Melania a Mastermind?? The New York Times Investigates
PoliticsThe word “radical” has popped up repeatedly in the New York Times’ op-ed section lately: Donald Trump’s “radical honesty,” of someone who farts his thoughts, and Melania Trump’s “quiet radicalism” of someone who hates her shitty president husband. By the Times’ metric, “radicalism” could apply to taking a dump on the hood of a car, upending notions of what’s acceptable to do in public; or, nuking half the planet to change it up. It’s a radical twist in the term’s implication of mindfulness, as it appears in Merriam-Webster’s list of synonyms for the noun form [emphasis mine]:
broad-minded, nonconventional, nonorthodox, nontraditional, open-minded, progressive, liberal, unconventional, unorthodox
And now Maureen Dowd is here to present to you Melania Trump: sleeper agent provoked and ready to strike, bitches. In her latest piece titled “Trump Hits Alps, but Melania Is Frosty in Florida,” Dowd extrapolates political masterminding from a woman who reportedly wanted none of this. It begins:
The first lady will never be as brilliant at trolling as her husband. He is an idiot-savant who plays in the roiling ocean of Twitter as naturally as a blubbery-necked sea lion.
Only Donald Trump, a Rat Pack relic who spurred the reckoning with his transgressions toward women, could send out a tweet taking credit for the women’s march.
But the Slovenian Sphinx has her moments.
Murderous. Feline. Sexy feline. A riddle. Eastern; undercover? Movie title. Yes. This cat has claws. Rawr.
It started when she seemed to sartorially upbraid Trump for his Billy Bush vulgarities by wearing a pussy-bow blouse to the St. Louis debate.
…a Gucci blouse which happened to have the word “pussy” in the product description; pussy; that’s what Trump said!