- Former President Donald Trump has been out of office for three years.
- That means the nation’s gone three years without Melania Trump’s audacious Christmas decorations.
- She’s received flack for years for her decorations, but let’s be real: they were pretty great.
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For four years, between 2017 and 2020, former President Donald Trump and his administration made headlines on a near-daily basis with outlandish tweets, legally questionable executive decisions, and committing social faux pas.
And though she mostly kept to herself during his tenure in office, Trump’s wife Melania made news of her own each year for her White House Christmas decorations — mostly negative in nature.
“Melania’s Christmases, Ranked from Most to Least Haunted,” one headline from 2020 read. “There’s no comfort & joy in Melania Trump’s bleak and impersonal Christmas decor,” says another.
While her decorations were a bit atypical than those of past years, I think it’s reasonable to say years later that they weren’t all that bad.
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Much of the criticism appears to stem from her leaked comments in 2020, where she belabored being compared to her husband’s child separation policies at the border and the expectations of being First Lady. She said she had “worked her ass off on the Christmas stuff,” despite not caring about the responsibility.
“Who gives a fuck about the Christmas stuff and decorations?” Melania asked in the recording, “But I need to do it, right?”
Though it seems she may have detested the task, Melania ultimately put creative spins on the White House’s typical, traditional holiday decorations that were, well… unique.
And not necessarily in a bad way.
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As my Pulitzer Prize-winning editor — a former culture writer — told me, “If the White House doesn’t look like ‘Sleep No More’ at Christmas, I think the First Lady fucked up.”
Even my nerdy, usually Trump-detesting roommate had positive words for Melania’s decorations. “It seriously looked like Doctor Doom was into Christmas,” she said.
With that in mind, below are the highlights from Melania’s Christmas decorations from the East Colonnade:
Source: businessinsider.com