The White House’s Christmas decorations caused a lot of social media buzz during Donald Trump’s first term as president.
US First Lady Melania Trump has often sparked discussion with her Christmas decorations. PDO
According to tradition, the spouse of the President of the United States plays an important role in choosing the Christmas look of the White House.
Apparently the first Christmas tree decorated with candles was seen in the White House as early as 1889. In 1961, the first lady of the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy, opened the tradition of choosing a Christmas tree theme.
The current first lady, Melania Trump, has so far caused some sort of topic of conversation precisely with her choices and sayings related to Christmas decorations.
Do you still remember these Christmas scares from Donald Trump’s first term as president?
For her first Christmas, the Christmas decorations chosen by Melania Trump had a traditional look. Melania wanted to honor 200 years of festive traditions with her theme, and porcelain dishes were on display, among other things Ronald Reagan from time as well as To Franklin D. Roosevelt heard A Christmas story-book.
This is what it looked like in the White House China Room in 2017. PDO
The decorations relied on traditional Christmas colors: gold, red, green and white. On display were peppermint candies and a huge White House made of gingerbread. More than 135 kilos of flour were used to make the gingerbread house. The production included a total of 90 kilos of gingerbread, 9 kilos of chocolate and 9 kilos of frosting.
This gingerbread house was not meant to be eaten. PDO
In that year, however, the discussion was sparked by the white branches placed in the east wing. On the Internet, the apparitions were associated with, among other things, petitioners from the Harry Potter movies or familiar apparitions from horror movies.
This view stood out from the rest of the White House look in 2017. PDO
The following year, Melania surprised. He brought 40 blood-red Christmas trees to the White House, in keeping with the American Treasures theme.
The White House expressed that the red shade symbolizes bravery and courage, among other things, and respected the stripes seen in the presidential seal.
The choice sparked a lot of discussion and once again set some of the grinning jaws in motion.
Photos of Melania Trump from the White House in 2018 reminded many of the popular series. PDO
The row of red Christmas trees in the White House reminded social media users of, among other things, the popular series The Handmaid’s Tale (Your slave) and Melania Trump, photographed between the woodwork, is again inspecting a series of slaves Lydia– aunt.
Melania later defended her choice publicly.
– We live in the 21st century and everyone has different tastes. I think they look fantastic. I hope everyone comes to visit the White House. In reality, they look even more beautiful, Melania pointed to the red spruces during her university visit in November 2018.
Melania’s chosen blood-red “Christmas trees” caused a lot of discussion on social media. PDO
In 2020, special audio tapes became public. Melania Trump’s former aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff released tapes of his conversations with Melania Trump, which were released by CNN.
Melania Trump was captured on the tapes raving about Christmas preparations with hundreds of curse words.
– I’m making a lot of fun for Christmas, you know that, but who the fuck cares about Christmas and decorations? But I have to take care of it, right?
In 2020, the White House Christmas decorations featured plenty of twinkling lights. PDO
– Okay, I’ll take care of it and say that I’m working on Christmas preparations now and then they say “Well, what about the children who have been separated (from their parents)?” I can’t fucking take it, Melania said on the recordings.
When the recordings in question became public, a special hashtag soon started trending on social media: #MelaniaHatesChristmas i.e. Melania hates Christmas.
In the same year, Melania Trump again chose slightly more traditional Christmas decorations, when the Christmas theme was America the Beautiful. After the horror movie comparisons, he ended up with traditional colors and green spruces with red and gold decorations.
In 2020, the Christmas decorations of the White House also included plenty of vegetation. PDO
The New York Times, among others, headlinedthat the White House Christmas decorations are strikingly ordinary. In 2020, i.e. at the time of the corona pandemic on social media however, the dark flower pots lining one of the corridors were referred to as funeral urns.
This fall, insider sources said For Peoplethat Melania Trump plans to invest in Christmas decorations during her husband’s second presidential term.