It's her money, she can spend it any way she likes. I'm not one to go after families - she didn't ask for any of this.

Ask to be first lady? Absolutely not.

If true she would be taking advantage of all the pomp that goes along with being first lady in the white house. It's OBVIOUS she didn't want any part of this and why would she? She was living a very cushy life without living in a fish bowl.

Perhaps about "looking great on a budget"?

She's extremely wealthy and it's not taking food out of your mouth if she dresses well. Frankly, this whole topic comes off looking like petty jealousy.

I DO mind that Melania went on the stump and perpetuated the birther nonsense, which actually should have come up during the campaign.

Her clothes? That's nothing but pathetic bullshit.

and I actually think that people who can should support the industry. I also think that coat is beautiful. We don't know that she actually bought it, either. Often houses will lend clothes to celebrities.

I thought you were the author of the OP. And you're right - she probably didn't pay for it but even if she had, it's her money. I try to NEVER trash wives and children of politicians (Ivanka and Jarad are a different story as they are PART of the administration). No desire to sink to the level of the imbeciles that went after Hillary and Michelle while first lady.

we just don't know who exactly.

Sounds like you have a problem with wealthy people. That's entirely your problem.

I guess you are wealthy, For some of us $50,000 dollars is five years of income.
No one should have a $50,000 coat.

paying for labels.

She is spending her/his money. You cannot police how people spend their OWN money

Did she wear a $50,000 coat recently? Haven't seen that.

I just don't get it.

considering that the top 25 hedge-fund managers made $223,461 an hour in 2014. That's like a person making the minimum wage spending $1.65.

(OK, Donald Trump is not one of the top 25 hedge-fund managers, but given that we don't have his tax returns and therefore don't know his income, and given also that he wants us to think his income is very high, I think this is a fair comparison.)

Reference:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/05/12/the-top-25-hedge-fund-managers-earn-more-than-all-kindergarten-teachers-combined/?utm_term=.ea1fe0288771

Glued with tears

Plus it has a big screen TV and surround sound

And it came with a free Buick

You could give preschoolers a lab coat, a bottle of glue, and some fake flowers and that's what you'd get.

One always has to ask if the tRumps actually paid the bill.

$50,000 back."

Held hostage, decorated like a mannequin.



Fiddle-dee-dee!

"Well, I.. saw it in a window and I just couldn't resist it."

Did she just start spending a lot on her clothes? No.

When they really didn't. I say we start throwing their talking points back in their face.

I say instead of complaining about how much Melania spends on clothes, we focus on finding good strong candidates for office at all levels. Our narrative needs to be our own to control.

desire to sink to their level. Leave the wife out of it.

Those are done by people who just want to distract from real stuff.

And I believe in fighting fire with fire. I think we really need to fight back.

So let's expose the evilness of their policies, the Russian ties, etc etc.

What Melania wears doesn't really expose the monster traits too much.

D&G are Italian. I'm sure that some Italians were delighted to see this, but doesn't it contradict 45's claim of buying all their stuff from the US?

Oh yea, he liked...

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Like celebrities, she probably gets them for free, to use as advertising.

If so, she needs to claim that as income.

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Gotta show the locals who's the boss

The Presidency only pays 400k/yr. Another example of the working poor just trying to get by.
















sarcasm

Perhaps history will, in a sense, repeat itself.

No criticism from me of them spending their wealth, but that coat is Ugly.

The REAL issue is the thing is completely inappropriate for a state visit by a foreign leader's wife. That shit looks like something your grandmother wore. Whatever happened to a good business suit or a business dress?

...utterly tone deaf...

or if it takes food out of other peoples' mouths. It's obscene because it demonstrates their utter lack of self-awareness. Would it have killed her to wear a more modest coat, say one costing $5000?

The Trumps are already the laughingstock of the world for his poor manners and loudmouth, crude behavior. For her to dress so ostentatiously only gives more fuel to the flames of ridicule. And the poor dumb fucks don't even realize how bad this makes them look.

And another thing: I'm really, really tired of being told I'm just jealous when I criticize something about rich people. Don't project your own feelings on me. TYIA.

Melania &/or her wardrobe is the least of our problems with this group of insurgents...

rattlesnake hide for a necktie..........


Maybe it was made out of human skin.

And the deplorables think he's sit down and treat them to a beer.

she does wear it well, she was a fashion model afterall. Besides I don't like picking on Melania, I think she's brave having to put up with Mr. Orange and his bullcrap on a daily basis. I'd need retail therapy too to cope.

Although I knew rich people could buy expensive clothing and I had heard of a $100,00 Hermes purse I did not know that there was a coat that cost $51,500. So, what makes the coat cost so much?

I wonder if Princess Diana ever had a coat that cost $51,000. I am not trying to be mean to Melania by bringing up Princess Diana. It is just that Princess Diana was a very fashionable woman so I just wondered if she ever had a coat that cost $51,000.

Let them flaunt it, I say. Let us see their reality vs. our own.

to be very angry when it finally penetrates their thick heads that they have been screwed.