“But didn’t you say you were tired of making the Tree?” – Corriere.it

As is tradition, the First Lady presented the Christmas decorations at the White House, the last of the Trump presidency, online with photos and videos through her official Twitter account and on the official White House website. Usual scheme for four years: A video that explores every decorated room in the White House zooming in on the details of flowers and ornaments. Usual choreography: she, the First Lady who walks alone through the rooms and through the corridors, reviews the riot of lights and colors, touches and gives final touches like spreading fake snow on the branches of one of the great trees. The 202nd Christmas Theme I mean, Melania announces on Twitter, “America the Beautiful.” Designed to “pay tribute to the majesty of our great nation. Together we celebrate this land that we are all proud to call home. In fact, the leaves and flowers used for decoration come from the most diverse corners of the country and their symbols are reproduced as ornaments: houses, boats, even an electric train (The White House Express Train) that buzzes by and someone on Twitter wanted to read. like the train that takes you to triumphs.

Decorations in the name of light, red, white and gold., this year in the representative spaces of the White House and the West Wing where a room was dedicated to health workers and all those who are at the forefront of the fight against Covid-19. There are, for now, the ironies of recent years, especially those of Christmas 2018, when the rows of “blood red Christmas trees” unleashed all sorts of memes and parodies. Or those of the first Christmas (2017) when the excess of dominant white made comparisons Melania to Queen Elsa from Frozen. Perhaps it has been saved because the style of this year seems more “warm” and traditional and, therefore, more appreciated. The criticisms, however, are the same, only that they refer to other issues, rather than the style of the decorations.

During this special time of year, I am delighted to share? America the Beautiful? and pay homage to the majesty of our great Nation. Together, we celebrate this land that we are all proud to call home. #Christmas pic.twitter.com/fdZmB3rdXL

– Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) November 30, 2020

Controversial answers were not lacking especially by those who criticize the display of opulence while the epidemic still continues and the country is going through one of the most critical phases in decades. Or by those who do not forgive them for having renovated and deformed the Rose Garden, also known as the Jackie Kennedy garden, the one that overlooks the Oval Office. But the most pointed criticisms are those of those who took the opportunity to remind everyone of Melania’s outburst secretly recorded (in 2018) by her ex-friend and assistant Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, author of the book “Melania and I” and then shot CNN: “I do the c..o in all the Christmas things, you know, but who cares about Christmas decorations? I have to do it though, right? “In light of those words, the video of the First Lady swirling smugly between wreaths and bows appears in a very different light. And if Christmas at the Trump-era White House never conveyed a particular sense of warmth and share, those audios were just a confirmation.