Melania Trump’s e-book promotions hold getting stranger. First, she opined on the July 13 assassination try on her husband to promote books. Then she waxed poetic concerning the Fourth Modification. Now she’s evaluating her nude picture shoots to classical artwork.
After remaining largely out of sight in the course of the 2024 marketing campaign, she’s reemerged with the publication of a memoir that her crew deems an “intimate portrait” of the previous first woman. And it’s fairly that, with Trump now addressing her previous nude picture shoots, which resurfaced in the course of the 2016 marketing campaign.
“Why do I stand proudly behind my nude modeling work?” she mentioned in a video posted Wednesday on X. “The more pressing question is, why has the media chosen to scrutinize my celebration of the human form in a fashion photo shoot?”
Within the video, she goes on to match herself to well-known items of artwork, with a picture of Michelangelo’s “David” showing on display.
Since leaving workplace, Trump’s husband has been convicted of 34 felonies associated to paying off a porn star Stormy Daniels to cover his affair, which reportedly occurred shortly after Melania gave delivery to their son, Barron. He has additionally been discovered accountable for sexual abuse towards author E. Jean Carroll.
On their nineteenth marriage ceremony anniversary, he raged on social media about Carroll, with apparently no posts devoted to his spouse. And he or she has remained oddly elusive since her husband exited the White Home in January 2021.
A July press launch describes her new memoir, “Melania,” as a “powerful and inspiring story of a woman who has carved her own path, overcome adversity and defined personal excellence.”
That’s tremendous. Most individuals would agree that nudity completed artfully and tastefully is of worth and to be appreciated. Besides let’s not faux this was that form of artwork.
If ladies wish to reclaim their company and switch the male gaze on its head by posing nude, go for it. But it surely’s hypocritical to do this and assist lead the political get together that’s policing ladies’s our bodies, shaming ladies for not having kids, and overturning Roe v. Wade.
Let’s additionally not ignore that her husband’s MAGA-fied Republican Occasion has been adamantly towards sexual liberation, opposing LGBTQ+ rights, positioning itself because the get together of “family values,” and implementing e-book bans throughout the nation. The Trump marketing campaign’s slogan of “Make America Great Again” is an ode to what white People deem a rosy previous of the nuclear household, white picket fence, and a smiling—and silent—housewife. The irony is wealthy.
It’s fairly the stark comparability with the Democratic Occasion. Second gentleman Doug Emhoff is vocal about how a lot he adores his spouse, Vice President Kamala Harris. In the meantime, on the marketing campaign path, Gwen Walz (the spouse of Harris operating mate Tim Walz), Emhoff, and even Emhoff’s ex-wife have been pulling their weight, exhibiting up for the Harris-Walz ticket throughout the nation. Lately, Gwen Walz and Emhoff have made stops in key swing states, like Arizona and Georgia.
But Melania has largely been nowhere to be discovered. Outdoors of Wednesday’s video, she popped up in the course of the closing night time of the Republican Nationwide Conference, sharing a particularly awkward embrace along with her husband after his speech—and that’s about it.
It’s all cringe, hypocritical, and simply … bizarre.
