A super-PAC with the dubious moniker "Make America Awesome" is trying to gin up support for Ted Cruz in Utah by questioning Melania Trump’s ability to be First Lady. The anti-Trump group is circulating ads on social media featuring a (gorgeous) photos pf Mrs. Trump posing nude with the caption: “Meet Melania Trump. Your Next First Lady. Or, you could support Ted Cruz next Tuesday.” The ad is targeting members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS).
As a wise person once said of other slut-shaming attempts, “Nope, nope, nopity, nope.”
Listen, we’ve all been over this before. Human beings have bodies and those bodies are theirs to use as they see fit. They can put on clothes or not. They can be photographed or not. They can marry megalomaniacal real estate tycoons who think they’d be good at being president or not. AND ALL OF THAT IS JUST FINE.
Melania Trump was a model and that was her job. She should not be shamed for her choices or for her body. She is a human being who appears to have very good manners and conducts herself admirably in any public event that I’ve seen. She would be a fine First Lady and to imply that having a body that she used to make a (legal) living is somehow inappropriate or a moral failing is WRONG AND BAD. Women can do whatever the fuck they want with their bodies and SHUT UP IF YOU THINK OTHERWISE, YOU PATRIARCHY-REINFORCING DICKHEAD.
Deep breath.
There are a million good reasons not to support Donald Trump’s candidacy. His wife’s career as a model is not one of them.
