Would you say that Melania Trump is smarter than her husband Donald Trump?
Melania Trump is smarter than many people think
‘Any immigrant who starts work as an adolescent and survives America successfully is bound to be smart’
What advice would you give Melania Trump as First Lady of the United States (Flotus)?
I am sure she will do well. Any immigrant who starts work as an adolescent and survives America successfully is bound to be smart. She also reportedly speaks five languages, but many people, particularly those who abhor The Donald, do not credit her with being smart. Like her husband, who will undoubtedly do things differently on Capitol Hill, Melania will bring something new to the White House. She is a beautiful woman, at a distance, and if she has had plastic surgery in the past, she won’t need any now. She should also dress down a little and avoid folds and layered fashions which make her look larger. Her slender figure will look wonderful with any dress or combinations that are simple.
When previously asked how she would see herself as Flotus, Mrs Trump answered that she would like to be like Betty Ford or Jackie Kennedy. Indeed Melania has a touch of glamour and could emulate Jackie Kennedy. There will certainly be no harm in introducing a bit of swell to the White House which, for the best part of three decades, has been stuffed with the excruciating bourgeois atmosphere of the Bushes and Clintons — and the impeccably politically correct Obamas.
Talking of Jackie Kennedy, I cannot resist mentioning the counterfactual question: What would have happened if it had been Khrushchev, not John F Kennedy, who was assassinated? The answer: Aristotle Onassis would not have married Mrs Khrushchev!
In the style of an association football manager, Donald Trump wears his coat buttons unfastened. His inauguration showed the same is true of his overcoat. This also emphasises that he wears his shiny monochrome ties several inches below his waistline. Can a man who dresses in this manner be considered a gentleman? Would you put him up for membership at one of your clubs?
President Trump wears all his coat buttons open because he needs the flexible freedom to gesticulate with his arms, which he does perpetually like a mechanical puppet, while protruding his thumb and index finger. Much like reading from a teleprompter, he invariably switches his arms from left to right, while annunciating, haltingly, the vernacular prose that has defined his presidential victory. More than any other previous president or politician, Trump has brought political language to its lowest common denominator, which is not the image of a gentleman. But he doesn’t want the image of a gentleman. He has deliberately chosen to rub metaphorical shoulders with the working classes. So his appearance, like that of a football manager, is a sign of him connecting with hoi polloi, dispensing with the need to button up his coats to look formal and superior. Trump’s fluorescent ties in red and blue — tied unusually long, unpinned, untucked, and knotted in a truncated tetrahedron with abandon — signal rebellion, even in the sartorial subconscious, against established style.
All these subtle departures from the accepted norm are attractive visual signals to a new generation of voters, who are craving a change from the wooden and condescending manner in which politicians have traditionally dealt with the public. I wonder if these are all deliberate moves cunningly contrived by Trump. If they are, then he is the modern Machiavelli.
I would put Trump up at any of my clubs, all of which aim to be inclusive rather than exclusive. I have always liked a collection of members who are different and not one-dimensional. Trump would be a darn sight more interesting than the average member and would bring plenty of jollities, and I hope absurdities, to the club. The days of clubs consisting of a large cosy network of old buffers are really nowadays confined to the cobweb corners of historic metropolises. I adore them, but they are fizzling out.
If you were to meet Donald Trump, what present would you give him?
I would get him a fishnet hairnet. He will find, as president of the United States, that he will have less and less time to attend to his bouffant hair. A fishnet hairnet would maximise the efforts to keep his hairstyle in shape. I would include a photograph of Ena Sharples from Coronation Street as a guide for how to put one on.
