I don’t think we can even call Melania Trump a “part-time” First Lady. She’s only spent a handful of days in Washington since the inauguration, and she seems more keen on weekends at Mar-a-Lago more than anything else. But since she’s married to Emperor Baby Fists, she’s considered the FLOTUS, and as such, she was able to do an “official portrait.” This photo was taken by Glamour Shots in the 1980s, and the background is the the White House residence, the top floor I believe. Melania wants you to see her 15-carat wedding ring. And I guess she wants us to know that she’ll wear black whenever and wherever she wants.
Obviously, people clowned on Melania’s portrait… because look at this mess. It’s airbrushed into oblivion. It looks incredibly dated. The photographer smeared Vaseline on the lens. And Melania is probably outing herself as “the nanny” to the Muppet Babies.
Anyone know why Melania Trump's portrait was taken in front of the Muppet Babies Window? pic.twitter.com/EOLfwfBggE
— Sasha Stewart (@ArtfulStew) April 3, 2017
Melania's White House portrait is beautiful and will make an excellent conversation piece if she ever happens to visit the White House.
— Nick Amadeus (@NickAmadeus) April 3, 2017
Waiting for the official White House statement that Nancy Regan copied Melania Trumps portrait.#alternativefacts pic.twitter.com/NZLBUsGBBL
— Dallas Kee (@thedally) April 3, 2017
Wow the First Lady’s official portrait is amazing pic.twitter.com/4nq4ohHhrV
— Rusty Foster (@rustyk5) April 3, 2017
@molly_knight @sahilkapur @FLOTUS a bold and unconventional portrait tbh molly pic.twitter.com/OoyhGtj9qR
— darth:™ (@darth) April 3, 2017
/me looks at melania official portrait
*shrug*
"i remember the gun show" pic.twitter.com/hYVq2UHhZh— Oliver Willis (@owillis) April 3, 2017
Photos courtesy of FLOTUS Instagram, Twitter.
Please.
There’s also a lot of airbrushing there. It does not even seem the picture was taken in the White House but in a green room. Ridiculous, they have CGIed her into the WH.
She’s there so rarely, they would almost have digitally insert her. I’m sure it would be her preference if she could do her entire marriage via special effect.
LOL…Right? More like a Napoleon Dynamite “glam shot”…and i LOVE that movie BTW…so basic yet entertaining. My preteens love it. Anytime we see someone’s crappy glam pic we automaticaly think of this movie, look at each other and chuckle :-b
She looks like a stewardess at a funeral.
“Stewardess at a funeral” — too funny because it’s too true.
I take two positions about the official Melania portrait. One, it is very glamorous and sexy, showing off the big ring, striking a sassy pose. Which would be fine – if she were selling her stuff on the Shopping Channel or QVC or whatever it is called.
Two. But she’s not on the shopping channel or shopping at the fancy stores in Manhattan to kill time during the day until Baron gets home from school. She is the FLOTUS. Look at Nancy Reagan’s portrait. Or Michelle Obama’s portrait for something more modern. I loved Michelle, not so much with Nancy but still, those pictures show how it is done. Look for ELEGANCE, kindness, a woman you can admire and respect..
Melanie’s official portrait, like everything else in her marriage is all about the Donald. Look how sexy my wife is (I am a real stud!), look at that rock on her hand (I am soooooo rich!). Look at me, look at me! You want to be like me, don’t you?! says Trump. Whatever, Donnie.
Tacky as all hell but we are talking about a woman that lives in a gold plated penthouse, soooo……
And married the tackiest man on earth. Like finds like.
LOL! My professor always says, “Leave Melania alone. She certainly worked hard to got what/where she is. I say, “When you’re a mail order bride, or escort, can you really consider this work? The b**ch got paid to do iit!!!
When you marry for money, you earn every penny.
Not enough money in the world to count ceiling tiles underneath that huffing orange monstrosity.
Geez, Malificent, I just ate my breakfast!
@ Maleficent. I okay, Maleficent, unlike Megan, I have only had my coffee. GREAT comment.
I mean considering that the portrait seems almost conservative.
Goddamn Michelle Obama looks good in hers though.
She does. As with her husband, this woman is an embarrassment to women like Michelle, Hillary, Nancy, Jackie. The First Shady Lady Melania. ivanka has the portrait in her secret room with darts along side of it. Mirror mirror on the wall, I will be the next portrait, once and for all.
Michelle gives me arm goals. Melania gives me filter and filler goals.
I still do not understand the part in her hair. Is she wearing a wig backwards?
Hahaha! Thank you
She and EBF met at a hair parting for dummies meeting.
LOL I am seriously mesmerized by that part. Like wtf is going on there?
Celebitchy, can we PLEASE start a separate thread regarding Melania’s hair part. It’s fascinating and needs to be investigated.
This has been an obsession of mine for almost two years now!!! Where is Melania’s scalp. Why doesn’t she have a part in her hair?????
(silly wabbit – its simple – she cant have one because he cant have one)
Its weird that Melania, Trump and KellyAnne Conway all have the same f*cked up hair part.
It’s almost like bangs, but not bangs. So odd.
That part and hairline make no sense. NONE.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one! What is that??
So tacky, the vaseline lens, french manicure and boulder diamond, along with the keyhole cleavage is just too, too much. She looks like Joyce Wildenstein: The Early Years.
LMFAO!!!!
Yes! Her eyes are practically hoisted to the back of her head!!
I wonder if she has filler under her eyes. I can’t figure out why the bottom lid is always raised, like she is squinting.
Cheek implants and fillers.
The falsies with the French tips are slaying me.
I love how she has her arms crossed like to telegraph “I’m serious and mean business”
To me that is the weirdest thing about this pose. And while she may think she is looking all serious and means business, it truly (to me) doesn’t come across that way.
But what is her business? Softcore dominatrix?
I’m late to the game, but that is a very defensive pose. It’s a way of closing oneself off. I have to oversee a lot of photoshoots and although arms crossed in front is a a post I suggest for portraits, I don’t think it’s great (I’m not creating high art, though, so…). But look at our last FLOTUS’ portrait. Her body language is open. She is welcoming. Gosh, I miss her.
It also helps push up the two body parts ole orange cares about the most.
It’s a ‘natural’ way to show off her diamond.
OK, you and Maleficent are the best today. Along with the tweet in the story from Nick Amadeus: Melania’s White House portrait is beautiful and will make an excellent conversation piece if she ever happens to visit the White House. LOVE THIS!!!! Ha – Vesta just seeing your response – ha ha ha.
Looks like an audition for another Mrs Carrington on Dynasty, hehe
😂😂😂
ROFL! I was thinking she could be on the cover of a Danielle Steele-style novel. She’s even got the shoulderpads going. But you nailed it, definitely Dynasty!
Her crossed arms and gaze like she is gearing up for a brawl in the lily pond or carriage house. Cue the dramatic music
Dynasty with a blowout was my first thought as well.
There was a cast photo of Joan, Linda, etc., from the 1980s with shoulder pads, gaudy jewelry and power poses that she could be added to very easily.
Its appropriately horrible.
And somehow horribly appropriate.
😂😂😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻For both comments.😂😂😂😂
I feel like the only asset she would walk away with in a divorce is that gigantic ring so she wants to show it off.
Someone on Twitter said she looks part feline. No really since she was born looking like this
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/756142/Melania-Trump-plastic-surgery
Imo all those surgeries made her eyes look weird and scary.
So tragic to do that to her face!
She was really pretty before the surgeries. Now she looks like she has a permanent stick up her ass.
Wow she was so pretty! Her nose was perfect, and her eyes were beautiful. I think that she had a too-tight mid-face facelift or something.
Those squinting, glaring eyes makes her always looks like a pissed off pussy cat.
She makes a three-second appearance in the first Zoolander (as orange’s silent, smiling date) and she looks different. Her eyes are more open, and her face has a natural smile.
Maybe she was overly inspired by Derek’s Magnum pose and never let her face relax again.
Cats don’t deserve this comparison.
OT but I had NO idea Bella Hadid had so much plastic surgery (in the slideshow you shared).
DAMN O_O
Is that really the same person?!
She is all about the bling.
Class is something you cannot buy and the Trumps are the biggest evidence of that.
Everything they do is tacky and classless even if they don’t try to be like that.
The lasers photo is the best.
That’s very 80’s! In the 80’s, it was the way I had my elementary school pictures done. I cringe when I see them
Thank you for posting other First Lady portraits to compare to the Trump FLOTUS image, which for me is so off-putting.
It looks like death rays will shoot from her eyes at any moment.
The fake fingernails do not look good at all 🙁 I do love Michele Obama’s portrait though. All natural and she looks beautiful.
Michelle looks energetic, strong, beautiful and so full of life compared to the Mannequin Trump.
Cheek implants too. And I agree with you on Michelle. Melania denies all of her surgeries, lol.
Michelle – i love her, even more than her husband. She is the tough one in that family. Sigh. Now we have the soft porn star. I’d be embarrassed but he is NOt my president. I still havent said President with his last name and I never will. He is a douche bag of the highest order.
Oddly those seem cheap fake nails. There are more expensive versions which look better.
The look is somewhere between Charlie’s Angels and Dynasty. Very dated.
God Bodley should be in the background somewhere.
Ha, ha, @JustBitchy, so very true! I think his name might have been Bosley, and he was played by Richie Cunningham’s dad as I recall. I am embarrassed that I know that. Or am I completely wrong, and it was the voice of John Forsythe?
It was John Forsythe who was the voice on Charlie’s Angels. Good times, good times. 😘
Bosley was the last name of the actor who played Richie’s dad, Mr. C., and the character name of the Angels’ boss.
So many Bosleys in the 1970s!
She looks fine. Every First Lady portrait will not look the same. She has her own style and I’m sure she had a certain look she was going for. She looks very pretty and not too flashy. I don’t see what the big deal is.
The big deal is the million or so dollars a day it is costing us to keep her ensconced in trump tower and away from the husband she obviously loathes. And the fact that she does nothing to deserve that cost.
This article is about her portrait not where she chooses to reside.
And you asked what the big deal was, why she is mocked, and I answered you. She is FL in name only and I’m sure she’ll be happy when Orangino is impeached and jailed or drops dead.
@Susanne Too +1000! Some people don’t see what a big deal this is like we do. It’s depressing that this picture had to be taken of Melania as our FLOTUS
I agree that she will be happy when his time as President ends. I don’t think she is enjoying her role at all.
Melania’s looks are fine. That picture looks artificial and overly touched up though. That picture does not even look like it belongs in the year 2017.
Yes, everyone has their own style. Melania and the whole Trump bunch go with tacky, all day every day.
Lipstick on a pig.
Wow, talk about Photoshop.
That portrait will spend more time in The White House than Melania will.
Zing!
You win the internet today! Yes!
She’s the new Scarlett. Hope somewhere there is Melly to keep her straight.
Oh my God! I cannot even begin to express how fake Melania’s picture looks. It has been photoshopped so much. Melania is not a bad looking woman why did she have the need to blur the picture? That picture does not look natural.
To be fair, Melania has had enough work done that she doesn’t look natural in person, either.
Whoever worked on that photo needs an image editing program course because that looks so fake.
And the nails!!! The NAILS!!!
Remember when the crazies went berserk over Michelle Obama’s portrait? My God, she wore a sleeveless dress and exposed her arms!!!! If I had guns like Michelle’s I’d go sleeveless every chance I got.
Ditto! Gun show…I love it! Michelle looked amazing, power-dressed but elegant. Melania’s picture? It looks like an ad for the TV show Charlie’s Angels.
Michelle looked amazing! I got inspired to really work on my arms after that. Note: I love her for a hundred more reasons, but that photo kicked a$$.
I miss Michelle and Barack so much (we’re on a first name basis now, I guess). Their common sense, their STEADINESS, their goodness.
So do I. I look forward to my tweets from Barry and Mich.😊😊
As I’ve said before, at this point it actually pains me to see pics of the two of them.
It’s like, it’s bad enough dealing with Orangina and his tribe of freedom pillagers, but to have to remember how good it was, how proud of my country I was just 6 months ago is just too much to bear.
This, all day, every day. *sob*
That’s how I feel about pictures of Hillary now. It pains me to see her standing at a pulpit composed, compassionate and strong compared to what we have to put up with.
Their ability to keep us safe and not worry that an idiot with the nuclear football will kill us all overnight.
Singing Seyi Shay:
🎵 But you can’t airbrush reality🎵
I am just imagining SNL doing a skit on the photo shoot for Melania’s portrait.
We will miss this portrait in a few months when we get the new one, First Lady Pence with a giant golden cross and a high necked coat looking like Serena Joy from Handmaid’s Tale.
Haha! I laugh, so I won’t cry. Trump is horrid, but Pence is just plain beady-eyed evil.
I’m getting serious 80’s Tawny Kitaen vibes.
Add a fur bikini and she could be a Frank Frazetta painting, ready to rock the side of a ’70’s van. Just put mushroom windows behind her.
OMG!
I love a good 80s mall photo
Had Hillary won, would everyone be chortling over her official Presidential portrait? Her wrinkles would be photoshopped into oblivion and she’d sport another of her unflattering Chairman Mao pantsuits. But she’d never be torn to shreds over it, as the cats are doing here. So much for feminism, support, and sisterhood. Check your hypocrisy. Over and out.
I think she absolutely would if it were photoshopped this badly.
I refuse to support Melania. She is costing us taxpayers money every day that she doesn’t stay in the White House, and she is participating in the multi-million dollar weekends, too. She wanted to be a kept woman – a Sugar Baby – so she should just suck it up and actually live with the rich man that she married. Or either she should divorce him. I will never support any woman who acts like she is. (And that includes my best guy friend’s married “girlfriend.” No, she’s not a girlfriend, she’s a married mistress and I don’t have to like her!)
There is a petition asking for her to either move to WH or pay herself for her security in NYC. Needless to say those expenses are outrageous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxoNq09cLP4&t=72s
Right. Nobody has ever torn Hillary Clinton to shreds, ever. And I’m sick of people who don’t give two shits about feminism suddenly whining about it if someone says something mean about a Republican woman.
LOL this though!
The right makes fun of Hillary’s hair, her clothes, her wrinkles, her looks etc every single day. Even now, after their precious Trump won. So don’t even start about hypocrisy. Melania looks fine, the filter and her styling are ridiculous, as is her giant ring.
Oh, now I’m missing what could have been the First Dude portrait of Bill.
Over and out!! Oh, I’m so burned.😂😂😂😂
Right? (insert eye-roll) We have been all scorched from Donna’s epic burn!
*passes the aloe to SusanneToo
Ironic you talk about feminism and insult Hillary at the same time.
Chairman Mao pantsuit is straight up deplorable speech. Over and out indeed, boo.
@Donna, are you serious? Hillarys looks have always been torn to shreds by clueless Republican voters. They haven’t stopped. This picture is ridiculously fake. Melania the Moocher is a shame and I wish it was Bill who had a picture taken as First Man of the United States not her as the First Lady
Poor snowflakes 🙁
@ kitten
Hahaha good one
You do know there is a fantastic portrait of Hillary currently hanging in the White House, right?
Now, as a feminist, I support Melania the Lazy’s right to equal rights, equal pay for equal work, equal opportunity, her right to credit in her own name, her right to serve on a jury, her right to have survivor’s benefits pass to her chosen beneficiaries (yes, this was a legal issue as recently as the 80s), her right to make her own medical decisions, and her right to control her own body. That’s what feminism is. Laughing at how she chooses to pose for a portrait is completely unrelated to feminism.
I feel no “sisterhood” for Mrs. Trump. She’s not a FLOTUS, she just happens to be married to the popular vote loser. She does nothing for the country, just like her godawful husband.
So Donna, where was your ‘feminism’ when you were voting this past election?
First of all, there’s no conservative vs, liberal hypocrisy here- photoshop jobs get critiqued no matter what side a celebrity is or isn’t associated with politically. Second, Donald Trump’s photos get criticized on a daily basis around here, so the same people criticizing Melania’s photo isn’t any kind of gender-based discrimination. Nice try.
By the way, feminism does not mean women can’t be criticized, or that people can’t say a photographer’s work looks cheesy just because the subject happens to be a woman. Most people who are actually feminists already know that. If you’re going to self-servingly co-opt a movement you don’t really care about to cape for the privileged, you should at least have a clue about the movement first. Just saying “The Left’s criticism of Trumps and Trump supporters triggers me and gives me a rage boner + Vlad pays me Bigly so I’m a (cyber) Slave4Putin,” would have made your point more succinctly and honestly without making yourself look like a fool.
@Donna – well said!!! The hypocrites can’t even see the forest for the trees. How utterly pathetic.
The portrait is worth every penny, because it has given me this thread. Thank you ladies, and CB, for giving me a smile on this rainy morning.
Ditto!!!
God, where do I begin? She needs a wheelbarrow for that thing on her ring finger. Am I the only one cringing in embarrassment and wondering wtf… No okay, we have become the laughing stock of the world. We r the SNL of the world they tune in to be entertained by bigly and his crew and they never disappoint. Next week it will be Eric’s turn or maybe Ivanka there r so many to choose from…Help
I think the ring is the worst part of the entire thing IMO. For all of Trumps talk about caring about the average American and his voter base, leaving that rock out of the portrait should’ve been a no brainer. Then again it’s not surprising since they really don’t give a crap anyway.
Totes have the Muppet Babies theme song in my head 😂
Trashy Trumps.
And, okay, I’ll say it: that diamond may be large, but it’s poor quality: looks cloudy and poor quality color.
It’s perfect. She is not there to work. And the portrait says more like “to grace you with occasional presence.” So it’s a perfect portrait of Melania in the White House.
Glad I’m not the only one who saw the 80’s Glamour shot in this photo.
Was this for her Real Estate license or when she auditioned for Xanadu?
Xanadu!?! I just choked on my lunch from laughing. Nailed it, Libra girl.
Our Grifter First Lady…..when is this sh*tshow going to end…
Can we have before and after photos please?
comment #7
am surprised Donald Trump did not insist on it being Ivanka’s portrait.
I am sure he will put up some family portrait of the Trumps in the WH. The promotion would be good for his family’s type of business.
Is it a thing for people to increasingly resemble their spouses over time? Because Donaldia. I know they say it happens between owners and pets which makes me really happy (my dog’s a looker).
I honestly felt reminded of that too! Remember Behind the Candelabra, when Liberace had is plastic surgeon make his partner look like him?
Oh god, I loled for real!
I keep hearing Hungry Like The Wolf by DD when I look at this “portrait”
Ha! I’m hearing the Dynasty theme song…
Is that another pussy bow blouse?
ha, all power arms and serious face. she looks like 80s news anchor or a realtor who has not updated her picture on the posters/newsletter for over 20years and you are shocked when you decide to sell with her and see what she really looks like.
the bling on her finger is in serious competition with princess catherine’s big blue.
This is so goddamn embarrassing.
I know this will sound immature….I just keeping thinking of that old joke “Does your face hurt? Because it’s killing me…”
Those are my exact thoughts every time I see Melanie’s face. I mean slowly sealing your eyes shut with injectables has to hurt at some point.
I imagine it hurts less than having a clear view of Orangino.
This is some next-level Wal-Mart glamour shot nonsense.
I know it’s trivial considering all the real sh!t that Trump is putting the country through, but still, how embarrassing.
Hahahah it looks more like the portrait of Viggo in Blockbusters 2. The photo is perfect for a meet and greet with the author of a dieting book.
I can’t get past the fact that any woman who would marry that beast has got to be pretty awful herself. I don’t even care about her soft focus squinty-eyed portrait. I’m amazed that she sold herself to help normalize an absolutely awful loon of a man. Like girl, really? I wouldn’t even wanna make small talk with her. Keep it moving, freak show.
If I were her, I’d have the ring appraised. Given her husband’s love of veracity, and piss poor financial sense, wouldn’t be shocked if he’d got it on QVC.
Awesome! And likely true.
She just looks creepy to me
We already know the answer, but is ANYTHING about this family real?
I realize that is probably her tiny diamond, but it’s still not appropriate.
soooo tacky. the soft focus !!! or is it air-brushing?? we all know she’s beautiful, it’s like, we get it, you don’t need the special effects.
and fifteen carats. FFS
Blah … she should get into that WH if she had any respect for the tax payer’s dollars. I don’t care if she looks like an old sock.
That is such an odd portrait. I love the tweets mocking it.
Melania’s portrait reminds me of Kate Middleton’s first royal portrait.
Vaseline as a filter to soften everything – yes.
Flowing locks of hair to appear sexy – yes.
Pretending to be mysterious smile to hide vacuousness – yes.
Boring, dated and fake – yes.
Arrogance because no real smile at the audience – yes.
See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Catherine,_Duchess_of_Cambridge
Kate’s biggest regret is that she didn’t think of getting BigBlue into her portrait. Melania eagerly displays her Biggie which is tacky.
Melania in dead black: whose funeral is it? Surely the Trump colours are some tacky blingy gold?
When I saw this picture the first thing I thought was “Soap Opera Villain” lol.
The mere fact that she’s a “first lady” is so disheartening. None of the Trumps deserve to be in the White House. They are as tacky as the Beverly Hillbillies arriving in Beverly Hills. They are the White House Hillbillies. That 15 ct. ring is so tacky, with 99% of the population never being able to afford something like that, let alone a decent home, decent vehicle and college.
I think that “odd part” in her hair is the sign of a very well-made wig. I’ve noticed Jane Fonda has that same type of part.
She always looks to me like she has no idea where she is or how she got there. Maybe it’s the vaguely empty stare, maybe it’s the slight eye squint of confusion, or maybe it’s the slack jaw… I’m just not sure. She just looks chronically befuddled.
Every time I look at her, I think of that Scrubs episode where Jordan botoxed her face into an immovable mask. “Show me happy! Show me sad!! Show me angry!! ARGH!!! (as she kicks him in the crotch)
God, she looks like a cat with pantyhose pulled over its head.
She looks stunning. All of the first ladies have had their portraits touched up. This need to attack the Trumps no matter what is silly. Go after her husband for his policies if you must, and he certainly provides enough fuel for that. But give credit where it’s due. Melania Trump is gorgeous. Regardless of your political leanings, you have to give her that.