{"id":389047,"date":"2026-04-09T02:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389047\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:07:11","slug":"meryl-streep-melania-trumps-most-obnoxious-outfit-was-also-her-most-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389047\/","title":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep: Melania Trump\u2019s Most Obnoxious Outfit Was Also Her ‘Most Powerful’"},"content":{"rendered":"

First lady Melania Trump <\/a>once left quite an impression on Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep<\/a> \u2014 and it wasn\u2019t a good one.<\/p>\n

In a Vogue interview<\/a> published on Wednesday to promote the new film \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2,\u201d the magazine\u2019s former editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, was asked how women should dress to communicate power, and she suggested that women nix the \u201cpower suit\u201d and emulate real-life women with actual power. Wintour then mentioned a few current and former first ladies who have a knack for expressing who they are through their fashion, like Michelle Obama and Rama Duwaji, the wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be fair, Melania Trump also always looks like herself when she dresses,\u201d Wintour said.<\/p>\n

\"MerylMeryl Streep and First Lady Melania Trump.<\/p>\n

In response to Wintour\u2019s remark about Trump\u2019s fashion choices, Streep recalled a jacket the first lady wore in 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the most\u2026powerful message that our current first lady sent was in the coat that said \u2018I Really Don\u2019t Care, Do U?\u2019 when she was going to see migrant children who were incarcerated,\u201d Streep said. \u201cAll dress is about expressing yourself, but we\u2019re also subject to larger historical and political sweeps of expectation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MelaniaMelania Trump\u2019s famous jacket.<\/p>\n

MANDEL NGAN via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Although the first lady\u2019s controversial jacket seemed to imply that she didn\u2019t care about children affected by her husband\u2019s policies, Trump later told ABC News that the message was aimed at<\/a> \u201cthe people and for the left-wing media who are criticizing me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Streep also took issue with society\u2019s expectations of how powerful women should dress.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m stunned at how women in power have to have bare arms on television while men are covered in shirts and ties or a suit,\u201d Streep said. \u201cThere\u2019s an apology built into women. They have to show their smallness. It\u2019s compensatory: The advancements of women in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of this one have been destabilizing. It\u2019s as if women have to say, \u2018I\u2019m little. I can\u2019t walk in these shoes. I can\u2019t run. I\u2019m bare, not threatening.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer First Lady Michelle Obama discusses her book “Becoming” at Barclays Center in 2018 in New York City.<\/p>\n

Dia Dipasupil via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who is married to California Gov. Gavin Newsom but prefers to be referred to as the first partner of California, also recently spoke out about two conservative women who, until very recently, wielded significant power<\/a>: former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and former Attorney General Pam Bondi. They were the first prominent members of the president\u2019s cabinet to be fired during his second term, even though they embraced the aesthetics preferred by those in the MAGA movement. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe conservative women that Trump handpicks who align themselves with an agenda that controls women, restricting our rights, limiting our autonomy and pushing us back into the straitjacket of femininity that is only in service of men, there\u2019s a familiar pattern here,\u201d Siebel Newsom said. \u201cWomen are brought in, packaged Mar-a-Lago style, and lifted up as long as they commit to wholeheartedly serve the interests of the patriarch at the top.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First lady Melania Trump once left quite an impression on Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep \u2014 and it wasn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7244,321,171776,93,1424,61,60,22680,7247],"class_list":{"0":"post-389047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-anna-wintour","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-devil-wears-prada-2","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-fashion","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-melania-trump","16":"tag-meryl-streep"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}