Melania Trump is smarter than many think
One wonders: What advice would you give Melania Trump as America's First Lady? And I'm sure she will do well. Any immigrant who starts working as a teenager and successfully survives in the US is smart.
She reportedly speaks five languages, but many people, especially those who hate the Trumps, don't consider her smart. Like her husband, who will undoubtedly do things differently in Congress, Melania will bring a fresh air to the White House. She is a beautiful woman, in the distance, and if she has undergone cosmetic surgery in the past, she is something she no longer needs. She, too, should dress somewhat casually and avoid outfits that bulge her figure. Her slim silhouette will shine with any dress or simple combination.
When she has ever been asked what she would like to look like as a first lady, the first lady has replied that she would like to be her like Betty Ford or Jackie Kennedy. In fact, her Melania has a touch of glamor and she could emulate Jackie Kennedy. She will do no harm to introduce some fresh air into a White House where, for most of the past three decades, she has ruled the bourgeois atmosphere of the Bushes and Clintons, and the politically correctness of the Obamas.
Trump, a Gentleman?
In the style of a football coach, Donald Trump wears his jacket buttons unbuttoned. His takeover showed that the same is true of his coat. This also highlights that he wears his shiny monochrome ties several inches below his waist. Can a man who dresses like this be considered a gentleman? Would they accept you as a member of one of his clubs?
President Trump wears the buttons on his coat unbuttoned because he needs flexibility to gesture with his arms, something he does permanently like a mechanical puppet, while he sticks out his thumb and index finger. As if he's reading a teleprompter, he moves his arms from left to right as he expresses himself, his voice cracking, with the colloquial jargon that has defined his electoral victory. More than any other president or politician before him, Trump has reduced political language to his lowest common denominator, which is not exactly the image of a gentleman.
But Trump doesn't want to have the image of a gentleman. He has deliberately decided to rub shoulders with the working classes. So his appearance, like that of a soccer coach, is a sign that he connects with the common people, which frees him from the need to fasten buttons to give an appearance of formality and superiority. Trump's fluorescent red and blue ties - unusually long, pinless, loosened, and knotted in a tetrahedron - are a sign of rebellion against official style.
All these subtle deviations from the norm are attractive visual cues to a new generation of voters, crying out for a change from the rigidity and condescension with which politicians have traditionally addressed public opinion. I wonder if these are all carefully planned moves by Trump. If so, we are before the modern Machiavelli.
