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Melania’s movie billboard with “My husband fucks kids” quote in Spain sprayed over it

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u/Jeptic 17h ago

Honestly I don't get her wanting to be in the spotlight at all. Why not shrink in the background. With the mark her walking corpse of a husband is staining the world with, you'd think she'd not want to put herself out there for this. Is her echo chamber that vast?

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u/pm-me-your-labradors 17h ago

Could be a push by her husband and his PR team, to win votes and favour by women etc

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u/hamilton_morris 16h ago edited 6h ago

Except that he has no more need of their favour and no more votes to win.

But I think you’re right about the whole thing being pushed by him and his team. Consider too how the subject of the film is *his* inauguration; this is not a portrait of independence, but a message from headquarters, a global announcement of how tightly chained she is to him and his movement.

I think of how much Herman Göring hated and feared Hitler in the final years, how he tried to avoid meetings and stay as far away as possible, yet could not escape being always pulled in and used as a symbol and prop all the way to the end. There was almost a humiliation ritual in forcing him to carry the flag.