As President Donald Trump's term is grinding to a close, a slow news day at Yahoo! reveals that, for whatever reason, during the course of the administration, First Lady Melania Trump has not appeared on a lot of magazine covers, which is not sitting well with America's Oldest Baby and the Legion of The Brainwashed.
There's a simple reason for that. It's called an editorial decision. Of course, the jealous Trump notes the dozen or so times that Michelle Obama has appeared on magazine covers such as Vogue, Time, and Parade over the course of the 8 years she spent in Washington. Magazine editors have perhaps assumed that any interview with Melania, meant to accompany a cover photo, would inevitably address Dumb Donald as a topic, and those editors would rather not give free publicity to a polarizing figure such as the President.
Would an interview with Melania have actually been worth it, given what little we know about her personal life before she met Dumb Donald? Yes. She had one commercial endorsement deal (Aflac Insurance, 2005), but otherwise has largely been away from the public eye aside from being seen with her bloviating husband. That, though, might actually have been her choice, but try telling that to the Legion of The Brainwashed.
Predictably, Dumb Donald has dismissed the el snubbino as "fake news". The man just doesn't get it. I'm pretty sure there are folks who'd like to learn a little more about Melania, who, if my memory serves me correctly, is the first foreign-born first lady.
This would not have been an issue at all if Trump wasn't a self-serving jackass. Period.
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ReplyDeleteJacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was born in Southampton, New York, which when last I looked was in the United States of America.
Just curious - where exactly did you get the idea that Jackie O was "foreign-born"?
I thought she might be----Bouvier sounds like a French name. I'll correct the information. Thanks, Mike.
ReplyDeleteYou know, there are lots of native-born Americans who carry family names from the lands of their ancestors - like whoever the French ancestor of Black Jack Bouvier was who first came to these shores back in a previous day ...
ReplyDelete... or did you ever believe that Suzanne Pleshette was "foreign-born"?
At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, there was a popular journalist and mystery writer named Jacques Futrelle.
He wrote stories about Professor Van Dusen, the Thinking Machine; the most famous one was "The Problem Of Cell 13", which has been dramatized on TV many times, and frequently anthologized over the years.
I've seen more than a few reference works that identify Jacques Futrelle as French - but he was in fact American: born in Georgia, lived most of his adult life in Boston, wrote for newspapers and magazines.
Futrelle (whose family and friends called him 'Jack') was at a peak of popularity when he went down with the Titanic; had he lived longer, he might have become better remembered in present times.
But that's fate for you: out of sight, out of print, out of mind ...
Nope, never assumed Suzanne was "foreign-born".
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