Melania Trump's first official White House portrait photo

Melania Trump’s first official White House portrait photo is out

Like or loathe Trump, and I’ve recently switched to loathing him, it surely must be admitted that Melania has to be the foxiest First Lady ever and most definitely for me a MILF. Oh, Michelle Obama only loses the contest by a hair’s breadth but I still think she loses. Jackie and the others just aren’t in the running. I respectfully submit if you’re not seeing how gorgeous this woman is that your optics are distorted by politics.

She’s a lovely woman and it’s a lovely picture.

Personally there’s something about her eyes and overall expression that niggles at me, like she’s always just slightly squinting (or maybe is wearing a touch too much mascara). But that’s just me.

Of course she looks pretty. It’s what she does for a living.

That picture has so much flo it gave my hair a feathering. Don’t know what flo is called in English, it’s that thing photographers did so much in the '80s of making everything in the picture kind of misty. Blur?

Why does she always look so smug?

Airbrush?

Meanwhile, Michelle Obama is sporting a natural look.

I don’t think anyone can deny that she is an intrinsically attractive woman but she comes off as the stereotypical “Eurotrash”. There’s something really unappealing about her styling and now, in typical Trump fashion, her official portrait looks like it was done by Glamour Shots.

Soft focus.

Old school photographers used to smear Vaseline on the lens - or the sitter :slight_smile: - to achieve a similar effect.

Yeah, this one isn’t so much soft-focused as edited as if for a fashion glamour spread using all the skin smoothing tools available in Photoshop. If they blended this photo with the original one at about 33%-50% opacity, it would at least look somewhat more natural. The effect really is a bit heavy-handed here.

Could she look any less approachable?

Previous first lady portraits

Soft focus and A LOT of plastic surgery.

I disagree with the OP completely. Melenia’s eyes look far too alien to be attractive to me in any way. She looks like a passing Lizard Person.

I think she has the look of “I met you somewhere, but can’t remember where or what your name is.” Slightly squinty and somewhat puzzled.

Fully vested in her pre-nup (with a rock-solid way to get/keep custody of Baron)?

As in “I think the ruffies are wearing off.”

The list of things I don’t give a shit about regarding this pre-apocalyptic president of ours is how much you or anyone wants to have sex with his wife. Christ.

Previous first ladies have used their newfound position to do everything from promote childhood physical activity to promote equal rights for African Americans. Call me when Melania does something more interesting than looking pretty.

For some reason, having a sultry First Lady is a turnoff to me.

The slight squinting is called a “squinch” in photo/fashion circles assuming this is what you’re talking about. (Although the first lady’s photo exhibits the squinching, it doesn’t quite have the intensity/seriousness of a proper “squinch.” It’s like a squinch combined with a far-off stare somehow.)

Plotting her escape, no doubt.

She’s thinking of England.