She didn’t examine the goods closely enough and what she thought was solid gold turned out to be gilt.
I would think that all she would have to do is touch him and the orange paint would rub off.
Palm Beach. Not Palm Springs.
ETA: And Jill Biden doesn’t have those giant plastic beach ball boobies, so she looks better in her clothes.
She’s a despicable liar. Her “initiative”, the whole “BE BEST” thing, was nothing but an attempt to troll the Obama’s “Be Better” message and I’m sure she and her despicable husband had some nasty sneering “laughs” when she made cyber bullying her initiative.
She’s as bad as her husband. And that stuff about how no magazines would put her on the cover, is mostly a lie, even though it’s technically true.
They refused to put her on the cover because she wouldn’t sit for an interview or allow any magazines to profile her. She wanted nothing more than a straight up photo shoot, and they weren’t interested in featuring a 50 year old model who was third string in her prime. People wanted to know about her, not just look at pictures of her wearing clothes.
And I’m sure they would have reacted the same way if any other First Lady made the same pitch.
Seriously. I LOL every time someone (usually CGSG) calls her a super model. She was barely a model.
She does that?
This is great, planes noisily flying over MAGA LAND airspace again
In any case, the fine folks down at Palm Beach who did not want the place redeveloped lest that bring the Wrong Kind of People now are stuck with one Very Wrong Kind of Person among them.
Who, BTW, solidly won the vote in the Town of Palm Beach precincts. So, enjoy him!
And we all have already downloaded those other pics so…
She could have contributed an article, I suppose, but there are only so many things you can rewrite from old Michelle Obama or Laura Bush speeches that can go with the pictures. But more seriously, it says something of their press/PR team that they could not even wrangle a couple of sitdowns with softball questions at least over that first year… But sure, they really wanted just a publicity glamour spread and I’m sure that would be far more in her comfort zone. Though I wonder if DJT may have not sabotaged her too, by, say, wanting even a puff piece on Mel to have to include flattering Don even more, or to proclaim how she was the hottest First Lady ever.
I think that when your national leader has lived in a place for more than a few weeks, that makes it historic.
Britain, and Italy, have a lot more tourist attractions of this sort than we in the U.S. does — think Hampton Court Palace and Henry VIII — so I can’t believe it would be unaffordable to maintain.
I don’t think that automatically makes any location historic. And I don’t think every national leader necessarily has the same ability to confer historicity.
Depends on where you expect to raise the money to maintain it - what combination of taxpayers’ money in grants, charitable fundraising, commercial lets/events/activities and visitor entrance fees? A fair few big country houses in the UK fell into disrepair and were demolished in the 20th century because the money just wasn’t there (often because inheritance taxes imposed additional costs).
Right, this is not an automatic thing, nor is there a mandate anywhere for the taxpayers to carry it. And unlike some of the preserved palaces in Europe, it is not a “crown” estate, or property of a titled house that generates revenue from land rents. It is just a fancy house with a private owner.
The best hope on that side (keeping it historic by association) would be for it to be turned into his Presidential Library/Museum site but that would require, y’know, his cooperation (or that of his estate once he passes on). And you know neither he nor his descendants will want to put their own money into it, nor just donate it or surrender it for a nominal price, nor let someone else decide how to curate it.
You think it should become a tourist destination? Interesting idea.
I always was of the mind that the whole Melania “be best” campaign was essentially she was going to show everyone how to be the best cyber-bully ever. How to come up with the best insults via twitter, how to be mean and nasty to people on the internet, how to troll, etc.
If we ever find out who the plane guy is, I’m going to send him some money and a Thank You card.
Hope it’s a retired Air Force One pilot.
And, of course, we have The National Trust. For a large part of the 1900s, if you were unlucky enough to inherit a huge money pit of a house, swingeing death duties, and a useless title, you could gift it all, except the title, to The Nation and wipe out the debts. The downside was that you had to allow the great unwashed to tramp around the place, gawping at the splendour. The final episodes of Downton Abbey showed this.
More recently, such ‘gifts’ have to be accompanied by an endowment sufficient to maintain it.
The trust is a charity and raises money from members, visitors, lottery grants, and government. It depends largely on an army of volunteers. Those docents you see when you tour one of these houses do it for love. They get no pay and will accept no tips.
And those awesome cookies in the National Trust Gift Shops. Kind of like Girl Scout cookies, but with National Trust logos. I brought back lots of those from England.
Edited: Sorry - you call them biscuits, not cookies.
Yeah, but we understand what cookies are. No need for an explanation.
::sigh:: Still, every time a web site lets me click a button that says “Accept Cookies”, I get excited.
Just once, couldn’t a uniformed agent of OnlineMassiveCorp.com ring my bell right after I click, with a plate of Pecan Sandies?