Slate "Observe Melania Trump Trying to Look Like She's Ever Been in a Garden Before and Despair"
(we need a laugh, don't we?)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/melania-trump-looks-very-out-of-place-in-a-garden-especially-compared-to-michelle-obama.html
By HEATHER SCHWEDEL
JULY 31, 2018 6:40 PM
Melania Trump “gardened” at the White House once last September, and the pictures resurfaced today, thanks to the tireless investigative journalism of serial tweeter Chrissy Teigen, among others. (Teigen has asked media outlets to refrain from covering her every online move in the past, but she makes it hard when she consistently proves such an able assignment editor!)
these look exactly like my workout soles. because i work out as much as this chick gardens pic.twitter.com/s2mwLKRK7b
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 31, 2018
But back to Melania and this remarkable picture:
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Melania’s gardening pose suggests something between a head cheerleader half-assing her way through choreography she doesn’t feel like performing full-out and a spooked house pet who has never been in a garden before and is unsure how to comport herself in these environs. She apparently went with trying to get low to the ground, but she doesn’t actually want any part of her to touch dirt, so she settles on a stance something like yoga’s Utkatasana, or chair pose: knees bent, hips back, core activated. This keeps her on alert, ready to strike should something she does not want to encounter, such as a child separated from his parents, or her husband, appear suddenly out of the bushes. She doesn’t bother to put up her hair or exchange her designer sunglasses for a more practical wide-brimmed hat. In one hand, she holds a pair of pruning shears uneasily, as if ready not to trim an overgrowth but to snip off the ponytail of an invisible rival or a Barbie doll she is jealous of. Her other hand poses beatifically over an empty basket, providing gestural encouragement to the basket without actually deigning to make physical contact with it. She really doesn’t prune, do u?
Clothing-wise, Teigen’s commentary focused on Trump’s shoes, and since we more often see her in stilettos, it’s easy to see why. Melania’s feet, trained on years of uncomfortable spikes, seem unaccustomed to such flat shoes. Maybe that’s what’s throwing her center of gravity off? But the shoes are hardly the only notable element of the first lady’s ensemble. Her plaid top, complete with four buttons on the cuff, is from Balmain and retails for $1,380. Her gloves, in bright red and closely tailored to her fingers, also seem more fit for attending galas than gardening. In other words, these pictures confirm everything we already thought about Melania Trump.
Contrast them, meanwhile, to some of former first lady Michelle Obama gardening elsewhere and working in the same garden, which she started during her husband’s term, and weep. Once again, Michelle has been plagiarized, and once again, it’s been done very badly.
snip - read at the link to get some pics of a true gardener - and wonderful human being.
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FAKE!
It is actually Mar-a-lago reception desk.
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It would have looked more believable. Is she trying to stand in solidarity with the soybean farmers her husband screwed over? Another Trump phony photo-op. 
Maybe she was thinking of pruning Donald’s wedding vegetables. 
even brand new ones
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that the soles have disintegrated off of. Love them. If I venture farther away it's tall muck boots for protection. Our California house was surrounded by a small and very civilized barefoot garden. Not in Georgia. Both pair sit by the kitchen door.
It's the thought of a $1380 plaid shirt, though, that made me laugh and glad I opened the OP.
Like the POWs in that movie she is using the garden as a place to move the dirt from her tunneling out project. White socks would show dirt and give it away. She's SO close.
Must be a thing with Wisconsin Republicans- Paul Ryan has clearly never washed dishes, and it doesn't look like Walker has ever been fishing. He's got the reel on the wrong side (that kind of reel faces downward) and there is NO LINE in it!
The problem is that she is such a superb model/acress that she doesn't actually show it. 
it's that picture right there! Congrats, Malaria. She's being the best phony she can be, and it shows! 
-Puzzler
for the best Chinese-made outdoor wear. Just the right amount of plastic and FAKE.
She wouldn't quite make the grade for L. L. Bean, though........
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I trusted in your expertise for my post 2 below yours. 
Everything she does is ridiculous and mockable. Ugh! Rid us of this horrible nightmare of a family now. They are all just so awful there aren't words to describe exactly how awful they are. 
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