Once upon a time, before becoming First Lady of The United States of America, Melania Trump was an aspiring model and actress.
Her big acting break came in 2005, when she booked an Alfac commercial. The 30-second insurance ad, which has recently resurfaced online, features Melania as “Mrs. Trump” lying on an operating table in a laboratory as she has her voice transplanted by a pair of mad scientists into the Aflac duck.
It’s totally weird. But, we have to say, it’s a pretty solid commercial. And it’s definitely withstood the test of time. So we give it an A.
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At the time, Melania told AdWeek that she hoped the commercial would be the launch of a long and successful acting career.
“I am very excited to make my acting debut in the latest Aflac commercial,” she said. “Donald is known for saying, ‘You’re fired,’ and maybe I will be known for saying ‘Aflac’!”
Clearly, those plans didn’t work out since these days Melania is known for saying–well–nothing. She’s proving to be the least vocal, least active, least engaged, least interested FLOTUS in modern history.
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If you’re wondering how the commercial reentered public consciousness it’s because Donald had a meeting with Aflac resource manager Michael Porter in the Oval Office earlier this week.
After being gifted a pair of Aflac-inspired socks, Trump told Porter: “Your chairman I know very well and he’s done a fantastic job. He actually a long time ago hired my wife to do a big commercial, an Aflac commercial, and I think it was a successful commercial, too. So say hello to him.”
Watch.
jckfmsincty
Judging by her role as the First Lady, she has no acting abilities.
skilos
Not acting, just being herself.
kcguy
Keep it classy!
She hasn’t hurt anybody.
Rex Huskey
“At the time, Melania told AdWeek that she hoped the commercial would be the launch of a long and successful acting career.” It began on 22January 2005.
Dashing Partycrasher
Haha! Well that didn’t work out too well. No wonder she’s always pouting. Her current role as First Lady is her greatest acting challenge — but so far she doesn’t even seem to be invested in that role.
He BGB
Does she still use a double for appearances?haven’t heard anymore about that. But who could blame her
Jack Meoff
She barely did anything in that as so you couldn’t really class it as an acting gig. She just lay there for most of it.
Keebler ILF
I think her voice was dubbed by someone with a less thick accent.
felixthegato
It’s not her voice.
Notright
It’s kinda sad how biased the media is against the president. Even so-called neutral sources. I saw this video on youtube about bias there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW0-yZo-Lvk . Anyway this blog clearly isn’t representing all of us.