For the record of things no one needs to know, Melania's favorite time of day is "very early morning." Why? Because it's quiet, you have your coffee, and you check your email.
ADDED: Of course, the film is getting terrible reviews — for example, "Melania review – First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda," by Nick Hilton in The Independent: "The 'film' is part propaganda, sure, and part sop to Big Tech companies who require constant regulatory approval for financial manoeuvrings. Even then, it is bad. It will exist as a striking artefact – like The Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will – of a time when Americans willingly subordinated themselves to a political and economic oligopoly.... Then again, perhaps Melania is merely a piece of post-modern post-entertainment. After all, it is transparently not a documentary. Melania spends most scenes playing a staged version of herself, and shots of the first lady are composed with all the deliberateness [the director Brett] Ratner brought to his work on X-Men: The Last Stand. This is somewhere between reality TV and pure fiction. As Donald and Melania waltz on the eve of their victory, a singer blares out: 'Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.' Whose truth it is, however, and where it’s going, seems beyond the power of this captured documentary to reveal."
AND: Rotten Tomatoes shows quite an extreme distance between the opinion of the film experts and the opinion of the humble moviegoers:
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Are you sure that wasn't meant to be an interview ending question? "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?"
Oh, for heaven's sake.
That's the stupidity of the target audience, not the host.
It's a legit question--and can lead to a deeper conversation. I'd give the same answer. What is completely off key is the "dying to ask" hype.
Late at night when she has sex with her husband.
I dunno. The human touch. Seems OK to me. As one question. Among more serious ones.
I think it could a good question if an interviewer used it all the time. Asking it randomly of just one interviewee seems indeed "weird," as Ms. Perino acknowledged.
Just rememeber it is Fox News. They're not that bright. And I mean the ownership and execs.
Hillary, what's your favorite time of day? "oh, 2 AM. That's when I'm ready to go. On my broomstick".
The leftie MSM get to call the dem candidate Mamala and practically eat her out in prime time. A few softball questions for the woman who’s been boycotted by all decent thinking lefties is just fair play. CC, JSM
I think the toughest question the MSM asked Kam was "What makes you so great, Madame VP?"
how often do you get to ask the first lady that
i guess you're too old to remember the press asking a President "what's your favorite flavor of ice cream?"
https://nypost.com/2021/05/27/press-slammed-for-asking-biden-questions-about-his-ice-cream/
Or (my personal favorite), "If You Were a Tree, What Kind of Tree Would You Be?"
https://popculturereferences.com/the-true-origins-of-if-you-were-a-tree-what-kind-of-tree-would-you-be/
let's face facts; Althouse is either Senile, or a liar
I would have preferred, though, if Melania had added “zen I check the ICE overnight body count to zee how many more traitors have received zherr chust revard. And zen Donalt ant I laugh and laugh and laugh….” CC, JSM
‘What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?’
Perino also grew up in the WH press sec shop and so has an instinct to protect the FLOTUS from politics and vice versa. CC, JSM
yeah the interviews with hillary and michele are nc 17,
the whole journolist/rizzotto tray apparat
Re: Melania (the film)
I liked Katie Martin's comment on this Thursday's 'Unhedged' podcast: 'One review that I saw the other day said even if they showed it on a plane, people would still walk out.'
The issue isn't whether "Melania" is a good movie or a bad one. It's that one of the richest men in America, with business interests affected by public policy, gave the President's family $75 million to make it. Like that's somehow legal.
Isn’t this movie just a way for corrupt people to funnel money to Melania?
Fox news is the same as MSNBC, it just has different people to lie to.
There are some talented hosts but the organization is run by globalist trash that thinks Americans are stupid.
As with any population there are people on the right who are stupid enough to defend this trash corporate garbage.
With no context about Dana Perino, I could see that being inane. The is not a novel topic for her. She is known for getting up early (she has her own show before The Five, much earlier) and this wasn’t the first conversation where time of day peak/ebb has been discussed around the table.And she has written several books where productive habits are woven throughout (as implied when she’s discussed content with the hosts from the same standpoint Melania is doing so about her movie). I watched that particular segment when it aired and as with book/movie all the questions were softballs but Dana’s question was pretty on brand for her.
Yeah, that question is weak tea- the kind of question you might expect a journalist to ask at a Joe Biden press conference.
Speaking of our terrible news channels, multiple IRGC targets hit. Nothing on Fox.
It will exist as a striking artefact – like The Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will – of a time when Americans willingly subordinated themselves to a political and economic oligopoly
So... in what way is an ode to racism or a piece of Nazi propaganda "like" "a time when Americans willingly subordinated themselves to a political and economic oligopoly"?
He really tortured that thought in order to fit in the KKK and the Nazis.
Kakistocracy said...
Re: Melania (the film)
Isn’t this movie just a way for corrupt people to funnel money to Melania?
Except Melania didn't get any money. She got a movie. Does she even get royalties?
This is unlike Barrack Obama who was a Netflix Puppet and Netflix gave him 9 figures of actual payments after his presidency.
Chicago has a Temple to Democrat corruption right in the middle of it that is getting close to costing 1 billion dollars.
Those numbers are probably too big for a retard like you to comprehend though.
And not one word of the strikes on Iran in the New York fucking Times.
The issue isn't whether "Melania" is a good movie or a bad one.
🙄 We know, Kak, we know. The issue is never whether a work (of any kind) is good or bad, it's always whether it comports with the proper narrative. One reason straight men have such a hard time getting published these days, and why everything in a gallery has to have an explanatory placard half (or more) the size of the canvas.
Leftist are going to hate it. wow - and really pile on their nazi-hate.
Melania, the movie, is doing better than expected. Slow initial sales but $3 to $5 million opening night. Low critic approval. Extremely high audience approval. Looking forward to seeing it.
and part sop to Big Tech companies who require constant regulatory approval for financial manoeuvrings.
That doesn't even make sense. If the Big Tech companies constantly need favors from the Administration, why would the Administration need to offer Big Tech a sop? It would be the other way around. Unless Trump isn't just giving in to their demands and they need placating somehow, but wouldn't it be a point in Trump's favor, that they don't just get what they want from him?
I’m interested. Since there is a democrat media boycott of anything about Melania, I’m interested. I’m looking forward to checking it out. As far as critics go, like “experts” they have little to no credibility anymore.’
Yes, Amazon MGM Studios reportedly paid $40 million to license the documentary film titled Melania.
Here are the key details regarding the deal:
The Total Spend: In addition to the $40 million licensing fee, Amazon invested an estimated $35 million in marketing, bringing the total project commitment to approximately $75 million.
Individual Payday: While the $40 million was paid to her production company, Muse Films, reports indicate Melania Trump herself is set to receive approximately 70% of that sum (roughly $28 million).
What it Covers: The deal includes the 104-minute feature film, which focuses on the 20 days leading up to the 2025 inauguration, as well as a follow-up docuseries scheduled for release later in 2026.
Bidding War: Amazon’s bid significantly exceeded other offers; it reportedly outbid Disney by roughly $26 million.
Controversy: The deal has drawn criticism from ethics experts and industry analysts, who questioned the "astronomical" price tag for a documentary. Some critics characterized it as an attempt by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to "curry favor" with the Trump administration.
Paper owned by an ex kgb? Operative lyubimov says what
@ Begley
Where are you reading that the US hit targets in Iran?
Apparently Michelle Obama got $65 million for her book. However, the deal that the Obama struck with Netflix, the financial terms have been kept secret. Sounds like Melania got gypt
“Dana, I love the morning. Evacuating my bladder and colon is what gets me out of bed each day!”
Hey April, do you think the lib turds are going to hate the Melania documentary more than you people hate all of the Obama content on Netflix? Inquiring minds want to know. 🤙
Achilles mews: "Except Melania didn't get any money. She got a movie. Does she even get royalties?"
"In January 2026, Amazon MGM Studios reportedly paid $40 million for the rights to a documentary and limited series featuring First Lady Melania Trump. According to people familiar with the deal, roughly two-thirds of that sum—specifically $28 million—went directly to the first lady."
The only thing anyone needs to know about this "film".
How about Prince Harry and princess Meghan? Will the lib tards hate Melania even more than you people hate the black princess and her little half breeds?
lololol
Nick Hilton review: Is it the Klan? Is it Hitler? Or is it just entertainment?
Now this is what The Guardian chose as a head line -- ouch.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest
"Melania moves through the action like a listless automaton, talking constantly but saying nothing,"
That was a phenomenal read.
just so we show all the cards, barclays which runs the torygraph is conflicted six different ways,
Howard said...
Yes, Amazon MGM Studios reportedly paid $40 million to license the documentary film titled Melania.
Here are the key details regarding the deal:
The Total Spend: In addition to the $40 million licensing fee, Amazon invested an estimated $35 million in marketing, bringing the total project commitment to approximately $75 million.
Individual Payday: While the $40 million was paid to her production company, Muse Films, reports indicate Melania Trump herself is set to receive approximately 70% of that sum (roughly $28 million).
What it Covers: The deal includes the 104-minute feature film, which focuses on the 20 days leading up to the 2025 inauguration, as well as a follow-up docuseries scheduled for release later in 2026.
Bidding War: Amazon’s bid significantly exceeded other offers; it reportedly outbid Disney by roughly $26 million.
Controversy: The deal has drawn criticism from ethics experts and industry analysts, who questioned the "astronomical" price tag for a documentary. Some critics characterized it as an attempt by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to "curry favor" with the Trump administration.
This looks like the whole setup is garbage to me. Politicians doing this undermines trust in government.
Trump is too soft and he isn't going to change anything long term in a real way if he acts like this. I guess we wait to see what 2028 offers.
Melania and Donald should be above caring about money at this point.
It is sad that they aren't
ah the Guardians, the publicist for every commie apparat,
I hate that the Epstein Files and Gestapo ICE have lost their zing and the left has to focus on a documentary. Sad!!
ethics experts who approved the debanking and every other exercise,
There is one thing that immigrant lady could do that would make her movie much better and her very rich. I wonder why she doesn't do it.
yeah they are still looking for the pony
So, Melania is both KKK and Nazi.
I’m not going to read the rant. Is there a “logic” to this? Did anybody get thru the whole rant?
How many people have ever actually mused on what kind of tree they wanted to be, and how many trees actually came to mind for them? I thought Barbara Walters asked Henry Kissinger that, but she actually asked Katharine Hepburn, who answered "An oak tree that's very strong and very pretty." "Old and gnarled" would have been a good addition, but apart from "lonely pine" what other answers could one possibly give?
they will lie 24/7 without restraint
By saying "Big Tech" instead of being specific and naming Bezos or Amazon/MGM and maybe even by writing a confusing sentence, perhaps they are trying to avoid being sued because they don't have any actual evidence of quid pro quo.
I don't know, but I bet nobody, including Melania gets paid if the project doesn't make money.
It doesn't look great to do this kind of thing while in office, but at least it's right out in the open instead of the usual sneaking around. And at least it would be created wealth, not stolen taxpayer money.
and she was considered the pinnacle of the business,
Howard said...
Hey April, do you think the lib turds are going to hate the Melania documentary more than you people hate all of the Obama content on Netflix? Inquiring minds want to know. 🤙
The biggest difference between Melania and Michelle is that Melania had talent and drive and built some things on her own before she started dipping her beak in the bucket.
Melania is a corrupt hack but she has talent and works hard. Melania will turn that 28 million into more money most likely.
Michelle Obama on the other hand hasn't built a single thing that anyone else has ever wanted. Michelle Obama is a completely talentless hack that just took that 60 million dollars and started a crappy podcast where she whined about how racist the country is.
Source: DOJ to release Epstein files in theaters showing Melania so that they can be sure that no one will see them.
Of course, this Melania deal is merely chump change.
Since returning to office in 2025, the Trump family has generated approximately $1.4 billion to over $1.8 billion in income and realized gains from various cryptocurrency ventures and associated projects, according to analysis from Bloomberg and the Center for American Progress. These earnings are heavily tied to new projects launched during his second term, including, but not limited to, the "World Liberty Financial" platform.
God bless, Catherine O'Hara. Watching all those fantastic clips today, Achilles reminds me of a sctv character in a parody of a dedicated political hack suck up.
Kakistocracy said...
The only thing anyone needs to know about this "film".
Melania is a corrupt hack.
Barrack Obama got more than 10 times as much money as her.
Michele Obama got twice as much money as her.
Melania is harder working and more talented than both of those turds combined.
I should probably try to be a better person and cut back on enjoying and taking pleasure in the agony constantly expressed by the Trump/MAGA haters. I’m morally flawed, I know.
Oh well, I’m probably not quite as bad as the haters continually tell me I am.
Achilles, in a moment of clarity writes: "Melania and Donald should be above caring about money at this point. It is sad that they aren't"
So are Trump's crypto currency plays, selling pardons, taking foreign emoluments of all kinds.
Your Great Leader excels in all things corrupt.
how is she a hack, now Miss Graves, the wife of the DC procurator she is a hack,
I wonder where it’s showing here in Madtown.
they are sad pandas,
I don't think we have hit Iran yet, Dave
However, from what I'm reading it looks like that BB netanyahu has told Trump that he must strike Iran very very soon. The IDF is saying that the attacks are imminent
Kakistocracy said...
Source: DOJ to release Epstein files in theaters showing Melania so that they can be sure that no one will see them.
1/31/26, 9:29 AM
Oh, I'm sure we will hear NOTHING but Epstein and the ongoing left wing temper tantrum in Minneapolis from the likes of you. You never ever even mentioned them during
Biden, but now they are the only thing you can think about. Why?? I can think of one reason only, and so you can pretend you are Jeffrey Toobin
Meade—for the record: Anyone who rises before dawn and ventures outside in all kinds of weather is all right with me.
" DOJ to release Epstein files in theaters showing Melania so that they can be sure that no one will see them."
Remember back in the day when the record would get stuck, and you could just stomp the floor to fix i?. Yea, unfortunately that doesn't work with A.I.
I find it hard to believe that you are having more fun than I Meade. The Gumby contortionist flexibility routine that you people constantly display to accommodate your unceasing fealty to Donald Trump is comedy gold. I was especially humored by your passive aggressive whining about how the Melania documentary film won't be available in your your little lib turd college town. I really feel for you. You are so oppressed.
Wendybar -- What are the chanting points from Benny Johnson today?
So, in other words, things haven't changed much since Jackie Kennedy-mania 60 years ago (or its feeble and contrived echo in Michelle Obama-mania). Jackie got magazine covers, songs, fashions, hairstyles, and the CBS guided tour of the White House. She didn't get her own movie. She would have had to marry JFK's father to get that.
I love it! Bag of water. The problem with AI is there are no steam gauges to flick your finger on to make sure the needle isn't stuck.
Let's face it. She can never fill a pant suit like Hillary did.
“they are sad pandas,”
Haha, they are. And like pandas, very entertaining to watch perform
Remember the good old days on banging the top of your television to get The picture back from the Twilight zone. How about taking a hammer to your starter to break the carbon deposits loose? We really did grow up in the Stone age
That was perfect, lurker Jesus. You are one sick puppy. I'm vomiting in my mouth right now
Is anybody as tired of hyperbolic ranting on social media as I am? I’m sorta hoping to see a day when everybody gets fed up and stops. It’s got to happen. Social media is so toxic with the wild ranting that I’ve mostly retreated to talking to Grok and GPT. And, yes, the “I’m the world weary sage who alone sees the truth and everybody else is hypnotized,” bit has become unbearably boring and obnoxious regardless of which tribe is represented. I mean, this shit has been going on for 20 years. Change the channel?
Jackie Kennedy got her payday when she married the financier of her husband's murder
“I was especially humored by your passive aggressive whining about how the Melania documentary film won't be available in your your little lib turd college town. I really feel for you. You are so oppressed.”
LOL. Howard, you might be my favorite. I really love everything about you. (no sarcasm)
This truly is a Golden Age!
Whinging Thomas: you know that you can control your access to social media all on your own power. Maybe look in the mirror and figure out why the algorithm keeps sending you such dreck. It's a reflection of you. Maybe that's why you are so verklempt about it.
I honestly don't mean this as a dig: I think Melania must be the most triumphant trophy wife of all time. Eat your heart out Pamela Harriman.....She fulfilled her role as mother admirably, but she's like no other First Lady we've ever had or will ever have. She's strikingly beautiful, but it's not the kind of looks that you warm to. More hotness than warmth. Warmth is more important than hotness in a First Lady. The accent does her no favors.......I don't think Trump considered her viability as First Lady during their courtship.
Back at your Meade. This is a great place to hang out and check the pulse of our times.
When I say my dog's name, his ears prick up.
Pandas aren't sad, they have down syndrome: Ursa Mongoloidus
I'll be here all week, DVDs are on sale in the lobby
that was a South Park reference,
Amazon bought up IMDB because they wanted to destroy the ability to comment on current movies by average people. They've pretty much made it impossible to get a user review posted. You can rate it, but that's it. The amazon customer reviews of DVD's are terrible too.
As for the "The critics" - they are worthless and always have been for 40 years. Driven by the their leftwing politics and bribe money from "The Industry".
I like Howard too. A general lefty - but a free thinker for the most part. I always appreciate that.
Dave Begley;
Explosions in the Iranian cities of Tehran, Karaj, Qom, Bandar Abbas, Ahvaz, and Tabriz. Top IRGC Navy man killed in Bandar Abbas.
To be clear, I didn’t say I LIKE Howard.
I’m reading that “Melania” scored an $8 million opening, which is not shabby. My biggest concern is that it’s not going to be shown at my favorite local theater so I’ll have to drive up to Winchester and watch it in a theater i don’t much care for. I’ll probably go anyway.
Explosions in Iran don't seem to be airstrikes. Special Ops? Iranian resistance? A combination?
the Sepah Naval Commander,
Ok fine. I still like Howard. 'Like' as in - not a favorite, but Like nonetheless.
I have other favorites.
I just looked up “Melania” on Rotten Tomatoes. The ordinary theater-goers rate it 99% while the critics rate it 6%. Has there ever been such a discrepancy before?
And then, there’s this: “Melania’ Movie Humiliates Critics and Media Naysayers with Historic Box Office.”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/01/31/melania-movie-humiliates-critics-and-media-naysayers-with-historic-box-office-n4948955#google_vignette
Table for One, saucer of milk for rabid, scabrous, parasite-infested, feral Democrats.
Since Althouse seems to have beaten me to it I’m trying to delete my comment at 10:28 but nothing I do brings up the trash can icon. Any ideas?
“…like The Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will”
Wow. High praise indeed—those are recognized classics of the art of cinema. I’ll be sure to see it—probably wait till it comes on streaming, though.
“Let's face it. She can never fill a pant suit like Hillary did.”
Clinton did not garner the Pantsuited Pantload honorific for nuttin’, lol.
So if I remember correctly, all the leftists screamed and raved about Hunter Biden's "art" portfolio fetching millions of dollars per piece. When the question of "isn't this a bribe to Joe?" they scoffed and mocked and scorned.
Now Melanie has made a movie that is apparently very popular with the people and very triggering to the "elite critics" who are universally left... and all they scream is "bribery!"
How can anyone claim Hunter's art (that no one likes) wasn't bribery and Melania's movie that is apparently pretty good for the viewer IS bribery?
“For the record of things no one needs to know, Melania's favorite time of day is "very early morning."”
Mine too! At 4-5 AM it’s so quiet and peaceful, nothing stirring but a few birds. I relax with a beer or two then turn in for the night.
I find the Trumps to be not very watchable, and gave only half of my attention to her appearance on The Five.
Meh all around.
Hillary is, indeed, a pant load. Thanks for the reminder, Lurker.
’She's strikingly beautiful, but it's not the kind of looks that you warm to.’
I agree. Her general visage is sleek, her accent is sexy, and she certainly makes clothes pop, but her squinty eyes don’t work at all for me…
I don't agree that it was a bad question.
Melania should have stayed in her wheelhouse and just made a porno.
Title:
Melania: I make Fuck, I get green card
Who knew that TBH had such contempt for immigrants?
We should all have nothing but respect for a lady that fucked and sucked her whole family into legal US citizen status AND had an anchor baby.
Howard said...
I find it hard to believe that you are having more fun than I Meade. The Gumby contortionist flexibility routine that you people constantly display to accommodate your unceasing fealty to Donald Trump is comedy gold.
For all of his failings, Donald Trump is still a much better and smarter person than you are though.
’We should all have nothing but respect for a lady that fucked and sucked her whole family into legal US citizen status AND had an anchor baby.’
Someone’s a little bit jello…
That is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard on television
…you must not pay much attention when you watch television…
There’s nothing wrong with nothingness.
Kakistocracy said...
Achilles, in a moment of clarity writes: "Melania and Donald should be above caring about money at this point. It is sad that they aren't"
So are Trump's crypto currency plays, selling pardons, taking foreign emoluments of all kinds.
Your Great Leader excels in all things corrupt.
Everyone is corrupt. We are human. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 5 being average corruption most people rate a 5. because that is how distributions work.
Most of the people on this board would rate around a 3. We try to support ourselves but we will take a kickback every now and then. Trump rates about a 3. He is just better at the game than we are but he has actually built things and produced value in the world. Looks like Melania is in the same place now.
But Barrack Obama is at least an 8 on the corruption index. Michelle is a 10. She is the worst kind of corrupt entitled useless scum. They produce nothing that anyone wants and can only support themselves through political BS. They are just good at the BS.
You on the other hand are just a dishonest turd and there is no point rating a retard like you.
raise you hand if you plan to watch this movie (for pleasure that is, not morbid curiousity).
Is it possible that communist agitator George Soros is paying 330 Million Americans to avoid this film?
Maybe some of the tinfoil hat detectives, who busted open the massive voter fraud in the 2020 election, could get crackin on this case. Is the My Pillow Guy busy?
The dumbest stuff on television right now is the extreme language trying to convey the level of Trump hate, supposedly learned people flinging invective in rants of pleading desperation, willing him to go away. Do you deserve to live in a society with elections?
https://open.substack.com/pub/sashastone/p/the-critics-embarass-themselves-with?
Isn't "First Lady" related media always in the softball/glamour genre? There is a whole Smithsonian exhibit on the dresses worn to the inaugural balls...
if one recalls, there was a lesser panjandrum around Nancy Reagan and the China for the White House
much of the carp that the trolls are throwing around, cost the Daily Mail and the Torygraph a pretty farthing,
Howard hasn't seen it and he's already panning it. What's worse is he's panning us for being open minded about it.
(hint) When the popcorn is bigger than the tomato it's probably going to be pretty good.
Cheer up, Howard, maybe they'll make a movie about your favorite yenta from Park Ridge. Hillary. The perennial loser.
again fiction anticipated some of this, notably the work of Charles McCarry, the former? spy in the better angels,
there have been so many manques about Hillary, Political Animals Primary Colors et al, that were largely complimentary to the point that they might be in kind political contributions,
I'm with Melania re. favorite time of day (It's at least as good a lead-in question as "What's your spirit animal?" - I think mine's a cockroach - I've rallied from dire circumstances more than once).
I rarely turn out the lights before 3 a.m. but nothing delights me more than the early morning glow in my bedside window.
After a sweet thought about my children or an old love or two, while stretching in every possible way; I roll out and stand up.
There is genuine joy and excitement in realizing I've been given another day to explore life and all it's promises, mysteries and challeges.
Even difficulties and disappointments can be valued as lessons at least patially learned and understood. There may be a tear or briefly paused converstion thanks to a word or song that stirs an ember.
Today, I'm going to figure something out, get something done, make a plan, cook something tasty and spend a couple hours with an old friend who's in his last days.
And somewhere along the way, I'm gonna encounter a grouch and, one way or another, I'm gonna get the motherfucker to smile.
This evening, a wonderful young lady (whom I've known since she was a toddler) will come over and spend an hour helping me play the guitar better. Maybe hopeless but what's life without a bit of shared Fun?
I'm lucky to be 83. Maybe the best is yet to come. Put me in, coach -I'm ready to play...
’This evening, a wonderful young lady (whom I've known since she was a toddler) will come over and spend an hour helping me play the guitar better. Maybe hopeless but what's life without a bit of shared Fun?’
Sounds like a delightful evening too me. Cheers!
How much of the crap heaped on Melania is based on the ignorant attitude toward models: "Pretty Face - No Brains"?
Mostly expressed by jealous, insecure women and men with no hope of impressing such women.
Back in the long-ago, I shared an apartment with three girl models and had many friends in that community. Most were wonderful, genuine people.
Demands of the work require effort, stamina, creativity and cleverness that would overwhelm the teacher's pet in accounting, English and all gender and racial "studies" departments.
Stan Fields: Miss Rhode Island, please describe your idea of a perfect date.
Cheryl "Rhode Island": That's a tough one. I'd have to say April 25th. Because it's not too hot, not too cold, all you need is a light jacket.
NKP, my newest role model. Bless you, keep you, and long may you make America great.
It's amazing how pervasive politics can be. It can reach right down to the libido....In my opinion, Melania is a more attractive woman than Jill Biden or even that steaming sexpot Kamala, but many Democrats feel that she is unclean and unsuitable because of her intimacy with Donald Trump. She is unworthy of notice or praise......I can see how one would feel a little distanced from her. You're not likely to meet a woman like Melania in the line at the check out counter, but she's definitely good looking and, by all appearances, is a good mother.
What strikes me as truly perverse and demented is that many Democrats find Chelsea Clinton to be more attractive and simpatico than Ivanka. Ivanka seems like a nice person and that other daughter Tiffany is genuinely hot. It's madness to celebrate Chelsea over Ivanka, but that's what they do.
Well...the media not liking anything about Melania the movie, or the person, is hardly a surprise or new. Remember, these are the same people who insist that Michelle Obama is 'charming' and looks like a model.
I don't care about this movie. I have zero interest in the movie. But I do think Melania is beautiful, and seems like a very sincerely nice, and classy person- about as opposite from the scornful scowling Michelle Obama as possible. And I suspect the movie is not made for cinema reviewers or leftist columnists, but for the crowd that truly lives and breathes TrumpWorld.
The only thing I care less about than the Melania movie, are the cretins negatively reviewing the Melania movie. It's harmless. Let it be.
rehajm (11:58): “Do you deserve to live in a society with elections?” If the Democrats ever take control again, the question will be moot. If they get the House midterm and Speaker Hakeem is third in line for POTUS, unless Trump and Vance survive, the question will be moot.
I wonder if Dem women find Hunter Biden more exemplary and worthy than Eric Trump. Maybe not. It's only the wives and daughters that get fetishized.
When we look back on presidents’ wives, we remember Jackie Kennedy. Not because she did anything, but because she looked like that. It will be the same with Melania. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Oh no! They've lost the approval of The Independent and The Guardian!
“How much of the crap heaped on Melania is based on the ignorant attitude toward models: "Pretty Face - No Brains"?”
A lot of the invective about models is well earned. Based on stories my partner has told me. She was one of the top models in Las Vegas, and was pushed hard to move to NYC by her agency (John Powers). After a week in NYC for Fashion Week, she said “never”.
But Melania earned Donald Trump. She met him, bought his book, studied it, and made him work for dating her. Reminds me a lot of my partner. She was smart beautiful, and talented. But when she met her first (late) husband, and he asked her out, she checked her schedule, and told him to call back in six weeks. He did. Took him three years to woo her. He was big, tall, had double dimples, a lot of Irish charm, and at 27, the youngest Executive Chef in Las Vegas. No one told him “no”, until she did. Very much like Melania, who wouldn’t give The Donald her number, but asked for his, and called him up a month later.
First time we have had real elegance in the White House since Jackie. Since then, Republican First Ladies have been dowdy, and Dem ones a step or two below that. Melania is never dressed wrongly. Her outfits invariably stand out. Perfectly coordinated. Amazingly, the only wife of a world leader, sitting in the first row, wearing the proper veil at a state funeral.
“I wonder if Dem women find Hunter Biden more exemplary and worthy than Eric Trump. Maybe not. It's only the wives and daughters that get fetishized”
Eric Trump does the day to day running of the Trump companies. He pops by Trump International in Las Vegas every couple weeks, and talks to everyone. All the staff, even the Democrats, love him.
Funny story. One of the security guys there went to his first company picnic. And two guys were running the grill, dressed in wife beater undershirts and kaki shorts. Turned out to be the older two Trump boys. Don’t think at his height that their little brother will be able to pull that off. Even with a beard.
On Rotten Tomatoes the critics favourability is 11%. Customers is 99%. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/melania
Are critics like 'experts' now? Their opinions dictated by their peers and fears of social cancellation?
Thanks to Beasts and Meade for the kind words. None of those are ever wasted. You and many others here are worthy of envy, in many ways.
Meade's mental energy and agility are natural wonders. Few among us could keep pace (and, perhaps, set the pace, at times) with our lovely Hostess, who has no concept of a road not taken (and commented upon). Anne seems to have been listening when Yogi said, "When you come to a fork in the road; take it."
Y'all make the reading fun.
A lady friend of mine went to see it here in St. Paul......packed theater and applause at the end.....possible the audience were illegals hiding from ICE...:>))
"Fashion Week" is a zoo. Models, other than the "Supers" are mostly commodities and coat-hangers. Money, ego and "Designers" rule. None dare hint that the Emperor actually looked better with NO clothes. It's astounding what some people put up with to be a part of this circus. At the high end of "couture", abuse is too mild a word.
My MIL was a top Powers Model in NYC. Many magazine covers and her pick of commercial work in the 1940s. She came from money and didn't have to put up with BS.
She lived with us the last year of her life and was still drop-dead-gorgeous at 89, and blessed with total recall and a razor wit. She knew all the A-Listers of the day and wasn't shy about spilling the beans. That girl could tell a story! I miss her.
Professional critics on entertainment are in the same category as professional pollsters: They are paid shills, and they are experts in the arcane technology of their respective bailiwicks, shaping public opinion and trying to steer it to the most lucrative acreage for their crop of grift. They aren't giving you their honest opinion any more than a professional pollster is trying to determine yours.
"That is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard on television."
I saw this hostile English TV interview the other day. The clip was on YouTube and the interviewer was trying to environmentally shame this carpenter because the young carpenter worked in wood. The interviewer was like: But you cut down trees. And the carpenter replied that it's sustainable because you can grow new trees. Then the interviewer asked why he didn't use concrete. The carpenter then replied, You can't grow concrete. And then the interviewer responded, "Yes, you can." The awkward silence after that was awesome.
"The walrus and the carpenter were walking hand in hand...."
Know little about her, but all these years, her beauty, her fashion, and yet she has been absent from magazine covers.
Of course the press insipidly fawning over ungraceful Michelle Obama or over deer in the headlights halfwit Jackie Kennedy was not propaganda. Everything is propaganda these days. Pointing it out as your main theme only highlights your own bias.
Boxers or briefs Mr. Clinton?
Yeah I know it wasn't a "journalist" that asked. But the question was afforded a lot of air time to discuss.
"That is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard on television".
So I take it you have never watched a single episode of "The View".
On “liking” Howard: I truly appreciated his “Remember the good old days on banging the top of your television to get The picture back from the Twilight zone. How about taking a hammer to your starter to break the carbon deposits loose? We really did grow up in the Stone Age” comment.
About Melania's "plagiarism"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUj2UzJ4uA8
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