through her. As the New York Times‘ Vanessa Friedman writes:Whatever she was thinking was impossible to see — by design. (It also made it hard for her husband to get anywhere near her cheek for a kiss, and drew some comparisons to Zorro.) Along with her tightly buttoned coat and high-neck blouse, the hat gave her an air of mystery and inaccessibility that was unusual for an inauguration, when the first family is traditionally put on view as the new face of the nation.As Friedman mentions, Melania’s hat also shielded her orange-faced, septuagenarian hubby from giving her a proper kiss.
All he could muster was a little peck. The pained smooch radiated “I’m kissing my aunt” energy.Melania wearing a kiss condom this is so insane pic.twitter.com/fKqaPfjUWEme after saying ‘hey girlie!’ to the most nastiest gay in the group: pic.twitter.com/kYCVPnbBAmIt would’ve been so sick if Melania had started moonwalking in that thing pic.twitter.com/8HoZ0UkvERmelania when she saw him approaching https://t.co/KQTUOo9nZ1 pic.twitter.com/YkH9BCAgpKWhy the hell does Melania Trump look like the Hamburgler?
pic.twitter.com/FVXt80zGe8On Tuesday, the man who designed Melania’s large hat, Eric Javits, said she was trying to display conservative values.
Like… no kissing?“I think she was thinking of protocol and looking very elegant and very simple in a way,” Javits said on ABC News. “It’s a time of some restraint, and it’s really sort of a turning point to more conservative values.”Michigan’s newest senator has quite the family tree!Unfortunately, Melania doesn’t exercise that same kind of restraint when it comes to grifting.