Inauguration day now looms a mere month away, and you can count Calvin Klein in should he get the call to serve incoming first lady Melania Trump‘s fashion needs.
The out designer told TMZ that “of course” he’d design a gown for Melania if nobody else would. His willingness to participate stands in contrast to other designers like Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, Christian Siriano, Sophie Theallet and Humberto Leon, all of whom have all said they will not work with the Trumps.
“Personally, I’d rather put my energy into helping out those who will be hurt by [Donald] Trump and his supporters,” said Jacobs, while Siriano went on the record saying he and the incoming first lady “don’t share the same values.”
However, calls on social media to boycott the Calvin Klein brand have largely failed to mention that Klein sold his namesake company to American clothing giant PVH in 2002.
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Klein aside, Trump’s camp is having a heck of a time finding talent for his final victory lap. Elton John said no to the gig, despite aides to the president-elect spreading news he’d said yes. Garth Brooks, who performed at President Obama’s 2009 ceremony, also declined to make an appearance.
The only confirmed performer is 16-year-old America’s Got Talent runner-up Jackie Evancho, who we hope is fully aware that “2017 Trump inauguration” will come up whenever anyone Googles her name for years to come.
To make matters potentially more embarrassing, a Change.org petition is urging stars to organize a counter-concert on inauguration day in protest.
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“Wouldn’t it be awesome to have a concert and telethon to raise funds for various progressive causes? It would air starting early on January 20th to compete directly with the inauguration,” writes Trish Gilbert, who started the petition.
“I envision a televised and streaming on the internet ‘Freedom United Concert’ with YUGE celebrities like: Beyoncé & Jay Z, Madonna, Katy Perry, Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Justin Timberlake, The Dixie Chicks, Neil Young, Lady Gaga, The Cast of Hamilton, The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, The Harlem Gospel Choir and many others.”
Trish also dreams of Alec Baldwin hosting the event in full Donald drag, a la his Saturday Night Live impression, which we must admit has a certain poetry to it.
The petition has received over 47,000 signatures.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Let Walmart dress Trump’s foreign whore. He’s turned to his billionaire buddies for everything else.
Roan
She’s a whore and is certainly comfortable posing nude. Why does she need a dress?
money718
So ridiculous.
Daniel-Reader
They can dub it the “Adul Dress” – LOL
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Disastrously making over gold digging whores is a hobby of his
spiffy
Doesn’t Ivanka still own a clothing line? Or are the frocks not good enough for the stepmother?
Or borrow from Michelle Obama — it won’t be her first time.
Wilberforce
This is how stupid progressives are. The concert should be the day before or the day after, so the inauguration can showcase the worst talent without anything good to dilute it.
monroerob69
Very mature comments. GET OVER IT ALREADY!!!
Alistair Wiseman
More of that liberal tolerance I hear so much about (but not witness).
ProfessorMoriarty
@monroerob69: Nope. We are just getting started.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
@Alistair Wiseman: Neither whores nor their Johns should be tolerated in the White House.
Poloboy50
And you wonder why so many people hate the GAYS.
WHAT THE FUCK DID MELINIA TRUMP EVER DO TO YOU TO DESERVE THIS TREEMENT?
Oh your all out there screaming in the street for being treated fairly and then you go out and spu this hate. You deserve everything bad that comes your way.
And you call yourself GAY !!!
American Gays..ha..we laugh at you; Barry Obama; the biggest, weakest FAGGOT the world has seen. I can smell Michelle’s balls in Prague.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
@Poloboy50: Sold herself to an old rich man like trash. She should have some class if she want’s to be treated better.
UncleFloppy
I refuse to speak the name of the new president so for the next four years I will refer to him as “The Dark Lord” or “He Who Must Not Be Named” and I will refer to his wife as “Resting Bitch Face” or RBF for short.
1EqualityUSA
Low, the GOP descended. Impetuous, reckless words linger, as does the gas of an elderly Labrador, fouls the air. Sovereignty deprived of reason, I hope Lincoln’s ghost appears to him from time to time, cloaked in the inky garb of mourning. President Abe, remind this spiritual adolescent that the ages are watching. When sorrows come, President Obama’s vacuous replacement, vulnerable, rudderless, and devoid of blessings, will disturb the very walls of the White House.
mauikamaaina
Calvin Klein is an egomaniac, opportunist and a publicity whore. He does not have a moral compass. Remember Nick Gruber?
1EqualityUSA
“Hi, Taiwan, this is John Barron…”
Who’s staring at goats?
Brian
Calvin Klein undies were so expensive. You’re not exactly showing your undies to the outside world, so what’s the point of spending a small fortune on them? I’m not a label queen like some tragics are.
Heywood Jablowme
@Alistair Wiseman: Okay, from now on, we liberals will be as hateful, mean and bitchy as you conservatives are. Therefore no hypocrisy! Happy now?
Btw – isn’t this the one week of the year when you Christians are supposed to pretend to give a sh!t about the poor? 🙂
@Brian: I’m sure nobody ever sees your undies anyway.
RIGay
@spiffy: Yes she does, but Trump has pissed off China, so they closed the factory that makes her brand. She’s been left to fend for herself, poor boobah.
SportGuy
I hear Kmart is willing to dress her as that is where the people that voted for her sugar daddy shop.
Roan
@monroerob69:
GFY and thanks and you’re welcome.
Roan
@Alistair Wiseman:
When we did we sign up for liberal tolerance? Oh, bcuz we won’t let bigots and homophobes and bible beaters dehumanize us and we expect you/them to act according to the law (and your/their own bible) and be tolerant? Then, when you/they don’t that makes us intolerant to your/their intolerance? GFY
Roan
@Poloboy50:
What did Michelle Obama ever do to deserve the despicable, dehumanizing treatment she received? The racial slurs, the ignorant slurs like yours, calling her a wh*re because she had bare arms and shoulders in a ball gown, planting a vegetable garden? Go ahead, make a list, with specifics and links to facts. Take all the time you need. The GFY.
captainburrito
Seems petty. Is it just guilt by association?
At the same time she should just get a dress off the peg and show the nation she she doesn’t need anything super expensive.
If you dislike her just think of the fact she has to sleep with that thing. That is punishment enough regardless of the money.
Stilinski26
@Roan: Let me guess but GAGA and Madonna posing nude is “art”
zipperzone
I think she should wear skin tight skinny jeans, studded with real diamonds all over her ass.
The jeans could be leather if that is considered to be more classy.
As for having to sleep with him…. nope she doesn’t have to if she doesn’t want to. She could whore around as much as she wants. She’s got him by his tiny balls. He can’t afford any marital discord for at least 4 years
Heywood Jablowme
@zipperzone: Eventually she’ll move into the White House, but eventually she’ll do what Donna Hanover did to Rudy Giuliani: KICK HIM OUT and take over the taxpayers’ house for herself. (I never understood how Hanover got away with that!)
Then Donald can move in with married gay roommates like Rudy did.
dwes09
@Alistair Wiseman: “More of that liberal tolerance I hear so much about (but not witness).”
Clearly, you have no idea what exactly tolerance is. When people like you heap abuse on those who value social progress over backwards looking mean spiritedness, there is no reason to smile and nod. To do so is not tolerance, but idiocy. Nobody attacks you physically, as your kind does us. Nobody tries to infringe on your civil rights or freedom of speech as constitutionally constructed (only the right does that). But agreeing with those who hate us is not tolerance, failing to stand up for ethical causes is not tolerance, refusing to fight for the less privileged in the face of attacks from folks like you is not tolerance. We let you speak, but it is intelligence and understanding of the wold that makes us tell you (and Trump, and the other corrupt, backwards folks) to shut up.
dwes09
@Alistair Wiseman: “More of that liberal tolerance I hear so much about (but not witness).”
You also have no idea how obvious your disingenuous nature is, do you?
dean089
@Alistair Wiseman: You’d be more likely to find the Loch Ness Monster than an actual example of Liberals being open-minded.
dean089
And so people drive home the point by using terms like “your kind.” So there’s only two kinds of people? I find Donald Trump absolutely reprehensible, but that doesn’t mean I see any value in the Liberal agenda. There’s just as much self-righteousness on the Left as there is on the Right. Stop kidding yourselves.
dwes09
@dean089:”You’d be more likely to find the Loch Ness Monster than an actual example of Liberals being open-minded.”
It was liberals who championed labor unions, food safety, environmental protection, civil rights, gay rights, woman’s rights, reproductive choice. And it IS liberals who push for the reestablishment of the US as a leader in science literacy, life expectancy, adult literacy, health care and more. By contrast, the very definition of conservative is looking backwards, hesitancy to adopt or adapt to new things. By contrast functional MRI research has shown conservatives are fear driven and avoid novelty while liberals thrive on novelty and driven by a desire for new experience. Pretty clear that we are not closed minded as you guys are by definition.
Who opposes social progress? Who clings foolishly to economic hypotheses that have failed every time they are tried? Who prefers emotional appeal over facts that challenge the status quo? Who denies science and yet champions the most extreme beliefs of one specific religion as if it trumps all real knowledge? THAT WOULD BE CONSERVATIVES, NOT LIBERALS OR PROGRESSIVES.
Get real!
dwes09
@dean089: “that doesn’t mean I see any value in the Liberal agenda.”
So…you dislike marriage equality, you dislike living wage, you dislike social safety nets like Medicaid and social security, you dislike public schools and public libraries, you dislike civil rights and full enfranchisement, you dislike the 40 hour work week, parental leave, safe workplaces, environmental protection, the FDA….Sorry, but looked at objectively, that is simply not smart, not smart at all fella. those are all part of the “liberal agenda”.
The right these days looks suspiciously at the freedom of assembly, freedom to redress grievances,freedom of the press, equal access to the internet and more. That is a sign of how easily they are manipulated by the corporate power structure. Again, not particularly smart.
ShowMeGuy
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: Like Hell, Walmart isn’t touching that slut.
dwes09
@dean089: “And so people drive home the point by using terms like “your kind.” So there’s only two kinds of people?”
See what i mean about not being too smart? I refer to Mr. Wiseman (and you I guess) with your kind to link him to the knee jerk conservative who routinely buys into the lies of the corporate powers and reliably votes against their own self interest. Who value myth, assumption and “belief” over facts and history. Not all conservatives are that way, some are simply fiscally cautious, not misanthropes and fuzzy thinkers. So you assume that by saying “your kind” I somehow imply there are only two kinds of folks? Fuzzy thinking much?
There is not anywhere as much self-righteousness on the left as on the right. We simply desire recognition of ethics, not the public appearance of Christianity, as a mark of righteousness. We simply want to see the spirit of the actual constitution served, not some mythic image of an America that never existed (as in “make America great again”, which does not address any of the real problems we have here.
Roan
@Stilinski26:
1) I didn’t care for Madonna or LG, but that’s irrelevant
2) Madonna and LG are not FLOTUS
3) Melania Trump is a whore
4) GFY
dwes09
@Roan: Nor do either Madonna or Gaga try to pass themselves off as “good Christian people”. The number of gullible folks who see Trump as a fellow traveler on a “faith journey” is a horrifying example of how far removed from reality “values conservatives” are.
I don’t know if Melania is a whore, but she certainly does not share much with someone like Michelle Obama, a woman of class and substance. Or with Laura Bush: I may not have thought much of her but she was not a hypocrite or an intentional trophy wife.
scotshot
@Poloboy50:
Congratulations to the 15 year old Poloboy50 for believing his juvenile rant is going to hurt us or being called f*gg*t will cut us. (yawn)
Those days are over girlfriend, you’re just another Brian or Michael Wiseman, same tired rants from as they’re so smug about…./s. Speaking of balls, why don’t you grow a pair and post your photo, name and email address?
Tête Carrée
Calvin Klein or “he who refused to hire gay models” (unless he wanted to f*ck them but then again, like too many gay men, he may have preferred the licking un-wiped straight asshole fantasy).
Roan
@dwes09:
Perfectly stated.
Tête Carrée
@Poloboy50:
“And you wonder why so many people hate the GAYS.”
Actually, we don’t give a shit.
“WHAT THE FUCK DID MELINIA TRUMP EVER DO TO YOU”
By the sounds of it, you could loan her one of your dresses, a frock from the old country.
“TO DESERVE THIS TREEMENT?”
That’s an idea, She could embarrass her sugar-daddy by making an environmental statement wearing just tree leaves like Eve.
“screaming in the street for being treated fairly”
By Donald Trump???
Maybe by your peasant country’s standards.
“the biggest, weakest”
Isn’t that a contradiction in terms? He could kick your ass old man-lady.
“FAGGOT”
At least you used all caps as it should be.
Was that your secret weapon? Wait while I weep.
“I can smell Michelle’s balls”
Obviously you’ve done this before. There are so many bad smells in your country, you obviously have a well trained nose.
SnorlaxationKH
Place your bets now.
Stilinski26
@Roan: how progressive of you to slut shame someone because you don’t like them!!
Stilinski26
@dwes09: I don’t care about Trump, but shaming a woman just because she is his wife is wrong! If this is the mindset gays in America has then frankly you all deserve Trump haha enjoy!
Roan
@Stilinski26:
Thank you for the compliment! I appreciate that you noticed!
Roan
@Stilinski26:
She’s a whore who has posed in lewd and lascivious pictures for money and then rode in on the checkbook of a lecherous old man. That’s a great role model to have for FLOTUS and for the hypocrite hordes of christian evangelists who are leading the parade of these two useful idiots to the white house. So feel free to GFY and have a happy holiday!
DMscrub32
Come on guys, we’re better than this. It’s easy to be angry, more difficult to show them we’re better and change people’s minds. This comment section is as depressing as a lot of other sites right now, and if I were on the other side of the issue I’d be pretty happy about it. Amiright? Amiriiight?
Stilinski26
@Roan: Lol no wonder Trump won its because of you so called “tolerant progressives”. You think Melania posing nude for pictures is bad but you prefer to have a criminal and a rapist at a white house. I am not American so Trump’s presidency won’t affect my life whatsoever but If you are living in US then hope you enjoy the next four years and oh yeah MERRY CHRISTMAS to you as well.
Neonegro
Well not one of those effeminate designers were able to turn Michelle into a beauty.
Mrs. Trump could wear anything and look beautiful.
Neonegro
You guys better keep whining for the next four and maybe eight years.
I only hope Mike Pence gets real influential in the government and really give you queens a reason to be more nasty.
Roan
@Stilinski26:
Bless your heart. You’re triggered and you think you’re relevant. It adorable. Keep replying. There’s not ONE thing you can say to hurt me. We’ve seen your kind before and now that we have a White House full of them, it won’t be the last time either. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Blessed Yule, Happy Holidays, Bountiful Kwanza, Blessed Mawlid-Al-Nani, Peaceful Solstice or simply nothing at all to you too!
txcham
Calvin Klein is perfect for the job. Fortunately Trump’s Browns hints know nothing about just how seedy Klein past is. Not fun seedy but preying on young men. He hasn’t designed in ages and most of his past is not common knowledge. However many well-known people are very aware of his history. When Melanoma wears Klein it will be fucking hilarious when the stories come out. (Not hilarious for those he preyed upon but they cannot use Names)
phallictomato
Note to self: No longer buy from Calvin Klein and chuck away anything I’ve bought from them.
And to those that say ‘get over it’ and want to play all happy families with the Trumps – get real. When you are going to be set back 50 years by some vile pig and his trophy wife who want to make sure you and many others are treated like second class citizens, you bet I’m going to be pissed – and I have every right to be.
You know, I used to be a nice guy, but once I saw the world for how it is, and how many hateful anti-gay people there are still out there, you bet I’m going to protest with my money and make sure ALL my friends and family know about your anti-gay stance.
Word of mouth is powerful, Calvin Klein, and I may be one person, but I have a big family – and if you don’t support me, I won’t support you. Never forget that.
Stilinski26
@Roan: Awww seems like someone is triggered instead. back to your safe space I will donate safety pins and coloring books to you and I am not sure what you mean by people of my kind are in the white house since I am Asian, more likely people of your kind are in the White house right now lol.
Roan
@Stilinski26:
Bless your heart!
BriBri
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