Everyone’s Confused By The Early 90s Aesthetic Of Melania’s Official Portrait

Official Portrait of First Lady pic.twitter.com/K1DUVE5kSI

— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) April 3, 2017

It’s like they *want* folks to arch up, what with the placement of her 25-carat rock and a second ring from her Melania™ Timepieces & Jewelry collection, which is currently being flogged on shopping network QVC.

There are plenty of angry tweets about how her many hungry people her engagement ring could feed but what most people want to know is what, exactly, was used to filter the photo, to evoke such a strong 1980s aesthetic: Vaseline, smeared on the camera lens? A heavy-handed experiment with FaceTune?

what filter is this @FLOTUS https://t.co/YuQKI87Zbt

— Archie’s Brown Roots (@DiscreetLatino) April 3, 2017

Melania looks like she’s about to drop the most ?? ballad of 1987 https://t.co/pvMrqvfCJ6

— We take the stairs (@NoEscalators) April 3, 2017

@FLOTUS Was this taken at the Glamour Shots studio at the Montebello Mall?

— Kristina Wong ?? (@mskristinawong) April 3, 2017

Melania Trump’s official White House photograph was taken on the set of Celine Dion’s “It’s All Coming Back To Me” video. pic.twitter.com/yXZZGKZ79H

— Tim Duffy™ (@TimDuffy) April 3, 2017

The production values on Melania’s portrait remind me of early 1980’s GlamourShots photos. The editing and styling is awful.

— Summer (@PolitikMasFina) April 3, 2017

Melania’s White House portrait is beautiful and will make an excellent conversation piece if she ever happens to visit the White House.

— Nick Amadeus (@NickAmadeus) April 3, 2017

Melania releases her first official portrait as First Lady. It’s meant to evoke the catalogue he picked her out from.

— Gary Janetti (@GaryJanetti) April 3, 2017

Us? We just want to know the answer to this.

Anyone know why Melania Trump’s portrait was taken in front of the Muppet Babies Window? pic.twitter.com/EOLfwfBggE

— Sasha Stewart (@ArtfulStew) April 3, 2017

Photo: The White House.