Melania had signed up for a life of conspicuous conspicuousness, one she dutifully chronicled on Instagram and Twitter up until about a year ago, when her social-media accounts-unlike those of her husband-went silent with Trump’s entrance into the race. But unlike Jackie, who met John Kennedy when he was already a congressman, Melania wasn’t signing on to be a political spouse when she met the notorious Donald Trump in 1998. “She’d be great at picking out the china patterns she’d be a classic First Lady,” says stylist Phillip Bloch, who has worked with both of the Trumps and attended fashion shows with Melania. Those who know Melania say the Jackie template isn’t a bad one for her to aspire to. “It’s all business now it’s nothing personal.” “This is it, what it is,” Melania tells me. And you can think, as Melania Trump says she does, that it’s no huge deal, really. But things change quickly-which is perhaps the enduring fact of Melania Trump’s entire improbable life-and when your husband works up a plan to make America great again, the very same Clintons you once smiled with on your wedding day can now become your family’s mortal enemies. A pair of ordinary people, really, uniting in matrimony in the presence of Rudy Giuliani and Kelly Ripa, as Billy Joel serenaded the couple and guests slurped caviar and Cristal in the shadow of a five-foot-tall Grand Marnier wedding cake. He in a tux she in a $100,000 Dior dress that laborers’ hands had toiled upon for a legendary 550 hours, affixing 1,500 crystals-jewels fit for private citizens like them. Just two private citizens getting hitched at the groom’s 126-room Florida palace. “When they went to our wedding, we were private citizens,” Melania reminds me. “It was completely different than it is now,” Melania Trump tells me, recalling those bygone days of sanity, speaking in her now famous accent, a kind of dreamy Transylvanian.īack then, in 2005, it didn’t seem odd that she and Donald Trump would mark their happy occasion with the former president and First Lady, then a senator from New York. Once upon a time, a man could marry his Slovenian sweetheart, invite Bill and Hillary Clinton to the lavish wedding, and only the society pages would bother with it. Colbert proceeded to plant his face in his palm.It wasn’t always this way. When Colbert intimated that he had meant a best-case scenario for Ukraine or the West, Ioffe hastily gave the response of “Ukraine wins and drives them back,” though in a tone of voice suggesting she doubted the likelihood of such a turn of events. Ioffe then proceeded to say that the best-case scenario would be for Russia to decapitate Ukraine’s government, establish a puppet regime, withdraw its military without needing to occupy the country and scare the populace into not launching another uprising for at least a few years. When asked by Colbert for her best-case scenario for the future, Ioffe’s initial response was “Do you have any more of that Bourbon?” Colbert noted that he had a whole bar behind him, which appropriately included vodka. Ioffe also speculated on the possibility that Zelenskyy might be taken by the Russians, brought to Moscow and tried for war crimes. And today, many Russians who watch state television have come to believe that Ukraine is essentially run by neo-Nazis, despite being led by a Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who has relatives who died in the Holocaust.
In response, the Kremlin’s propaganda arm did what they often do, which is “take a little bit of truth and spin it into this cotton candy of lies,” she said. On Putin’s stated objective to “denazify Ukraine,” Ioffe said that during Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity in 2014, it was true that a right-wing, nationalistic and in some cases neo-Nazi contingent was present, but it was in the minority.
In response, Colbert asked Ioffe if this was because the Russian people are fatalistic, or because it’s necessary to be fatalistic while thinking about Russia. That’s how you predict what happens with Russia.” “Imagine if everything goes wrong, and if the worst comes to pass, that’s usually what’s gonna to happen. “I always know that to get Russia right, you have to go with the worst-case scenario,” said Ioffe, a graduate of Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School, while sitting down with Colbert. 25 episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to offer her take on the unfolding invasion of Ukraine, she didn’t come with a lot of optimism.
When Julia Ioffe - the Washington correspondent for Puck news with more than 15 years of experience covering Russia - appeared on the Feb.
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