On Monday, Melania Trump revealed the 2025 White House Christmas decorations. And with them, she showed that she is no longer the glamorous Grinch who trolled Christmas.

Holiday decorations, of all things, have been a particular source of controversy for the elusive first lady. Early on in her husband’s first presidential term, she earned a reputation for creating memeable holiday tableaux: a hallway of large white sticks, in 2017, and a parade of blood red cone-shaped trees the following year – both of which inspired countless internet jokes about dystopian film sets.

The festive tradition, generally considered innocuous under most administrations, has at times been Trump’s torment. In 2020, her former senior advisor  Stephanie Winston Wolkoff released audio she secretly recorded of th

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