I’ve only gotten a third of the way into New York Magazine’s profile of Hope Hicks, but it’s a hell of a read. Pajiba has coverage >> [Pajiba]
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The crazy thing is, there are SO MANY DRAMATIC ELEMENTS but she’ll barely end up a footnote in the future story of this.
(Hi it’s me, a person who was accused of being both Hope Hicks and Kellyanne Conway for not calling Hope an ugly hag and also trying to explain the legal reasons she wouldn’t go to jail. I’m still neither Hope Hicks nor a Trump supporter).
She’ll be the Fawn Hall of this major democracy failure and dumpster fire we will call the trump presidency.
I couldn’t remember Fawn’s name. Was thinking same.
She’s ugly inside.
About the Jenner tattoo story.. I thought any reputable tattoo artist wouldn’t tattoo if the client was drunk? Any artist I’ve been to/talked to has had it built into the paperwork that they can refuse if you’re drunk.
No reputable place will tattoo drunk people.
However, to believe this story, you have to believe a Kardashian Klan member, which is always a bad idea. I’m guessing the tattoo was used to explain her bad lip injections or something? “swelling”, etc? And know she wants a story for it.
Good point about an excuse for lip swelling. I don’t understand why they can’t be in front about it, especially when it’s so painfully obvious.
Any decent tattoo artist won’t…but there’s plenty of ethically bankrupt artists out there who have zero issue tattooing drunk/high people.
I imagine there’s also plenty who might be persuaded to bend their rules if they thought they could possibly get some press out of tattooing a celebrity.
It’s a tattoo no one but her dentist will ever see unless she chooses to show them, so it could be far worse.
There is plenty of financially bankrupt artists who feel that their lack of funds corrupts their ethics, too.
I write this with one laughing eye. Because if you look at some of the modern art which is being sold especially at these high-profile art fairs (Art Basel or Friese Art Fair) then you get this idea: that there are artists who were broke but found some not-so-clever buyers for crappy art at art fairs. So now they are now trying to get as much as they can for their “art” before the hype around their “art” fades. They buyers believe themselves to be “in the know” and buy crappy art as an investment. Just after they have bought it they put it in a storage and believe that their art pieces will be worth ten times that much in five or six years.
They are in for a rough awakening.
I have a couple tattoos and I was told not to drink any alcohol the night before b/c it decreases your ability to clot. So not only should you not get tattooed while drunk b/c you aren’t in a good decision making mindset, you also have a chance of bleeding more which isn’t good. That being said, like anything you can find shady people who just want the money. My brother’s friend got super drunk at a tattoo event and still went through with it. In fact the guy tattooing him was also drinking. *eyeroll*
Yeah, being drunk thins your blood, therefore you bleed much more easily. And having it on the inner lip, it’s going to bleed a lot under ideal circumstances. I can’t imagine how much blood there was.
Inner lip tats are stupid, anyway. They fade and then wear off fairly quickly (for a tattoo) because of the quality of the skin there.
I read it all the way through and recommend it, too. If the reporter’s ‘take’ that Hicks is non-ideological and dedicated only to Trump-the-person, how could that possibly happen to any emotionally healthy young woman? Either she is ideological and hiding it, OR she has some problems with men in her life. Given her involvements with Lewandowski and then Porter, more likely she has some kind of man problem.
It’s possible she has the same sort of “man problem” lots of us had in their twenties, which I think is scientifically named “sleeping with loser dickheads for no real quantifiable reason”.
The drunken shouting match in a NYC Street late at night with Lewandowski – the first time I read it all I could think was I’m so glad no one was interested in my sex life at that age. Cause they woulda had a lotta stuff to print.
I read the entire piece and did not end up having one iota of sympathy for her. If anything, it further illustrates inexperience and immaturity.
One line near the article’s end grabbed my interest. The author claims that Orange’s kids keep their distance, and he knows that precious daughter has her own agenda. And, precious daughter thinks he’ll be deceased in 10 years. Wow. Tree, meet apple!
Right, that was a great line about Ivanka knowing he’d be dead.
King Lear, people. King Lear.
No sympathy either. Especially because she thinks Trump is a good person. That tells me all I need to know about her. She’s a bigot at minimum.
I did not find the article to be anything other than a weak attempt to normalize her role. She came from a family well versed in politics, so she can’t claim naïveté about DC.
And yes, the part about her lingering because she believes he’s a good person was very revealing. Blind loyalty, or birds of a feather?
One of my takeaways from that article was — wow, Lewandowski sounds like a controlling psycho (on top of Porter being a wife beater) and girlfriend needs her picker re-calibrated. Clearly has some man issues that need to be worked out.
Her idea of a “good person” is Trump. She genuinely thinks he’s a nice man. Her picker doesn’t need to be re-calibrated, it needs to be reassembled entirely.
Yeesh. Her dad must be a treat, to put it mildly.
The fact she dated Corey says it all. She has a really bad picker, in the man she worked for and the ones who she dated. Corey is abusive as well and a downright psycho. Makes Trump look like a kitten. Girl needs some good counseling.
Who’s the lesser of all evils, Hope, Ivanka, Melania or Georgina Chapman?
Chapman, because her bad picker won’t start WWIII.
haha true
I found the article boring, not fascinating. She adores Trump and isn’t disgusted by him. She has no strong ideology, just her allegiance To Trump. It was a puff piece on her, because there’s nothing involving about her, just that she’s very pretty and organized and thus Trump depended on her. She’ll end up working for him again when he leaves the White House. I did have sympathy for her before this article. Now knowing her strong allegiance and fondness for Trump is ongoing, I have zero for her. She’s a nothingburger.
I was idiot at her age and made bad choices based on my “feelings” & adventure as a lot of women do. Around age 35 that really starts to change. Its was literally I woke up and realized many things like how I had been taken advantage of in the work place to how scummy men can be if you don’t set up boundaries. She is in a stage when she probably hasn’t matured enough to realize it. Also her attractiveness will delay that realization. As a pretty girl you get away with a lot of bad behavior but most of your life men have done a lot of things to manipulate you more than say an average looking woman. Manipulative & powerful men will lie their ass*es off to a lot of women but especially attractive women.
@isabelle Your comment intrigues me. When I turned 35 last year, I was 10 years into my marriage with three kids. Same for most of my friends and peers. I don’t don’t think 29 is too young for good judgment and stable relationships. I’m glad your confidence got a boost at 35 — and certainly wish anyone success in love and life — but no one deserves a free pass for being immature after 25, IMO.
@isabelle, no offence, but given her position, she cannot afford to make any bad choices based on her feelings and sense of adventure. She’s working at the White House. She’s no doe-eyed ingenue secretary who is unaware of the workings of the world. Even if she were, she doesn’t get a free pass, nor should anyone else at that high a level of office. Her mistakes could put the country at jeopardy. She’s not a low tier employee, she occupies the office next to the President of the country.
If she can’t trust herself not to make emotional judgments, she shouldn’t have accepted this position. Presidential families with young children are able to cultivate a deep sense of responsibility and understanding of what their position entails at a far younger age than she is at right now. If she can’t do that, then her leaving is not a loss.
Isabelle, I made the same realization as you but I was 38. By 40 I had figured out how my mom had set me up for men to take advantage of me while I ws a child. The realization makes you want to scream. I wish I could have my twenties and thirties back. How differently I would have lived them.
Yes, you can be an idiot at Hope Pick’s age, you can chose scumbag men as role models and boyfriends, you can send dirty naked pictures to your married boyfriend, you can be a superficial Kardashian but don’t sign up to work for the highest office in our country. Work that affects my life, my family, friends and fellow citizens. Character and behavior matters in these jobs. Stay out of positions of power and live out your immaturity until you are over 35. The 15-17 year old kids who survived the school shooting in Florida can show you that many girls a decade younger than Hope Picks are more serious, mature and ethical than she is.
I wish people would get that, they get it about Trump and his role as the President of the United States but it’s like every White woman in his family or position of power is seen as “just like your average White woman on the street and is either helpless, naive or a victim”. It’s infantilizing and troubling from a feminists POV. Women are human beings, have agency and come in both good, bad and shades of gray. Or if true then it seems like culturally, Caucasian women are raised to be incompetent, naive and immature until they reach some magically age over 35 or 40. That’s a social problem that should be addressed by parents raising Caucasian girls for society’s sake.
Wait, you thought it was a puff piece on her?
This was an excuse to get facts into the narrative that haven’t been more than whispers, all through the auspice of an article about Hope. I think that’s pretty clear. Nuzzi knows what she’s doing here.
Yes, I wondered about who master-minded this piece. Hope isnt Machiavellian enough to do this all by herself. Trump will be weary of Javanka after reading how they are waiting for him to die. And Kelly is straight up accused of undermining all his female staff. Obviously Hope talked to this reporter at length, although she is never directly quoted. So she wants her involvement to not be so obvious. Kellyann Conway makes a very strong showing, going as far as to be quoted. So the question is, what is it that Kellyann was looking to get out there? The rise of the Mercedes, perhaps?
@Krill, consider who has the most to gain through the publication of this piece. Who comes off in the best possible light, or at least as blameless for what happened as they can? Who has redirected the narrative for her expulsion from the White House from “admitted she told lies on behalf of Trump” to “it was circumstances beyond her control.”
Nuzzi is working to neutralize Hope HIcks’ reputation here, by placing her at the center of a narrative which was set in motion by two men with agendas that were beyond her control. She’s not Machiavellian enough to master-mind this piece, but she has a good understanding of how PR works. She’s not looking to escape with a stellar reputation. She wants to make herself seem like she’s a blank slate upon which other people project their follies. There was a lot of passive voice when it came to talking about Hope Hicks, and a lot more active voice when it came to discussion someone like Lewandowski or even Kelly. All of that is very intentional.
This was PR for Hope Hicks and her speaking directly to 45. She soft handled Porter and slammed Corey. Mercedes and Kelly come off particularly terrible and not much bad about Javanka. Kellyanne is spared. 45 is spared.
The Daily Mail doesn’t come off all that good either. Surprise. (sarc.)
She likes to do the trick Ivy used to do. They talk without saying anything and give an outward appearance of harmlessness and innocence. Their agendas are executed by someone else while they smile and look like Barbiebots.
But the facts don’t lie. Her allegiance to scumbags and that family says more than anything else anyone could ever write. The sneaky reference to 45’s family not being a Greenwich society type was an understatement that also underscored how unusual Hope is. Her background makes no sense as it relates to her choices. The heavy makeup is very against type. She has an agenda, and it isn’t blind loyalty.
Hope is far from what she appears.
It’s an interesting insight into how the White House functions, in that it doesn’t. There are a group of people in charge who are all fundamentally ruled by their passions and not by their interest in putting the country first. Corey Lewandowski screwed over Rob Porter, not because the man was a security risk who could potentially put the country at harm, but because he was dating the woman who dumped him. Everything about his vendetta was entirely personal. This is how the White House runs–on petty grudges and school yard fights.
“Within a week, it would be snowing in Washington, D.C., but she was dressed for spring in a bouquet of purple, yellow, and blue, as if willing the end of winter with her miniskirt.”
LOL. Love it.
Best line of the profile: “her favorite emoji the “see-no-evil” monkey.
Sums it up nicely, huh? No sympathy from me, but wow, she’s got serious issues given the men she chooses to surround herself with.
I liked the “The Lewandowski Embassy’s,” phrase from Isaiah 35, “THE WILDERNESS SHALL BLOSSOM AS THE ROSE.” Just can’t make this crap up. Ironically ironic steeped in irony.
Kerrie Russell can play HH in the movie…
I really thought it was a photo of Kerri at first!
She is almost 30 years old….at her age. Please. She is not a child. She knows exactly what she is doing and who she is doing it with. I have absolutely no sympathy for her.
I see Abby Lee Miller is getting out of prison in May.
Scott Eastwood better keep his filthy mitts off our John Boyega. The ONLY reason I was willing to see a Pacific Rim sequel that did NOT revolve around a Mako Mori story is John Boyega but I doubt I’ll be able to stomach that other douche.
I do have sympathy for Hope Hicks. It may be that she derives from a family of narcissists, and finds Trumpworld normal & like home. Chaos may have been her normal growing up, like it was for me. After I finally was able to leave my family, I made a few bad decisions, dating-wise. I was used to drama & chaos and dated someone who gave it to me on a daily basis. In some way, if this is the case, then her behavior makes sense to me. Girl needs therapy pronto. Sometimes, it takes a long time to come out of the fog and realize this is not normal and you can do better. IF she marries one of those psychos, it can be a long bad road….REALLY BAD…
@MoAnne, you could be talking about me.
I moved in at one point with a person who “made me feel like i was home”.
“home” meaning extreme manipulation, emotional abuse and neglect and constant walking on eggshells.
I stopped missing that person when I realized it. YEARS after our breakup. (he dumped me)
SMH
Mo, you could be on to something with this. I thought Magnoliarose had some solid points above, too, but your comments explain the disconnect between Hope’s background and her current choices, even the harsh make up and hidden agendas.
A truly sad thing is, narcissists who create all of that chaos are in pain themselves, with no real awareness how to make it all stop.