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The Search for Melania's Intelligence

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this Trumpcast Plus preview, Virginia Heffernan talks to Mary Jordan, Pulitzer Prize-winning national correspondent for the Washington Post and author of The Art of Her Deal, about Melania Trump—getting to the mystery of who she was before she met Donald Trump, her education, the way she manufactures her image, where she fails as a FLOTUS, and the supportive role she plays in propping up her husband. Only Slate Plus members get to listen to every Trumpcast episode in full. Sign up now to access every Trumpcast episode and support the show.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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to sign up. Thanks for listening. As our country works through the racial issues that we still face

0:51.2

today, it is important to remember we are one global community. Let's all agree that any

0:59.4

differences we have should be celebrated and learn how. As the CDC continue to study the spread

1:08.3

of COVID-19, they're recommending that people wear cloth face coverings in public settings,

1:15.2

where social distancing measures can be difficult to maintain. You're not the first first lady to

1:21.2

have to deal with her husband's alleged infidelity. Has this put a strain on your marriage?

1:25.6

It is not concern and focus in mind.

1:31.2

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernan. Today, as an act of

1:35.2

escapism from this hot, cruel world, I thought we'd go to Kamalot, which is what I call the

1:41.6

magical love story of Donald Trump, who sometimes plays a billionaire and sometimes plays a

1:47.0

president and the world historical beauty of the banks of the fabulous of strangely humid

1:53.2

Kirk a river in Nova Mesto, Slovenia, Melania. Melania, you know her by her watchful cold,

2:01.0

triple-rimmed, falsy fringe dies, her jaw set like a sulky cadet, her screen of honeymoon hair,

2:07.5

her deep, bronzed complexion, and her pinup girl polyurethane sheath dresses. Also by those nine

2:14.5

inch nails, okay, five inch nails, that she affixes to her heels, calling them shoes and risking

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