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WhiteTara

(29,692 posts)
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 01:15 PM Oct 2017

Melania 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=emaildkre

his 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 Trump’s 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 Trump’s dog whistle of telling the black men their place was enough to make you take out your wallet and donate.

Now Melania’s 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 that’s 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 she’s supposedly present on the scene as an icon of mercy and hope is. She’s literally using the misery of people egregiously affected by natural disaster and her visibility as FLOTUS to sell clothes and make money. Here’s 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 husband’s 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 OP
The Borgias reincarnated. nt Irish_Dem Oct 2017 #1
Does Melania make money when somebody buys something she has worn, enough Oct 2017 #2
yes. She sells it on her website. WhiteTara Oct 2017 #3
Unbelievable. NT enough Oct 2017 #5
I want to know who does the boobs for Melania and Ivanka? They're stunning (and obviously fake). SharonAnn Oct 2017 #4
I don't think they are stunning... HipChick Oct 2017 #6

SharonAnn

(13,771 posts)
4. I want to know who does the boobs for Melania and Ivanka? They're stunning (and obviously fake).
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 01:31 PM
Oct 2017

And, could they do a "package" for 45?

HipChick

(25,485 posts)
6. I don't think they are stunning...
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 10:22 PM
Oct 2017

Both are carrying excessive cc's for their rib cage....it results in a matronly look

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