CAROLINE BULLOCK: I know the real reason behind Lauren Sanchez’s look-at-me inauguration obscenity. It’s left me sick to my stomach

The Village People creaked through the YMCA and Carrie Underwood warbled, but as the presidential inauguration celebrations reached their climax, we got the biggest display of all.

Trump’s solemn oath? The historic reunion of presidents past – Bush, Clinton, Obama? Nope, Lauren Sanchez’s cleavage.

As the great and good assembled on Monday under the Capitol Rotunda for the swearing-in ceremony – a state occasion demanding class, reverence, dignity – in strutted Lauren with her bra peeking out from a much-too-tight white pantsuit.

Yes, as always, the high-spending flashy fiancée of billionaire Amazon boss Jeff Bezos managed to look the cheapest in the room – even one that included meat-head UFC fighter Conor McGregor.

Dear oh dear, while Melania and Ivanka Trump were visions of elegance in tasteful tailoring befitting the event – and outdoor temperatures – the 55-year-old former news anchor looked more like a small-town hair salon owner ready to hit the Las Vegas strip.

The look was apparently Alexander McQueen, but the overall vibe was more Target.

Perhaps the prospect of competing with the coterie of assembled glamazons from the Trump scion was behind the dress-code diss. For by defaulting to her usual sartorial setting of maxed-out vamp, Sanchez circumvented the fashion fear that something more understated would be overshadowed.

With a face shinier than the Capitol’s guilt chandeliers, and a plumped pout pursed throughout, it seemed clear to me that the sometime helicopter pilot wanted to be watched. Surely, she knew the headlines that would ensue, the scurrying to social media to gawk at her front-loaded look?

As the great and good assembled on Monday under the Capitol Rotunda for the swearing-in ceremony – a state occasion demanding class, reverence, dignity – in strutted Lauren Sanchez with her bra peeking out from a much-too-tight white pantsuit.

The high-spending flashy fiancée of billionaire Amazon boss Jeff Bezos managed to look the cheapest in the room.

The high-spending flashy fiancée of billionaire Amazon boss Jeff Bezos managed to look the cheapest in the room.

Indeed, as the other assembled tech bros and their attendant WAGs stared at their phones or made polite chit chat, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg apparently didn’t know where to look.

Though I doubt Lauren would have been quick to complain.

It seems to me that this is a woman so thirsty for attention her only protestation would be over not getting the testosterone-fuelled leers and camera clicks.

Since her midlife hook-up with bald Bezos – who proposed to her aboard his $500 million superyacht in May 2023 – Sanchez has seemed nothing less than a Kardashian-inspired pretender.

Her love of the limelight and often crass, plastic posturing reeks of pure desperado even by the standards of the ‘look at me’ luxe world she inhabits.

It’s not just about her wardrobe but her actions, too. Predictably, her arrival on Monday was drawn out for maximum exposure. As she stood at the top of the steps outside the Capitol, she swivelled around like a meercat on steroids – perhaps checking the paparazzi had caught each and every angle and inch.

And why is nobody talking about Jeff?

Clearly his Emmy Award-winning fiancée lacks the better judgement to tidy it up for a once-in-a-lifetime historic event – but has Bezos no shame either? It leaves one to conclude that he too luxuriates in lauding these tarty displays – showing off his prized, perma-pumped possession.

It’s an ugly look for them both – and a lesson for everyone that, if you can’t summon some self-respect, sometimes it’s better not to turn up at all.

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