Cardi B and GOP Pundit Battle Over Melania Trump

by Kevin Schattenkirk

EDGE Media Network Contributor

Wednesday August 26, 2020

Grammy winner Cardi B and Republican pundit DeAnna Lorraine are duking it out on social media over a swipe the Trump supporter took at the pop star during the week of the RNC, the Daily Mail reports.

Lorraine tweeted:


In response, Cardi B asked "didn't she used to sell that Wap?" and then posted a salacious nude photo of the current First Lady covering her genitalia. This and other photos of Melania Trump surfaced in 2017, coming from a "1995 photo shoot for now-defunct French magazine Max when Melania was 25."

Not content to let it be, Lorraine — apparently unaware that President Trump called this and other photos of his wife while she was a model "completely fashionable" — claimed Cardi B's insinuations about Mrs. Trump are a "total & complete lie" and "what's not a lie is that you are absolutely destroying America's youth with your lyrics and should be ashamed of yourself."

The exchange between Cardi B and Lorraine took place around the First Lady's speech on the second night of the RNC, where she urged people to end "looting in the name of justice" and to remember that "we are all one community comprised of many races, religions and ethnicities." While lamenting that "we still have so much to learn from one another," Mrs. Trump's husband has continued to roll back rights LGBTQ+ people acquired under his predecessor's administration, failed to acknowledge Black Lives Matter and facilitate healing between the movement and the police, and attack anyone who doesn't offer unconditional support, among other things.

Kevin Schattenkirk is an ethnomusicologist and pop music aficionado.