How does Melania Trump play her like "Jackie"?
FIRST LADY While the press salutes Natalie Portman's performance in the biopic "Jackie", Melania Trump seems to want to steal the show by using the same recipes ...
An impeccable First Lady. With her "elegant outfits" and her "laughing eyes", she even eclipsed her husband president during the official trip to Paris in 1961. "I'm the guy who goes with Jackie Kennedy," John Fitzgerald Kennedy jokes at a conference. Press. In 1999, to the New York Times question: "What role would Madame Knauss play if she and Mr. Trump ever found themselves in the White House?" ", The future Melania Trump replies:" I will be very traditional. Like Betty Ford or Jackie Kennedy. I will support him. "While the press salutes the performance of Natalie Portman who plays Jacqueline Kennedy in the biopic of Chilean Pablo Larrain, Melania Trump seems to want to play a Jackie, more real than life.
Like Jackie, Melania married an old billionaire
Jacqueline Bouvier, married in first marriage to the 35th President of the United States, married in second marriage the Greek shipowner and billionaire Aristote Onassis, twenty-four years his senior in 1968. After having been seen as a submissive and scorned wife, as America's widow, like a living myth, Jackie scandalizes. Truman Capote calls her an “American geisha” and Coco Chanel judges: “You can't ask a somewhat vulgar woman to spend the rest of her life mourning a dead person. "
The Slovenian model Melania Knauss became the third wife of promoter and billionaire Donald Trump in 2005. He is also his senior by twenty-four years. Following the election and inauguration of her husband on January 20, 2017, Melania Trump becomes the wife of the 45th President of the United States, the second First Lady of foreign origin almost 200 years after Adams and the first born in a communist country,
Like Jackie, Melania prefers to remain discreet
Even though Jacqueline Kennedy and Melania Trump have each been called a candidate's "charm asset," they have remained in the background during the campaigns of their respective husbands. The first, because she was pregnant with John Kennedy Jr., the second, according to the American media, because of her Slavic accent.
For the director Pablo Larrain, Jacqueline Kenendy is "very discreet and impenetrable, she is perhaps the most unknown of the known women of our modern era". “No one knows me and will never know me. It's only my husband's and me, ”Melania Trump likes to repeat, according to Gala. Jean Wahl Harris, a political science professor studying the role of the First Lady at the University of Scranton told USA Today: “Jackie Kennedy wanted to protect herself and her children. Melania will be like that, she won't like to speak in public. "
Unlike her husband, the First Lady feeds at least her accounts on social networks. She also announced in November that she would pledge, as First Lady, against harassment on social media. But Melania Trump is paying dearly for her discretion. During the campaign, she was the victim of a slutshaming campaign, following her speech on July 18 at the Republican convention in Cleveland, largely inspired by Michelle Obama and the publication of the photos of her naked, published by the New York Post. In November, the campaign peaked with the filthy hashtag #RapeMelania (“Violate Melania”).
During the investiture ceremony, the hashtags #FreeMelania ("Free Melania") and #SaveMelania ("Save Melania") appeared on the Web, internet users imagining the First Lady, prisoner and victim of her husband!
Slightly higher quality gif of "the frown" #freemelania pic.twitter.com/h1ShuGGdZT
— #Doomberg A.K.A. Dr. Discourtesy⌬ (@delmoi) January 23, 2017
Like Jackie, Melania takes her mother role to heart
"In terms of the evolution of the First Lady, I see (Melania Trump) bringing us back to a more traditional role," said Jean Wahl Harris. “I am a full-time mother. This is my first job, ”Melania Trump said in an interview with Parenting. The education of her 10-year-old son, Barron Trump, is FLOTUS’s "priority". That's why she decided not to move into the White House until the end of the school year, and to stay in her New York apartment, leaving Mr. alone in Washington, watching television, reports The New York Times.
"If you don't succeed in raising your children properly, I don't think it matters any more," said Jacqueline Kennedy, who felt that she would be mother and wife first, and only then. First lady.
Like Jackie, Melania Trump loves Franck Sinatra
The lavish gala marking the start of JFK's inauguration term on January 20, 1961 is hosted by Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford. In 1975, Jackie Kennedy will have a brief affair with the crooner. Melania Trump has chosen My Way, sung by Franck Sinatra, with Donald Trump for their first dance at the nomination ball.
Like Jackie, Melania takes care of her decoration
Jacqueline Kennedy and Melania Trump share a great sense of fashion and decoration. Before meeting Donald Trump, Melania Knauss began a modeling career at age 16, while studying for her degree in design and architecture at the University in Slovenia. La Brune will oversee the new decoration of the private apartments at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We lend him an exquisite taste to choose porcelain, according to Gala.
Jackie Kennedy studied literature and art history at Vassar College in New York State and during her year in France at the Sorbonne and Grenoble. Jackie Kennedy had taken on the task of overseeing the White House's most significant renovation.
Like Jackie, Melania takes care of her look
The supermodel met the American billionaire at a party organized on the sidelines of New York Fashion Week in 1998. Melania Knauss was famous for her photos in Vogue, Allure, Harper's Bazaar and Vanity Fair, but also for naked shots in GQ.
Jackie loved the creations of French couturiers like Hubert de Givenchy, Coco Chanel or Christian Dior. Like Jackie, Donald Trump's wife appreciates the big French houses. She called on the services of John Galliano, then artistic director of Dior, for her wedding dress, and Hervé Pierre for her ball gown on the day of the inauguration.
"She'll be like Jackie Kennedy, a very well dressed woman who will be popular in women's magazines," said Katherine Jellison, professor of history at Ohio University.
On Friday, January 20, observers pointed to the resemblance of her sky-blue Ralph Lauren outfit to that worn by Jackie Kennedy in 1961 at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. “It was important for us to maintain and celebrate the tradition of creating iconic American style at this time,” Ralph Lauren said in a press release. An azure blue dress, a short bolero-style jacket and tone-on-tone suede gloves, Melania Trump continued the tradition of choosing an American couturier for the nomination.
Jackie Kennedy was also very concerned about her look. She had called on stylist Oleg Cassini as official dressmaker in 1960, makeup artist Peter Lamas for the evenings, hairdresser and owed her swollen 1960s bob to her regular American hairdresser, Kenneth Battelle.
— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) January 20, 2017
Jacqueline Kennedy on #Inauguration Day in 1961 and @MELANIATRUMP today in 2017. pic.twitter.com/JmxG7wJD9i
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 20, 2017
Like Jackie Kennedy, Melania Trump is obsessed with her image: Alicia Roi takes care of her wardrobe, Nicole Bryl takes care of her beauty and Mordechai Alvow takes care of her hairstyle. The First Lady also intends to set up a "glam room", a room entirely dedicated to her beauty, at the White House to always be perfect for official outings alongside her husband. It is no coincidence, then, that in the midst of the diplomatic crisis between Washington and Mexico City, the Mexican edition of Vanity Fair magazine put Melania Trump on the cover by presenting her as "the new Jackie Kennedy".
