A senior White House official tells @NYMag, “there is no tanning bed in there,” in response to Omarosa claiming that Trump installed a tanning bed in the residence. The official added that there’s “never been any request” to install a tanning bed either.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) August 10, 2018
If there *is* a tanning bed — I’m agnostic on the topic — my bet would be it was a bargaining chip for Melania: I can’t possibly leave New York for exile in D.C. until… It’s the sort of just-this-side-of-reasonable demand common to any diplomatic negotiation between the corteges of a medieval baron and his third royal princess, a delaying tactic to test the sympathies of the new court. (And to make an aging monarch look slightly ridiculous, whether or not he complied.) Wasn’t there a media kerfuffle, right after the inauguration, about “Melania’s people” wanting to install an expensive professional-media-quality hair salon / makeup room in the West Wing?
Given my Casper like appearance I don’t know much about tanning beds: don’t you have to sit still for a while to use them? And isn’t it a pretty enclosed space? Both of those things seem like things Trump wouldn’t like but then again the man is full of surprises
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) August 10, 2018
Which is why he has to go to one of his golf course properties. Touchups. And it’s a spray booth, not a UV tanning bed.
— David Helms (@davidhelms) August 10, 2018
It was Hope Hicks. Now it’s Bolton’s mustache.
— Carmine Fields (@CarmineFields5) August 10, 2018
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