Name Dropping
Around October of 2017 is when Samantha made the bold move to start tagging the brands she was wearing on Instagram.
A subtle-but-not-subtle action which means one of three things really.
Either her inbox was blowing up with requests to know where she got those shoes, she become interested in dabbling in the influencer space and wanted fashion brands to notice her, or she just wanted you to know that those shoes are Christian Louboutin...
Now see, normally I'd say that the third is just a catty explanation that likely holds no bearings, but.... a certain moment in her recent Vanity Fair article really took me by surprise.
Chances are if you read the piece you drove right by this little tidbit, but personally, I found emergency lights started to flash and sirens began to blare. In response to the question "How old were you when [your dad] started working for Trump?" Samantha volunteered the following pile of words:
"Eleven or 12. I was really young, and I knew we lived in a Trump building, and my grandparents lived in a Trump building, and The Apprentice was the biggest show at the time. I thought it was cool, probably. But Trump occupied 99.9% of my dad’s time, and he was blatantly mean to him. Before my dad started working with Trump, he drove me to school every single morning. He had a blue Bentley Arnage and would take me each morning, and then he’d always be home when I got home every single afternoon. He was always around. [Then] suddenly his entire life became about Trump. We’d be on vacation and he’d be down the beach trying to get cell signal. When my dad says the first call and last call of Trump’s day were to him, I can tell you without any question how accurate that is because I was there for all of it."
Did you spot it?
I'm sorry, but who the fuck gives a shit that your dad drove you to school in a blue Bentley Arnage? Vanity Fair certainly didn't ask what model car her dad drove prior to working for Trump? Which, kind of leads me to believe, nobody asked what shoes she was wearing either. Like the Bentley, I'd bet she just wanted people to know.