Melania Trump's Hat Designer Reacts to 2025 Inauguration Buzz

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Inauguration 2025: What Donald Trump Had to Say About Melania Trump’s Inauguration Hat

The antheral down Melania Trump’s head-turning chapeau is sharing however it came to be.

After the First Lady’s customized wide-brimmed boater chapeau sparked a flurry of memes online during her quality alongside hubby Donald Trump astatine his Presidential Inauguration, the hat’s decorator Eric Javits shared what it meant to him to play a relation successful dressing the caller FLOTUS.

“It was my large grant and privilege to make the chapeau our First Lady, Melania Trump wore for the inaugural swearing successful of our 47th President,” helium wrote successful a station connected Instagram Jan. 20. “She has the interior grace, quality and beingness to alteration what was truly a precise simple, restrained chapeau benignant into what became a ‘wow’ moment. The First Lady’s chapeau was made with love.”

Additionally, helium offered a look astatine the instauration of the viral headwear.

In a behind-the-scenes video posted connected Instagram Stories Jan. 20, Javits documented the hat-making process arsenic helium snipped the navy bluish cloth utilized for the accessory. He followed that up with a clip of the cloth being wrapped astir a chapeau basal portion being held unneurotic with yellowish sewing pins.

The manner decorator besides reposted a fig of reactions to his instauration connected Instagram Stories, including 1 dubbing Melania’s outfit “chic successful the sleet.” Meanwhile, different repost read, “I emotion a bully hood.”

Amid the proceedings successful Washington, D.C., Javits shared that Melania’s viral head-topper almost wasn’t part of her ensemble aft a mishap portion it was being shipped from Miami to New York.

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“I conjecture the chapeau arrived each crushed,” helium explained to Women’s Wear Daily in an interrogation published Jan. 20. “It looked similar it had been sitting successful snowfall drifts for astir a week. Obviously, I had to scramble to redo it. It couldn’t truly beryllium repaired, due to the fact that of the operation of it.”

Instead, Javits said helium made different chapeau and delivered it to Melania’s stylist Hervé Pierre, who “took it backmost to her by manus to minimize immoderate different disasters that could perchance happen.”

And erstwhile the First Lady arrived successful the capital, her chapeau rapidly grabbed the internet’s attention—and her husband’s.

“We went retired to the chopper conscionable anterior to this and said goodbye,” Trump recalled during his code aft being sworn successful arsenic president. “The upwind is blowing similar crazy, and with the chapeau that she’s wearing, she astir blew away.”

He continued, “We astir mislaid her. She was being elevated disconnected the ground. She astir blew away.”

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Ivanka Trump

Incoming archetypal daughter Ivanka Trump besides enactment connected her Monday champion for the religion services. 

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Jill Biden, Joe Biden, Donald Trump & Melania Trump

"Welcome home," President Joe Biden said arsenic helium and First Lady Jill Biden greeted the Trumps astatine the White House. 

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Usha Vance, Doug Emhoff, Kamala Harris & JD Vance

Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff were besides connected manus to invited VP JD Vance and his woman Usha Vance astatine the White House.  

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Michael Boulous & Tiffany Trump

Pregnant Tiffany Trump and her hubby Michael Boulos joined her begetter astatine the St. John's Church services. 

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Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner

Former advisor Ivanka was joined astatine the services by hubby Jared Kushner and their kids Arabella, Joseph and Theodore

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Elon Musk

Trump pal Elon Musk took successful the presumption arsenic helium arrived wrong the Capitol Rotunda.

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Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar & Donald Trump

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Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush & Laura Bush

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George W. Bush, Laura Bush & Barack Obama

With woman Michelle Obama not attending, erstwhile president Barack Obama hung with the Bushes. 

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Mike Pence

Trump's erstwhile vice president Mike Pence turned up solo for the ceremony. 

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Eric Adams

New York City politician Eric Adams worked the country astatine the Capitol. 

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Janet Jones & Wayne Gretzky

Canadian hockey fable Wayne Gretzky and his woman Janet Jones were among those who decided to instrumentality a changeable astatine watching the inauguration. 

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Rupert Murdoch & Elena Zhukova

Former Fox Corporation president Rupert Murdoch (joined by woman Elena Zhukova) was among the billionaire businesspeople successful attendance. 

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Sundar Pichai & Elon Musk

Tech talk: Tesla CEO Musk socialized with Google CEO Sundar Pichai.  

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Robert F. Kennedy

Trump's prime for caput of the Department of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy came to ticker him get sworn in. 

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Mitch McConnell & Elaine Chao

Kentucky legislator Mitch McConnell held choky to woman Elaine Chao.

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Jake Paul & Logan Paul

Influencer turned boxer Jake Paul was connected manus with his brother, wrestler Logan Paul

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Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai & Elon Musk 

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined Amazon exec Jeff Bezos, his fiancée Lauren Sanchez, Pichai and Musk connected the dias astatine the Capitol. 

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Eric Trump, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. 

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Barron Trump

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Christopher Macchio

Opera tenor Christopher Macchio was tapped to sing the National Anthem. "I was looking guardant to seeing 100,000 radical dispersed crossed the National Mall," helium acknowledged to the Associated Press up of the events. "Unfortunately I won’t beryllium getting that ocular portion I perform, but it’s inactive going to beryllium specified a tremendous honor."

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Shou Zi Chew

Hours aft TikTok went acheronian (and past restored service) successful the United States, CEO Shou Zi Chew turned up astatine the inauguration. 

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Tim Cook, Vivek Ramaswamy & Kristi Noem

Apple CEO Tim Cook posed alongside onetime statesmanlike campaigner Vivek Ramaswamy and South Dakota politician Kristi Noem

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Melania Trump & Donald Trump

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JD Vance, Usha Vance & Donald Trump

Just earlier noon, Vance took the oath of bureau to go vice president portion woman Usha and girl Mirabel looked on. 

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Rudy Giuliani

Former New York City politician Rudy Giuliani captured the festivities. 

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Donald Trump

Minutes aft Vance was sworn in, Trump took his oath of bureau for the 2nd time. 

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Bernie Sanders

What, nary mittens? Vermont legislator Bernie Sanders ditched the outerwear for the festitivites wrong the Capitol. 

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Carrie Underwood

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