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Melania drenches White House halls in blood for Christmas
by Anonymous | reply 177 | December 4, 2018 6:22 PM |
she's got horrifying taste
by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 26, 2018 5:24 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 26, 2018 5:25 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 26, 2018 5:29 PM |
REDRUM.
She is a soulless Satatic cuntress.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 26, 2018 5:30 PM |
and Satanic, too!
by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 26, 2018 5:30 PM |
Oh dear me. That's awful!
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 26, 2018 5:32 PM |
I think she has a passive agressive personality and does this stuff on purpose. She thinks she is a victim - basically hates the American people - and she's gonna make us pay in every suttle way she can!
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by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 26, 2018 5:35 PM |
Melania prepares her evening bath... of blood!
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 26, 2018 5:38 PM |
It’s so stupid it isn’t even tacky.
I am completely convinced she negotiated a totally new pre nup and now she’s earning it for the duration of the presidency. The hand holding etc. She cut a better deal.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 26, 2018 5:42 PM |
Those red Christmas trees look super creepy. It's like a scene from The War of the Worlds, where the entire landscape is covered with red weed.
And that pencil wreath looks like some sort of voodoo ornament.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 26, 2018 5:43 PM |
Vairst Letty, a former promising design and architecture student and aspiring supermodel fluent in three billion languages, just can't be arsed, can she?
The good thing about it: These horrific red trees make my eye cancer retreat.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 26, 2018 5:43 PM |
Heinous. Anyone got any pics of Hillary's efforts?
by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 26, 2018 5:43 PM |
Barron did that heinous Be Best pencils wreath, didn't he?
by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 26, 2018 5:45 PM |
Red trees? Really? This trashy family and their dog whistles to Russia get on my nerves about as much as the right-wing who refuses to criticize them for their actions the way they would if it were the Obamas pulling this shit.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 26, 2018 5:47 PM |
R8- That hallway is even more creepy. It reminds me of the hallway that Dorothy, The Tin Man, The Lion and The Scarecrow had to walk down in order to get to the Wizard.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 26, 2018 5:48 PM |
Yeah it was widely mocked at the time, too.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 26, 2018 5:50 PM |
It's no surprise her decorations scream "Euro Trash."
What with here being a whore and all...
by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 26, 2018 5:53 PM |
I'm surprised she didn't do gold and silver metallic trees.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 26, 2018 5:55 PM |
That was last year R25. Look at pix posted at R8.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 26, 2018 5:57 PM |
It looks like Bloomingdales Christmas from the 1970's.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | November 26, 2018 5:59 PM |
Let's just admit it, Data Loungers.
We all want a "Be Best" pencil for phone dialing.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 26, 2018 6:00 PM |
Hell, even Iola Boylan could do better than that pencil wreath.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | November 26, 2018 6:04 PM |
Her inspiration for the red hallway, clearly
by Anonymous | reply 30 | November 26, 2018 6:06 PM |
No surprise that Communist Red was chosen.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | November 26, 2018 6:10 PM |
Horrible design. What does one expect from a clan of grifters? The White House has been shit-stained with these deplorables.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | November 26, 2018 6:11 PM |
Whorehouse Wred.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | November 26, 2018 6:12 PM |
A preview of the Mueller White House bloodbath.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | November 26, 2018 6:16 PM |
The red trees are unnerving. From a distance, the pencil wreath looks like it's made of cigarettes. Classy as ever, Melania!
by Anonymous | reply 35 | November 26, 2018 6:19 PM |
One word: trash.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | November 26, 2018 6:24 PM |
Blood red, shaggy . . . KKK Christmas Hoods!
by Anonymous | reply 37 | November 26, 2018 6:30 PM |
Be best bitch, Melania,.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | November 26, 2018 6:43 PM |
R3
In that photo if they were white they would look like KKK costumes.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | November 26, 2018 6:45 PM |
What. The shit. Is that pencil thing?
by Anonymous | reply 40 | November 26, 2018 7:09 PM |
It’s a wreath. I don’t know if Melania had it made or if someone else created it and sent it to her as a gift.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | November 26, 2018 7:21 PM |
R40, it's Barron's contribution to this year's WH christmas decoration.
They gave the autistic boy some three billion pencils in order to keep him busy.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | November 26, 2018 7:25 PM |
R41 she had it made. There's also Be Best ornaments on the tree with the same godawful logo.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | November 26, 2018 7:25 PM |
Whore red
by Anonymous | reply 44 | November 26, 2018 7:25 PM |
Red like the Russian flag.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | November 26, 2018 7:26 PM |
You'd think she'd want everyone to forget about "Be Best", given how heavily she was mocked for it.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | November 26, 2018 7:28 PM |
Groups of children touring this year's White House Christmas will need PTSD therapy afterwards. Heck, I'll probably have bad dreams tonight from just viewing the pictures. Does anyone have a picture of Melania showing a nice warm smile? Sorry, looks like R14 posted one.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | November 26, 2018 7:41 PM |
Sure she was mocked for it but she'd already ordered the fucking pencils so... use them to make a festive wreath! Also, Barron's going to build a model of Air Force One from pencil shavings and erasers.
I'm sure that combining Christmas and Be Best is some kind of trumpian scam that will eventually be outed because they are so fucking incompetent and leaky they literally couldn't manage to keep a cemetery quiet.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | November 26, 2018 7:49 PM |
I'm sure she's planning a book about her initiative and how it stopped bullying forever.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | November 26, 2018 7:51 PM |
At least she didn’t hang these on the tree..
by Anonymous | reply 50 | November 26, 2018 7:57 PM |
I think her eyes would go crosseyed if she actually glue gunned all those pencils together.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | November 26, 2018 7:58 PM |
Bitch please, some design intern made that monstrosity.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | November 26, 2018 7:59 PM |
Very strange- oh well
by Anonymous | reply 53 | November 26, 2018 8:03 PM |
I like pencils.
I like Christmas decoration.
I don't like red though.
Red will never BE BEST.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | November 26, 2018 8:03 PM |
Are those are holiday menstrual huts?
by Anonymous | reply 55 | November 26, 2018 8:03 PM |
It's her tribute to Italian "giallo" flicks of the 70s and 80s. The ones she aspired to be in.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | November 26, 2018 8:06 PM |
Here's a video of the rest of the White House. Which is better than the dripping blood trees. But it all just looks so heavy! Weighted down.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | November 26, 2018 8:07 PM |
All I see are my tax dollars.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | November 26, 2018 8:08 PM |
Haha, r59! I already spent those sending five thousand troops to the border.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | November 26, 2018 8:11 PM |
Tee hee!
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Melania's New Christmas Hell House Is Up Evan Hurst November. 26, 2018 01:30
Do you remember this festive scene from last Christmas at the White House?
Do you remember that scene because it haunts your nightmares? Is it possible you died there? Is your mom Winona Ryder and you are trying to communicate with her through the Christmas lights because you are trapped in an alternate dimension and it is called Melania Trump's Christmas Hell House the Upside Down?
Well, get ready, because it's Christmastime at the White House again, and this year the theme is BLOOD.
You can see in the early renderings of the design for the HALL OF BLOOD that the theme was going to be BLOOD.
We apologize. We just got a call from the Wonkette Factchecking Department, and they told us to please allow for at least the possibility that Stephen Miller helped with the design and that was supposed to be a hall of KKK grand wizard hats. So this is us, allowing for that possibility!
Whatever it is, here it comes, and it is BLOODY FURRY KKK GRAND WIZARD HATS.
This is appropriate. It's depressing as hell, it's ugly as all fuck, and it looks clumpy and overgrown and fake. Melania Trump designed a hallway that looks like her husband's naked body.
Watch out, kids! Here comes the first lady, and she is going to tear-gas you with BAD TASTE!
Some of the other trees aren't bad. Barron probably did them.
There is also some themed thing where there are decorations that look like the skylines of cities that wouldn't be caught dead voting for Donald Trump, so we guess those are fine. Oh hey, New York, HAPPY THE PURGE HOLIDAYS, LOVE MELANIA!
(More at the link)
by Anonymous | reply 61 | November 26, 2018 8:24 PM |
Those red trees are an eyesore of menstrual blood covered balsams. I expect the Grinch to appear in that surreal environment at any moment.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | November 26, 2018 8:35 PM |
#BeegBress
by Anonymous | reply 63 | November 26, 2018 8:39 PM |
I did hear it from a serious source that she gets paid for all her personal appearances.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | November 26, 2018 8:45 PM |
Red, white and blue ‘Be Best’ ornaments? The fuck???
by Anonymous | reply 65 | November 26, 2018 8:49 PM |
It's the flag of Russia. Her secret gift to Vlad (her future husband).
by Anonymous | reply 66 | November 26, 2018 8:51 PM |
I think she has turned the holiday into a symbolic farewell to her menstrual flow.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | November 26, 2018 8:52 PM |
Trolling through Christmas decorations.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | November 26, 2018 8:52 PM |
Basted in Blood
by Anonymous | reply 69 | November 26, 2018 8:59 PM |
Why does she ALWAYS have a fucking coat on.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | November 26, 2018 9:04 PM |
reminds me of a meme I saw.
There's a new paint color out. It's cheap and spreads easy. It's called "whore red".
by Anonymous | reply 72 | November 26, 2018 9:22 PM |
R70, to hide her expanding waistline and gunt.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | November 26, 2018 9:22 PM |
She's going through the colors of the flag. Next year it'll be a blue Christmas.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | November 26, 2018 9:24 PM |
They look like muppets. I half expect eyes and mouth to appear before they break into song.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | November 26, 2018 9:29 PM |
They look evil: like mounds of alien eggs or something. I can almost picture the red strands writhing.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | November 26, 2018 9:34 PM |
What the hell is her problem? My god, holiday decorating isn't rocket science! There are plenty of Fraus and Queens who can decorate appropriately for the holiday...why can't she and her "people"?
by Anonymous | reply 77 | November 26, 2018 9:52 PM |
Not much changed with White House Christmas decorations in the year since Melania Trump hung her first ornament. There, again, is the expertly produced video that shows the First Lady surveying her feat of decor. There, again, is the impeccably dressed former model, still looking a bit like a J. Crew catalog come to life despite a lack of outfit changes this time. There, again, is the secular theme: last year, “Time-Honored Traditions”; this year, “American Treasures.” Loading video
And it wouldn’t be a Trump White House Christmas without, again, a menacing touch to what is otherwise a lavishly and beautifully wrought winter wonderland. Last year, shadowy white branches stretched above Trump as if she was our Christmas heroine making her way through an eerie tunnel of witch’s knuckles on her way to a candy-cane forest. This year, crimson red trees dotted a long hallway, dyed with what I assume is liberal blood a-boiling.
40 red topiary trees line the East colonnade of the White House.
More than 40 red topiary trees line the East colonnade as part of the holiday decorations at the White House November 26, 2018. By Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
“This is a joyous time of year when we decorate the White House for the Christmas Season,” said the First Lady in the earnestly non-secular statement. “Our theme honors the heart and spirit of the American people. Thank you to the many volunteers and staff who worked hard to decorate the halls of the People’s House in Christmas cheer. On behalf of my family, we wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.”
Holiday decorations in the East Room of the White House. Four 14-foot-tall Nobel fir trees with 72 handmade paper ornaments representing six regions across America stand next to the White House Crèche in the East Room of the White House. By Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
As it was then, now it is again. But as much as Melania and her only occasionally sinister decorations haven’t changed too much in the last year, the perception around her certainly has—and after a year of “I Don’t Really Care, Do U?” and pith helmets and orchestrating the removal of a White House aide, it’s impossible to watch this and think Melania is just the silent, dutiful dinner-party wife spinning up some holiday decor. The public has gotten flashes of a more complicated side there beneath the austere sheen and “Be Best” pencil wreaths.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | November 26, 2018 9:52 PM |
Here's a different photo of that wreath. The pinpoints of the pencils coming together remind me of some sort of Hellraiser-inspired nightmare.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | November 26, 2018 9:57 PM |
Is Vairst Letty going blonde?
by Anonymous | reply 80 | November 26, 2018 9:59 PM |
It’s scary stupid idiotic trashy and so Melania and Don.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | November 26, 2018 10:08 PM |
Not that I want a 2019 Trump Christmas but if so, Melania, just go full Lovecraftian and get it over with.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | November 26, 2018 10:08 PM |
Barron was tasked with sharpening all the pencils. He LIKED doing it. He could look at nothing but those pencils for hours and hours and hours.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | November 26, 2018 10:15 PM |
Melania is kinda kunty-fierce! Yes, henny.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | November 26, 2018 10:16 PM |
Another White Trash Kristmas Ibn the White House.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | November 26, 2018 10:17 PM |
Horrid installation. Worse than last year's.
And the trees are awful, too!
by Anonymous | reply 88 | November 26, 2018 10:20 PM |
Looks like menstruating cousin Itts
by Anonymous | reply 89 | November 26, 2018 10:43 PM |
She's trolling. It's pure genius.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | November 26, 2018 10:51 PM |
Americans don't get it. It's European.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | November 26, 2018 10:53 PM |
Love this
by Anonymous | reply 92 | November 26, 2018 10:55 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 93 | November 26, 2018 10:56 PM |
Melania is the most useless first lady ever.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | November 26, 2018 11:07 PM |
The wreath at R79 is a fanciful improvisation on her vagina dentata.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | November 26, 2018 11:13 PM |
Don't I know it! You should have seen it when it had to get braces! Wait, we were talking about Ivanka, right?
by Anonymous | reply 97 | November 26, 2018 11:21 PM |
Drenched in the blood from the lungs of coughing, poisoned toddlers sprayed with tear gas at the border. Nice distraction, fuckface whore. God I hate these people. If you exist, smote them down. SMOTE THEM DOWN
by Anonymous | reply 98 | November 26, 2018 11:24 PM |
[quote]Americans don't get it. It's European.
Americans don't want it.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | November 26, 2018 11:34 PM |
Love the cameo appearance by Cindy Hyde-Smith at R95.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | November 26, 2018 11:39 PM |
R74, that's exactly what I pictured when I said upthread that I half expect eyes and mouth to appear. Now all that's missing is a muppet song.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | November 26, 2018 11:42 PM |
someone said, "I see they skinned Elmo and his family" lol
by Anonymous | reply 102 | November 26, 2018 11:45 PM |
Usually there’s a White House staff member who helps the First Lady with decorating. Somebody from the Smithsonian or in charge of the White House furnishings, who is well versed in the history of the house, informs the First Lady about historic decorating from the past. When it was Michelle Obama, and the last few First Ladies, they actually were given pretty limited choices about what they could do. Michelle Obama decorated trees with ornaments with pictures of soldiers, with their families’ permission.
The Veirst Letty’s style Isn’t European, it’s Early Whorehouse. This is what a totally uneducated person who doesn’t want to learn anything does. She’s in a museum for fuck sake. Go get some ornaments from past Presidents and put some of those on trees. It’s not just about you.
The pencil thing is absolutely horrible Feng Shui. All those points are referred to as “daggers” in home decorating. If they’re pointing at a person, they can cause bad health and bad luck. Unfortunately they don’t seem to be pointing at Trump or Melanie, but any Asian person has got to be cringing on seeing that. Also, it appears that someone just took an ordinary already decorated wreath and did that. Why? To “brand” Christmas as Trump Xmas (tm), not just Christmas?
by Anonymous | reply 103 | November 26, 2018 11:59 PM |
And as an extra treat, Barron and Kellyanne will be greeting young White House visitors this year:
by Anonymous | reply 104 | November 27, 2018 12:14 AM |
I'm just surprised Trump doesn' t dig up some of his Trump Steaks and Trump Wine out of storage and start pimping them out as Christmas gifts for the public to buy--he'd have to lie and say the proceeds would all go to charity, but that's old hat for him.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | November 27, 2018 12:40 AM |
[quote]And that pencil wreath looks like some sort of voodoo ornament.
In my dreams some brave soul grabs the pencils and enacts the Red Wedding in the Oval, to match the blood red trees.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | November 27, 2018 12:41 AM |
It's horrible. I love it.
The only thing that would make it better is if she went full trashy and those trees were made out of tinsel.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | November 27, 2018 12:43 AM |
Those trees are very Handmaid's Tale.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | November 27, 2018 12:46 AM |
Looks like the fluffy sides of an automatic car wash.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | November 27, 2018 12:55 AM |
Happy Holidays with Aunt Flo!
by Anonymous | reply 113 | November 27, 2018 1:03 AM |
R103 "any Asian person has got to be cringing on seeing that"
Trust me, Melania does not give a shit how any Asian person feels about anything.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | November 27, 2018 1:09 AM |
R79, it's a BDSM glory hole.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | November 27, 2018 1:11 AM |
Bitch, I’m the only FLOTUS who could pull off that much red.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | November 27, 2018 2:15 AM |
It looks like Christmas decorations in Target. I bet it smells like hot dogs too.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | November 27, 2018 2:25 AM |
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by Anonymous | reply 120 | November 27, 2018 2:55 AM |
Last year it was a setting fit for Slenderman
This year the Handmaid’s Tale, if you put white kerchiefs on those blood red trees
Jesus H. Christ, I don’t have anything else to say to this.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | November 27, 2018 3:02 AM |
Tim Burton must a consultant for her Christmas theme.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | November 27, 2018 3:10 AM |
Well, at least it’s religious. People will look at the decor and say, “Holy Christ!”
by Anonymous | reply 123 | November 27, 2018 4:07 AM |
I think Mel saw the original Suspiria as an impressionable child in Slovenia. It haunts her dreams and her holiday decorating.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | November 27, 2018 4:17 AM |
I’m concerned Melania may be a witch. Do the Trumps dabble in the black arts?
by Anonymous | reply 125 | November 27, 2018 4:18 AM |
Ah, now I understand. Vairst Letty is really Baba Yaga. This really does explain everything.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | November 27, 2018 5:29 AM |
It's not Russian Red. It's Slovenian Crimson. There's a difference, goddammit!!
by Anonymous | reply 127 | November 27, 2018 5:37 AM |
'Had Blood Coming Out of Her Eyes, Blood Coming Out of Her Wherever'
...and apparently spilling throughout The White House.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | November 27, 2018 5:39 AM |
If you thought the Christmas decorations were over the top, wait till you see her New Year's Eve plans:
by Anonymous | reply 129 | November 27, 2018 5:43 AM |
It's all very The Shining.
Last year it brought to mind the snowy white hedges/topiary that could attack and kill you. This year it's the redrum hallway splashed with blood.
Next year? Blue? I don't know.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | November 27, 2018 5:59 AM |
"Next year it'll be a blue Christmas."
Not gonna happen.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | November 27, 2018 11:03 AM |
I try really, really try to give her the benefit of the doubt, but at every turn she does something distasteful or flat out ugly. Those Christmas trees are hideous. I have no idea where they are considered American Treasure. You can make a classy tree and decorate out of almost anything. This is not that tree.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | November 27, 2018 11:18 AM |
I fucking hate this stupid whore and it is the greatest shame that she is in the WH. History will look very unkindly on this unbelievably embarrassing period.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | November 27, 2018 11:34 AM |
I thought the pencil wreath was a joke.
It's not. It's real.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | November 27, 2018 11:36 AM |
It's really not hard to do Christmas decorations in a tasteful way. Of course, the Trumps fail at this most basic endeavor.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | November 27, 2018 11:37 AM |
Hmmm..We have an evil eastern European woman decorating the White House with blood red trees, She married a fat leach who comes from a family of blood suckers...It required the blood of 1000 virgins to get the color 'just right'...The FWOTUS is really Countess Elizabeth Bathory: VAMPIRE!
by Anonymous | reply 136 | November 27, 2018 11:42 AM |
Fucking mrs Munster decorated her house better than this harlot.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | November 27, 2018 12:05 PM |
[quote]It's another fucking #BeBest thing. Made out of pencils. With a big ol' gaping anus in the middle because Jesus Christ.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | November 27, 2018 1:15 PM |
R79 sets off my trypophobia.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | November 27, 2018 2:36 PM |
A mass of towering blood red makes it look like a prep for a Bolshevik celebration a century ago.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | November 27, 2018 2:45 PM |
Melania's decorations as "The Handmaid's Tale."
by Anonymous | reply 141 | November 27, 2018 2:48 PM |
Vlad the Impaler would feel at home with all of the blood red Christmas trees.
Vampelania is her NEW name.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | November 27, 2018 2:54 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 143 | November 27, 2018 2:57 PM |
Tacky Slavic trollop.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | November 27, 2018 4:12 PM |
Last night on MSNBC - I think it was on Ari - they when with blood gushing from around the doors scene in the Shining. It was hysterical!
by Anonymous | reply 145 | November 27, 2018 4:33 PM |
That's awful!
by Anonymous | reply 146 | November 27, 2018 4:38 PM |
Is it even necessary to say "Imagine if the Obamas had done this...." anymore?
by Anonymous | reply 147 | November 27, 2018 4:56 PM |
The center of the wreath in R79 looks like the mouth of some sea creature.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | November 27, 2018 4:58 PM |
For the Fraus screaming "but it's European! You just don't understand!"
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BERLIN — When Melania Trump’s White House Christmas wonderland was revealed this week, visitors couldn’t escape a certain feeling that one color was being displayed more prominently than others: red. There were red ornaments and red drawings. And there were red Christmas trees, comprising thousands of berries.
The first lady was not around to explain the motif, but her office had a ready explanation: “The choice of red is an extension of the pales, or stripes found in the presidential seal designed by our Founding Fathers. It is a symbol of valor and bravery.”
Abroad, however, it’s also the color of sick Christmas trees.
Ukraine renamed the area around the Chernobyl reactor disaster site “Red Forest” after lethal radioactivity turned the green pine trees there red-brownish in 1986. Footage from that forest still serves as a reminder of deadly nuclear risks, especially at a time when threatening nuclear strikes has become more common again.
More recently, the color red has also been disastrous for pine trees in Denmark, which are usually sold across Europe. The country is renowned for its magnificent dark-green trees that are exported far beyond its borders, but red needles are posing a growing threat to the lucrative business. Nine million trees are sold every year.
[Melania Trump didn’t show up to explain her spooky Christmas decorations. So what about those red trees?]
In some years since 2012, Denmark’s vendors have had to dispose of as much as 10 percent of all Christmas trees that were supposed to go on sale after their needles lost their green shine. Selling trees with red needles, vendors argued in interviews with Nordic media outlets, would have damaged the industry’s excellent reputation.
Christmas tree producers remain stymied by what is causing the strange phenomenon.
Trees made from red berries line the East Colonnade of the White House on Nov. 26. (Leah Millis/Reuters) “Red needles occur every year, but in certain years it is particularly bad,” the Danish Christmas Tree Growers Association concluded, specifying that the problem has already caused damage of up to $8 million.
“It’s a mystery why the trees get red needles. It’s as if the trees get a stress reaction,” Torben Ravn, a board member of the Christmas Tree Association, told the Danish Broadcasting Corp. two years ago. A research project has been tasked with investigating the source of the problem.
One possible explanation is that diseases might be weakening the trees' ability to take in sufficient calcium to grow properly. In neighboring Germany, where vendors have faced a similar issue, researchers also observed that pine trees can “sunburn,” provided that springs are unusually cold and summers disproportionately hot. Climate change will make those extreme temperatures occur far more frequently.
Unless a solution is found, Europe might have to embrace Christmastime red more than it has done in the past.
The White House — where President Trump dismissed a dire climate change report by his own administration this week, saying, “I don’t believe it” — may have some advice on how to do it.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | November 27, 2018 5:02 PM |
I finally realized, it reminds me of the kind of tacky, menacing decor you'd see some creepy corporate villain's office in an 80s show, like "The Equalizer" or "Spenser for Hire."
Which I guess it is.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | November 27, 2018 5:02 PM |
The pencil wreath looks like it was made with broken arrows picked up off a battlefield.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | November 27, 2018 5:04 PM |
The fuzzy red trees are actually not fuzzy at all - they're made of millions of blood red berries.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | November 27, 2018 5:05 PM |
Probably a topiary maze, R130, or maybe a gold-and-white 1920s look like the hallway wallpaper or the bar.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | November 27, 2018 5:09 PM |
[quote]they're made of millions of blood red berries
Okay, that's worse.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | November 27, 2018 5:10 PM |
Don't laugh. You have no idea how hard they worked on those Be Best pencil wreaths. Stephen Miller kept getting at them and chewing the erasers off the ends and swallowing them. We went through almost the entire stock before we finished one. Then we had to hang it up extra high so he couldn't reach it.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | November 27, 2018 5:14 PM |
Like he can't just turn into a bat and fly up there whenever he wants, R155.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | November 27, 2018 5:16 PM |
Well, no one else wanted those "Be Best" pencils, and the vampiric FWOTUS was afraid someone would use them to stake her ass!
by Anonymous | reply 157 | November 27, 2018 8:01 PM |
God, I want that cunt to die.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | November 27, 2018 8:51 PM |
[quote]The fuzzy red trees are actually not fuzzy at all - they're made of millions of blood red berries.
I suppose next you're going to tell me each berry was painstakingly placed by hand. But at least he's creating jobs, right!?
by Anonymous | reply 159 | November 27, 2018 8:55 PM |
Not only is this blood forest ugly, the size of the trees are overwhelming the hall, and the shade is truly venous! This is not the red of our flag, or any American red, white and blue hallmark.
One article mentioned it's "warmer" than the 2017 decorations. Right, blood warm. I would choose the shadow Lord Voltemort forest from last year over this travesty.
Forests, red, wildfires, the bloody flood from the Shining, bloody murder, too many wrong associations. Maybe she should ask about American symbolism and archetypes before she spends months of planning these really bad decorations in the White House.
She also has really bad sense of design and proportion for a former architect.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | November 27, 2018 9:16 PM |
These red trees are actually a celebration of Megyn Kelly, who bleeds from her eyes and 'whatever', being fired by NBC.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | November 27, 2018 9:21 PM |
In some of the photos the trees DO have red bases.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | November 27, 2018 9:23 PM |
The WH better not invite Cousin It from the Addams family to visit. He'd be fucking all those red things.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | November 27, 2018 9:32 PM |
R130, maybe next year, the Shining Christmas blue theme will be about the twins or room 237. The girls had blue dresses. They could be part of a nativity scene. Who knows ? Melania doesn't really care. But I'm already curious.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | November 28, 2018 3:59 AM |
Poor tasteless Melania is STILL defending her trees.
by Anonymous | reply 166 | November 29, 2018 2:54 PM |
I hope the gay mafia keeps setting her up for these colossal failures. Yes Melania, blood red Christmas trees are all the rage in Paris now darling. Have you seen the newest "Free Cosby" jackets?
by Anonymous | reply 167 | November 29, 2018 3:25 PM |
Looks like blood.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | December 4, 2018 1:47 AM |
She’s tasteless
by Anonymous | reply 169 | December 4, 2018 2:04 AM |
some dumb rethug cunt in Cincinnati did that mess.
There was fool on my FB feed (friend of a friend) who was defending that shit saying we were all Philistines for saying how ugly it is.
Apparently this stupid woman thought those berry trees were the epitome of class.
For an eastern European hooker they are.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | December 4, 2018 3:17 AM |
R170 This is the level of taste in Cincinnati. For those of you who are thinking of moving to that city, think again. I have been offered jobs with P&G which is headquartered in Cincinnati but have always said no. I couldn't think of ever living there and not being depressed all the time.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | December 4, 2018 10:51 AM |
Hah!
"I don't know who first said it. Or why," Wenstrup recalled. "The first thing I saw (on Google) was 'Melania Trump covers the White House in blood for Christmas.'"
by Anonymous | reply 172 | December 4, 2018 5:45 PM |
Just her outfit and hairstyle alone tell you how much taste she has.
So did Melania pick her because she has no taste and she saw her tasteless other work and loved it, or is she somebody’s relative? Because the White House traditionally have staff that help decorate that know about what’s traditionally there. I think it might be somebody from the Smithsonian. They know every ornament in storage from the Victorian era on up. So why pick this random housefrau?
by Anonymous | reply 173 | December 4, 2018 5:52 PM |
I had a necklace like that one at R172 in the 1980s that was cheap costume jewelry.
by Anonymous | reply 174 | December 4, 2018 5:54 PM |
Oh, heh, she still doesn't take credit for the blood red trees. That was all Melania.
[quote]The cranberry tree that adorns the White House Red Room could have also served as an inspiration, she suggested. Whatever the idea's source, it was not Wenstrup's. The first lady's team worked on that.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | December 4, 2018 6:09 PM |
I don't know DL, first thing I saw was Gossamer from Looney Tunes. Perhaps Barron's favorite cartoon?
by Anonymous | reply 176 | December 4, 2018 6:10 PM |
Me best!
by Anonymous | reply 177 | December 4, 2018 6:22 PM |