All of Melania Trump’s recent actions — from releasing a memoir to doing chatty Fox News interviews to filming an Amazon documentary — seem to say, I actually love being First Lady, so let’s not talk about how I’ve been “missing” for the past two years. Yet weirdly, the outfit Melania is wearing to the second inauguration of Donald Trump screams Where in the World Is Melania Trump?
She showed up to the inauguration on Monday morning wearing a long, dark coat, which appears black from a distance but is actually navy, and a matching wide-brimmed hat. The ensemble was created by American designer Adam Lippes.
It’s giving “Carmen Sandiego found at a funeral.”
The ‘80s video game franchise and spinoff geography-based PBS children’s game show a surprising fashion reference for Melania, or really any First Lady. Melania went with a powder blue Jackie Kennedy-inspired look for her husband’s first inauguration in 2017.
And First Ladies tend to wear bright, happy colors to the inauguration, even when we know they are miserable about the person succeeding their husband. For example, First Lady Jill Biden went with a deep purple ensemble today:
But Melania is an oddly unconventional First Lady. So why not wear a hat that hides your eyes in most Inauguration Day photos?
And prioritize your headwear over giving your husband an inauguration kiss?
Melania kept the hat on all day, even as Donald lightly mocked it during his post-inauguration speech at Emancipation Hall.
“Then we went out to the helicopter, though, just prior to this, and said goodbye and custom, and the wind is blowing like crazy, and with the hat that she’s wearing, she almost blew away,” Trump said.
“We almost lost her. She was being elevated off the ground. She almost blew away,” the president added.
It’s always impossible to know what Melania Trump is thinking. Is she telling us that she actually isn’t excited about heading back to the White House? Trying to hide her eyes because she doesn’t want us to see her tears of joy? Dropping an Easter egg for the millennials who still can’t get Rockapella’s banger of a theme song out of their heads?
All I can say is I’m appreciating this hit of ‘90s TV nostalgia, and I hope she does Wishbone next.
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