ANALYSIS: Kremlin Power Games Begin: Exposing Melania Nude Photos on State TV

Russian state-run TV show “congratulates” Trump on election by highlighting once and future First Lady modeling career photos, possibly spelling out the power dynamic of the US-Russia relationship.

November 11, 2024

Trump gestures at supporters as he holds hands with former and future US First Lady Melania Trump during an election night event at the West Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, early on November 6, 2024. Jim WATSON / AFP

Russian TV show 60 Minutes “congratulated” Trump on the election by highlighting once and future First Lady modeling career photos, including nude – likely with Putin’s approval, in a possible bid to set the Kremlin’s power dynamic of the Putin-Trump and Moscow-Washington relationships.

Russian newscasters congratulated Trump on his electoral victory by airing nude photos of his wife on prime-time TV last week. The husband and wife presenter team of Yevgeny Popov and Olga Skabeyeva showed the collage of modeling photos on the nationally broadcast Russian show 60 Minutes, as reported by Newsweek. Melania modeled around the world in the 1990s and early 2000s before marrying Trump in 2005.

“Now that Melania Trump’s husband has finally won, she is getting ready to come back to the White House for a second time,” Popov said as Skabeyeva smirked in front of the display. “Here is how Melania looked in the year 2000. This is the cover of the magazine GQ.” Many of the photos are from a 2000 GQ photoshoot and show Melania completely nude and in suggestive positions.

“The future first lady lies on top of furs in a negligee. Inside the magazine, Melania’s sexy photos near a private plane and aboard the plane. In one of the shots, the model is wearing only her underwear, lying on a blue carpet with the US seal, as though the editors of the men’s magazine knew something in advance about the future of their model,” the presenters said.

The president-elect has yet to publicly respond to the “congratulatory” message. Appearing on a popular TV program sanctioned by the Kremlin, the photos almost certainly had to be approved by Putin for airing before they went live. The show aired after Trump, joined by his trusted adviser Elon Musk, reportedly spoke to Putin on Thursday and warned him not to “escalate” Ukraine.

Sharing Melania’s old photos in the popular show was meant to be an obvious slight to the president-elect that spells out the power dynamic of the US-Russia relationship – or at least how Putin would like it to be. The Russian leader has used misogynistic attacks and rhetoric for decades to demean his enemies and bolster his supporters.

Now the Kremlin is using Melania to make Trump understand that Russia has power in many forms, and is not afraid to personally attack the president-elect to achieve its aims. Putin is attempting to set the stage to welcome his ally back into the White House on Russian terms. Trump has not publicly responded to the situation.

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23 comments

  1. “Now the Kremlin is using Melania to make Trump understand that Russia has power in many forms, and is not afraid to personally attack the president-elect to achieve its aims. Putin is attempting to set the stage to welcome his ally back into the White House on Russian terms. Trump has not publicly responded to the situation.”

    If I were the orange one, and this filthy rat exposed MY wife on national TV, B-52s would be over muscovy and St. Petersburg to level both shitholes.
    What will the narcissist do about this?

  2. If putler wasn’t a homo paedo, it would be a laugh to see him holding up one of the photos he’d just spaffed over, with that stupid creepy smile he does.

  3. Look Chaps, all this chat about Mel flashing her Gash has got me thinking.

    Its only 4 days until Wednesday 2100, so how about a link to those pics before then?

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