How Does This Ad of Melania Trump As 'First Woman President of the United States' Make You Feel?
PoliticsIn 1993, a young model named Melanija Knavs was working in her native Slovenia, dreaming big. Her future soulmate was busy insulting Native American casino operators in breathtakingly racist testimony before a Congressional subcommittee. One day, they would fall in love and she would watch, beaming, as he careened around the American political system like a runaway shopping cart laden with asbestos. All of which is to say: How does this ad where Melania plays the “first woman president of the United States” make you feel?
Univision has discovered footage of an ad that Melanija Knavs—who became Melania Knauss and then Melania Trump—made for a Slovenian clothing brand when she was just 23. She’s playing the president of the United States, wearing a skirt suit and presidential reading glasses as she travels in a motorcade, gladhands the media, and signs papers at a presidentially enormous desk. The lipstick is brown, the shooting is low-budget, that glasses chain is its own special kind of crime against humanity: