I really don’t garden do u?
There’s this picture from last September of Queen Melania pretending to garden, kind of like Marie Antoninette at le Petit Trianon.
Gee, that basket is awfully clean. So are her gloves, so are her sneakers, so are her pruners.
Heather Schwedel at Slate compares her to her predecessor in the gardening thing:
She doesn’t bother to put up her hair or exchange her designer sunglasses for a more practical wide-brimmed hat. In one hand, she holds a pair of pruning shears uneasily, as if ready not to trim an overgrowth but to snip off the ponytail of an invisible rival or a Barbie doll she is jealous of. Her other hand poses beatifically over an empty basket, providing gestural encouragement to the basket without actually deigning to make physical contact with it. She really doesn’t prune, do u?
Clothingwise, Teigen’s commentary focused on Trump’s shoes, and since we more often see her in stilettos, it’s easy to see why. Melania’s feet, trained on years of uncomfortable spikes, seem unaccustomed to such flat shoes. Maybe that’s what’s throwing her center of gravity off? But the shoes are hardly the only notable element of the first lady’s ensemble. Her plaid top, complete with four buttons on the cuff, is from Balmain and retails for $1,380. Her gloves, in bright red and closely tailored to her fingers, also seem more fit for attending galas than gardening.
You don’t wear a $1400 shirt to garden. You don’t.
Contrast them, meanwhile, to some of former first lady Michelle Obama gardening elsewhere and working in the same garden, which she started during her husband’s term, and weep. Once again, Michelle has been plagiarized, and once again, it’s been done very badly.
Not posing but gardening.
Oh I dunno. Could be that she’s just being careful.
Little things hanging around or even protruding and poking out in her direction could easily get snipped off. If she wasn’t. Careful.
Ah, now here we see the consequences of wearing heel all the time. Her tendons have shortened. If she places her feet flat on the ground, her knees buckle to compensate, hence the awkward crouch. Poor woman, won’t someone get her some orthopaedic stilettos?
It never ceases to amaze me that someone whose actual career is self-presentation is so poor at it. Doesn’t she have any idea what she looks like?
At least she’s meeting with local school kids and doing her best to garden with them. A lot of right wingers were eager to see Michelle Obana’s garden ripped out. Surely keeping it and continuing to use it, even ineptly, is preferable.
The Trumps really are sham people.
Oh, god, Skeletor, must you contradict EVERYTHING?
Who says “she’s meeting with local school kids and doing her best to garden with them”? Is there a source for that? If she is, what was the point of an idiotic posed photo op like that? No of course I don’t want to see Michelle Obana’s garden ripped out, but that doesn’t mean I can’t make fun of the fakery of the woman who wore the “I really don’t care” jacket to visit the children her husband deliberately yanked away from their parents.
If she came to my garden I am certain she would fall to pieces.
Gardening is easy. Preparing and landscaping the garden is another matter. In Melania’s defense, the kids probably just put some plants in pre-tilled soil and shook a hose over them. My kids will tell them that until they take in about 10 to 16 Gatordades in a weekend, they’re not gardening.
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