The Sphinx Speaks

I love reading Maureen Dowd. Not because I agree with everything she writes, which is usually a tirade or a disquisition against the Trump administration, but because of the way she phrases it. No one does a one sentence snark better than Maureen. 

Maureen usually leaves me circling a word she's used that I have to look up, but not this time. Maybe I met her match by using "disquisition."

Today's disquisition is about the mystery of why Melania Trump seemed to be motivated to  proactively disavow any relationship with the disgraced, and very dead [Yeah, I know. I modified an absolute. Sue me.] Jeffrey Epstein, whose files are more talked about than the Adams Papers once were, or the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Melania spoke for several minutes at a presidential podium clearly stating that not only did she not have a relationship with Epstein of any kind, Jeffrey didn't introduce her to The Donald back in the 1990s at the Kit Kat Club in Manhattan.

There are  of course photos of Donald and Melania with Jeffrey and his Gal Friday Giselle Maxell, but that's merely explained by attending the same parties and being asked for a photo. Nothing more.

Maureen tells us the Washington press corps was "gobsmacked" by Melanie's soliloquy. No one knew it was coming. Not even The Donald.

The headline to Maureen's Sunday Opinion piece in the Sunday NYT goes: The Sphinx Thinks It Stinks. Maureen has been calling Melania the Sphinx for years because she rarely talks to the public.

An out quote from the piece goes: "A Melania surprise creates another mystery." Who doesn't love a mystery?

"For mysterious reasons, The Slovenian Sphinx stunned the West Wing [not under renovation]. walking into the grand entrance hall of the White House to dump kerosene on the flickering Epstein fire." You gotta love it.

And you gottta love Maureen's description of Melania approaching the lectern: "for the first time the first lady—who glided so serenely on skyscraper stilettos in her infomercial, 'Melania'—looked shaken."

Is Maureen jealous of Melania's ability to wear probably 5" high heels and not fall down? Did Maureen once try it and tumble down a flight of stairs? This could be a woman thing.

The pundits have spent a week trying to figure out what made the first lady talk and deny. No doubt the Sunday news shows will touch on the topic when they tire of talking about the Strait of Hormuz and the Iranian war.

But Maureen has probably scooped them all when she tells us that Amanda Ungaro, a model and girlfriend of the man who Melania says introduced Trump to her, Paolo Zampolli, took to X and wrote some nasty. threatening things to Melania, which included the word "bitch." (The Tweet's been deleted.)

The story goes that Paolo inquired to President Trump about his model girlfriend and mother of his child's status. Amanda had been arrested on fraud charges and was being detained by ICE in Miami. Supposedly the innocent phone call lead to Amanda being deported back to Brazil where she surely wasn't going to attending any more parties at Mar-a-Lago.

The fur flies when one female calls another one "bitch." Producers of the "Desperate Housewives" franchise are salivating trying to get at least a Zoom call cat fight between Melania and Amanda as a Netflix special. Amanda further used X to warn Melania that she was going to be dumping dirt on The Donald. Social media knows no borders. Even from Brazil, it's possible to raise Melania's hackles and make the Sphinx talk. 

Since Elon Musk and Trump are buddies, it seems doubtful that Amanda's going to anything on X about anyone. And Brazil is in another hemisphere.

What will the new week bring?

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