Shake your Tut!
It’s Giza & Dolls as Egypt puts on show for Melania
Oh, mummy! Melania Trump visited Egypt Saturday, enjoying a tour of Giza and a rather phar- out dance performance as she wrapped up her four-country visit to Africa.
Bare-torsoed dancers in golden headdresses struck hieroglyph-inspired poses for the first lady, with the Great Pyramids as a backdrop.
Trump met with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and his wife, Entissar Mohameed Amer, at the presidential palace in Cairo for nearly and hour and later answered reporters’ questions near the Great Sphinx.
“That’s very important what I do, what we’re doing with USAID and what I do with my initiatives,” Trump said, referring to the US Agency for International Development, whose work she was promoting with her tour of the continent.
USAID has been working with Egypt on an environmental effort to protect landmarks like the pyramids from damage.
“I wish people would focus on what I do, not what I wear,” she lamented.
Still, for her first major solo international trip as first lady, she posed for cameras in an offwhite Ralph Lauren linen blazer draped over a white blouse with wide-legged trousers.
Online wags tut-tutted over her “Out of Africa”-inspired white fedora and black tie, with some comparing the look to Michael Jackson’s in his 1988 video for “Smooth Criminal.”
At her brief press conference, the first lady was asked her opinion of the expected confirmation of Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh and the sexualassault claims against him by Christine Blasey Ford.
“I think he’s highly qualified for the Supreme Court,” she said hours before his confirmation.
“I’m glad that Dr. Ford was heard. I’m glad that Judge Kavanaugh was heard. FBI investigation was done, is completed and Senate voted.”
She declined to say if she believed Ford, noting, “I’m against any kind of abuse.”
She also revealed that she will oppose her hubby’s tweets.
“I don’t always agree with what he tweets, and I tell him that,” she said.
“I give my honest opinion and honest advice. Sometimes he listens and sometimes he doesn’t.”