Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, mostly dresses conservatively
during press briefings, so her revealing snaps really stand out on social media.
Before she became the youngest White House press secretary ever, Leavitt
uploaded a couple of steamy photos to her Instagram page. In July 2023, she
uploaded a pic of herself holding her son in the air on the beach, where she rocked
a coffee-colored two-piece swimsuit.

The bikini had high-waisted bottoms with
thick straps along her waist, plus a thick-strap top that clung to her frame. Leavitt
completed the look with a large sunhat as she was photographed from the side.
“Beach day with my beach bum,” she wrote in the caption. The high-waisted
bottoms accentuated Leavitt’s backside, and her tan legs were on full display.
Leavitt has experienced tan blunders when speaking to the press, but she looked
sunkissed in that beach snap. Unsurprisingly, the comment section was filled with
compliments and thirsty comments from her followers.

Leavitt caught the attention of her followers with another swimsuit photo later that
year. That pic was the first in an Instagram carousel recapping a trip to the
Dominican Republic. Similar to the previous swimsuit snap, Leavitt was holding her
son, but this time around, she sported a body-hugging black one-piece that had a
plunging neckline with a zipper that was left partially unzipped. For that outfit, the
future White House press secretary accessorized with a braided visor. There were a
couple of other spicy shots in the Dominican Republic photo dump, as Leavitt was
photographed wearing a revealing sundress that featured a low-cut neckline.

Even though those swimsuit photos captured the attention of Leavitt’s followers,
they were not even the spiciest outfits she wore that year.

Before stepping into the role of White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt wore
some outfits that totally missed the mark – but her feature-flaunting swimsuit was
definitely not one of them. After visiting Nantucket Island in July 2023, Leavitt
uploaded an Instagram carousel recapping the trip that featured a variety of
wholesome images, plus one pic that put her curves on display.

In the first slide of
the post, the Saint Anselm College grad posed on a bridge in a skintight athleisure
romper. The piece had thin shoulder straps that wrapped around her figure while
showing off her assets. She completed the casual look with a baseball cap, large
sunglasses, and a pair of sneakers as she lifted one foot to rest against a railing.
After Donald Trump selected her as press secretary, trolls popped up in the
comment section. One bashed Leavitt’s outfit for eschewing conservative
stereotypes.

It was not only in a beach setting that Leavitt flaunted her figure. The future press
secretary to Donald Trump stunned in a revealing ensemble while attending a
Miami Heat game in May 2023. Leavitt posted two snaps from the game to her
Instagram page, which showed her in a lime green top that had spaghetti straps
and a deep neckline. She also wore a pair of relaxed-fit white pants — the green
and white outfit was an homage to the Boston Celtics. “I’m taking my talents to
South Beach … Go Celtics,” Leavitt wrote in the caption. The Celtics-centric look was
accessorized with a woven handbag and open-toe sandals. Leavitt posed in the
body-wrapped top in a box suite for the first slide and stood closer to the courtside
in the second photo. Naturally, Instagram followers went crazy in the comment
section of the skin-baring top.

Melania Trump caught a lot of flak for some of her fashion choices during her
tenure as first lady. Her modeling past was evident, as she always wore her outfits
well. However, her expensive taste and focus on looking good may have appeared
insensitive to some.

There were times she seemed to confuse airport runways for fashion show runways.
Before she jetted off to Puerto Rico to survey the devastation caused by Hurricane
Maria in 2017, she made sure she was photographed rocking stilettos and a chic
ensemble. But when she exited Air Force One, she was wearing a more casual outfit;
making critics wonder why she didn’t just depart in the more practical look to begin
with.

Then there were the occasions when she and her husband were not on the same
page regarding his political messaging. In a 2017 Labor Day tweet, Donald Trump
crowed about his administration for putting America first. “We are building our
future with American hands, American labor, American iron, aluminum and steel,”
he wrote.

But in the picture paired with his message, Melania was wearing a
garment that wasn’t made in America – Greek designer Mary Katrantzou had
produced the white dress with a multicolored grid pattern in Italy. Despite having
myriad fashion options at her fingertips, this controversial sartorial decision is just
one of many Melania has made.

Melania Trump’s attire at Rosalynn Carter’s memorial service raised a tew eyebrows.
In 2023, she joined First Lady Jill Biden and the other three living former first ladies
— Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, and Laura Bush — to pay her respects to
ex-president Jimmy Carter’s late wife. However, some detractors found her behavior
disrespectful. When the foursome of presidential spouses walked into Glenn
Memorial United Methodist Church in Atlanta together, Melania stuck out like a red
MAGA hat at the Democratic National Convention. While the other women were all
dressed in black ensembles, Melania opted against wearing the traditional color of
mourning. Instead, she had on a gray tweed coat that was nowhere close to being
black.

In photos of the church pews full of mourners, Melania’s lighter-colored outfit is
embarrassingly conspicuous. “Melania Trump stood out as the only person at
Rosalynn Carter’s Memorial service who didn’t have the decency or good taste to
wear black as all the others did,” read one of the many tweets criticizing her
perplexing outfit decision. There was also speculation that her attention-demanding
outerwear was a calculated decision. While Melania took a step back from public life
after Americans showed Donald Trump the door, some people suggested that she
saw an opportunity to get back in the spotlight and seized it. “See how everybody is
talking about her? Yep, that’s what she wanted,” one Redditor wrote.

Melania Trump made an ostentatious accessory choice during her first overseas trip
as first lady. While enjoying Saudi Arabia’s hospitality, she wore a massive gold belt
from Saint Laurent. Its buckle was big enough to serve as a picture frame for a
Polaroid, and if Donald Trump had gold toilet paper to complement his gold toilet,
the python-embossed belt would come close to matching its width. The rest of
Melania’s outfit consisted of a black Stella McCartney jumpsuit, Christian Louboutin
stilettos, and a chunky gold chain necklace.

Some commenters on X, formerly known as Twitter, compared Melania’s
waist-cincher to a WWE championship belt, and one comedian quipped that she
was helping her husband launch a new Trump-branded product. “Melania is
promoting the latest Trump fashion: Chastity Belt in Dictator Gold, $99.99. Proven
effective against p***ygrabbers of any country,” they wrote.

There were also observations that Melania was not adhering to the country’s dress
code for its female citizens by wearing a head scarf. However, she wasn’t actually
offending her hosts with her bare hair, as it’s a rule foreign visitors aren’t expected
to follow. There was still one issue with the omission: It made her husband look like
a hypocrite. In 2015, Donald tried to shame then-first lady Michelle Obama for
making the same choice. “Many people are saying it was wonderful that Mrs.
Obama refused to wear a scarf in Saudi Arabia, but they were insulted. We have
enuf enemies,” he tweeted.

Melania Trump had something big to celebrate in February 2002: She was
featured on the cover of New York magazine’s Valentine’s Day-themed issue.
Alongside a cover line reading, “Love After 9/11,” she was pictured sharing a
passionate kiss with a firefighter. But Melania didn’t spend her Valentine’s Day
engaged in a fiery romance with a first responder. She was photographed at a
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week event with her then-boyfriend, Donald Trump. PETA
sponsored the Marc Bower show, which had the theme “A Love Affair With Faux.”

Alas, Melania Trump’s love affair with faux fur was short-lived. The following year,
she showed up at a Dennis Basso Furs store opening wearing a fur stole draped
over her arms. Huff Post included a photo of the stole in a collection of images
showing Melania wearing fur. “Melania is a very beautiful woman. She wears Dennis
Basso beautifully,” Basso told the Daily Beast in 2016. However, Melania’s press
secretary, Stephanie Grisham, sent an email to CNN in 2017 saying that Melania was
no longer wearing fur, and PETA’s senior VP, Dan Matthews, made no mention of
her support for Dennis Basso Furs in a statement praising her for seemingly going
faux. “Melania first attended a PETA fashion show years ago that featured one of her
favorite designers, Marc Bouwer, a longtime PETA supporter who uses no fur … it’s
no surprise that she is now fur-free,” Matthews said.

The guest list of Tiffany Trump’s Mar-a-Lago wedding was sure to raise a few
eyebrows. Both of her parents, Marla Maples and Donald Trump, were in
attendance, as was her stepmother Melania Trump. However, while it’s true that
Melania met Donald while he was married to Maples, there was no scandalous affair
— Tiffany’s parents had separated by then. Proving that she was totally cool with
her dad moving on with Melania, Tiffany posed for a wedding photo with her
mother standing on one side of her and her stepmother on the other (swipe to the
fourth picture of Ivanka’s post above to see).

In true Trumpian fashion, some of Tiffany’s family members managed to snag the
spotlight away from her on her big day. Ivanka Trump caused a stir by editing
Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, out of a wedding photo that she
posted on Instagram, while Melania’s decision to wear a cream-colored dress was
decried as inappropriate on social media. Wearing white to a wedding is considered
bad etiquette by many, as it can come off as an attempt to upstage the bride. Some
netizens thought Melania’s gown was in poor taste because its pale hue was close
enough to the forbidden color. “She wore this champagne-colored dress so the
internet would be all about her & not about Tiffany’s gorgeous gown. Melania stole
the bride’s attention on her wedding day!” one Redditor opined. Another critic
wrote, “Oooh, this is tacky!”

When Melania Trump toured a Texas detention center for migrant children, she
wore a green Zara jacket with the words “I really don’t care, do u?” emblazoned on
the back. Melania’s egregious failure to read the room resulted in this
now-infamous fashion statement. Most people had the plight of the children she
was visiting on their minds when they saw the jacket, so the assumption was that
she was demonstrating her lack of concern for them. “That is callous and
unacceptable,” read one social media reaction to Melania’s style misstep. She’d later
tell ABC News that she was thinking not about the kids but about herself, saying
that the words were a message “for the left-wing media who are criticizing me.”

But according to White House correspondent Katie Rogers, Melania just decided to
go along with the whole “fake news” explanation after Donald Trump tweeted it out.
In her book “American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from
Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden,” Rogers says that the intended recipient of the jacket’s
message was possibly Ivanka Trump. White House officials told Rogers that Melania
felt like the first daughter was trying to snatch away some of the media spotlight
normally reserved for the first lady alone. But while the stunt certainly got Melania’s
name in the headlines, how was Ivanka supposed to know that the words on her
stepmother’s back were a warning to back off?