The jackals of social media have descended on Melania Trump’s Christmas decorations.

AIDE: There’s this perception you don’t care about children, so we need to—

MELANIA: Get me the blood-red nightmare Christmas trees with NO ORNAMENTS OR PRESENTS

These trees remind me of the Handmaid’s Tale protestors. Perhaps these decorations are more tongue-in-cheek than you think.

Yet when Michelle Obama rolled out a similar treatment, she got a feature in Vogue.

Glowing lava trees

At this point, the double-standard isn’t shocking anymore. Frankly, it’s expected, boring, tiresome. No matter what Melania does, a large subset of the population will criticize her for it regardless of what (or if) they liked the aesthetic last week.

If Melania wore the Gucci clown look (which she never would, but let’s pretend for a moment), it would finally die.

Perhaps the “Cold Melania Doesn’t Care” criticism is real, but ~showing compassion~ wouldn’t turn things around for her. It would just make her weak, and they would swarm. Even divorcing her husband and denouncing everything he stands for wouldn’t do it.

Feminists, which most fashion people tend to be, absolutely hate it when other women go off the reservation. The hate is so strong that it permeates everything—the free-thinking woman can no longer do anything right.

Even Christmas decorations.

I appreciate that Melania does her own thing, with style and grace. She’s certainly not going to get any support from the Style Establishment.

Here are more pics of her Christmas White House.

Plenty of warmth and elegance to go around.