It is unclear how the First Lady and her staff paid the bill at the hotel, where the rooms start at $ 119 and reach $ 699 for the Presidential Suite. But the price is reasonable for a trip marked by colonialism, Trump's helmet just because the First Lady went to the countries that her husband had called "shitholes". We imagine a Cairo hotel with a presidential suite would find a little more approval, but Trump probably was not there long enough to find out.
In an interview filmed for one hour by ABC News during the trip to Africa, Trump insisted that people should be more focused on what she does than on what she wears, in the 39, one of his few statements of substance. Do you charge a hotel bill of $ 95,000 for no discernible reason?
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Full screenpictures:The most controversial fashion choices of Melania Trump
October 2016: bow blouse
The pink blouse she wore during one of the October 2016 presidential debates was one of Trump's top clothing choices. The debate took place just days after the publication of the Go to Hollywood band, which caught a time 2005 Donald Trump on a hot mike making derogatory comments about women to Billy Bush, saying, "When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Catch them by the pussy. Trump's Gucci blouse brought to the debate a prominent "cat-bow" detail, which may or may not correspond to total coincidence. Melania, as usual, did not explain further.
Photo: By Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Images.
May 2017: Jacket $ 51,500 Dolce & Gabbana
Trump wore the Dolce & Gabbana flower jacket during a visit to Sicily in May 2017, a seemingly innocuous choice: Dolce & Gabbana is an Italian fashion house and fashion diplomacy is a tradition of the First Lady. However, she raised her eyebrows when people learned that the coat was retailing at $ 51,500.
Photo: By Giovanni Isolino / AFP / Getty Images.
August 2017: heels of the hurricane
While Texas was facing the devastating effects of Hurricane Harvey in August 2017, Donald and Melania Trump were well prepared to see the damage, which, for Melania, included a pair of stilettos of a dizzy height. Although she changed shoes more sensitive before landing, it was an indelible image of the First Lady strolling in an area at risk of natural disaster.
Photo: by Alex Wong / Getty Images.
August 2017: FLOTUS baseball cap
While visiting a fire station in Corpus Christi, Texas, following Hurricane Harvey, Trump took a page from her husband's fashion manual, wearing a baseball cap with "FLOTUS" embroidered on the in front of. Call it MAGA MERCH, but make it fashionable.
Photo: By Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Images.
June 2018: jacket "I do not really care"
The jacket went around the world. During a June 2018 visit to a Texas detention center housing migrant children separated from their families on the Mexican border, Trump donned a zara jacket that read, "I do not really care , are you here? " . Her particular choice of outerwear was almost universally unresponsive, given her place of residence and her husband's immigration policies, which divided families for weeks. Later, an anonymous source said The New York Times that the message on his jacket was actually aimed at anyone "who wanted to criticize his decision to visit children in light of the government's aggressive immigration policies". It is however difficult to interpret such a message in layers only through a jacket.
Photo: By Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images.
July 2018: "Trash Flair" Louboutins
Shortly after the fiasco of his Zara jacket, Trump went to Europe with her husband in a pair of red and nude Louboutins. Although not normally a hot topic, Trump's high-heeled shoes in July 2018 were a $ 800 pair made from pieces of "hand-ripped" Louboutin shopping bags described by the brand. as possessing a "bold new style of waste".
Photo: By Al Drago / Getty Images.
October 2018: pith helmet in Kenya
Criticized for wearing the head covering associated with colonialism in Africa during his trip to Kenya in October 2018, Trump told the press that she wanted "people to focus on what I'm doing and not on that. that I wear. "A few days later, a clip of her ABC Interview with Tom Llamas Trump showed sitting, the hat strategically placed on a table next to her, making it even more difficult for people to pay attention to something else.
Photo: By Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images.
October 2016: bow blouse
The pink blouse she wore during one of the October 2016 presidential debates was one of Trump's top clothing choices. The debate took place just days after the publication of the Go to Hollywood band, which caught a time 2005 Donald Trump on a hot mike making derogatory comments about women to Billy Bush, saying, "When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Catch them by the pussy. Trump's Gucci blouse brought to the debate a prominent "cat-bow" detail, which may or may not correspond to total coincidence. Melania, as usual, did not explain further.
By Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Images.
May 2017: Jacket $ 51,500 Dolce & Gabbana
Trump wore the Dolce & Gabbana flower jacket during a visit to Sicily in May 2017, a seemingly innocuous choice: Dolce & Gabbana is an Italian fashion house and fashion diplomacy is a tradition of the First Lady. However, she raised her eyebrows when people learned that the coat was retailing at $ 51,500.
By Giovanni Isolino / AFP / Getty Images.
August 2017: heels of the hurricane
While Texas was facing the devastating effects of Hurricane Harvey in August 2017, Donald and Melania Trump were well prepared to see the damage, which, for Melania, included a pair of stilettos of a dizzy height. Although she changed shoes more sensitive before landing, it was an indelible image of the First Lady strolling in an area at risk of natural disaster.
By Alex Wong / Getty Images.
August 2017: FLOTUS baseball cap
While visiting a fire station in Corpus Christi, Texas, following Hurricane Harvey, Trump took a page from her husband's fashion manual, wearing a baseball cap with "FLOTUS" embroidered on the in front of. Call it MAGA MERCH, but make it fashionable.
By Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Images.
September 2017: Gardening in Balmain
At first glance, Trump's gardener look almost wise. While he was attending the White House Kitchen Garden in September 2017, Trump wore dark jeans, a pair of Converse sneakers, gardening gloves and a checkered shirt. It was not, however, a plaid shirt. It was a Balmain plaid shirt worth $ 1,380.
By Win McNamee / Getty Images.
January 2018: All white in the state of the union
During the State of the Union speech in January 2018, Trump turned heads when she arrived in a wholly white look, a color symbolically associated with the women's suffrage movement and worn all over the world. throughout the 2016 campaign by Hillary Clinton, as well as many women Democrats at the first speech of the Trump Congress. Was she wearing white as a major to Clinton and the Democrats? Was she reporting her own trends in suffragettes? As usual, it was impossible to know.
By Chris Kleponis / Sipa USA.
June 2018: jacket "I do not really care"
The jacket went around the world. During a June 2018 visit to a Texas detention center housing migrant children separated from their families on the Mexican border, Trump donned a zara jacket that read, "I do not really care , are you here? " . Her particular choice of outerwear was almost universally unresponsive, given her place of residence and her husband's immigration policies, which divided families for weeks. Later, an anonymous source said The New York Times that the message on his jacket was actually aimed at anyone "who wanted to criticize his decision to visit children in light of the government's aggressive immigration policies". It is however difficult to interpret such a message in layers only through a jacket.
By Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images.
July 2018: "Trash Flair" Louboutins
Shortly after the fiasco of his Zara jacket, Trump went to Europe with her husband in a pair of red and nude Louboutins. Although not normally a hot topic, Trump's high-heeled shoes in July 2018 were a $ 800 pair made from pieces of "hand-ripped" Louboutin shopping bags described by the brand. as possessing a "bold new style of waste".
By Al Drago / Getty Images.
October 2018: pith helmet in Kenya
Criticized for wearing the head covering associated with colonialism in Africa during his trip to Kenya in October 2018, Trump told the press that she wanted "people to focus on what I'm doing and not on that. that I wear. "A few days later, a clip of her ABC Interview with Tom Llamas Trump showed sitting, the hat strategically placed on a table next to her, making it even more difficult for people to pay attention to something else.
