Melania Trump isn’t seen in public that often these days. But when she is, she’s off-color!
The former FLOTUS attended Rosalynn Carter’s funeral Tuesday, along with her other living contemporaries, including forever first lady Michelle Obama.
Carter passed away last week at the age of 96.
While the Carter family invited Melania as a display of bipartisanship, she still managed to stick out from the crowd–and not in a good way.
While all the other First Ladies wore black, she wore… charcoal gray?
Everyone wearing black but her. Go figure! She should’ve just wore her famous “I don’t care” jacket since she’s screaming for attention.
— Blue (@Cbluepacific) November 28, 2023
Can't even wear black
— Mary 🟧 🟦 (@maricotona) November 28, 2023
In all fairness, Melania appeared to be wearing a black dress underneath her gray overcoat. But still, her fashion choice was unconventional.
Although we shouldn’t be surprised.
From the very start, she never embraced the traditional role of First Lady, opting to stay behind in New York City for the first six months of her husband’s presidency.
Her most notable act, aside from wearing the aforementioned “I DON’T CARE” jacket when visiting detained migrant children at a Texas border town, was putting up some pretty startling Christmas decorations at the White House.
Fortunately, Dr. Jill Biden has cleaned that up.
Speaking of Dr. Biden, she was recently partying with fashion elites steps from Trump Tower, while Melania holes herself up inside. She hasn’t appeared alongside her husband at any of his arraignments or legal proceedings.
But she has reportedly renegotiated her prenuptial agreement… for the third time!
While the Carters’ son said Melania was gracious when they met, she seemed to be alienated from the other first ladies. As The Washington Post points out, there appeared to be plenty of awkwardness between Melania & co. when they were on camera.
“The women barely looked at each other or smiled, and appeared to take pains to stare straight ahead after entering the church,” the Post writes.
That’s understandable, considering how Donald Trump trashed every living president who came before him. Melania was seated next to Michelle Obama, whose family has withstood racist attacks from Donald for years, beginning with the whole birther conspiracy theory, which Mrs. Trump also peddled.
“Melania Trump stood next to Michelle Obama, but they did not appear to speak or even acknowledge each other,” the Post says.
“At times, Obama — who has said that false claims by Donald Trump about her husband’s citizenship led to threats to her family — seemed to be leaning away from her.”
But the biggest diss against the Trumps came from PBS anchor Judy Woodruff, who recalled her final interview with Mrs. Carter at the podium. Woodruff said she asked what Carter thought about Joe Biden‘s presidency, to which she responded, “It’s a great relief to have him in office.”
Then again, given Melania’s apparent apathy around her husband’s latest presidential run, perhaps she feels the same.
The ex-FLOTUS, who refuses to appear with Donald on the campaign trail, doesn’t seem to care about his political or legal misfortunes. It might be the only thing we all agree upon!
abfab
Dear Alex!
I love the way you write!! You are so effing funny…..LOL big time! Thank you!
xo
(this woman really is a mess)
Jack
I hope she tried to say hello and was met with “Bitch!!!!! I’m Michelle Obama. You don’t speak to me unless I speak first.”
m
Awesome comment.
KW1969
Everybody calm down about the coat. I can’t stand them either but this isn’t a story.
abfab
Let us all know when you find a story that is a story.
Jaesly
Are you telling me that Melania doesn’t own a black coat? Or that she couldn’t afford to buy one?
still_onthemark
Melania has a black-and-white coat. It’s made out of Dalmatian hides.
abfab
Melly adores Cruella de Ville.
Jim
What a sad woman.
Few will attend her funeral except maybe for some silver shirts.
quantum
Melania won’t die. She’ll live forever, flying around in a bucket kidnapping children to eat in her cozy forest cottage with chicken legs for some reason.
Bosch
Ha! Baba Maga.
abfab
LOL That is so twisted!! Meals on Heels!
abfab
She always looks frozen. Maybe she’s just a big block of ice.
RIGay
It’s because all of the black got sucked into her soul.
Kangol2
There’s nothing black or Black about this wytch Melania! Please don’t sully that color by associating it with her!
ZzBomb
I must agree, Jill Biden’s Christmas displays are so much more cheery and festive than whatever the eurotrash’s displays ever were.
abfab
Oh there is no comparison!
abfab
Rest in Peace Mrs Carter. You were loved.
Break out your hankerchiefs. Amy Carter, daughter, read a letter during the service that Jimmy wrote to Rosalynn 75 years ago. (youtube, natch)
Their energy will always live on, esp thru Habitat For Humanity. Such good people.
FreddieW
What a tempest in a teacup. If it had been Madonna in a bullet bustier and mouth grill, you would have worshipped her style.
ZzBomb
MMmmmmmmm no. It’s a funeral, there’s this thing called decorum. We wouldn’t expect you to understand.
FreddieW
Yeah, right. The people who cheer men who aren’t drag queens but dress in female attire are scandalized that a woman’s coat is grey instead of black. Makes perfect sense.
ZzBomb
False equivalence.
You’re inability to accept others different than you is not the same as having a lack of decorum at a funeral.
abfab
But it wasn’t Madonna, Fred, so STFU!
Fname Optional Lname
Making up scenarios that seem to come directly from a Fox news segment is just a waste of time. Madonna gets her fair share of shade from the left and honestly has never cared who points a finger at her – as long as they keep pointing a finger.
SoPluckyWhat
Aside from your “whataboutism”. Can anyone tell me what a “mouth grill” is? I’ll compare your answers to Google.
So, according to Google, a mouth grill is putting diamonds onto your teeth. I thought that fad was over. But then again, baggy pants are still around. I also thought bellbottoms were long gone, but I was wrong about this too!
abfab
Dreddy learns his vocabulary by watching Fox and Fwends.
Kangol2
Freddie clearly has no clue about what a funeral is or what most respectful adults wear to one, across a wide array of cultures and traditions, but even that racist wytch Melania, who grew up in Slovenia, would know that you don black (or charcoal gray, etc.) clothing at a funeral. A pale gray coat is disrespectful. Given that her hubby is a “billionaire” and she lives in Miami, I’m sure a personal shopper could have fetched her a fabulous designer ensemble without breaking a sweat or the money-hemorrhaging Don the Con bank!
FreddieW
@SoPluckyWhat
Yes, that’s what it is. I had never heard of it either until I saw Madonna showing hers to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. It was within the past 2 years. She looked utterly ridiculous, more so than usual, even.
FreddieW
@Fname
The hypothetical scenario came directly from the mind of a gay man who doesn’t watch Fox News and thinks as little of Madonna as he does of Melania and abfab.
Fair is fair. None of this story is fair. It’s just an opportunity to trash the unfortunate wife of Donald Trump.
FreddieW
@Kangol2
I wore a black 3 piece suit, black shirt, black tie with silver flowers, and black wingtip shoes to the last funeral I attended. I stood out as the best dressed person in attendance and the warmest at a rural Arkansas cemetery in September. Most men were wearing short sleeves, and the pastor wore blue jeans and a bolo tie.
The outrage here isn’t about what Mrs. Trump wore but about who she is. And everyone knows it. If she had stood out in a fabulous designer ensemble, y’all would be trashing her for that.
BTW, do you remember how Madonna made Aretha Franklin’s death all about herself?
abfab
Fred.
After cautiously reading your costume description of yourself weeping in the heat under the magnolia trees and the spanish moss and mosquitos and other various and sundry white trash evangelicals, you best not be talking about anybody looking ”utterly ridiculous”,
Now run along little boy yo mamas waitin’ fer ya, ya hear!
Baron Wiseman
Charcoal gray is perfectly acceptable at a funeral. She had a black dress on underneath her coat. Perhaps she was cold? Who cares!
Everyone disturbed by Mrs. Trump’s charcoal gray overcoat, it’s time to check your Trump Derangement Syndrome.
ZzBomb
TDS is actually suffered by those in the cult. We don’t think Trump is a king hence why we aren’t the deranged ones.
LeBlevsez
Yes, BW, charcoal gray is appropriate for a funeral. Which is why Hillary was wearing charcoal gray. Reacquaint yourself with the names of colors and shades. Maybe your box of crayons would be helpful.
Baron Wiseman
@LeBlevsez
“While all the other First Ladies wore black, she wore… charcoal gray?”
It was the Queerty writer Alex Reimer who initially called the coat charcoal gray. I followed the lead of the writer.
Why did you snarkly take the issue up with me and not address the writer?
Mack
I see you and some of your monikers are alive and well on the site. But you still have several others monikers not visible to support your stupidity. I’m actually surprised she didn’t wear her “I don’t care” jacket, she has absolutely no feelings for anything except herself.
abfab
Wiseman is easily led.
Baron Wiseman
@Mack
Hi Mack!
So I have other monikers? Do tell! What are they?
And my “stupidity?” Please fill me in! Let’s say the top 3 stupid things I’ve said. Your turn….
1.
2.
3.
abfab
You do that work, bitch! Fill in your own blanks and stop eating your crayons. You have as much fashion sense as George Santos…and you whine a lot…just like she does.
dbmcvey
If Hillary had shown up to Nancy Reagan’s funeral in gray Republicans would be ripping their hair out.
FreddieW
As I recall, Hillary — the darling of HRC — showed up at Nancy Reagan’s funeral with lies about what she had done for gay men with AIDS.
abfab
You are old and your memory about those days is worthless. Go away.
FreddieW
It was all one big drunk for you, wasn’t it?
abfab
Failure.
Mister P
Keep your story straight. We are not scandalized by the color we want to force gender reassignment surgery on her.
Jack
We should thank the car washes that provided their brushes to make Melania’s Christmas Magic Walk.
MSM
Melanoma’s attire could have been worse. White coat, white dress etc.
abfab
The men in the white coats will be coming for her soon. How much more humiliation can one TRAMP take!
nm4047
I’d suggest the Hilary’s coat was more dark grey than black.
MSM
dark gray is entirely appropriate
abfab
I love it when the Project Runway people come out and dish some Fashion Police on the subject!
The arrangement on Mrs. Carter’s casket was incredible.Must find that floral designer! It was splendid. As was the enitre service, except for that one, small, unfortunate, misguided annoyance. Thank god the husband was missing.
Fname Optional Lname
As much as I can’t stand her or anyone associated with the mighty orange neanderthal – it really makes everyone look petty complaining about her grey outfit. It’s similar to when Republicans complained about Obama wearing a brown suit. It’s petty, ridiculous and uncalled for. She showed up and that in itself shows she has a tiny bit of heart – (unless of course we find out later that she was paid for her appearance which would not be surprising at all). Perhaps it was just a convenient excuse to get away from the dictator and take a moment to breathe. Raging about her outfit only makes the left look unbalanced and filled with rage. She is awful. Complaining that she showed up to a memorial service only makes one appear worse than her and her kind.
SoPluckyWhat
Who is “everybody”? I’ve only seen this on Queerty.
abfab
It’s on several other news outlets. And I do mean SEVERAL!
abfab
I long for the days of Bjork wrapped in a white swan.
Kangol2
The MEDIA and GQP complained about Obama wearing a TAN suit in the summer, which is completely appropriate. You do realize that people wear tan suits and clothes (khakis! etc.) during warm months, right? The media also complained about AL GORE wearing a BROWN suit, which would be appropriate any time of the year, but especially from September through May, when he had it on during a campaign. Just to clear that up.
james7
Do we know if Melania ever even met Rosslynn Carter…..and do we know the orientation of Carter grandson Jason that spoke, He had my gaydar on alert. His speech (you tube it if you missed it) was heartfelt and amusing. Loved it the he thanked Dr. Biden and Ambassador Clinton for bringing “their charming husbands.”
abfab
Oh yes def an FOD!
dbmcvey
I think this is silly, but it’s a fun article.
abfab
Jimmy is now heartbroken. HOSPICE is amazing. But yes, FUN! ox
macattack
The woman and her husband are CLASSLESS TRASH. If everyone stopped writing about them – they will go away
abfab
No they won’t, but wouldn’t it be nice.
Teddster
Of course she wore gray. I’m sure she only knew Roselynn by name, so she was just barely grieving.
eclecticstarz
The charcoal gray coat was actually made from the ashes of peoples broken dreams.
ollie--
You all just want to be outraged, that is USA’s favourite pastime. Outrage and shooting chrildren.
Like the woman, dont like the woman. She wore a gray coat. Ok. Two rows behind her is a woman in a GREEN coat. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?
a quick little google search
“What is the woman’s dress code for a funeral?
A little black dress, of course, is the most conservative and safe, but you can still be respectful and conservative without wearing black clothing. Your clothing style can shine through even in funeral clothes. You will be safe with other subdued hues of dark blue, navy, grey, or brown.”
now sit down and breath. Its going to be ok.
abfab
It’s a Gay Thing, Debbie Downer. Melly never looks respectable. She knew exaclty what she was doing. She sure shined trough.
BrokebackBob
What was so shocking about Melania’s attendance at the funeral was that she didn’t burst into flames and disappear after she put one step into the church.