PHOTO: First Lady Melania Trump’s Hurricane Attire Draws Criticism

Media Outrage Over Melania’s Shoes:

  • Media’s Faux Outrage on Display as They Slam Melania’s Hurricane Fashion (LifeZette) – Vogue magazine writer Lynn Yaeger piled on the media criticism of Melania Trump on Tuesday for “wearing a pair of towering pointy-toed snakeskin heels” while she headed out to survey the disaster in Texas. The writer of the anti-Trump piece said she spotted a photo of the first lady leaving the White House — and launched into a rant about Mrs. Trump’s choice of shoes for boarding Air Force One. Yaeger began her piece with a verbal eye-roll: “Oh, Melania.” She continued with a reference to the first lady’s “plagiarizing Michelle Obama in her convention speech” and her hypocrisy in marrying “the greatest cyberbully” — while making a platform of crusading against bullying. “And now this!” wrote Yaeger. “While the nation is riveted by images of thousands of Texans wading with their possessions … Melania Trump is heading to visit them in footwear that is a challenge to walk in on dry land,” Yaeger ranted. “What kind of message does a fly-in visit from a first lady in sky-high stilettos send to those suffering the enormous hardship, the devastation of this natural disaster?”
  • There was no pretense about Melania Trump’s heels. But sometimes, a little pretense helps. (Washington Post/Robin Givhan) – “Melania Trump is the kind of woman who travels to a flood-ravaged state in a pair of black snakeskin stilettos. Heels this high are not practical. But Trump is not the kind of woman who has to be practical. Heels this high are not comfortable. Comfort is not the point. Neither hers nor yours… It was also an image that suggested that Trump is the kind of woman who refuses to pretend that her feet will, at any point, ever be immersed in cold, muddy, bacteria-infested Texas water. She is the kind of woman who may listen empathetically to your pain, but she knows that you know that she is not going to experience it. So why pretend?”
  • CNN White House reporter Kate Bennett snagged a response from FLOTUS’s communications director who told her, “It’s sad that we have an active and ongoing natural disaster in Texas, and people are worried about her shoes.”
  • Perez Hilton, a Hollywood entertainment writer, wasn’t having it. He hammered Melania’s position in the White House, writing, “Melania is now standing in a puddle in 4-inch heels acting like a first lady — give us a break.”
  • The New York Post also took aim at her shoes. “The First Lady’s baffling choice of footwear lit up the Twitterverse,” the New York tabloid wrote.
  • Melania Trump swaps stilettos for sneakers, FLOTUS cap in flooded south Texas. (USA Today) — No, first lady Melania Trump did not tour Hurricane Harvey-flooded south Texas in spike heels. Get real, Twitter. Yes, she did don a cap that read FLOTUS when she accompanied President Trump on a visit Tuesday to inspect the damage from Hurricane Harvey and ongoing relief efforts.  The first lady, 47, left the White House earlier Tuesday wearing her usual shoe choice — pumps with sky-high heels — plus black cropped pants and a military-style green bomber jacket, with her hair loose and aviator sunglasses on her nose.

 

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