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| From Yahoo! Finance |
The 2018 White House Christmas decorations were revealed last week, and one area in particular has caught the attention of the internet. The hallway of conical red trees devoid of decorations drew a number of negative comments ("blood red" was used often to describe them), forcing Melania Trump to defend the look. Apparently a similar slew of negative comments was directed at a different hallway of trees last Christmas, this one featuring two rows of arching icy bare branches:
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| From Elite Daily |
So what do you think? Personally, I rather like a minimalist look and the red trees don't bother me, but I do think that the rather bilious green carpet should be replaced. Maybe when the holiday season is over the White House could auction off the trees and use the funds for new hallway flooring. Wood or tile would be a better choice anyway, but if carpet must be used please at least do not choose this pattern, Melania (although the red trees would probably feel right at home):
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| From Idyllopus Press |
Here's a thought - perhaps it is time to continue this new White House Christmas tradition of the annual holiday hallway of horrors! People are probably going to complain about some aspect of the décor anyway. Why not have some fun with it and just give them what they want? I'm wondering if subconsciously Melania is riffing on a theme here, as I am seeing a similarity between these images,
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| From New Haven Register |
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| From The Grio |
and this scene from the 1946 French film "La Belle et La Bête" (The Beauty and the Beast):
The captive beauty, the frightening mansion... the only thing missing from these images is the Beast (although we all know he is probably lurking somewhere in the building petulantly tweeting away, and highly unlikely to ever transform into a kind prince)! Melania, might I suggest a corridor of arm-held Christmas candelabras for next year's holiday hallway?
Or how about two rows of giant nutcrackers with chomping mechanical mouths (after all, the The Nutcracker ballet is based on a rather scary tale by E. T. A. Hoffman, a writer of Gothic horror stories)? What an image that would be with Melania walking down the middle of all those snapping jaws! Maybe they will remind her of the news media?
There is always the theme of Christmas ghosts and greed from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Heartless and avaricious Scrooge would be the perfect representation of our current president. President Scrooge could be visited by the ghosts of presidents past, present, and future - maybe they can convince him to mend his ways?
I wonder if Melania grew up with the tradition of parkelj, the Slovenian version of creepy Krampus? If so, this image will probably strike terror into her heart:
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| From Imgur |
Come to think of it, a lot of Yuletide traditions are rather frightening, and who better to highlight these traditions at the White House than the terrifying Trump administration?
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| Only if the truth is a witch, little Donnie, only if the truth is a witch (from The Everett Herald). |
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