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Melania drenches White House halls in blood for Christmas

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by Anonymousreply 177December 4, 2018 6:22 PM

she's got horrifying taste

by Anonymousreply 1November 26, 2018 5:24 PM

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by Anonymousreply 2November 26, 2018 5:25 PM

It's a "Shining" Christmas!

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by Anonymousreply 3November 26, 2018 5:28 PM
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by Anonymousreply 4November 26, 2018 5:29 PM

REDRUM.

She is a soulless Satatic cuntress.

by Anonymousreply 5November 26, 2018 5:30 PM

Understated glamour!

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by Anonymousreply 6November 26, 2018 5:30 PM

and Satanic, too!

by Anonymousreply 7November 26, 2018 5:30 PM

As compared to her last decor extravaganza:

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by Anonymousreply 8November 26, 2018 5:32 PM

Oh dear me. That's awful!

by Anonymousreply 9November 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!

by Anonymousreply 10November 26, 2018 5:34 PM

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by Anonymousreply 11November 26, 2018 5:35 PM

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by Anonymousreply 12November 26, 2018 5:35 PM

Melania prepares her evening bath... of blood!

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by Anonymousreply 13November 26, 2018 5:38 PM

I love it!

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by Anonymousreply 14November 26, 2018 5:41 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 Anonymousreply 15November 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 Anonymousreply 16November 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 Anonymousreply 17November 26, 2018 5:43 PM

Heinous. Anyone got any pics of Hillary's efforts?

by Anonymousreply 18November 26, 2018 5:43 PM

Barron did that heinous Be Best pencils wreath, didn't he?

by Anonymousreply 19November 26, 2018 5:45 PM

If it matters at all:

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by Anonymousreply 20November 26, 2018 5:46 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 Anonymousreply 21November 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 Anonymousreply 22November 26, 2018 5:48 PM

Yeah it was widely mocked at the time, too.

by Anonymousreply 23November 26, 2018 5:50 PM

It's no surprise her decorations scream "Euro Trash."

What with here being a whore and all...

by Anonymousreply 24November 26, 2018 5:53 PM

I'm surprised she didn't do gold and silver metallic trees.

by Anonymousreply 25November 26, 2018 5:55 PM

That was last year R25. Look at pix posted at R8.

by Anonymousreply 26November 26, 2018 5:57 PM

It looks like Bloomingdales Christmas from the 1970's.

by Anonymousreply 27November 26, 2018 5:59 PM

Let's just admit it, Data Loungers.

We all want a "Be Best" pencil for phone dialing.

by Anonymousreply 28November 26, 2018 6:00 PM

Hell, even Iola Boylan could do better than that pencil wreath.

by Anonymousreply 29November 26, 2018 6:04 PM

Her inspiration for the red hallway, clearly

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by Anonymousreply 30November 26, 2018 6:06 PM

No surprise that Communist Red was chosen.

by Anonymousreply 31November 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 Anonymousreply 32November 26, 2018 6:11 PM

Whorehouse Wred.

by Anonymousreply 33November 26, 2018 6:12 PM

A preview of the Mueller White House bloodbath.

by Anonymousreply 34November 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 Anonymousreply 35November 26, 2018 6:19 PM

One word: trash.

by Anonymousreply 36November 26, 2018 6:24 PM

Blood red, shaggy . . . KKK Christmas Hoods!

by Anonymousreply 37November 26, 2018 6:30 PM

Be best bitch, Melania,.

by Anonymousreply 38November 26, 2018 6:43 PM

R3

In that photo if they were white they would look like KKK costumes.

by Anonymousreply 39November 26, 2018 6:45 PM

What. The shit. Is that pencil thing?

by Anonymousreply 40November 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 Anonymousreply 41November 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 Anonymousreply 42November 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 Anonymousreply 43November 26, 2018 7:25 PM

Whore red

by Anonymousreply 44November 26, 2018 7:25 PM

Red like the Russian flag.

by Anonymousreply 45November 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 Anonymousreply 46November 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 Anonymousreply 47November 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 Anonymousreply 48November 26, 2018 7:49 PM

I'm sure she's planning a book about her initiative and how it stopped bullying forever.

by Anonymousreply 49November 26, 2018 7:51 PM

At least she didn’t hang these on the tree..

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by Anonymousreply 50November 26, 2018 7:57 PM

I think her eyes would go crosseyed if she actually glue gunned all those pencils together.

by Anonymousreply 51November 26, 2018 7:58 PM

Bitch please, some design intern made that monstrosity.

by Anonymousreply 52November 26, 2018 7:59 PM

Very strange- oh well

by Anonymousreply 53November 26, 2018 8:03 PM

I like pencils.

I like Christmas decoration.

I don't like red though.

Red will never BE BEST.

by Anonymousreply 54November 26, 2018 8:03 PM

Are those are holiday menstrual huts?

by Anonymousreply 55November 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 Anonymousreply 56November 26, 2018 8:06 PM

So creepy, looks like a bunch of this

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by Anonymousreply 57November 26, 2018 8:07 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.

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by Anonymousreply 58November 26, 2018 8:07 PM

All I see are my tax dollars.

by Anonymousreply 59November 26, 2018 8:08 PM

Haha, r59! I already spent those sending five thousand troops to the border.

by Anonymousreply 60November 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)

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by Anonymousreply 61November 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 Anonymousreply 62November 26, 2018 8:35 PM

#BeegBress

by Anonymousreply 63November 26, 2018 8:39 PM

I did hear it from a serious source that she gets paid for all her personal appearances.

by Anonymousreply 64November 26, 2018 8:45 PM

Red, white and blue ‘Be Best’ ornaments? The fuck???

by Anonymousreply 65November 26, 2018 8:49 PM

It's the flag of Russia. Her secret gift to Vlad (her future husband).

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by Anonymousreply 66November 26, 2018 8:51 PM

I think she has turned the holiday into a symbolic farewell to her menstrual flow.

by Anonymousreply 67November 26, 2018 8:52 PM

Trolling through Christmas decorations.

by Anonymousreply 68November 26, 2018 8:52 PM

Basted in Blood

by Anonymousreply 69November 26, 2018 8:59 PM

Why does she ALWAYS have a fucking coat on.

by Anonymousreply 70November 26, 2018 9:04 PM

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by Anonymousreply 71November 26, 2018 9:12 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 Anonymousreply 72November 26, 2018 9:22 PM

R70, to hide her expanding waistline and gunt.

by Anonymousreply 73November 26, 2018 9:22 PM

She's going through the colors of the flag. Next year it'll be a blue Christmas.

by Anonymousreply 74November 26, 2018 9:24 PM

They look like muppets. I half expect eyes and mouth to appear before they break into song.

by Anonymousreply 75November 26, 2018 9:29 PM

They look evil: like mounds of alien eggs or something. I can almost picture the red strands writhing.

by Anonymousreply 76November 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 Anonymousreply 77November 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.

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by Anonymousreply 78November 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.

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by Anonymousreply 79November 26, 2018 9:57 PM

Is Vairst Letty going blonde?

by Anonymousreply 80November 26, 2018 9:59 PM

A Handmaid's Christmas

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by Anonymousreply 81November 26, 2018 10:02 PM

It’s scary stupid idiotic trashy and so Melania and Don.

by Anonymousreply 82November 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.

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by Anonymousreply 83November 26, 2018 10:08 PM

From R81's twitter link.

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by Anonymousreply 84November 26, 2018 10:12 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 Anonymousreply 85November 26, 2018 10:15 PM

Melania is kinda kunty-fierce! Yes, henny.

by Anonymousreply 86November 26, 2018 10:16 PM

Another White Trash Kristmas Ibn the White House.

by Anonymousreply 87November 26, 2018 10:17 PM

Horrid installation. Worse than last year's.

And the trees are awful, too!

by Anonymousreply 88November 26, 2018 10:20 PM

Looks like menstruating cousin Itts

by Anonymousreply 89November 26, 2018 10:43 PM

She's trolling. It's pure genius.

by Anonymousreply 90November 26, 2018 10:51 PM

Americans don't get it. It's European.

by Anonymousreply 91November 26, 2018 10:53 PM

Love this

by Anonymousreply 92November 26, 2018 10:55 PM
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by Anonymousreply 93November 26, 2018 10:56 PM

Melania is the most useless first lady ever.

by Anonymousreply 94November 26, 2018 11:07 PM

Red trees?

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by Anonymousreply 95November 26, 2018 11:10 PM

The wreath at R79 is a fanciful improvisation on her vagina dentata.

by Anonymousreply 96November 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 Anonymousreply 97November 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 Anonymousreply 98November 26, 2018 11:24 PM

[quote]Americans don't get it. It's European.

Americans don't want it.

by Anonymousreply 99November 26, 2018 11:34 PM

Love the cameo appearance by Cindy Hyde-Smith at R95.

by Anonymousreply 100November 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 Anonymousreply 101November 26, 2018 11:42 PM

someone said, "I see they skinned Elmo and his family" lol

by Anonymousreply 102November 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 Anonymousreply 103November 26, 2018 11:59 PM

And as an extra treat, Barron and Kellyanne will be greeting young White House visitors this year:

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by Anonymousreply 104November 27, 2018 12:14 AM

Dammit...let me try that again:

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by Anonymousreply 105November 27, 2018 12:17 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 Anonymousreply 106November 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 Anonymousreply 107November 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 Anonymousreply 108November 27, 2018 12:43 AM

Those trees are very Handmaid's Tale.

by Anonymousreply 109November 27, 2018 12:46 AM

Looks like the fluffy sides of an automatic car wash.

by Anonymousreply 110November 27, 2018 12:55 AM

It's Jungle Red, to be exact.

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by Anonymousreply 111November 27, 2018 12:57 AM

Check it:

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by Anonymousreply 112November 27, 2018 12:57 AM

Happy Holidays with Aunt Flo!

by Anonymousreply 113November 27, 2018 1:03 AM

The stark blood red is unsettling.

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by Anonymousreply 114November 27, 2018 1:05 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 Anonymousreply 115November 27, 2018 1:09 AM

R79, it's a BDSM glory hole.

by Anonymousreply 116November 27, 2018 1:11 AM

Bitch, I’m the only FLOTUS who could pull off that much red.

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by Anonymousreply 117November 27, 2018 2:15 AM

Not just the 50th state.

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by Anonymousreply 118November 27, 2018 2:22 AM

It looks like Christmas decorations in Target. I bet it smells like hot dogs too.

by Anonymousreply 119November 27, 2018 2:25 AM

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by Anonymousreply 120November 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 Anonymousreply 121November 27, 2018 3:02 AM

Tim Burton must a consultant for her Christmas theme.

by Anonymousreply 122November 27, 2018 3:10 AM

Well, at least it’s religious. People will look at the decor and say, “Holy Christ!”

by Anonymousreply 123November 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.

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by Anonymousreply 124November 27, 2018 4:17 AM

I’m concerned Melania may be a witch. Do the Trumps dabble in the black arts?

by Anonymousreply 125November 27, 2018 4:18 AM

Ah, now I understand. Vairst Letty is really Baba Yaga. This really does explain everything.

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by Anonymousreply 126November 27, 2018 5:29 AM

It's not Russian Red. It's Slovenian Crimson. There's a difference, goddammit!!

by Anonymousreply 127November 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.

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by Anonymousreply 128November 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:

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by Anonymousreply 129November 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 Anonymousreply 130November 27, 2018 5:59 AM

"Next year it'll be a blue Christmas."

Not gonna happen.

by Anonymousreply 131November 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 Anonymousreply 132November 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 Anonymousreply 133November 27, 2018 11:34 AM

I thought the pencil wreath was a joke.

It's not. It's real.

by Anonymousreply 134November 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 Anonymousreply 135November 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 Anonymousreply 136November 27, 2018 11:42 AM

Fucking mrs Munster decorated her house better than this harlot.

by Anonymousreply 137November 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.

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by Anonymousreply 138November 27, 2018 1:15 PM

R79 sets off my trypophobia.

by Anonymousreply 139November 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 Anonymousreply 140November 27, 2018 2:45 PM

Melania's decorations as "The Handmaid's Tale."

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by Anonymousreply 141November 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 Anonymousreply 142November 27, 2018 2:54 PM
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by Anonymousreply 143November 27, 2018 2:57 PM

Tacky Slavic trollop.

by Anonymousreply 144November 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 Anonymousreply 145November 27, 2018 4:33 PM

That's awful!

by Anonymousreply 146November 27, 2018 4:38 PM

Is it even necessary to say "Imagine if the Obamas had done this...." anymore?

by Anonymousreply 147November 27, 2018 4:56 PM

The center of the wreath in R79 looks like the mouth of some sea creature.

by Anonymousreply 148November 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.

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by Anonymousreply 149November 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 Anonymousreply 150November 27, 2018 5:02 PM

The pencil wreath looks like it was made with broken arrows picked up off a battlefield.

by Anonymousreply 151November 27, 2018 5:04 PM

The fuzzy red trees are actually not fuzzy at all - they're made of millions of blood red berries.

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by Anonymousreply 152November 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 Anonymousreply 153November 27, 2018 5:09 PM

[quote]they're made of millions of blood red berries

Okay, that's worse.

by Anonymousreply 154November 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 Anonymousreply 155November 27, 2018 5:14 PM

Like he can't just turn into a bat and fly up there whenever he wants, R155.

by Anonymousreply 156November 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 Anonymousreply 157November 27, 2018 8:01 PM

God, I want that cunt to die.

by Anonymousreply 158November 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 Anonymousreply 159November 27, 2018 8:55 PM

I might have known it would be red.

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by Anonymousreply 160November 27, 2018 9:02 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 Anonymousreply 161November 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 Anonymousreply 162November 27, 2018 9:21 PM

In some of the photos the trees DO have red bases.

by Anonymousreply 163November 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 Anonymousreply 164November 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 Anonymousreply 165November 28, 2018 3:59 AM

Poor tasteless Melania is STILL defending her trees.

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by Anonymousreply 166November 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 Anonymousreply 167November 29, 2018 3:25 PM

Looks like blood.

by Anonymousreply 168December 4, 2018 1:47 AM

She’s tasteless

by Anonymousreply 169December 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 Anonymousreply 170December 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 Anonymousreply 171December 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.'"

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by Anonymousreply 172December 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 Anonymousreply 173December 4, 2018 5:52 PM

I had a necklace like that one at R172 in the 1980s that was cheap costume jewelry.

by Anonymousreply 174December 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 Anonymousreply 175December 4, 2018 6:09 PM

I don't know DL, first thing I saw was Gossamer from Looney Tunes. Perhaps Barron's favorite cartoon?

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by Anonymousreply 176December 4, 2018 6:10 PM

Me best!

by Anonymousreply 177December 4, 2018 6:22 PM
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