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Will Melania divorce Donald's sorry orange arse?

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AmandaHoldensLips · 06/11/2020 18:41

Will the cat-eyed she-woman divorce the giant orange man baby? The way she bats his hand away whenever he tries to hold hers. The hideous sordid predatorial behaviour splashed all over the news. The cavorting with Jeffrey Epstein. The way he dances like his shoes are glued to the floor.

If I was her I'd be searching the yellow pages for a lawyer.

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derxa · 06/11/2020 21:38

@ListeningQuietly

Derxa Your bravado is impressive but the Trump / Johnson rainbow unicorn was one of your hopes of an ongoing stable income but come 31 December, the hollowness of what you were told will bite which is so insane
You've gone off the deep end my dear Grin I won't regale you with my circumstances but I'll be more than OK
ListeningQuietly · 06/11/2020 21:46

Derxa
I hope that you and your ilk are fine
the damage done by 4 years of the orange one will take years to unravel
the fact that his DW chose to be 2000 miles away from him on election day
shows how we should treat the ideas he espoused

UkuleleRose · 06/11/2020 21:48

Then Jackie married Aristotle Onassis hmm

I read in a bio of her that she married Onassis because at the time he was the richest man in the world and would be able to protect her children. Bobbie was assassinated in 1968 and she married O. later that year. If that was her reasoning, I can't fault her for it.

derxa · 06/11/2020 21:52

@ListeningQuietly

Derxa I hope that you and your ilk are fine the damage done by 4 years of the orange one will take years to unravel the fact that his DW chose to be 2000 miles away from him on election day shows how we should treat the ideas he espoused
My ilk? My life has nothing to do with happens in the USA. I don't support DT I'm truly baffled
Apandemicyousay · 06/11/2020 21:53

Do you think she voted for Trump?

IcedPurple · 06/11/2020 21:55

@UkuleleRose

Then Jackie married Aristotle Onassis hmm

I read in a bio of her that she married Onassis because at the time he was the richest man in the world and would be able to protect her children. Bobbie was assassinated in 1968 and she married O. later that year. If that was her reasoning, I can't fault her for it.

Don't the minor children of all former American presidents get official police protection? I don't see how she would have needed Onassis to protect her children.
AmICrazyorWhat2 · 06/11/2020 21:58

I agree with @IcedPurple’s take that theirs was a transactional relationship from the start, but she probably didn’t anticipate his run for the WH nor want the accompanying attention.

I do feel sorry for her regarding the past four years though. Being married to someone whose demeanor is SO undignified and unpresidential must be humiliating. Even if you knew what they were like, seeing that behavior on the world stage must be awful for her and especially their son.

I think the older children are so indoctrinated they they can’t see the reality, or don’t want to.

IggysPop · 06/11/2020 22:05

I still love this though

AlexCabot · 06/11/2020 22:09

Does Melania's incredible wardrobe include the "I don't care" jacket she wore to a CHILD detention centre in Texas?

All the Trumps (with the exception of Barron who is still a child) can fuck right off.

UkuleleRose · 06/11/2020 22:09

Don't the minor children of all former American presidents get official police protection? I don't see how she would have needed Onassis to protect her children.

It was 1968, so who knows? That being said, JFK and Bobby had Secret Service and they were both murdered. As a mother, I can understand if she went overboard in her efforts to protect them.

Pascal2908 · 06/11/2020 22:14

Don't be so fast to think that she wants out.. she is no less of a rabid right winger than him ! Listen to her speak !

They are a marriage of particularly unpleasant minds and she is probably even more ruthless than him ..

itsgettingweird · 06/11/2020 22:14

I often wonder about their private conversations.

She's as robotic as him when she's spouting clap trap about what a marvellous man he is.

I often think - well if his wife clearly doesn't even believe it!

tootyfruitypickle · 06/11/2020 22:17

Isn’t he going to prison once no longer President? Problem solved .

Al1langdownthecleghole · 06/11/2020 22:27

I actually wonder if there will be an Epstein ending.

Sarahlou63 · 06/11/2020 22:28

She will make more money from the book of her life with him than he could ever afford to pay her to keep schtum.

MrsTwitcher · 06/11/2020 22:31

She has a personal fortune of nearly 40m so can probably afford to leave him. Anything else wouldbe a bonus. Doubt he will just let her go though. He is a bad loser.

IcedPurple · 07/11/2020 06:29

@MrsTwitcher

She has a personal fortune of nearly 40m so can probably afford to leave him. Anything else wouldbe a bonus. Doubt he will just let her go though. He is a bad loser.
I find it very hard to believe she could have anything like that much money in her own right. She was never a very succesful model. We're not talking Linda Evangelista here.
emilybrontescorsett · 07/11/2020 07:36

Jackie married Onassis because it suited them both at the time, it was absolutely a marriage of convenience. He gained kudos by marrying the widow of the president of the United States. She was regarded as the epitome of class and style, the Princess Diana if her day. A beautiful stylish woman. He was the richest man in the world and could offer her protection and freedom. He bought her a Greek island, which I have been lucky enough to see, although not permitted to step foot on. By marrying him she acquired freedom and security for herself and children.
Plenty of people would marry for the same reasons if given the choice.
The same with Melania.

Lweji · 07/11/2020 08:01

While we wait, maps

www.wired.com/story/is-us-leaning-red-or-blue-election-maps/

the80sweregreat · 07/11/2020 10:27

Let's face it, many men and women like money and that is all they really care about.
I'm sure Melania would not have looked at Donald Trump twice if he had been an ordinary person without any money or kudos.

JoeBidenIsGreat · 07/11/2020 12:16

DT's previous wives were enormous ego-maniacs -- famously so in the New York tabloid press. DT and all his adult kids are enormously self-important people. I just don't believe that Melania could be any different from the family norm. She won't have as much notoriety not being by his side, and she must like the notoriety, so I reckon Melania will stay with Orange one. I mean, he has to die fairly soon, anyway. She'll have 25 years to live without him later.

I am still predicting Baron will run for POTUS in the 2040s, as a mini-version of his dad.

midsomermurderess · 07/11/2020 13:38

I thought Melania lived a fairly closeted life is her enormous gold-plated apartment and didn't seek out attention or 'notoriety'.

midsomermurderess · 07/11/2020 13:39

Pre-Flotus days, that is.

IcedPurple · 07/11/2020 13:43

@midsomermurderess

I thought Melania lived a fairly closeted life is her enormous gold-plated apartment and didn't seek out attention or 'notoriety'.
That's what I heard too. That she lived largely separately from The Donald, didn't really participate in the New York social scene, and spent most of her time with her parents and son, with whom she communicates in her native Slovenian. Supposedly she's devoted to her son, even though in public she always seems quite cold to him.
PicsInRed · 07/11/2020 13:55

I find it curious how much emphasis people place on the wife of the Bad Man, as opposed to his grown sons. They each have the exact same financial pressures, inheritance vs divorce settlement - and yet she has the additional (terrifying) pressure of knowing the Great Narcissist could contest custody of her own child.

Where's the opprobrium for the sons - one of whom urged his father to "fight to the death" only 2 days ago?