Mar-A-Lago Face (ft. Biz Sherbert)
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4.5 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The faces of women in the Republican Party have changed drastically, and people have noticed. As the likes of Kristy Noem and Kimberly Guilfoyle become ever-pouchier, pouty-lipped, and blown out in the short time since Trump took office, the internet has been in a frenzy. Some, including plastic surgeons themselves, have suspected these women of getting cosmetic work done to get in Trump’s good graces. Others have suspected this botchedness to be intentional, that they’re deliberately “polluting other people’s field of vision” in an act of contempt. But are they? In this season 7 premiere, Hannah and Maia are joined by Biz Sherbert (of Nymphet Alumni) to discuss the many ways that beauty is absorbed into the never-ending culture war of our times. From “Republican makeup tutorials” on TikTok, to the widespread confusion around a chic Republican girl on the cover of New York Mag, it seems everyone is doing a whole lot of externalizing at a time when introspection is more necessary than ever.
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https://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/16218/what-does-beauty-look-like-in-the-trump-era-anna-claire-howland-addison-rae
SOURCES:
Brock Colyar, “The Cruel Kids’ Table,” New York Magazine (2025).
Vanessa Friedman, “The Trumpification of Kristi Noem,” The New York Times (2024).
Doree Lewak, Trump supporters getting plastic surgery to look their best for Mar-a-Lago schmoozing: ‘They have face time with the leader of the free world’,” The New York Post (2025).
Amanda Marcotte, “From "Mar-a-Lago face" to uncanny AI art: MAGA loves ugly in submission to Trump,” Salon (2025).
Inae Oh, “In Your Face: The Brutal Aesthetics of MAGA,” Mother Jones (2025).
Emilia Petrarca, Can I Boom Boom? Falling for, and fretting over, the gilded and greedy new aesthetic.,” The Cut (2025).
Biz Sherbert, “What Does Beauty Look Like in the Age of Trump?” AnOther Mag (2025).
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Aia. And I'm Hannah. And this is Rehash, a podcast about the internet phenomena that strike |
| 0:05.9 | a nerve in our culture, only to be quickly forgotten, but we think are due for a revisiting. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome back to the podcast. Once again, it's been a very, very long break, but we're back |
| 0:17.7 | with another season, and we think this one's going to be very juicy. |
| 0:22.7 | It's about beauty on the internet. |
| 0:27.9 | Social media may have snatched our faces, but has it also snatched our souls? |
| 0:34.1 | That is our tagline, and that is going to be the tagline for the next eight episodes, so you better like it. |
| 0:38.1 | And today for our inaugural episode, we're joined by a very special guest who we've poached from a podcast I'm sure many of you are familiar with. We have Biz Sherbert |
| 0:43.1 | from Nimfet alumni here today to discuss the ways that beauty has and has not been transformed |
| 0:49.7 | by recent changes in our political climate. This episode is called Mar-a-Lago Face. Hello, Biz. Welcome to Rehash. Hi, guys. Thanks for having me. I'm so excited to be here. We're so excited to have you here. Oh, jinks. Oh, jinks. We were talking earlier about how we have a lot of overlap in our audiences. I was sent to NMFed alumni by one of our listeners. It's a really amazing podcast where Biz and her two other |
| 1:15.8 | co-hosts break down various. I don't know. How would you describe it, Biz? Oh my gosh. Always a hard, |
| 1:21.8 | hard question. The podcast, I would say, is like dedicated to the study of fashion and culture. We do a lot of, |
| 1:29.6 | like, fashion history deep dives. We do work on trends. We're always really interested in digital |
| 1:35.2 | culture and kind of, like, the intersection with material culture and fashion. And it's a lot of fun. |
| 1:43.2 | It's truly amazing. |
| 1:44.4 | It's where I learned about blocourt or bloket, which I have been just assigning to |
| 1:50.3 | everyone I know whoever wears a soccer jersey. |
| 1:53.0 | It's been a useful tool in my life. |
| 1:55.8 | Yeah, it's a useful term. |
| 1:58.3 | I mean, it really feels like of the time, like a product of that naming rush. But, like, Alexi, who is my co-host who coined it, she did some great stuff with words on that day. She changed the courses of history for sure. They have a recent episode of it. She portmandoed the house down. Oh, yeah. She's really good at that. |
| 2:19.0 | I think she just coined WimsyMod as well. Wimsy mod. The Pocod trend. Yeah. Yeah. Amazing. Like, she's always hive-minded in the group chat. Like, I'm going to get there. And then it, like, comes out with this, like, perfect word. That's incredible. That's kind of, you know, what Leonardo da Vinci did, one might even |
| 2:36.0 | say, you know, back in the day. She's our Leonardo. She's in the group chat too. Yeah, we were talking |
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