Here's why Melania is so much better than Michelle (and all the other first ladies)
Steve Bannon reveals it: Melania Trump did not want her husband to win. There are many ways to be first lady: Melania's is devoted to a sure, and more than legitimate, disengagement
Here is explained the sulking of Melania Trump, the first First Lady who did not want to be and who - as the former right-hand man of the US president, Steve Bannon, tells in his book - on the evening of the election victory cried "but not with joy". Bannon's story will force us to review the fluctuating stereotypes with which Melania, a bit silly, a bit social climber, a bit victim of her bully husband, and the democrat counterpoint with Mrs Michelle Obama will also be wasted. , a recognized icon of emancipation and marital assertiveness. Who is the "free one" between the two? Michelle going out of her way to consolidate her spouse's career, and then her presidency, providing her constituents with a symbolic universe of reference in the organic garden, in appeals to girls' education, in cheek-to-cheek dances with the devoted spouse? Or she, Melania, cheering against her husband's victory and not even accompanying him on stage when he announces his candidacy, foreseeing an endless series of annoyances that he would prefer to avoid?
There have been many ways of being First Lady in America: the cold and ambitious efficiency of Hillary Clinton; the political protagonism of Eleanor Roosevelt; the dapper glamor of Nancy Reagan; Eleanor Carter’s humanitarian activism, and of course Jackie’s European royalty. However, there had never been a First Lady who was completely reluctant to the role and clearly insensitive to the duties that tradition associates with presidential womanhood, starting with the need to devote herself to some just cause. Melania's cause at the moment seems to be her wardrobe, and that's probably okay: the sympathetic message she sends wearing kimonos in Tokyo, gypsy skirts in Spain, black lace in the Vatican, Italian fashion in Taormina, lumberjack shirts in the countryside, trousers of skin when on vacation, he reassures us that at least someone in the White House knows about education and doesn't spend his time studying how to irritate the rest of the world.
Melania's cause at the moment appears to be her wardrobe, and that's probably okay. reassures us that at least someone in the White House knows about education and does not spend their time studying how to irritate the rest of the world
Steve Bannon in "Fire and Fury" says that Mrs. Trump was so annoyed by Donald’s candidacy that he spent time explaining to her that no, it was not possible, that they would never elect him. In light of these revelations, perhaps we will have to re-read some surreal episode of the presidential campaign. For example, what Melania saw, in her first official speech at the republican convention in Cleveland, copied phrases taken from an old speech by Michelle Obama, causing a global mockery. Gaffe or deliberate boycott? Certainly Melania did not lift a finger to favor the nomination first and then the election of her husband. And she always marked her distance from the adventure she was getting into: "I'm not the kind of wife who tells you learn this or learn that, I'm not a pain in the ass," she explained to Harper's Bazar, making it clear that, for her, Donald he could crash as he saw fit.
Yesterday Meryl Streep, under attack by American feminism for not denouncing, from the top of her position as an absolute star, the abuses of producer Harvey Weinstein, tried to deflect the debate by calling into question the First Lady. "I don't want to hear about my silence," he told the New York Times, "I want to know about Melania Trump's silence." Wait and hope. Melania has made her idea of emancipation clear for some time: "I have a chef, I have my assistant, I do Pilates, I read magazines", she replied to journalists who asked her about her life and her passions. In short, political and social commitment is not his figure and he does not find it necessary to disguise himself as an activist of anything. Among the thousand ways of being free women, this too must be taken into consideration.
