Until
Sunday, it could be said that one of the New York Post’s most outrageous front
pages ever was that one from 1990 that informed us of how incredibly proficient
real estate tycoon Donald Trump was sexually.
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| Does this front page ... |
But
now, we may have to seriously judge whether “the Donald” has been topped, and
by none other than his own wife.
FOR
THE NEW York Post managed to find out that some 21 years ago, an aspiring model
Melania Knauss did something that many would-be actresses and models do – she posed
for photographs in the nude.
Those
photographs appeared in a French magazine that no longer exists.
But
rather than just report that the woman who has since become the third Mrs.
Donald Trump and could wind up as the nation’s first lady if her husband’s
presidential aspirations are successful, the Post carried the story to the next
level.
They
found the photographer who took the pictures and bought the rights to publish
them. Then, they did.
MEANING
THAT FOR those people who bought the Post on Sunday got to see a busty young
woman in all her physical glory. We got to see more detail of Melania than most
so-called men’s magazines would have given us.
Not
even Playboy bothers to publish explicit nudity anymore (they really want us to
read it for the articles).
But
the Post let us know exactly what it was that caused Trump to desire Melania
and make her his latest (and presumably, final) wife.
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| ... make this one seem deadly dull by comparison? |
While
also giving the masses of us who are dirty-minded and looking for any excuse to
drool something to lust over.
I
WONDER IF people will try to put used copies of the newspaper on eBay or in
other ways claim the issue to somehow be collectible and valuable.
Then
again, I’d be afraid to handle a copy unless I were wearing rubber gloves,
because I’d fear exactly where somebody was touching themselves while they were
simultaneously handling their copy of the newspaper.
Eew!
And, yech!
Even
the 1990 story that told us how the woman who became Trump’s second wife,
Marla, supposedly boasted about Trump’s sexual prowess to her girlfriends (one
of whom then blabbed all about it to the Post) somehow now seems tame by
comparison.
THE
POST BACK then would have had to have given us pictures of Trump himself in the
act of coitus with his then-mistress to match the level of creepiness that has
been achieved now.
Of
course, Trump himself has claimed he’s not peeved about the Post’s latest
actions. He’s giving us the official line that the photographs have artistic
merit. He can’t very well claim the woman isn’t his wife. Age hasn’t changed
her physical appearance all that much.
And
it isn’t like these are the photographs from 1975 that purport to be former
first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis that are so grainy we can’t really tell
who it is whom we can see in all her full-frontal glory.
Although
that didn’t stop Hustler magazine from publishing them then. Does this now make
the Post the equivalent of publisher Larry Flynt? Do Post executives envision
Woody Harrelson portraying them too in a third-rate film?
PERSONALLY,
I ALWAYS felt that one of the problems with the Trump phenomenon is that Donald
himself had his ego over-bloated from all those years of the New York Post
elevating his every stupid trivial act into a ridiculous headline.
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| Does this covered cover top them all? |
Because
those of us with sense can see the Post was merely going for the cheap
headline. They filled space and sold a few papers.
While
Trump probably thinks he got written about all those years because he’s a deep-minded
public persona whose every exploit is worth noting.
Unfortunately
for us, these things do draw attention. Because let’s face it – we’re not going
to soon forget the Post, while I’ll be the first to admit we’ve already forgotten
what it was the New York Daily News deemed worthy of Page One!
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