This just in: Melania Trump has hired interior designer Tham Kannalikham to help redecorate the White House living quarters.
“Mrs. Trump has a deep appreciation for the historical aspects of the White House,” Melania’s senior advisor, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, said in a statement, “and with Tham’s traditional design and expertise, they are focusing on a seamless integration of elegance and comfort into where the President, the First Lady, and Barron will be spending their family time and calling their home.”
Related: Melania Trump granted permission to sue blogger for $150 million for calling her an escort
Kannalikham, too, made a statement, “I am honored by the opportunity to be working with the First Lady to make the White House feel like home.”
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
Given what their other home looks like, we’re sure the First Lady won’t skimp on using tax-payer dollars to line the walls with gold leaf, as well as add lots of gilded, over-the-top furnishings, tacky drapery, and gaudy chandeliers.
And all for a house she doesn’t actually plan on living in.
Last week, a source told Us Weekly that Melania was “reevaluating” her initial plans to move into the White House in June, after Barron finished up the school year, and was instead considering staying in New York indefinitely, at a reported taxpayer cost of $1 million per day, or $1.4 billion over the course of four years.
“They could go either way right now,” the source said. “They will ultimately do what’s best for Barron.”
Obama White House decorator Michael Smith told the Washington Post that Kannalikham “joins a very select club and is one of the people who have been fortunate enough to work for first families. As I’ve said many times, every time you move a chair or lamp in the White House, it is part of the fabric of history.”
Related: On second thought, Melania Trump might not move to Washington, D.C. after all
whatevz
the dumb foreign escort will make it look like no black folk ever lived there, but they are not racists
KMF11
such a stupid comment!
ChrisK
Wow. That prep school for little Barron is one expensive rip off for 1.4 Billion.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Dictator chic meets tart’s boudoir tart
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
^too tart-y. Like that cheap whore (allegedly)
DCguy
So our tax dollars are going to be used to hose everything down in tacky gold plating, and white shag carpeting.
Blackceo
We’ll see what happens but again I think Melania’s decision to stay in NY has everything to do with Barron. There’s been a lot of speculation that he is autistic. My godson has Asperger’s, which is on the more high functioning end of Autism, but I am aware of all types and definitely see classic signs of it in Barron. The tics that he has and social awkwardness lends to that assumption. The White House is staffed full of people and would be a totally new environment for Barron, which would probably cause him anxiety. He nor Melania signed up for this so I think her wanting him to stay in NY among familiar surroundings is understandable.
The cost of it all is a concern because if she never moves to the White House, the cost of security at Trump Tower over the next 4 years is going to be very hefty. So I get people’s frustration and criticism of that but I’m more looking at it from Barron’s sake. The living quarters of the White House is not THAT big (certainly not what they are used to). The guards and people moving about would all be new to him. He is settled and in a routine in NY so taking politics out of it, I get it and she should be doing what’s best for her son. You know damn well Donald is probably leaving all of that up to her. If Barron does have Autism and they don’t want to divulge it, I get that too. Its nobody’s business. However, if they did, that would be an amazing platform for her to focus on as First Lady to bring awareness to Autism.
paul dorian lord fredine
i might be able to agree with you but there’s also the other option, the one in which she just might be grateful to be living out from under the watchful eye of her husband, possibly even shouting ‘free AT LAST!!!’ i’m actually still expecting a divorce in relatively short order. after all, in his eyes she’s probably well past her ‘sell-by’ date.
PacoMDFACS
What a waist of tax payers money
Kieran
The Trump Tower suite no doubt makes the White House look like an out house. Who can blame Melania? But redecorate the White House anyway as a public service.
buddy_wilde
Trump Tower looks like a cross between a slovenian whorehouse a faded TRUMP Casino.
DMRX
Oh come on, Graham. Quit being the “boy who cried wolf.”
They are only allotted $100K, the same as it’s been since it was raised during Clinton’s tenure.
Past that, it has to be private money.
And for Pete’s sake, leave this poor woman alone.
buddy_wilde
I guess the first thing she’ll do is install a stripper pole in the Lincoln Bedroom so she can entertain Russian Diplomats
DMRX
Oh come on, Graham. Quit being the “boy who cried wolf.”
They are only allotted $100K, the same as it’s been since it was raised during Clinton’s tenure.
Past that, it has to be private money.
And for Pete’s sake, leave this poor woman alone.
mhoffman953
@DMRX its just more liberal hypocrisy and double standards. Many of the people posting comments on here will be the first ones to say they don’t like Trump because of his comments about women, but read the vicious remarks posted above by nearly all of the people commenting.
Melania has said she will move into the White House with Barron after he finishes these next 4 months of school. I’m not sure what the big deal seems to be over this issue.
Plus this article uses US Weekly as a source. I highly doubt US Weekly is the mecca of insider political information. They’ve been saying Jennifer Aniston is pregnant for a decade now. But keep believing that a “source” told US Weekly
ChadH77
It’s a good thing that Jackie Kennedy isn’t alive to see this tragic mess that’s gonna trample all over her White House restoration legacy with tacky gold lame’!
1EqualityUSA
Betsy Hughes of Hirsch Bedner Associates would rock the house. She did tasteful work in the old post office hotel, save the too dark, too narrow wood planks on the floor and rugs being a little hot, though Trump may have cheaped out on her. Lower budget, lesser product. She would have respect for the history of the White House. Less is more. Don’t be too mean to the spouse. Unresolved pain. Focus energy on 2018 and be done with this sleaze-ball party in 2020.