WAPO OP ED: You are in Melania Trump's nightmare forest. Keep to the path.

[lindysalsagal]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/11/28/you-are-in-melania-trumps-nightmare-forest-keep-to-the-path/?utm_term=.72e205995c14

You are in Melania Trump’s nightmare forest. Keep to the path.



By Alexandra Petri Columnist November 28 at 10:38 AM

Listen to me. The trees in the White House were all green when I got here. They were all green as recently as Monday. But the trees have turned.

Walk faster.

Don’t be afraid. The trees would smell it.

Things are wrong here. Little details are wrong. The attorney general is different. He hasn’t been confirmed by the Senate. We go nearly a month between daily press briefings. The trees are red. The phrase “Be Best” is everywhere. “Be Best.” As though to “be best” is grammatical and not the clumsy articulation of a child. But there are no children in the forest. This forest is no place for children.

Last year the trees were a hideous, ghastly white. It was always winter and never Christmas.

This year everything is red. It is perfectly natural that the trees are red. The trees are red (the Internet says) as a handmaid’s cloak. Do not think of blood. Keep walking.

Has anyone seen or heard from Scott Pruitt? Don’t look startled. Has anyone seen or heard from Jared Kushner? Do people even remember that there is such a person as Jared Kushner? Then what does his voice sound like? Can you remember ever hearing it? Keep walking. Look straight ahead.

[Scurrilous]

1. K&R

[BigmanPigman]

2. This, and last year, are tributes to Russia.

I wish I could post photos on my tablet but you can Google it yourself. Last Year's white, leafless Birch trees were spooky with creepy lighting and shadows. Both seem to send a special tRump tribute to Putin from the W House. Seems pretty obvious to me (2 years in a row).

[ffr]

3. All I can think of is The Shining's movie trailer

[NBachers]

14. REDRUM

[samnsara]

30. my thoughts exactly

[cwydro]

4. K and r.

Scary.

[localroger]

5. You have just been eaten by a Grue. /nt

[TwistOneUp]

6. This is amazing! nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. one HELLuva job, Alexandra Petri

If you keep walking and do not count the trees as you pass them, sometimes you will come across Jeff Sessions making a pair of dainty shoes, working his tiny hammer and adze so deftly that you can scarcely believe your eyes.

Or you will happen upon the hut deep in the forest that stands on chicken’s legs and plays “Fox & Friends.” It wants you to come in. It has a cooking show. Don’t go in. It is not a cooking show. You know what it is.

Don't deprive yourself of reading the whole thing.

[Hekate]

20. I want to read it, but am now blocked by the paywall

[Hermit-The-Prog]

21. cookies are not always good to eat

It's always the first time if there are no cookies accepted.

Also...

https://lynx.invisible-island.net/

(I have a subscription to WaPo, but have never bothered to sign in; never blocked from reading).

[Demovictory9]

8. lol

[BumRushDaShow]

9. If you see all black trees next year then look out

[ProudLib72]

10. Can we just skip white and red and go straight to orange?

[Cha]

11. Well Done! Funny.. I read there's 40 of those

ugly red trees just as there were 40 red seats Lost to the Blue Democratic Wave.

[MontanaMama]

12. I'm curious what they're made of

and where the go after she’s done with them. They’re certainly hideous! Maybe they could raffle them off to the MAGATs...donate the money for a good cause!

[Cha]

16. Like the OP advises.. don't get too close. It's as if we're living in the freaking

Twilight Zone and handling it the best we can

Link to tweet

I'm sure the magat cult would love to get their hands on those sinister red trees(?).

MontanaMama

[FakeNoose]

24. Hey Melania! The 1970's called, they want their shag carpeting back

[GopherGal]

13. Maybe they'll turn blue

on January 3!

[MontanaMama]

27. Woulent that be the best practical joke??

Melanie gets up to get her coffee and BAM! all the trees were spray painted blue over night.

[lilactime]

15. I love Alexandra Petri.

[Wawannabe]

17. Damn

That. Is. Creepy.

[Hekate]

18. That is an eerily brilliant take on this dystopian forest.

[SunSeeker]

19. K & R

[eppur_se_muova]

22. Strange that Retrumplicans have embraced red so strongly ....

"Reds" used to refer to Communists, especially Russians, to whom "red" is a superlative. Is that a tell ?

[ThoughtCriminal]

23. I remember this scene

From "War of the Worlds".

[Vinca]

25. It must be a great inspiration for Stephen King. LOL.

"The Shining Revisited."

[CentralMass]

26. It is fitting decor for Red Don.

[YOHABLO]

28. I'm not hating this, but do these trees walk around? A little scary don't you think?

[samnsara]

29. I think her decorator is the same person who dresses her