'I thought it was a joke': Melania Trump selling off her stuff causes questions about her cash needs

[turbinetree]

By Sarah K. Burris- Commentary
Published January 04, 2022

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Former First Lady Melania Trump offered up a new non-fungible token (NFT) piece of artwork last week and this week she's selling the hat she wore during an official state visit to the U.S. by French President Emmanuel Macron. She has also autographed the hat for the buyer and the prices start at $250,000.

Mrs. Trump, a former model, focused a lot on her fashion while in the White House. She is the first among the first ladies to auction off her belongings, though she says that a "portion" of the funds will go to her "Be Best" campaign's foster care initiative, which aimed to fight bullying.

It's unknown if the former first lady intends to offer any additional auction items in the future. The auction runs through Jan. 25.

https://www.rawstory.com/melania-trump-grift-auction-questioned/

I have a idea maybe her and the family can get around a table or a booth next to Roger Stone and hand have a flea market sale....in fact the state of Florida has the supposedly biggest one there in the state, and just may they can get a discount price of having two booths made up next to Roger Stone, and DeathSatan can stand out front hawking his shit sandwich....

[live love laugh]

1. F*#k Me-alien-a 👽

[CrispyQ]

2. She could make a fortune off the deplorables if she sells her "I really don't care, do you?" coat.

Once a grifter, always a grifter.

[Walleye]

3. They really don't amass this kind of wealth because they need the money

[eShirl]

5. their kind of wealth is a house of cards

[Walleye]

8. True, but they don't care.Their whole business is just moving wads of money around

[Solly Mack]

4. lolol

Why not the entire amount to the foster program?

[gratuitous]

7. What, you theenk eet's focking Chrees-muss?

Those dirty little urchins will be lucky to see a nickel.

[Solly Mack]

10. If that.

[allegorical oracle]

22. Try to keep up, but can't recall what anti-bullying charity is hers....

[Solly Mack]

25. It was her "Be Best' campaign against bullying while Trump was in office.

It's now a "Be Best" whatever she wishes to apply it to.

[allegorical oracle]

38. "Be Best" is a tee shirt slogan-- a glittering generality -- not a charity. Just more grift.

[Solly Mack]

49. I agree. More grift.

[DENVERPOPS]

23. Wasn't their last "charity"

found to be totally corrupt grifting and shut down for them rarely giving any of the money to charity, but keeping it for themselves?????

It's a scam, a way for the Uber wealthy to donate money DIRECTLY to the Trump "organization", and at the same time, take it as a tax deduction.........Look at some of "Trump Organization's" other massively corrupt PAC's.............

[Solly Mack]

27. Yes. They took money from the charity for the business.

[DENVERPOPS]

31. Other than

having to give the money to charity as a punishment, were any members of the "Trump Family Crime Organization" charged with fraud, and receive any kind of real punishment???????????

[Solly Mack]

33. Not really. I seem to recall they had to take classes on how charities work.

[DENVERPOPS]

37. If true

I would guess they never went to one minute of them, and besides who would check to see if they had.

It is all beyond pathetic...........

[Solly Mack]

51. Link to NYTimes article on the settlement

He admitted to using the foundation’s money to settle obligations of some of his for-profit companies, including a golf club in Westchester County, N.Y., and Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida which he frequently visits. And he admitted that the foundation had given his presidential campaign control over about $2.8 million that the foundation had raised at a veterans fund-raiser in Iowa in January 2016. Mr. Trump acknowledged the fund-raiser was in fact a campaign event.

The Trump Foundation, which Mr. Trump founded in 1987, disbanded last December after an investigation by Barbara Underwood, then-acting attorney general of New York. Ms. Underwood’s office found “unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more.”

It is illegal for charitable foundations to advance the self-interests of their executives.


As part of the settlement, Mr. Trump’s three children who were officers of the foundation — Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump — were ordered to undergo mandatory training to ensure they do not engage in similar misconduct in the future.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/nyregion/trump-foundation-lawsuit-attorney-general.html

[allegorical oracle]

39. Classes at Trump University? I took roller skating classes but still can't skate backwards

[Solly Mack]

50. Heh! Don't recall where.

[Me.]

6. $250,000 For A Hat?

$249,999 for her, $1.oo for be best

[Retrograde]

40. Did she actually pay for that hat?

IIRC, the president and his family can not keep gifts over a certain value. Many designers give clothes to first ladies for the publicity value, but those are the property of the US - unless the person given them chooses to buy them (Michelle Obama did purchase some of the outfits designed for her).

So, is Mel selling things she actually paid for, or is she ripping off taxpayers - again.

[Me.]

41. Aaah...Good Question

has tfg cut off her allowance now that he no longer needs her body parked in the WH? I say it like that as she never was a presence.

[Demovictory9]

43. as a historical object, that hat definitely isn't worth $250K. Maybe Jackie K's hat could sell

for that... maybe.

[MuseRider]

9. She didn't need clothes before

and she doesn't need them now would be my guess.

[ShazamIam]

11. We didn't need additional evidence of how tacky the, confidentially yours, family is.

[Totally Tunsie]

12. "A portion" of the proceeds go to her charity.

Does she throw the funds in the air, letting God take what he wants...and what falls to the ground is hers?

[Effete Snob]

13. Wait until she starts selling the underwear

That's where the big money is going to be.

[DENVERPOPS]

28. Not a reliable source

but someone who works at on the of the high end places Melanoma buys her stuff back east told me that:

Melania came in, tried on bras until she found one style she really liked. She supposedly ordered 100 of each in white, skin tone, and black.

Evidently, she doesn't like to wear the same bra twice and throws them away at the end of the day??????
Or then, maybe she was stocking up to sell them on line??????????? "once worn by Melania Trump"???????

I don't know if this story is true, but knowing her the way we have observed her these past years I have no reason to doubt it.....

It is clearly obvious from her nude pictures on line, and her actions these past years, that she will do ANYTHING for money........

[CosmicSloth]

30. Ewwwww...

ROFL ... kind of a mix of "ewwwwwww" and "hmmm" ... leaning toward the former knowing that TFG was trespassing there - many years ago.

[Mike Nelson]

14. Hmm...

... we all come to a point when the clothes are worth more than the body...

[Takket]

15. she says that a "portion" of the funds will go to her "Be Best" campaign's

Oh I want an entire LEGION of forensic accountants to look into that RIGHT NOW

[pecosbob]

16. Kim Guilfoyle and she can do lap dances at the next CPAC.

[Bayard]

17. Needs funds to get away from TFG?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. Gotta pay the attorneys somehow

Link to tweet

[JHB]

32. Only up front, if the client's a Trump

[AngryOldDem]

19. Trump is most likely stone-cold broke on his ass.

Maybe she can get a gig on one of the home shopping channels for steadier income.

[allegorical oracle]

26. DJT's not broke as long as the GOP will pay his legal costs.

[mountain grammy]

20. Not completely wrong..

Melanie is a joke. and the joke is on the suckers who give $$

[Traildogbob]

21. Nothing new

She’s be selling her “STUFF” since she was a nude model. Problem is there is no demand for that old stuff after trump went there. So May as well sell clothing she paid for with our tax Dollars.

[IronLionZion]

24. Her husband is broke

dude can't even pay for maintenance on his plane. He sold his DC hotel. Don Jr. and Ivanka might be arrested soon.

Melania doesn't give a F*** about Christmas

[SouthernDem4ever]

29. I would rather bid on the Orange striped jumpsuit her husband will be wearing

I bid $50

[JHB]

34. Time to sell, before her "star power" with potential buyers evaporates.

Or, a convenient way for people who spell their names in Cyrillic letters to funnel some treats to their Very Good Boy.

[leftyladyfrommo]

35. Her clothing allowance git cut off. nt

[Marcuse]

36. Her husband isn't broke but he cut off her allowance anyway.

[shrike3]

42. What happened when another ex-first lady tried to sell her clothes.

https://www.history.com/news/mary-todd-lincoln-assassination-facts

Desperate, Mary moved to a cheaper hotel as her expenses mounted. She began to petition Congress for a widow’s pension. Congress was skeptical: They hadn’t given William Henry Harrison’s wife a pension after he died in office in 1841 from pneumonia (his one-month tenure was the shortest of any American president), and Mary’s spending habits were notorious. As Mary’s friend Charles Sumner championed her cause in Washington, she turned her eye to New York.

She had an idea for how to solve her debt problem, and it involved the clothing she’d invested in at such great cost. As a widow, Mary could no longer wear her extravagant ball gowns or other clothing…so why not sell them?

Mary and the dressmaker Keckley headed to the city under assumed names with trunks filled with clothing and jewelry. But the trip was a disaster from the start. Keckley, who was black, could not dine or lodge with Mary in the segregated hotel where they stayed, and Mary’s identity was soon pieced together by jewelers and others who recognized the name on her trunks and markings on her jewelry and clothing.

In short order, she was taken advantage of by W.H. Brady, a merchant who convinced Mary that wealthy New Yorkers would donate money to her cause if she consented to sell her clothing at public auction. He convinced her to hand over private letters—some of which suggested wealthy New Yorkers had engaged in government impropriety—to “validate” her clothing. It was a ploy. The letters seem to have been fabricated to create publicity for the sale, and when news of Mrs. Lincoln’s fire sale hit the newspapers, she became the object of ridicule.

[nolabear]

44. Wow. What a story.

[Hekate]

46. That's really awfully sad. Lincoln's widow was actually in financial need. nt

[RobinA]

47. Mrs. Lincoln

seems to have been a bit unlikeable, but she was through a lot NOT of her own making and may have had mental health issues as well. Their family life was quite sad.

[Hekate]

45. Classy. Reminds me so much of Jackie Kennedy.

in case anyone needs it

[KG]

48. well, if it comes to it, she can say 'me so horney' in 6 languages.