Virginia Heffernan: All the president's lying ladies
by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times
Jun 17, 2019
3 minutes
The Trump White House is a bit like Shakespeare summer camp: not enough substantial parts for the girls. The female roles at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. are for craven ladies-in-waiting who are allotted very little moral agency, let alone opportunities for heroics. They subvert their ambitions to their overlord's; they lie, in short.
Yes, there's a Lady Macbeth, portrayed in Trumpworld as a waxen blonde sleepwalker, a ghostly daughter-wife whose veins are certifiably free of the milk of human kindness. (Ivanka's understudy, the creepy Melania, has skipped so many rehearsals
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