Melania Trump has a message for her subjects, however big or small, who stand up for her: She sees you. She appreciates you. She applauds you.
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Model and actress Emily Ratajkowski, whose credits include TV shows like iCarly and Maroon 5’s 2013 music video “Love Somebody,” took to Twitter yesterday morning to call out a New York Times reporter who she claims called Melania Trump a hooker:
Sat next to a journalist from the NYT last night who told me "Melania is a hooker." Whatever your politics it's crucial to call this out for
— Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) February 13, 2017
what it is: slut shaming. I don't care about her nudes or sexual history and no one should.
— Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) February 13, 2017
We totally agree with Ratajkowski’s sentiment, but perhaps instead of tweeting about it she should have confronted the reporter directly? Generally speaking, that’s more effective way of reaching a person.
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Nevertheless, Melania Trump was very impressed. The First Lady took notice of Ratajkowski’s bold behavior and, from her throne atop Trump Tower, used her official FLOTUS Twitter account to commend her for her bravery:
Applause to all women around the world who speak up, stand up and support other women! @emrata #PowerOfEveryWoman #PowerOfTheFirstLady
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) February 14, 2017
Unless, of course, they are “nasty women” marching in the streets, women running against her husband, women accusing her husband of sexual assault, female reporters, or Rosie O’Donnell.
The tweet was Melania’s first since Saturday and only her fifth since her official FLOTUS account was created nearly a month ago.
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The New York Times responded by calling the reporter’s comment “inappropriate” and said editors have spoken with the reporter, who has not been identified, about it.
“At a party last night, a Times reporter who does not cover Washington or politics referred to an unfounded rumor regarding Melania Trump,” The Times said. “The comment was not intended to be public, but it was nonetheless completely inappropriate and should not have occurred. Editors have talked to the reporter in question about the lapse.”
whatevz
will the dumb foreigner also thank Heidi Fleiss and Jenna Jameson?
Xzamilloh
Twitter is a wet dream for virtue signaling narcissists who want heaps of praise for doing the bare minimum
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
“We totally agree with Ratajkowski’s sentiment, but perhaps instead of tweeting about it she should have confronted the reporter directly? Generally speaking, that’s more effective way of reaching a person.”
Jesus, the vomit inducing hypocrisy. Always the disingenuous sanctimoniousness. You think she’s a slut..just say she’s a slut, Queerty.
jcleroy1982
This is a really gross look on you, Queerty. Emily isn’t a “D-list actress;” she’s a respected activist who co-starred in GONE GIRL in addition to her success as a model. The idea that objections to Melania Trump being slut-shamed should only be expressed in private is just as fascistic as how the White House is behaving. If we want to have any integrity as resisters, we can’t allow our message/identity to become compromised by juvenile misogyny.
M327
Shaming an actress for being “D-List” is just as mean-spirited, and unnecessary, as a reporter shaming Melania for being a “slut.” There’s no reason to insult Emily Ratajkowski’s career, for her choice to defend a person who is repeatedly being insulted by the public. And yes Emily was right in taking her comments to Twitter, since it was a reporter who was saying the comment and presumably his ignorant sentiment would be conveyed somewhere in his writing.
jason_evans
Emily Ratajkowski is a celebrity. Why is she discussing a presumably private conversation on Twitter anyway?
Go away, Emily.
Bad Ass Biker
How can Melanoma see anything with those squinty little eyes?
Rimminit
She has panarama vision
Bob LaBlah
Melania, honey, be patient. Your meal ticket husband will be forced out of office in weeks instead of months and you will be free to divorce your husband, take the clothes, jewelry plus the twenty-five million dollars in your prenup agreement and go on your merry way. You could have done a whole lot worse.
DMRX
I guess Melania’s English isn’t as good as some keep claiming. Emily didn’t defend her about being called a hooker. She basically just agreed with the sentiment but shamed the reporter for saying it out loud.
Sotzume
Melanoma Trump looks like a hooker, why not just call her what she is. Who the hell is Emily Ratajkowski? Is she a former Slovakian hooker who worked with Malaria?
NateOcean
Slovakia: half of Czechoslovakia when the two split in 1993.
Slovenia: part of Yugoslavia which dissolved in 1991.
Melania’s from Slovenia. For a time Melania claimed to have a degree from University of Slovenia (which doesn’t exist). So she changed her online bio.
NateOcean
Both the tweet from Ratajkowski, and Melania’s reply, seem to have taken Melania *being* a slut as an established fact, then go on to address whether it’s proper or polite to “slut-shame” someone for their past sexual history.
Glad tha’ts been cleared up.
Hermes
I absolutely agree with the D List actress actually. There is no excuse.
Jack Meoff
I find it hilarious that nowhere in this mess has anyone refuted the claims of Melania’s past as a hooker/escort whatever but only stated that it shouldn’t have been brought up and that goes for Melania as well. This just keeps getting better and better someone butter the popcorn and pull up a seat.
jason_evans
Emily Ratajkowski is doing a good job of shaming herself. Why is she on Twitter telling people what she allegedly heard at a gathering?
D-lister is a perfect way to describe Emily.
DuMaurier
Well, apparently the quote was verified or the NYT wouldn’t have issued a statement about it.
Why is she on Twitter talking about what she heard? Uh…I dunno, maybe for the same reason she’d go public with any sexist, racist, homophobic, etc etc, comment she heard coming from someone who works for a venerable, major media outlet. If the reporter she’d been seated next to had called Mrs. Obama the n-word I doubt you’d have a problem with her tweeting about it.
I actually have no particular interest in Melania Trump, and I certainly don’t support her husband. I kinda wish Queerty would stop with the obsessively snide comments about her, so I wouldn’t have to keep coming to the defense of someone I generally feel no need to even talk about. And the bizarre attack on a woman defending another woman is just empty-headed bitchery.
Stilinski26
Slut shaming is fine on women you hate right? I am sure you lot call your self a “Feminist” as well. double standards
captainburrito
Just leave the woman alone. No punishment is greater than being married to Trump. It is voluntary but the cost of what she gets in return is there. Attack Trump directly instead of attacking a woman that lives in a bubble. It looks like bullying even if you win.
happy50132003
We get it the staff of Queerty does not like Trump. SICK & TIRED of reading about the Trumps. Most gays are not Trump fans anyway so why keep flapping about them. Be a journalist for a change instead of a basher.
michael_bates
As much as I dislike the man , I really feel for his wife and young son, Melania and Baron are prisoners to this man’s narcissistic dreams and incredible alternative facts. Enough with the slut shaming, there are so many stories out there that Queerty should focus on instead lets trash talk a woman whom married the most evil man alive , why not go after the wife of McConnell , or Paul Ryan , or hey lets just leave these women alone. Im so tired of the bitter trash talk from both sides.