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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMelania Is Exploiting Puerto Rico For Money Just Like Donald Exploited The NFL Controversy
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/3/1703881/-Melania-Is-Exploiting-Puerto-Rico-For-Money-Just-Like-Donald-Exploited-The-NFL-Controversy?detail=emaildkrehis vampiric clan of Trump seems dedicated to the proposition that the family that preys together stays together, and prey they do on us. Rachel Maddow effectively demystified Donald Trumps NFL tweetfest by revealing on The Tonight Show a few days ago that Trump had a fundraising campaign through his PAC asking for donations if you agreed with his NFL stance, i.e., if the emotional trigger of listening to Trumps dog whistle of telling the black men their place was enough to make you take out your wallet and donate.
Now Melanias doing the same thing, creating a way to make cash out of some pre-existing situation which is a news story. AOL Lifestyle is running a series of ads, disguised as news articles chronicling the fashion exploits of Hurricane Barbi. Her costume changes are all recorded and everything she wears is for sale. Now her questionable taste in wearing stilletos in a hurricane zone is one thing and thats not the scope of this piece. The fact that what she is actually doing is modelling and selling the stilletos, and everything else, while people are dying and shes supposedly present on the scene as an icon of mercy and hope is. Shes literally using the misery of people egregiously affected by natural disaster and her visibility as FLOTUS to sell clothes and make money. Heres a sample:
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But Melania does communicate a lot to us through clothing. Whether it was the infamous pussy bow blouse that she donned right after her husbands Grab them by the pussy comments surfaced or the [$51,000] Dolce & Gabbana jacket fiasco, her clothes speak loudly. Today, her outfit spoke above all to the baffling spectacle of her husbands response to the horrifying damage that Puerto Rico continues to suffer.
The Trumps are insensitive and vulgar with no sense of proportion or propriety. All they care about is money. When their compatriots like Tom Price, Scott Pruitt and Steve Mnuchin are not bleeding the public coffers dry charging private jets, the Trumps are capitalizing on their visibility in order to hold fundraisers and sell merchandise. In a time of national disaster, they are nothing short of a national disgrace.
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Melania Is Exploiting Puerto Rico For Money Just Like Donald Exploited The NFL Controversy (Original Post)
WhiteTara
Oct 2017
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Irish_Dem
(46,492 posts)1. The Borgias reincarnated. nt
enough
(13,255 posts)2. Does Melania make money when somebody buys something she has worn,
say a Dolce & Gabbana jacket?
WhiteTara
(29,692 posts)3. yes. She sells it on her website.
Used to be on the WH website, but she had to take that down.
enough
(13,255 posts)5. Unbelievable. NT
SharonAnn
(13,771 posts)4. I want to know who does the boobs for Melania and Ivanka? They're stunning (and obviously fake).
And, could they do a "package" for 45?
HipChick
(25,485 posts)6. I don't think they are stunning...
Both are carrying excessive cc's for their rib cage....it results in a matronly look