Read This: Melania Trump’s Twitter photos reveal a “fairytale prisoner by choice”
Melania Trump is fascinating, if only because we know so little about her. She wants to battle cyberbullies, but she’s married to one. She plagiarized Michelle Obama for reasons we never quite figured out. She may or may not be absolutely miserable. The only thing we seem to know for sure about her is that she was never an escort. One question, however, has dominated most conversations about her, and that’s why she seems so reluctant to leave Trump Tower and live in the White House. That’s what led writer Kate Imbach to scour the first lady’s Twitter account for any kind of answer.
Her resulting Medium post on the topic, titled “Fairytale Prisoner By Choice: The Photographic Eye Of Melania Trump,” focuses not on her posts, however, but on her photos. “I noticed that in the three-year period between June 3, 2012 and June 11, 2015 she tweeted 470 photos which she appeared to have taken herself,” Imbach writes. “I examined these photographs as though they were a body of work.”
Her discoveries are fascinating. In three years, Melania posted just one photo of her and Donald Trump (seen above) and just five photos of she and Donald’s son, Barron, with his father. There’s only one photo of she and Barron. “It was also the only occasion when she posted a photograph of his whole face,” Imbach writes, “She disguised him the same way she disguised herself, in the little boy-version of her big sunglasses—ski goggles.” Later, she concludes that she “wants to protect him” because “[t]o Melania, protection means hiding.”