... Reading the memoir, titled “Melania,” is “to pass through the looking-glass,” Freya Berry wrote in a literary assessment published Wednesday by The Daily Beast.
“Trivial things are important. Important things barely register,” and “there’s no sense of self-awareness that there might be slightly more at stake when, say, she spends a whole chapter on her White House renovations,” Berry said.
The book’s “main tone is of a press release,” and some sections sound “like a sales pitch,” Berry added, noting one paragraph in which Trump’s “work for scholarships for foster children segues into a plug for her own memorabilia, in a whiplash that actually had me staring at the page, agape at its audacity.”
Berry has recently said that Trump “inspired the antiheroine” in her novel, which centers on the “beautiful, enigmatic wife of a feared dictator,” according to a product description. Berry wrote in a Tuesday article for the British outlet inews.co.uk that she penned “The Dictator’s Wife” after following Trump on the 2016 campaign trail and becoming “fascinated by her moral ambiguity.”
Berry is not the only person to offer a scathing critique of Trump’s memoir.
A review by Vanity Fair’s Keziah Weir bluntly said, “Amid the glitter, though, the book is bad.” Weir described Trump at times as having “the narrative instincts of a hound in a fish store, following her nose from one exciting scent to the next, beginning anecdotes only to abandon them.”
Britain’s Telegraph outlet slapped a one-star review on the book, calling it “deeply weird” and “hard to believe.” And The New York Times described it as “a brazen whitewash of a presidency” that is “full of obfuscations.”...
Yikes, they really don't like the book or it's "author".
Junior should have learned by now that quality journalists are ALL better informed and smarter than he is.
... Vance was once a vocal Trump critic and got candid during a 2016 chat on Facebook with a friend.
“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler,” Vance wrote.
He has also called Trump an “idiot” and a “total fraud,” and called himself a “Never Trump guy.”
“I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place,” Vance told NPR in 2016....
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
She's maximizing opportunities in anticipation of possibly becoming irrelevant in less than a month.
GoPessimisticMelaniaGo
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
... The video, which includes former ESPN sportscaster Sage Steele, shows a group of women, including Lara Trump and Steele, dressed in pink and lip-synching the words, “I don’t know about you, but I’m voting for Donald Trump, baby!”...
As my daughters would say. … “cringe”.
Taylor, your attorneys are on line one.
Not one of them will be able to tell you how tariffs work.
It makes me smile to see Lara Trump spending time on such foolish narcissism when she could be raising money for Republican down-ballot candidates instead.
Sage Steele wants so badly to be relevant again.
Sage Steele used to be the host of important shows on ESPN and ABC... look at her now!
At least they spared us from having to hear Lara's actual voice.
for all.
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
... The former first daughter joined president elect Donald Trump on stage at the Palm Beach County Convention Center for his victory speech, along with a few other family members.
Despite the fact that the 43 year old looked absolutely stunning in a blue velvet pant suit, a few folks were left wondering why she chose that color....
“We see you girl. Smile if you need help.”
“Of all the colors… why blue?”
If she wanted to celebrate the Republican’s second win, why not wear red to match her father’s tie — and party?
Traitor?
Granted, other women on the podium didn’t follow a standard dress code, either. First lady to be (again) Melania Trump donned gray,
Commentary on returning to the WH?
while vice president elect JD Vance’s wife Usha Vance, had on black, as did No. 47’s daughter in law Lara Trump.
Mourning?
(Jr’s fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle, seemed to be the only one up there in team colors.)
Red. Suck-up.
... As for Ivanka? Perhaps the Miami Beach resident innocently loved the cobalt get-up, and realized how smashing she looked.
Because if we are trying to figure out if messages are being subliminally sent via fashion, we’d have to look at what Jill Biden wore to the polls on Tuesday.
The first lady’s pantsuit was tomato red, top to bottom.
Melania Trump showed "very little reciprocal liking" towards Donald Trump as he addressed his supporters after clinching key swing states in the US Presidential election, a body language expert claims.
Mrs Trump was by the former President's side as he hailed "the greatest political movement of all time."
But speaking on behalf of betting firm Spin Genie, media psychological coach and body language guru Darren Stanton claimed Melania offered subtle clues that her smiles were "contrived", and that she showed "no emotion" as they embraced.
Analysing the future two-time First Lady's demeanour as she appeared on stage, he said: "With Melania, there’s still a reluctance from her. She smiles on stage but it appears to be a fake smile. She’s smiling because she has to, rather than instinctual.
"There was very little reciprocal liking, there was very little tacitness, no hugs, or being really close to each other, they’re pretty distant with no obvious signs of affection," he added....
"If you look at Melania, most people would reciprocate," he said, adding: "There’s no emotion coming from her, they are husband and wife, but it feels like a false greeting.
"Her head’s up which is almost like a gesture of defiance, she is reluctant to reciprocate the action. There’s no passion, she doesn’t want to be there and doesn’t like showing emotion towards him, but instead prefers to maintain her own composure," Stanton claimed, adding: "He is doing all the work here."...
... In a video posted on X, the entire Trump clan was seen filing onstage, but Don Jr. appeared to be avoiding Guilfoyle. In fact, he continuously moved away from her, keeping his distance. With her head hung low and a somber look on her face, Guilfoyle shuffled aimlessly from one side of the stage to the other to try and stand next to Don Jr., who couldn't be bothered to face her. In a desperate effort for Guilfoyle to save the face of their relationship, she finally settled next to Don Jr., but neither of them appeared happy about it. Especially when compared to Eric Trump and his wife Lara Trump's fond embrace of each other and beaming smiles, it's clear there's trouble on the horizon for Don Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle....
Although, now that the presidential campaign is over and Donald Trump is set to return to the White House, we might finally get to see if Don Jr. will actually break up with Guilfoyle — or if he'll continue to fuel cheating rumors until she breaks up with him. For a while it's felt as if she's just been kept around as a way to market the Trump campaign, even if Guilfoyle can be a bit embarrassing at it. For now, it seems that Guilfoyle wants to stand by her man, even if he doesn't want to face her. Should the couple finally break up, we can't wait to see what sort of revenge dress Kimberly Guilfoyle will wear. It's sure to be one for the ages.
Good riddance?
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
Lara Trump waxed lyrical about Barron Trump and said her brother-in-law deserves “serious credit” for his role in his father Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory.
Barron Trump’s help with getting his father on various bro podcasts definitely “made a difference,” the president-elect’s daughter-in-law, who is married to Trump scion Eric Trump, said on Patrick Bet-David’s “PBD” podcast last week....
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
There's speculation that TRE45QN will cut a deal with Fascist DerSantis to appoint Lara Trump to Little Marco Rubio's seat when he becomes Sec of State.
President-elect Donald Trump’s claim that no-one mentioned the issue of cronyism when his daughter-in-law Lara Trump was installed earlier this year as the co-chair of the Republican National Committee was met with mockery on social media.
“And then we got Lara involved. And nobody said, ‘Oh gee, nepotism.’ They actually said, ‘I can’t believe she’s doing it,’” Trump told an audience at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
The PatriotTakes monitoring group shared video of Trump’s comments online.
But nepotism was most certainly talked about on many, many, many, many occasions about Lara Trump, who is married to Trump scion Eric Trump, taking one of the RNC’s top roles.
Critics suggested it was more proof of gaslighting from Trump, who The Washington Post reported made more than 30,000 false or misleading claims during his first term.
LOL! Yeah, okay. We all know he's detached from reality, this is further proof.
This is BS, but so is everything that comes out of his mouth
His hearing is also going if he couldn’t hear the Nepotism screams.
Let the gaslighting continue
Every time he opens his mouth, he spew . Has somebody started keeping count again, yet. Didn't he end up with ~33,000 lies last time. EVERYBODY was screaming nepotism about her. EVERYBODY.
#djt, we did, he just wasn’t listening
No one except everyone.
More posts at the link.
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
Good riddance?
, HHS right 
. Has somebody started keeping count again, yet. Didn't he end up with ~33,000 lies last time. EVERYBODY was screaming nepotism about her. EVERYBODY.