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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTake a look at WH Christmas decorations from decades ago to present....Notice anything?
https://rb.gy/kvadgbWait til you see it; it's horrifying.

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N_E_1 for Tennis
(11,439 posts)hlthe2b
(108,920 posts)There is something really wrong with her, IMO
PJMcK
(23,417 posts)Didn't Melania tell her former friend (who wrote a tell-all) that no one cares about "the fucking Christmas decorations?"
Clearly Melania didn't care too much.
Trump and his-- whatever she is-- can't be gone soon enough.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)There was an imposter at the end, though. She has never been happy since meeting IT.
MineralMan
(148,780 posts)LearnedHand
(4,590 posts)Spot on!
Princess Turandot
(4,839 posts)..in a high end department store in a luxury shopping area or mall. An overly design-oriented back drop.
Politicub
(12,309 posts)MineralMan
(148,780 posts)as our Christmas Movie. "No way," she said. So we're going to watch "Die Hard" again. It's also a Christmas movie.
dalton99a
(87,738 posts)

Chainfire
(17,757 posts)It probably wasn't appropriate for her to wear white to her grammar school graduation. They don't want to call Jill Biden, Dr., I wonder if I can still refer to the first lady as the first madam?
Volaris
(10,800 posts)As a whole, I happen to think most of them are hideously overdone and border on gaudy...
But I'm a minimalist so pretty much everyone's gonna disagree with me heh...
GoCubsGo
(33,678 posts)All the trees are red.
Lots of people die there.
No one has a care.
(My apologies to the B-52s.)
LymphocyteLover
(7,669 posts)Autumn
(47,621 posts)It looks like she fell into a dumpster full of unused trash decorations from Hobby Lobby for the WH, got lucky and also found a dress from the Goodwill.
Wicked Blue
(7,764 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,885 posts)I’m guessing Malaria got some outside advice on the design of the fucking Christmas decorations last year.
Towlie
(5,490 posts)
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Princess Turandot
(4,839 posts)Here's a non-shortened link to the first photo of the set (FDR in 1934.)
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/g13943774/white-house-christmas-decorations/?fbclid=IwAR2YfMRwdWdGcNUhGcjuLCb8_9c196FTaVKYsHQewwFydK2LtmW8_uz0UHg&slide=01
Dagstead Bumwood
(5,454 posts)Mr. T dressed as Santa.
nolabear
(43,649 posts)Dagstead Bumwood
(5,454 posts)
Towlie
(5,490 posts)
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tavernier
(13,583 posts)for the official photos. Never could figure out who “they” were.
The red trees look like red uniformed soldiers lined up in the American White House. Like an inside joke between Malaria and who-knows.
magicarpet
(17,893 posts)Princess Turandot
(4,839 posts)One of my departed but still dear kitties would have turned that into a post-earthquake apocalyptic scene in about 90 seconds.
MissB
(16,282 posts)Honestly I preferred their decorations to the rest, although Laura Bush had a decent tree and the Michelle Obama’s trees were excellent.
And yes, the third lady Trump’s decorations were simply awful.
justgamma
(3,679 posts)the dime store stockings on their fireplace.
GoCubsGo
(33,678 posts)It's so 1960s. I like her roadside wildflowers a whole lot more though.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,837 posts)her arms in public like that!!
But seriously, what's up with Moronia in image 44? Was she going for Japanese horror film chique?
BainsBane
(55,746 posts)But the Clinton's sticking gingerbread houses in the tree was also unsightly.
Melania's 2018 display was essentially soulless.
JHB
(37,613 posts)No soul.
csziggy
(34,189 posts)I had just joined the American Needlepoint Guild which had made it a project for chapters to make those. I was a member at large since there were no chapters near me so I didn't make any.
Once the tree was revealed, I was disappointed - I thought the ornaments were too crammed together to appreciate.
Barbara Bush was an avid needlepointer - one of the ANG magazines had an article about a rug she had made. It takes a lot of dedication to stitch an entire rug!
For those who don't know, needlepoint is a specific type of needlework done on an open weave canvas, traditionally with wool yarn, though over the years the techniques and stitches have expanded as have the types of fibers used.
msongs
(70,989 posts)AnnieG
(27 posts)Could you explain what, in particular, you wanted us to see?
essme
(1,207 posts)The coldness- the ugliness- of the Trump decor.
Soul sucking shit-
MustLoveBeagles
(13,157 posts)
I think it was the ugliness of Melania's decorations compared to the efforts of First Ladies of the past. I will say that the 2019 decorations were an improvement.

AnnieG
(27 posts)LudwigPastorius
(12,033 posts)the only person in them is Mel. No Donny, no kid...
I bet they don’t even celebrate Christmas, because it would entail giving...something as alien, and foreign to the Trumps as Venusian unicorns.
Heck, even if they were all in a shot together, everyone would be scowling.
I think Melanoma does it because she thinks, “I am beautiful now, like anorexic supermodel on catwalk, yes”. Trump undoubtedly does it because there’s a little loser’s voice inside his head that says, “Must look tough, must be intimidating or Daddy won’t love me”.
Hekate
(96,980 posts)DFW
(57,624 posts)

Obama's WH Christmas parties were always wonderful.
Here with Cecile Richards (Ann's daughter, and head of Planned Parenthood at the time).