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Zelenskyy's Vogue Photo Shoot Backlash
from The Life Coach | The Tim Dillon Show #309 · #309
4 min
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Tim discusses backlash to Zelenskyy and his wife's Vogue cover shoot, arguing the war's popularity was always tied to Zelenskyy's attractiveness and questioning why a wartime profile discusses their marriage.
- Tim questions why people are mad that Zelenskyy did a Vogue cover shoot, asking if he's not allowed to feel attractive.
- Tim describes Ukraine as full of white people, many uncomfortably close to Nazi-ish, a country no one would care about without the attractive leader angle.
- People are angry that he dared to be attractive, which Tim identifies as the only way the narrative works.
- Olena Zelenska told Vogue she likes being backstage and that the whole thing was an accident, a contradiction Tim finds amusing.
- Tim questions why Vogue is asking them about their marriage during wartime—why not just stick with life in wartime?
- One of the photos shows Mrs. Zelenskyy posing glamorously in front of wreckage of a plane in a sexy but distressed pose.
- If you've ever done a photo shoot, you know how incredibly in bad taste this is—they have to do multiple takes to get it right.
- Tim explains that once you realize the nuts and bolts of actually executing a photo shoot during wartime, it does seem insane.
Volodymyr ZelenskyyUkraineOlena ZelenskaVogue