Melania's Tower

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4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Virginia Heffernan talks to Kate Imbach about the photos Melania Trump has taken over the years and what we can takeaway from them to learn more about our First Lady. Trumpcast is brought to you by Blue Apron. Create delicious meals at home with fresh ingredients delivered right to your door. Get your first THREE meals FREE – with FREE shipping – by going to BlueApron.com/trumpcast. Trumpcast is brought to you by MeUndies. It’s time to elevate your underwear game to the next level. Get 20 percent off your first pair by going to MeUndies.com/trumpcast. Slate Plus members, stick around at the end of the show for a conversation with Slate's Katy Waldman about all the anonymous sources inside The White House. If you're not a Slate Plus member you can join by going to slate.com/trumpcastplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Now I have great respect for women.
0:06.4	I respect women more than I respect men.
0:09.1	Are the men insulted by that father?
0:11.1	Nobody has more respect for women than I do.
0:13.9	My daughter Ivanka always says, daddy, nobody respects women more than you daddy.
0:19.8	Hands up, son.
0:21.6	Hands up, son.
0:28.5	Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.
0:30.1	I'm Virginia Heffernan.
0:31.8	Trumpcast is the show about the man who, when it comes to saying the pledge of allegiance,
0:36.2	seems to forget which side of his chest his heart is on until he's reminded by his wife,
0:42.1	Melania Trump.
0:44.3	So today we're talking Melania and matters of the heart.
0:48.4	Not in this case the heart that pounds in the outraged American people or the one that
0:52.9	pumps blood to the president's fleshed face and his rallies or the human heart that unites
0:58.8	all of us, no matter race, class, gender, or creed, the one whose veins course with freedom,
1:05.2	no, not that heart.
1:07.4	Talking about instead the hearts of Twitter, the tiny little blue cartoon heart that means
1:13.8	like that's the small peep of a signal, the simple like that Melania Trump sent the
1:21.7	world today.
1:23.4	What did she like and briefly commit her mini-asher Twitter heart to?
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