No. of Recommendations: 7
After not being seen publicly for over a month, Melania Trump emerged from the White House at 3:48 this afternoon and made her way along the colonnade overlooking the Rose Garden. She was joined by her husband, who gripped her hand with his own swollen and makeup-covered hand. With American flags carefully placed behind the podium, she stopped at the microphones and struggled to take her hand back from Donald Trump before he made his way to a seat saved for him in the audience. Once he was seated, the First Lady began her short speech: “Good afternoon. I heard you missed me.”
The event started ten minutes early and was over just 18 minutes later. Information provided to the press by the First Lady’s office highlighted her attire, noting that she wore a bright red Dior pencil skirt with an oversized sky-blue shirt by Michael Kors. Her look was completed with a pair of $895 Manolo Blahnik suede pumps.
After more than a month out of the public eye, and two months without making a public remark, the First Lady of the United States spent barely 18 minutes at an event that had been hyped as a major showcase for her “Fostering the Future” program. And the information her office chose to highlight to the press was what she wore, not the substance of what she said. Doing some rough math, it appears her full outfit cost more than $5,000.
Heather Delaney Reese
