Melania's Christmas Hall looks like the set of a psychological drama about a lady who went mad after

[riversedge]

UMM. Dark. just dark to me. First time I have seen any of the WH decorations.


Sady Doyle‏Verified account @sadydoyle

Melania's Christmas Hall looks like the set of a psychological drama about a lady who went mad after she discovered her husband fucking a tree

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JC Hawkins‏ @Floridamiz1
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For some reason this reminds me of the maze in The Shining.
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polly dymock‏ @pollsstar
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She looks like the ghoulish housekeeper that nobody else can see....
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It seems to be reflecting the present soul of the WH.

[wcmagumba]

1. Freakish...n/t

[Canoe52]

2. Reminds me of the castle of the evil queen

in Snow White.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Looks very white to me when the lights are turned on.

I guess that's appropriate to this maladminstration.

[dixiegrrrrl]

33. She obviously hired Tim Burton.

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How is it that only Donnie two Scoops does emoting feelings?
Ivanka did that sterile giant shell Thanksgiving thing.

These people radiate chill and ice.

[forgotmylogin]

74. Then when the lights go out you get THIS

(This is a screenshot from the game Evil Within 2)

[Siwsan]

4. It all looks a bit 'Pagan-ish', to me

Where are the trees with stars and Manger scenes? And the color? Where is any color? Did it get sucked into the void in her soul?

[Hekate]

76. Christmas trees have deep pagan roots, celebrating the return of the Sun. Perhaps Melania...

...is simply trying to artistically evoke the bare frozen branches of her homeland's winter forests. But for a festive holiday meant to be shared with the America, this certainly is depressing as hell.

[Siwsan]

89. I think Melania has really bad taste in almost every aspect of her life.

BTW, I celebrates Yule. Christmas? Not so much. Greed and consumerism don't fit into my lifestyle or belief system.

[RobinA]

114. This Is Apparently

the pagan representation of the day the sun fell out of the sky. Not only is there no Christ in this Christmas, there’s no return from the solstice. The sun kept getting lower on the horizon until it disappeared altogether. Fire hasn’t even been invented.

[nolabear]

5. Boy that just screams Joy to the World, doesn't it?

Well, it screams something.

[Fred Sanders]

28. I also am missing the Xmas connection. Creative OK but where is Jesus hiding?

[Docreed2003]

65. The tree is at the end of the hall....

If you can survive the forbidden forest to get there!

[smirkymonkey]

96. More like the last thing you see before the nuclear blast goes off.

Freaking creepy!

[DangerousUrNot]

6. Holy shit is that real?!

[calimary]

55. Welcome to DU, DangerousUrNot!

Looks like a nightmare to me. Looks like the Wicked Witch of the West redesigned the film set of the grand hall that you walked down (while trembling) to get to the Wizard of Oz's inner chamber. Does NOT look in ANY way Christmassy. I guess it does evoke a generic "Happy Holidays" response, since there's no Baby Jesus in there like all the Bill O'Reilly "War on Christmas" dim bulbs hyperventilate about every year.

[DangerousUrNot]

75. Thanks for the welcoming!

Yea I would have expected a Fox News themed Merry Christmas setting.

[Freethinker65]

7. WHITE Christmas?

Kinda surprised everything isn’t spray painted metallic gold

[lunasun]

21. Pandering to his base . They always dream of a white Christmas

[lpbk2713]

8. Camera pans to the right ...

"You have just entered the Trumplight Zone."

[Billy Jingo]

9. I like it

Unique and evokes a forest with light at the end of the path.

Nice.

[spanone]

31. Bwahahhhaaaaa

[demtenjeep]

35. huh?

ok

[HAB911]

88. That light is Dracula's flashlight

[hatrack]

10. Well, at least there aren't any giant clamshells full of white pumpkins . . . .

It does kind of look like the prom decorating committee of the senior class of 1983, Smith-Cotton High School in Sedalia, MO, was turned loose with a really big budget.

[Ken Burch]

11. "play with us, Barron...play with us...forever..."

"All golf and no work makes Don a mad boy".

[Grammy23]

12. Very grim and modern. Looks cold and uninviting.

It has zero holiday appeal. And no, I am not suggesting it needs red and green or even a manger scene to look appropriate for the holidays. We celebrate several holidays during this season. It does need something that says holiday. Not dark and dreary, cold and lifeless. But then maybe it reflects how Melania feels at this point in her life. “OMG! What have I bargained for? Am I going down with this doomed ship? Will there be any money left for me after all of this is over?”

Guess she should have thought of that before she entered into a contract with tRump. Didn’t she notice that all of his former wives and most people who do business with him get screwed over in the end?

I’d like to say I feel sorry for her. But I can’t. She knew who he was long before she said “I do.”

[LeftInTX]

15. Looks like a bad perfume ad...

[ProudLib72]

17. Funny, I just wrote the same thing!

[BannonsLiver]

18. I have zero sympathy for her.

She's a void. And a lousy first lady. Brings exactly nothing to the table.

[dixiegrrrrl]

36. More pics here:

http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/photos-melania-trump-chooses-classic-christmas-decor-for-white-house/collection_3cd19b95-da1d-58be-b9ba-f8aac30cefe3.html

including her in her nun Der wear.

[calendargirl]

45. The Ring.

She just crawled out of the TV.

[Docreed2003]

67. Thats exactly what I thought!!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

81. Lol. Me too

[smirkymonkey]

98. Seriously! It looks exactly like a poster for a horror film! Even she looks evil.

That's going to give me nightmares.

[nadine_mn]

84. Omg the pics of her just standing and staring at the ballerinas

Was creepy as fuck...just sinister

The blue room tree screams Trump...lots of gold and presidential seals so he remembers who he is.

[snooper2]

94. She just watched Narnia for the first time

[skypilot]

103. Wasn't this a scene from "Suspiria"?

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[Sophia4]

104. There is no joy or color in her or her Christmas decorations.

Empty space filled with barren branches.

Barron -- barren.

Maybe she is trying to tell us something.

bar·ren. . . .

1.
(of land) too poor to produce much or any vegetation.
synonyms: unproductive, infertile, unfruitful, sterile, arid, desert
"barren land"
antonyms: fertile
(of a tree or plant) not producing fruit or seed.
archaic
(of a woman) unable to have children.
synonyms: infertile, sterile, childless; technicalinfecund
"a barren woman"
antonyms: fertile
(of a female animal) not pregnant or unable to become so.
showing no results or achievements; unproductive.
"much of philosophy has been barren"
2.
(of a place or building) bleak and lifeless.
"the sports hall turned out to be a rather barren concrete building"
empty of meaning or value.
"those young heads were stuffed with barren facts"
synonyms: pointless, futile, worthless, profitless, valueless, unrewarding, purposeless, useless, vain, aimless, hollow, empty, vacuous, vapid
"a barren exchange of courtesies"
antonyms: fruitful
devoid of.
"the room was barren of furniture"

nounNorth American
noun: barren; plural noun: barrens

1.
a barren tract or tracts of land.
"crossing the barrens was no easy feat"

Origin
Middle English: from Old French barhaine, of unknown origin.

https://www.google.com/search?q=barren&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1

[Chemisse]

105. The pictures of her with the children are nice.

Otherwise, she and the whole place are just creepy.

[thegoose]

106. Might as well go full-out "Black Sunday..."

Except Barbara Steele is super cool. Moronia is...well, Moronia.

[LeftInTX]

13. What is that???

[Laffy Kat]

51. A window display at Macy's? nt

[Ligyron]

14. Man, that's creepy.

She looks like a newly made vampire on a stalk.

...or maybe a spider in her Tarantella tunnel.

[ProudLib72]

16. It's the setting for a parfume commercial

Eau du Dotard

You know exactly what I mean. Woman running through weird setting for no apparent reason. Falls into the arms of Dotard at the end. Runs hand through hair plugs while looking affectedly at the camera.

[madaboutharry]

19. It looks Dysoptian.

It looks like a scene out of a teen Dysoptian novel. You can almost wonder if Katniss Everdeen is going to come strutting down the hall with her bow and arrow.

[lunasun]

20. Imagine seeing old man trump walking towards you from down that hall

yelling out " You're gonna say Merry Christmas "

[Nonhlanhla]

22. I hate to defend her, but...

That is a particularly unflattering picture with specific lighting that does not do justice to the actual decorations. I am certainly no fan of Melania, and although the above picture kind of reflects the misery of the Trump White House, the actual decorations are quite beautiful.

[B2G]

38. Agree

I saw a video and that hall is gorgeous. This pic was taken at night. The daytime pic is stunning.

[Blaukraut]

46. The link someone posted above has more pics. Very pretty, actually

Even the hall looks nice in different lighting.

[R B Garr]

23. While that is quite fugly in itself, I was shocked to see

how much the color grey is available for Christmas decorations. That’s how much grey is still a popular home decoration theme/color. One store even had grey Christmas trees! Grey balls, candles, etc, and of course lots of silver which goes with the grey. And lots of winter snow with the grey.

I must admit I do love the grey for the house, but Christmas?? Not so much, and her design is just stark and horrible looking.

[fierywoman]

24. Looks like Macy's Xmas windows in an off year

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/11/melania-trump-white-house-holiday-decorations

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. Looks like the set of a depressing avant-garde opera.

[yardwork]

26. Very white supremacist pagans in the north.

[Fred Sanders]

27. Gateway to Hell would look like this. Any more doubt about who America elected to lead the world?

p.s is this for real?

[Doreen]

29. Is this for fucking real?

Many horror movies came to mind when I saw that. Again, is this real? Is this Onion? Photo shopped?

[JHan]

30. I think it's a cry for help

[Lisa0825]

32. The rest of the decorations are very pretty, but this area is weird. nt

[Ilsa]

49. I agree. The rest is lively, but

this hallway is scary looking, and a bit crowded.

[dhol82]

34. Nundergarments!

[Retrograde]

37. It's a set for a photo shoot

It looks as if Melania paid someone to come up with something unlike anything the White House has ever seen before - and they came up with something diametrically opposed to anything a normal human would. I can't picture the kids and grandkids playing around it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

71. If you look carefully at the photos,

you can see some guy in the background of several..same guy.

Most of the images chosen seem "off" to me. Melania seems stiff, is not smiling at all, not relaxed looking. In fact, it is rare to see her and JarVanka smiling in most pics of them.

[renate]

39. I actually like it!

I think it's original and cool.

I almost wonder whether it's a poke in the eye to her husband. No garish gold etc.

[dubyadiprecession]

40. She is trying to capture the bleakness of winter.

Is she from Transylvania?

[smirkymonkey]

100. I almost expect to see Jared pop out in a long black cloak w/ fangs.

[Raine]

41. I think it's pretty

I like untraditional and I like the starkness of it.

[nini]

42. Some of the shots I saw are ok - some I liked

But I prefer more color and stuff.. But I do like shiny silver stuff too.

I think it accurately represents the cold hearts of the occupants though.

[calimary]

57. That's one perfect word for it. COLD. Cold as ICE.

[mcar]

70. Yes, cold covers it

Certainly not inviting.

[procon]

43. Where does she hide the bodies? nt

[BlueIdaho]

44. What the flying fuck is this nightmare?

Somebody take her belt and shoelaces away from her...

[Ilsa]

48. It seems to scream, "I'm living in a cold, dead world," doesn't it?

Yeah, her belts, shoelaces, and sharps need to be removed.

[Ilsa]

47. It's Winter, no hint of any holidays.

As pretty as it is, it is not at all festive.

If this was her idea, she needs to see a psychiatrist and get her meds adjusted.

[Lisa0825]

50. There. He fixed it.

Link to tweet

"I photoshopped Jack Skellington into Melania's Christmas decor and honestly I like it now."

[bdamomma]

52. may be

she is getting confused with Halloween and Christmas decorations.

[Kirk Lover]

53. So. Fucking. Typical.

[Amaryllis]

54. Gothic.

[LenaBaby61]

56. You can tell ...

By these Christmas hall "decorations" that she's in negative state of mind. No love. No happiness there--just like the relationship between her and Old Fatso. These Christmas Hall decorations are stark, antiseptic and very sterile--just like her marriage.



Her Christmas Hall decorations tell a story behind even this:

[VOX]

58. Did Morticia Addams decorate the WH?

Dim the damned lights!

[shenmue]

59. WTAF

Just huh

[7wo7rees]

60. Wait til you see the tree!

[Grammy23]

61. After seeing pictures of Melania with children at the WH,

I fully expect tRump to say that NO OTHER First Lady has ever spent time with kids at the White House. Making decorations, showing them the decorations in the White House. Having refreshments. It was all Melania’s Idea. That’s because all the other First Ladies were heartless bitches.

[Arazi]

86. Those are the only shots where she's got a real smile and genuine warmth

[Grammy23]

90. Indeed. Melania is trapped in a prison of her own making.

But now and then, she shows a side of herself that is mostly kept stifled. Those pictures capture such a moment. So perhaps she does have a few redeeming qualities. 😉

Still, I find it hard to generate very much sympathy for her since she made this bargain with a truly evil man. Maybe in time, we’ll learn more about why she did it, but love does not appear to be part of that equation. Unless it is love of money.....it is pretty obvious that love of money often is the motivating factor behind such marriages. He was a well known skunk and womanizer when they met and later married.

[Blue Owl]

62. Heeeeere's Donny!

n/t

[mcar]

63. This is terrifying

[blue neen]

64. It looks like there's a war on Christmas going on at the White House!

That's what Don the Con would say if it was the Obama White House decorated in this bizarre way!

[NastyRiffraff]

66. It would be pretty in another occasion

It just doesn't say "holiday;" it's too stark and colorless. The rest of the WH decorations look fine, but that hall just doesn't fit in with the holiday theme.

[Wounded Bear]

68. Trump fucked a tree?

[3catwoman3]

78. She would probably rather he do that than...

...get in bed with her.

[Wounded Bear]

92. That kinda goes without saying...

[Orrex]

108. President Stumpfucker

[Wounded Bear]

109. I like it!

[JDC]

69. I like her Fondant dress.

[struggle4progress]

72. Handy Life Hack: "Get your Christmas decorations at the After-Halloween sales"

[jmowreader]

73. It looks Halloween-y to me

This song comes to mind when I see this...

[steve2470]

85. same here

When it comes to Christmas I get really traditional, but this is just....odd.

[edbermac]

77. Is that a scene from The Last Jedi?

[nancy1942]

79. Yikes!

Nightmares; anyone?

[betsuni]

80. I love it!

Nutcracker's Waltz of the Snowflakes dancers should hide behind the trees and when people walk down the hall, pop out and scare them. A haunted White House for Christmas! Also wolves, lots of wolves.

[longship]

82. Those pics need more "redrum"

[MikeydaDog]

83. Totally odd.

Weird

[Vinca]

87. That's just weird. In a gallery it might make a nice art installation, but it makes the White House

look like a haunted house tour.

[IronLionZion]

91. This is why I wanted Bill Clinton for first gentleman

he would decorate much better and also plan out some killer parties.

To be fair, the tweet is deliberately showing unflattering pics. She has a lot of other pics that look less like some evil ice queen. There's a slide show at this link: https://wtop.com/christmas-news/2017/11/first-lady-goes-with-classic-traditional-christmas-decor/slide/16/



What's with this family and throwing stuff?

[tenderfoot]

93. It looks like a Christmas display the White Walkers from Game of Thrones would have built

[hatrack]

95. The comments on this are genius . . .

Link to tweet

One among many . . .

[GallopingGhost]

97. lmfao

I'll just title that picture, "If Frosty the Snowman went to hell..."

[Tikki]

99. What I see here is a woman who is hoping to parley a motion picture career after....

her trials and tribulations with donald.

SO MUCH DRAMA..So little time.

Tikki

[MineralMan]

101. Looks like a set for a remake of "Fanny and Alexander."

And here's Barron, hiding behind the tree:

[NCTraveler]

102. Seems appropriate. nt.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

107. I think the ceiling shadows look like...

Storm clouds. Is this a prescient insight toward the future of this administration? Or just a reflection of its current state?

[moose65]

110. American Horror Story: The Ice Queen??

The pics do look a little cold, but the decor itself is beautiful. How much involvement did Melania actually have with this? I'm sure the White House has designers and decorators and curators who decide what most of the decor looks like. Some of the comments on these pics are hilarious, though!

[C_U_L8R]

111. It's the Upside Down. Totally.

Which is a pretty good explanation for everything Trump.

[csziggy]

112. White House Christmas meets Fifty Shades of Gray?

Emphasis on WHITE and gray, of course.

[QED]

113. I'm surprised it isn't fake gold

Two Scoops loves fake gold.