A note on Melania Trump’s wax figure & her husband’s ‘remember sailor!’ tweet
April 27, 2018
Yesterday was Melania Trump’s birthday. Donald Trump didn’t get her anything but a card and an unhinged call-in interview to Fox & Friends. Thankfully, the peeps at Madame Tussauds got Melania a gift: a wax figure which looks nothing like her, yet seems to capture her wax-like presence perfectly. I can tell that this is supposed to be Melania, but if I was just looking at it without any context, I would say it was pre-surgery, pre-Botox Melania, maybe? Melania mixed with Sarah Jessica Parker, perhaps? Also: I feel like Madame Tussauds gave Melania a better wig than she gave herself.
Meanwhile, Melania’s husband got up bright and early to tweet incoherently:
People were confused by the whole thing, honestly, but the “remember sailor!” seemed especially cryptic, even for Trump. The Independent believes Trump is making a reference to Kristian Saucier, a Navy submariner who was convicted of possessing classified material – he took photos inside of a submarine – and sentenced to prison for one year. The Saucier case became a GOP cause because they compared Saucier’s crime and punishment to Hillary Clinton’s “but her emails” crime and lack of punishment. Basically, Trump is threatening Comey with jail because Comey “leaked” classified information. But Trump tweeted this on an unsecure phone from the White House, the same White House where he leaked close-hold classified information to Russian agents early in his presidency. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Photos courtesy of WENN.
