Massive thing world missed about Lauren Sanchez’s Bra at Trump inauguration

The controversy over Jeff Bezos’ fiance revealing her white underwear at Monday’s inauguration misses one huge thing.

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To bra or not to bra, that was never the question. On Monday, a gauzy white number version was one of the most talked about things in the world when Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos’ fiance and future rocket ship flyer, appeared at Donald Trump’s inauguration wearing a white blazer with her nether things on full display.

Oh, the chuntering. Oh the finger-pointing and the Scarlet A-ing and the just general kvetching over Sanchez turning up looking like a highly successful Las Vegas aesthetician petitioning for her third divorce and to keep the Boca house. ‘Inappropriate!’ much of the internet screeched.

Ignore it all because her choice of that Honey Birdette-esque bra was nothing short of absolutely and utterly perfect.

Jeff Bezos’ fiancee, Lauren Sanchez (left), turned heads at Trump’s inauguration in a white blazer that unapologetically revealed her underwear, sparking a storm of chatter online. Picture: Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images

Sanchez didn’t wear an outfit that reflected the gravity and the importance of the swearing of a president, some deferential, demure bit of conservative cos-playing and faux seriousness. No, she arrived looking like she was ready for a Real Housewives weave-yanking-a-thon.

And that’s exactly what Trump’s second term is: A reality show.

Sanchez has just exposed Trump’s second term for the phony Louis Vuitton with two ‘i’s, cheap Bali knock-off of a presidency it really is.

What is about to unfold in Washington over the next four years is not a serious, real administration, staffed by serious and intelligent people who are intent on doing serious things but a horrible free-for-all of performative yelling and ego and thirsting, thirsting after fame and capped teeth and greed.

Tut tut Zuck. Sanchez’s daring outfit rejected the solemnity traditionally expected at presidential events, perfectly reflecting Trump’s showy, reality-TV-style presidency.

Sanchez dressed perfectly for the occasion.

The 55-year-old eschewed suiting up like she was in Washington to play with the grown-ups and to make awkward small talk with the reserve bank chairman or to have to brave the icicly, Easter Island-ish Melania Trump but she chose an outfit that was perfectly fitting for a chardonnay-chucking Orange County brunch where all the Pomeranians have to be kept off-screen.

Contrast her look with that of Priscila Chan, the wife of Meta CEO, the freshly MAGA-fied Mark Zuckerberg. Chan, a pediatrician and a philanthropist, donned a Jackie O-like pale blue jacket and skirt with globule-like whoppers of huge pearls, an ensemble that was about showing a degree of reverence towards proceedings that the man at the centre of it does not feel one jot.

Trump’s second term will be a chaotic spectacle of ego, greed, and attention-seeking, more reality show than serious governance. Picture: Jim Watson/ AFP

Trump does not regard the presidency with any degree of respect. Not one. Not even half of a per cent of a one. He is not about to try and ably serve the 334 million Americans to the best of his ability.

He is an egomaniacal former reality TV huckster who wants – no, needs – a constant IV line of attention jacked straight into his saggy veins at all times.

He’s about to try and line his pockets and toy with tens of millions of people’s lives and bodies and freedoms like a bored child.

Sanchez’s attire was ideal for the farcical nature of Trump’s administration, contrasting sharply with others’ attempts at traditional reverence. Picture: Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images

That’s the very secret that got Trump re-elected, his ability to conjure a swirling, perpetual vortex of anger and resentment; he created plot lines and goodies and baddies and he understood that the key currency of the election was attention so he played it like a Bachelor producer trying to ramp up the drammmaaahh.

It worked so why change a winning script?

Trump is casting his administration like a TV show, prioritising drama and attention over qualifications and governance. Picture: Anna Moneymaker/ AFP

Already Trump is not so much hiring administration members as casting them, pulling in people from entertainment industries, members of his comically underqualified cabinet hailing from seriously, the worlds of WWE and weekend breakfast tele (why not try for at least weekday huh?).

If Trump is going to run things like he’s the Andy Cohen of Pennsylvania Ave, why should anyone pretend otherwise? Why shouldn’t Sanchez turn up wearing an outfit better suited to a Brentwood real estate agent hankering to make it into the Bravo-verse?

Watching Zuckerberg and Bezos and Apple CEO Tim Cook and Tik Tok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew all pitching up at the inauguration to kiss Trumps’ French Fry-greasy ring was a retch-worthy sight, all of them complicit in pretending that he is just another politician, just another President.

Sanchez’s outfit symbolises the unvarnished truth: Trump’s presidency isn’t about dignity or respect but about spectacle and personal gain. Picture: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP

He has never, will never, concern himself with the erstwhile sanctity of the Oval Office so why should anyone else play act and dress as if he does? Or to paraphrase the grotesquely callous jacket that Melania wore to a migrant child detention centre in 2018, he doesn’t care so why should anyone else when they are getting dressed?

Sanchez turned up exactly as herself and how she pleased – which is exactly what the ol’ chicken finger-fingerer-in-chief is about to do. God help us all.

Daniela Elser is a writer and editor with more than 15 years’ experience working with a number of Australia’s leading media titles.