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Atman

(31,464 posts)
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 06:41 AM Oct 2017

Trump now using a fake Melania?

Last edited Wed Oct 18, 2017, 07:50 AM - Edit history (1)

This guy gets weirder by the day. Have you seen the video of Trump with the fake Melania? Absolutely not her. And he goes out of his way to point out that "she happens to be right here," one of Trump's classic tells that he's making shit up.

Sorry, I don't have a direct link to post the video, but you can watch it here, along with comparison pics of Melania and her stand-in.

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Trump now using a fake Melania? (Original Post) Atman Oct 2017 OP
The crap people are willing to believe is amazing jberryhill Oct 2017 #1
Not sure to whom you're referring Atman Oct 2017 #2
Clear as day!! WTF?!?! InAbLuEsTaTe Oct 2017 #52
Oh, really? jberryhill Oct 2017 #58
Sure. As if you're the real jberryhill. Orrex Oct 2017 #3
Pretty silly for sure. MrsCoffee Oct 2017 #16
I think this is just one of those internet 'things' janterry Oct 2017 #4
Could be. Atman Oct 2017 #5
I couldn't follow the link. Is her dress white and gold? Or blue and black? nt JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 2017 #6
Ha! ornotna Oct 2017 #32
Nice! karynnj Oct 2017 #33
Yes. It could be fun. treestar Oct 2017 #23
Why, yes, if they smear poop on their faces, let's do it too! jberryhill Oct 2017 #63
It might work though treestar Oct 2017 #64
Not available zipplewrath Oct 2017 #7
I found vid on YouTube. Atman Oct 2017 #8
a fleet of fembots? eom mjinnj Oct 2017 #9
Dr goldfoot and the girlbombs dembotoz Oct 2017 #10
Reminds me of this video where she supposedly flinched away in disgust from his touch. DetlefK Oct 2017 #11
Seems pretty far fetched to me. MrsCoffee Oct 2017 #12
The glasses are pretty easy. Atman Oct 2017 #13
Nope. MrsCoffee Oct 2017 #15
Maybe she's going through some serious depression with this ass of a husband! n/t RKP5637 Oct 2017 #17
Fake Melania? Not Ruth Oct 2017 #14
When I first saw this, not as CT, I immediately remarked what's wrong with Melania, RKP5637 Oct 2017 #18
When have you ever seen her nod like that? Atman Oct 2017 #19
If true, by now someone would have leaked that it happened. Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #26
waiting for her circuits to self destruct. SummerSnow Oct 2017 #35
"She never nods her head".... riiiigghhht jberryhill Oct 2017 #60
Meh Nitram Oct 2017 #20
And the ever-running race to the bottom of irrational conclusions continues LanternWaste Oct 2017 #21
Your response is so helpful. Atman Oct 2017 #22
How'd they pull of this switcheroo, then, in your opinion? jberryhill Oct 2017 #61
Wow. Kingofalldems Oct 2017 #24
Would he ever admit it if she left him? n/t Judi Lynn Oct 2017 #25
NO Hieronymus Oct 2017 #50
How would you know? (NT) NeoGreen Oct 2017 #27
When did she start being that short? Pathwalker Oct 2017 #28
Here's a link to another media site that has picked up and shot down the conspiracy theory. rogue emissary Oct 2017 #29
Melanoma does NOT have that pouty lower lip. Atman Oct 2017 #30
Maybe the Russians switched her. Hasn't anyone seen (insert relevant movie name here)? n/t PoliticAverse Oct 2017 #31
Trump is the fake one here ornotna Oct 2017 #34
let's just let this die here....... Takket Oct 2017 #36
This message was self-deleted by its author Atman Oct 2017 #46
Which one is fake? What part? Pathwalker Oct 2017 #47
You're not the only one. Dave Starsky Oct 2017 #57
Yep jberryhill Oct 2017 #59
I saw the heading and thought we were going to get to see trumps blow up doll. Doreen Oct 2017 #37
My vision is poor but I know what dark glasses mean Blindingly apparent Oct 2017 #38
That looks like Jennifer Aniston n/t taught_me_patience Oct 2017 #39
She has had a lot of plastic surgery. JI7 Oct 2017 #40
As you age,plastic surgery does not bode well.. HipChick Feb 2018 #74
Looks like her to me. Miserable as fuck RhodeIslandOne Oct 2017 #41
Wait! Does that mean ... dawg Oct 2017 #42
Melanie is "real?" MrScorpio Oct 2017 #43
T think we ought to insist that this (and any other woman standing next to him) is not Melania. marybourg Oct 2017 #44
#fakewife. Atman Oct 2017 #45
Yes. I wonder if they believe their own crap treestar Oct 2017 #65
Unfortunate sunglasses canetoad Oct 2017 #48
The pic on the right: wheres her neck and rainy Oct 2017 #56
It's light reflecting from a TV screen of which the picture was taken jberryhill Oct 2017 #62
Trench Coat Woman's nose is wider, and her hair is a different color jmowreader Oct 2017 #49
It's not wider, it's just the glasses. MrsCoffee Oct 2017 #67
I know one thing SHRED Oct 2017 #51
I'd like to think the real one escaped. nt TeamPooka Oct 2017 #53
Melania Trump Robot: betsuni Oct 2017 #54
Maybe the white part on her glasses makes her nose look bigger... MountCleaners Oct 2017 #55
Pics from the same day: demmiblue Oct 2017 #66
One would hope this would end this nonsense. MrsCoffee Oct 2017 #68
WHO really give a shit!!!!!!! I don't.. onecent Oct 2017 #69
Honestly, I don't either. Atman Oct 2017 #70
I know, comic relief DOES HELP, but not enough!!!! onecent Oct 2017 #71
Its incredible the ends tRump is willing to go to. Wow. Joe941 Oct 2017 #72
Who started the Melania Trump body double conspiracy theory? Look no further muriel_volestrangler Oct 2017 #73

Atman

(31,464 posts)
2. Not sure to whom you're referring
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 07:07 AM
Oct 2017

But if you look at the video and pictures, it is clearly not Melania.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
58. Oh, really?
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 12:05 PM
Oct 2017

Is this also "not Melania" from the same day, same location, same event?

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484

Differences in shading, lighting and make up from an isolated segment of video can "look different".

Nutbars did the same thing with different pictures of Hillary and of President Obama.

 

janterry

(4,429 posts)
4. I think this is just one of those internet 'things'
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 07:08 AM
Oct 2017

People just got caught up in an idea, and it took off

Atman

(31,464 posts)
5. Could be.
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 07:12 AM
Oct 2017

Shared over 80,000 times, yet I never saw it on DU. So what's the source? Is it just a doctored video? Because the woman next to Trump is not Melania.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
23. Yes. It could be fun.
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 06:28 PM
Oct 2017

On FB you run across those morons who claim Michelle Obama is a man. Let them have a taste of their own medicine.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
64. It might work though
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 12:27 PM
Oct 2017

People say win voters with issues, but there is the set so gullible they believe Hillary ran a pedophile ring. So it might be a strategy to get the gullible voters back. But we need a better one than fake Melodrama.

zipplewrath

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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
11. Reminds me of this video where she supposedly flinched away in disgust from his touch.
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 08:06 AM
Oct 2017

If you looked at the whole video, you could see that she was about to give a speech, waited for the applause to die down, and was very nervous and jumpy.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
13. The glasses are pretty easy.
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 08:34 AM
Oct 2017

Look at the woman in the video. It's not the glasses that are different, it's her face.

MrsCoffee

(5,803 posts)
15. Nope.
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 08:46 AM
Oct 2017

Don’t see it. Just a miserable expression on her face, I think you are trying too hard. Not to mention that the video is someone recording their tv lol.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
18. When I first saw this, not as CT, I immediately remarked what's wrong with Melania,
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 09:24 AM
Oct 2017

she looks really strange.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
19. When have you ever seen her nod like that?
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 09:27 AM
Oct 2017

She never nods her head, looking at Orange. She stairs straight ahead, emotionless.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
21. And the ever-running race to the bottom of irrational conclusions continues
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 04:28 PM
Oct 2017

And the ever-running race to the bottom of irrational conclusions continues with both glee and the pretense of skepticism.

Good lord. Maybe it's an android. Or an alien. Or something else on par with your absurd premise.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
22. Your response is so helpful.
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 04:34 PM
Oct 2017

Why not weigh in. Is this a real video? That is NOT Melanoma Trump. Different lips, totally different affect. Also, the eyes are a big give-away, which is why banks want you to remove hats and glasses. Cover the fake eyes!

Melania never looks at Donald and nods approvingly. Never. Find me another video where she does this. This is not the same person.

So please, offer up another explanation. Is the entire video fake? Is Melanoma fake? No way you can look at this video and reach the conclusion that it's the same person.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
61. How'd they pull of this switcheroo, then, in your opinion?
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 12:12 PM
Oct 2017


Same event, same place.

Is that also not her?

Pathwalker

(6,598 posts)
28. When did she start being that short?
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 07:01 PM
Oct 2017

And her hair - up close - is not up to her usual neatness. Is this "photoshopped"? When did this supposedly happen?

rogue emissary

(3,148 posts)
29. Here's a link to another media site that has picked up and shot down the conspiracy theory.
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 07:04 PM
Oct 2017
https://theslot.jezebel.com/are-there-multiple-melanias-1819660117

Are There Multiple Melanias?
Ellie Shechet
A new conspiracy theory has emerged via Twitter guy @JoeVargas, who has it on pretty good authority that Melania Trump is using a body double.

This theory, though quite certainly incorrect (the woman is having a slightly weird hair day, chill out), is just plausible enough to hit home.

After all, although she wholeheartedly signed up for this, has Melania given off the impression that she is enjoying life right now? Did she, or did she not, recently record a PSA that felt disturbingly like a hostage video? Does she seem to like standing next to her husband, in general? Do bizarre, poorly thought-out decisions get made literally every day at this White House? Alternatively, would I believe it if someone told me that we are living in a crude video game developed by an alien teenager titled Hell Time, and that there is in fact a Westworld-esque army of Melania Trumps standing at the ready in a cellar below the White House? (I might!) . . . .

Atman

(31,464 posts)
30. Melanoma does NOT have that pouty lower lip.
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 07:04 PM
Oct 2017

Look at any video of her. That is not her. Melanoma has a larger upper lip, likely pumped full of filler, but she has never had a bigger lower lip. Never.

Response to Takket (Reply #36)

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
57. You're not the only one.
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 08:17 AM
Oct 2017

This is the dumbest fucking thread I have ever seen on this forum, and there have been some doozies.

38. My vision is poor but I know what dark glasses mean
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 07:41 PM
Oct 2017

I won’t speculate about body double, but dark glasses and such extreme passivity means only one thing-he hit her

marybourg

(12,633 posts)
44. T think we ought to insist that this (and any other woman standing next to him) is not Melania.
Wed Oct 18, 2017, 08:13 PM
Oct 2017

No matter what objections are brought up. Just like tRump insisted, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that PRES. Obama wasn't born in the U.S. Let's annoy them with silliness, as well as using all other means of resistance.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
65. Yes. I wonder if they believe their own crap
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 12:29 PM
Oct 2017

Or they think it will win votes from the gullible. Why can't we try for the votes of the gullible?

canetoad

(17,171 posts)
48. Unfortunate sunglasses
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 01:20 AM
Oct 2017

And makeup. Middle picture; the sunglassess have pale pink rims on parts of the frames. She has ham-handedly repeated this motif with pale pink lipliner for a disastrous look.

jmowreader

(50,561 posts)
49. Trench Coat Woman's nose is wider, and her hair is a different color
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 01:52 AM
Oct 2017

Melania has color woven through all the hair on her head, and the predominant color is kind of an ashy blonde. Trench Coat Woman is a brunette with a few highlights around her face.

Serious question: if you were Melania Trump and you could figure out a way to not have to take a trip with your nightmare of a husband, wouldn't you use it?

MrsCoffee

(5,803 posts)
67. It's not wider, it's just the glasses.
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 02:31 PM
Oct 2017

Look it up. There are other pictures of her in those glasses on the internet and her nose looks wide in all of them.

Some women go to the salon and change their hair color every six weeks. Some more, some less. Extremely rich women tend to go more often.

Would people just stop and listen to themselves, lol.

 

SHRED

(28,136 posts)
51. I know one thing
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 02:15 AM
Oct 2017

He's too fake to be President.
He needs to be indicted, impeached, or resign.

But then who?

MountCleaners

(1,148 posts)
55. Maybe the white part on her glasses makes her nose look bigger...
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 05:34 AM
Oct 2017

...and her hair is really stiff, like a wig. I think she just changes her look a lot, and your looks do change quite a bit when you're in your forties.

onecent

(6,096 posts)
69. WHO really give a shit!!!!!!! I don't..
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 02:34 PM
Oct 2017

She's probably back in NYC....doesn't want to sleep with him...

muriel_volestrangler

(101,331 posts)
73. Who started the Melania Trump body double conspiracy theory? Look no further
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 06:12 PM
Oct 2017
Finally, some fake news I can get behind. Indeed, I can’t help feeling it is fake news I am literally behind, having pointed out the top-level conspiracy last Friday evening, within seconds of NBC tweeting a video of Donald Trump being interviewed at a Secret Service training facility while Melania stood silently next to him. “Absolutely convinced Melania is being played by a Melania impersonator these days,” my painstaking investigation read. “Theory: she left him weeks ago.”

Imagine my pride to find that by Thursday morning, this cobblers had percolated all the way up to news Valhalla – AKA sections on Good Morning Britain and Sky News – having been fanned by various nutjob social media accounts in the US. Furthermore, it had been smartened up for appearance in the Washington Post and USA Today and so on. In the case of Sky News, the entire backdrop was given over to a splitscreen of “Melania” at the Secret Service facility and a verified Melania image, with the chyron demanding: “DOES THE FIRST LADY HAVE A BODY DOUBLE?”




Well, now. To be honest, I had feared the process of creating conspiracy-based fake news would be a lot more inconvenient – I was concerned I’d have to go to that Macedonian town and hang out with the emo teens or whoever it was whose fake news farm skewed the US election for the Russkies. But I needn’t have worried. It turned out to be something I could do in a few moments while exiting South Kensington tube station.

As you will note, this lone act of rogue content creation has now given me an item for this week’s column. In business terms, I have vertically integrated, and now control my own supply line of facetious bullshit, about which some more facetious bullshit can be written in due course. It is, quite simply, the dream. In five years’ time I will have taken this column completely off the standard news grid, growing all its own content, and running a China-level trade surplus with fringe lunacy outlets like Infowars and the Daily Express.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2017/oct/19/who-started-melania-trump-body-double-conspiracy-theory
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