Alec Baldwin, continuing his quest to make enjoying any of his work impossible, has just appeared on Megyn Kelly Today. Though very much concerned that other talk show hosts are letting their programs become “grand juries” on sexual harassment, Baldwin is apparently very cool with turning America’s waking nightmare of…
Melania Trump remains an enigma. Glimpses of humanity shine through whenever she’s forced to swat away her husband’s grasping paws, but then she’s out here decking the White House in dead branches and staring into whatever bottomless void she sees at the center of The Nutcracker.
In what we would be concerned was a cry for help, had the Trump women not consistently proven themselves to be enthusiastic collaborators in the family’s stunningly inept attempt at a fascist takeover of the United States, today Melania Trump followed up her own personal Suspiria reboot by unveiling this, um, festive…
A home visit from a group of ballerinas, dancing to the beautiful music of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, should be a wonderful holiday treat. Not so, perhaps, for the first lady, who today unveiled the White House’s Christmas decor. No, Melania Trump looks upon even the most impressive displays of art with the…
Melania Trump is no stranger to speculation, her emotionless face refusing to divulge much of anything. Even when she speaks, it’s in someone else’s plagiarized words. So, what? Is she happy in her gilded prison? Is she yearning for escape? Just how much does she retch at the thought of Donald Trump’s wet, reptilian…
September 6 was National Read A Book Day, and to celebrate, First Lady Melania Trump sent out selected works by Dr. Seuss, including Oh The Places You’ll Go!, to one school in each of the 50 states. Not everyone welcomed the 10-book collection, though. Earlier this week, a school librarian in Cambridge, Massachusetts…
The day of reckoning and unpacking is upon Melania Trump, as NBC News reports the current First Lady has finally picked up stakes from the sleepy hamlet of New York City to settle into her new abode in Washington D.C. Apparently, the move didn’t happen at any other point in the five months since the inauguration to…
Margaret Atwood’s vision of an America in which the conservative Christian right of the ’80s gets the exact patriarchal power-structure it yearned for has retained its power in the intervening decades. But today, men in power don’t even have to use the cloak of the religious right to maintain power and suppress…
Yesterday the world received yet another image of people recoiling in horror from Donald Trump. In this case, the unhappy person adjacent to the president happened to be Pope Francis, who, although undoubtedly used to photo ops by now, could not muster up a positive expression as he was forced to pose next to someone…
Yesterday, we all reveled in the photographic proof of the fact that First Lady Melania Trump recoils at the thought of touching her husband’s hand. As the two strolled along a Saudi Arabian red carpet, she could be seen unsubtly swatting his roving, no-doubt damp paw away from hers—just the latest in a saga of her…
We’re well past the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency and First Lady Melania Trump remains a mystery. Is she “a fairytale prisoner by choice”? Does she need rescuing? Wasn’t she going to stop cyberbullying or something?
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 …
We’ve already seen that the Trump administration has trouble with the simplest tasks, like pulling together a proper hat for St. Patrick’s Day, or creating a typo-free inauguration poster. So it’s not much of a surprise that the upcoming White House Easter Egg Roll, apparently the biggest WH social event of the year,…
Melania Trump and Donald Trump are not in love. She was ready to live out her days quietly tolerating her senile, oafish husband in a gold-plated tower. Then he accidentally became president and fucked everything up. You could see this writ in her face on the day of his inauguration, not to mention the fact that since…
Melania Trump’s recent interviews regarding Donald Trump’s “locker room talk”—otherwise known as his endorsement of sexual assault—opened the door for actress Laura Benanti to return to Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show and give her impression another whirl. The Tony-winning actress plays the former model as a pouting…
Deadline is reporting that The Daily Mail has retracted a story alleging Melania Trump was once an escort. The move came hours after the dubious U.K. newspaper was hit with a $150 million defamation lawsuit filed by Trump, in which her team of lawyers stated that Trump did “legitimate and legal modeling work for…
During this lengthy and bitter election cycle, a great deal of attention has been paid to the many failed business ventures associated with real estate mogul Donald Trump, who has campaigned for the presidency largely on the strength of his supposed financial acumen. If he’s such a hotshot, pundits ask, why have so…
Filibustered is Alex McLevy’s column about the overlap between politics and pop culture.
Since 1995, Snopes.com has been debunking urban legends and correcting the abundant misinformation that circulates on the internet. But the site isn’t just about alligators thriving in city sewers after being flushed down the toilet or babysitters who get so stoned that they put infants into the oven. Snopes.com also…
Melania Trump sure has a way with words. At last night’s Republican National Convention, she gave a speech that she swears she mostly wrote herself, and as Chelsea Peretti pointed out, she sounded a lot like a real first lady:
