Opinion

The next flotus: are you Team Kim or Team Melania?

It seems like an obvious choice - at first

19 July 2020 - 00:00 By aspasia karras

Now that Kanye West has thrown his hat into the presidential ring, I find myself in a surprising position: I have taken up the cudgels for one Kim Kardashian. In a sparring match between Kim K and Melania Trump I know who I would leap to defend. Because I did it. Loudly on the one and only occasion I thought to tempt the Covid with a lunch break in a public space. It seems isolation has blunted my instincts for polite social discourse and possibly survival...

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