beginning to get creeped out by the Melania situation? Read this thread. And no, you don&#8217;t have to be a huge fan of hers to consider the possibility that not all is well in her marriage to Trump. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DsTGCoCGSj\">https:\/\/t.co\/DsTGCoCGSj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Natalia Antonova (@NataliaAntonova) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NataliaAntonova\/status\/1002698854955999232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Please read this thread on how abuse works.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to be a Melania fan to be suspicious\/concerned right now. For all we know, she\u2019s fine. But we *also* know how Trump treats\/views women. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/43P3gw1EtN\">https:\/\/t.co\/43P3gw1EtN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Natalia Antonova (@NataliaAntonova) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NataliaAntonova\/status\/1001999896818388992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&#8217;ll keep repeating this: You don&#8217;t have to *like* Melania to see she&#8217;s trapped by an abusive narcissist.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Natalia Antonova (@NataliaAntonova) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NataliaAntonova\/status\/824615009841995778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Antonova seems to think because her own marriage ended in disaster she is qualified to ascertain whether other women, who have given no sign that they are unhappy, are trapped in an abusive relationship. I have no doubt that Melania knows what she&#8217;s doing, although I don&#8217;t think she&#8217;s too keen on the First Lady role. She&#8217;s spent her entire adult life around brash assholes like Trump, and I doubt his character took her by surprise. Indeed, women seem to like the man, and others just like him, which no doubt drives feminists nuts. None of this should come as a surprise to anyone who&#8217;s read <a href=\"https:\/\/heartiste.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chateau Heartiste<\/a>\u00a0or similar.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the comforting fallback is to say Melania&#8217;s only with Donald for the money. Which she might be, and everyone said that about Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s young wife Wendi Deng. However, when some dickhead tried to throw a custard pie in her huband&#8217;s face during questioning by MPs during the phone hacking scandal, she stood up and belted him one.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZIZNXZVNk74?start=20\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;know, maybe these eastern women actually have some pride in their husbands and take their role as a wife seriously? That would explain why media types are confused.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I turned on France 24 and saw a discussion about Melania&#8217;s jacket between two men and two ageing Frenchwomen who looked as though they&#8217;d been drinking vinegar all morning. They agreed the Trump camp had &#8220;lost control&#8221; by &#8220;allowing&#8221; Melania to dress in a such a manner, and offered the time she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/style\/847910\/melania-trump-houston-texas-heels-donald-hurricane-harvey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chose to wear high heels<\/a> as another example of her tin-eared sartorial choices. Naturally, it didn&#8217;t seem to occur to any of them that a woman ought to be allowed to dress as she pleases; presumably they&#8217;d not be too happy if Fox News spent a segment of a show discussing how haggard Macron&#8217;s wife looks no matter what she wears.<\/p>\n<p>Now a bunch of ageing, single women criticising how a prettier, more successful married woman dresses is nothing new, of course. What amuses me is they call themselves feminists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrating the gravity and rigour which justifies their unique funding model, the BBC offers five reasons why Melania Trump chose to wear a green jacket with &#8220;I don&#8217;t care. Do you?&#8221; printed on the back. 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