Gia (Jia) Tolentino

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556 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 8 Aug

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

And the Mar-a-Lago face in particular is a good example of this.

Can you describe it for us?

I feel kind of a fondness for what's called Mar a Lago Face to make us it's uh because it's almost like it's almost quaint, you know.

So Mar a Lago face is

If you have observed the faces of the women of the second Trump administration, this is Mar-a Lago face.

It's kind of like Instagram face.

It's as if kind of the Kardashian-esque beauty standard of 2016 has ported itself ten years later to the seat of American power and added um quite a lot of makeup to it.

It's what plastic surgery used to be, where it flaunts itself.

Where it's a little bit more than a little bit.

kind of flaunts its lack of relationship to human reality, which I which I find kind of funny and I find almost quaint and it also, you know, there's a way in which it mirrors the actual political policy of as of the Trump administration, where power is displayed in

Proudly disconnecting from reality altogether.

And in that I'm saying that these Botox and filler faces and the approach to governing are basically the same gesture.

It's saying that what is given, what is human, doesn't matter.

I'm gonna slash it to bits and

you know, put a f put some gold and lipstick on it and we're gonna you know, it's the it's the equivalent of the Trump ballroom, basically, in in human face form.

And, you know, there's also something it's it's quite it's so aggressively female, you know, it's there's something

This is certainly not a new observation, but it's very interesting to watch, you know, people that are very much against trans health care, gender-affirming, you know, medical care display a beauty look that is nothing if not gender-affirming.

It's it's fundamentally gender-affirming surgery like much plastic surgery is.

So for like a Mar-a-Lago woman, she's performing maximal femininity and for the men

this looks maxing.

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