# Melania Trump's (semi) nude photo shoot? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 21, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468 "2016-07-21T04:09:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/21 "2016-07-21T19:16:43Z")
> [@coremelt](#): > > Yeah I do, because the republicans paint themselves as the pro-family, pro “christian morality party” so it’s extremely hypocritical of them to ignore her semi-naked modelling and the fact that Trump has divorced two times previously. > > **If it was a Democrat wife they’d be attacking her as some kind of immoral trollop.** You know this is true. The hypocrisy stinks, and everyone knows it. Don’t forget it was a not-connected-in-any-way-to-Ted-Cruz Super PAC that used those photos to attack Trump and his wife. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/22 "2016-07-21T20:17:09Z")
On the plus side, she \*is \*brandishing a gun. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/23 "2016-07-21T21:00:23Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > I know what you’re saying. I’m not even sure how to fully explain it… but that photo shoot is the least sexy thing I’ve seen in a long time. I almost feel like I’m outside myself watching the mating rituals of another species. It’s like the uncanny valley effect. Yeah, her facial expressions are so …blank. Although her eyes do look kinda angry. And this isn’t a Vogue style fashion shoot. Did she even do top echelon fashion? I have no memory of her name prior to becoming Mrs. Trump. And I followed fashion stuff pretty intensely back then. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/24 "2016-07-21T21:02:03Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > If you search for nudes under her maiden name, you find at least one shoot of nude photos said to be her. Not sure those are genuine. Assuming that is her, is Melania the first major party’s candidate’s wife for whom topless photos are known to presumably exist? ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/25 "2016-07-21T21:03:17Z")
We live in a world where the future Queen Consort to the King of the United Kingdom has pictures of her in her undies posted to the internet … didn’t y’all feel the earth shake when Queen Victoria was spinning in her grave? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/26 "2016-07-21T21:12:00Z")
> [@filmore](#): > > Assuming that is her, is Melania the first major party’s candidate’s wife for whom topless photos are known to presumably exist? Hardly. There are paparazzi pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy sunning naked at a private beach from back in 1972. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/27 "2016-07-21T21:18:30Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Hardly. There are paparazzi pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy sunning naked at a private beach from back in 1972. Really? How did I never know that? What if instead my question was: Assuming that is her, is Melania the first major party’s candidate’s wife who has voluntarily posed for topless photos and those photos have been seen by the public? I suppose by the time the cellphone camera generation gets into political power, there will be quite the selection of salacious photos of everyone in politics. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/28 "2016-07-21T21:27:31Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Hardly. There are paparazzi pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy sunning naked at a private beach from back in 1972. Though, she was, at that point, a _former_ First Lady, not the wife of a candidate, nor a sitting First Lady. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/29 "2016-07-21T23:43:20Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Hardly. There are paparazzi pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy sunning naked at a private beach from back in 1972. See also the [nude posture photos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League_nude_posture_photos) taken for 3 decades at Ivy League & Seven Sisters schools. In theory there could be nude photos of both teenage Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham sitting somewhere; though there almost certainly have since been destroyed. ---
**Author:** ![Chihuahua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@Chihuahua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chihuahua)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/30 "2016-07-21T23:59:12Z")
And these are the Republicans. THE REPUBLICANS. The party that is synonymous with Christian bible-thumping idiocy. Can you even CONCEIVE of the outrage that would result if a Democratic candidate’s wife did this? The hypocrisy is astonishing. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/31 "2016-07-22T02:28:22Z")
Are you kidding? Republican hypocrisy is redundant. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/32 "2016-07-22T04:09:23Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Don’t forget it was a not-connected-in-any-way-to-Ted-Cruz Super PAC that used those photos to attack Trump and his wife. It was actually Liz Mair’s Make America Awesome SuperPac. She [denies links with Ted Cruz](http://www.mediaite.com/online/liz-mair-on-incendiary-melania-ad-you-can-blame-me-but-i-dont-care-because-the-ad-worked/), and I’m inclined to believe her. She’s a NeverTrumper: [here is her twitter feed](https://twitter.com/search?q=liz%20mair&src=typd). She will be voting Libertarian this fall. She used to work for Scott Walker before she gaafed and was fired. [Liz Mair - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Mair) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/33 "2016-07-22T04:17:17Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > It was actually Liz Mair’s Make America Awesome SuperPac. She [denies links with Ted Cruz](http://www.mediaite.com/online/liz-mair-on-incendiary-melania-ad-you-can-blame-me-but-i-dont-care-because-the-ad-worked/), and I’m inclined to believe her. > > She’s a NeverTrumper: [here is her twitter feed](https://twitter.com/search?q=liz%20mair&src=typd). She will be voting Libertarian this fall. > > She used to work for Scott Walker before she gaafed and was fired. [Liz Mair - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Mair) Frankly, I don’t believe for a second that some form of communication hasn’t been worked out between campaigns and PACs. And I mean all of 'em. It’s just too convenient to be able to let loose the most vicious hate-filled and untruthful ads possible with deniability. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/34 "2016-07-22T04:19:59Z")
Quick disclaimer-hetero female so I read the article-but what struck me is 18 carat gold seatbelts. That can’t be good. Isn’t gold a fairly soft metal? ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/35 "2016-07-22T04:22:05Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Quick disclaimer-hetero female so I read the article-but what struck me is 18 carat gold seatbelts. That can’t be good. Isn’t gold a fairly soft metal? I’m sure they mean the metal on the outside of the seatbelt clasp - the part you’d see and touch. The guts of the device would have to be stronger than that. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/36 "2016-07-22T04:40:51Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Frankly, I don’t believe for a second that some form of communication hasn’t been worked out between campaigns and PACs. And I mean all of 'em. > It’s just too convenient to be able to let loose the most vicious hate-filled and untruthful ads possible with deniability. Sound instincts, but realize that the so-called ad was a crude photoshop job. The online ad-buy maybe cost them $300. [PolitiFact | Donald Trump has no evidence that Ted Cruz was responsible for naked Melania ad](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/31/donald-trump/donald-trump-has-no-evidence-ted-cruz-was-responsi/) My take is that Liz Mair is a one woman show. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/37 "2016-07-22T05:11:48Z")
Speaking of semi-nude photo shoots, has anyone looked at Melania [Trump.com](http://Trump.com)? (Not technically NSFW, but just in case anyone has a prudish workplace, there’s a space in there to delete.) She’s certainly not appealing to her intellectual capabilities when selling jewelry and skin care. Also, am I the only one doing a double-take on caviar-extract skin care products? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/38 "2016-07-22T05:37:51Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > Sound instincts, but realize that the so-called ad was a crude photoshop job. The online ad-buy maybe cost them $300. [PolitiFact | Donald Trump has no evidence that Ted Cruz was responsible for naked Melania ad](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/31/donald-trump/donald-trump-has-no-evidence-ted-cruz-was-responsi/) > > My take is that Liz Mair is a one woman show. At Open Secrets, we learn that Make America Awesome spent $208 on “Media”, with the proceeds going to Facebook. What I interpret as broadcasters received $4400. Total receipts were about $40,000: if I’m interpreting the website correctly I presume most of that went into Mair’s pocket. None of these figures are especially large. They weren’t the only #NeverTrump PAC in town, but methinks this was emblematic of the flaccid and ineffective resistance to the Trump takeover. > **[PAC Profile: Make America Awesome](https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs//C00594176/summary/2016)** > > Make America Awesome raised $39,499 in the 2015-2016 election cycle. See the details. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/39 "2016-07-22T05:51:34Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > …Also, am I the only one doing a double-take on caviar-extract skin care products?.. What woman hasn’t dreamed of skin that looks and smells like very salty fish eggs? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468/40 "2016-07-22T13:27:37Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > What woman hasn’t dreamed of skin that looks and smells like very salty fish eggs? It’s an improvement over the usual tuna. _flees_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trumps-semi-nude-photo-shoot/760468.md?page=3)