While it’s hardly a new phenomenon for people in the public eye to have their fashion choices scrutinized by the peanut gallery, such discussion over First Lady Melania Trump’s attire within the last year has often been unusually speculative.
By that, I mean that people tend to think she’s conveying subtle messages through what she wears. These theories can be positive, as the discussion tended to be about her possible tribute to Princess Diana during a visit to England.
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However, they’re just as likely to assume some nefarious intent behind her outfits, as was the case with the dress she wore to a 9/11 Memorial last year and the “I really don’t care, do U?” jacket she wore to a migrant child detention center.
However, what she wore to the Republican National Convention seems to have attracted online attention more due to the opportunities it allows for other people’s messages than anything she’s supposedly saying.
While there was nothing inherently unusual about the green dress she wore while accompanying President Donald Trump, it reminded Twitter users of something.
Namely, it seemed to have the same shade as the green screens that allow production studios to substitute their own animations into movie scenes.
And so I’m sure you can already guess what people did when that fact became evident.
Indeed, the people of Twitter got creative and started changing up her whole look with some funny images.
As we can see, some were fairly neutral about their memes like this person who had her wear a weather forecast.
However, others took this as an opportunity to to make their feelings known about how the Trump administration has governed the country lately.
Many of their additions referenced the American government’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis, which Buzzfeed News reported was largely glossed over and oddly referenced in the past tense during the actual convention.
For others, it was a chance to make the meme worlds collide.
Kimberly Guilfoyle had already caught the internet’s attention during her particularly expressive RNC speech, which was seemingly defined by this excited face she made at its conclusion.
And now you know what you’re looking at if you’ve seen that expression without context.
Some users found this challenge fun enough to submit multiple entries, as we can see here.
While zedster here’s first entry is another reference to the coronavirus, their other one concerns the Trump Administration’s child detention policy that saw children fenced off and crowded together after being separated from their families at the border.
As we’ve discussed, many of the edits referenced the COVID-19 pandemic but none were as technically impressive as this one.
If it’s unclear what you’re looking at in the first lady’s dress, it’s a close-up representation of the virus itself.
Even The Daily Show seemed to get in on the meme with this animation that brought to mind Trump’s past associations with Jeffrey Epstein.
Considering that this one has a professional team behind it, it really speaks to how sophisticated that COVID-19 animation we saw above was.
