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Don't know if anyone is curious about Melania Trump?

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MsAmerica · 26/04/2024 02:00

She's definitely outside the norm of American First Ladies.

The Unsolvable Mysteries of Donald and Melania’s Marriage
By Frank Bruni

“He reserves fear for one person, Melania Trump.” That’s what Kellyanne Conway said about Donald Trump in her testimony before a congressional committee in 2022. But is that really true?

“At the end of the day, she could probably make or break him.” That’s what Stephanie Grisham, Donald Trump’s former press secretary, said about Melania to Katie Rogers of The Times this week. But is that because Melania has command of his heart or of his secrets? It’s a mystery, like so much about their marriage and about the former first lady herself.

Melania was tugged back into the news this week as her husband went on trial in Manhattan on charges stemming from his supposed dalliance with the porn star Stormy Daniels. Journalists wanted to know what Melania Trump was thinking. The judge presiding over the trial said that she could theoretically be called to testify.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/opinion/donald-melania-trump-trial.html

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MoodEnhancer · 18/06/2024 23:25

DreamTheMoors · 13/06/2024 05:40

Melania is exactly like Donald.
She pushed the birther lie.
She wore that abhorrent “I really don’t care” jacket to visit the children locked in cages at the border.
She called his disgusting “grab them by the pussy,” ‘boy talk.’
She sells cheap jewelry & NFTs. She tried to sell some of her “First Lady” items, but withdrew them when no one bought them.
She’s had years to leave Donald - why hasn’t she? Because she likes the life and his appalling behavior doesn’t bother her enough to give it up - or at all.
Don’t buy the “disinterest” — she likes the life and agrees with Donald more than anything.

Completely agree. I don’t understand why people want to create a narrative of her being a victim when all information points to her being (almost) as vile as he is.

Passiflora2 · 18/06/2024 23:28

She’s like a female Putin to look at. Expressionless, dead eyes . She’s like a reptile. No idea what or who she is. They are both pale, deathly looking creatures with no morality. Just interested in power and money and will do anything to get it.

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MsAmerica · 25/06/2024 00:09

DreamTheMoors · 18/06/2024 04:19

lol she probably gets a prenup upgrade every time he either screws up or is found guilty - and that was probably written into another, older prenup.
I remember them taking a photo in a hospital with a baby orphaned by a mass shooting, and standing there with actual grins on their faces like it was some happy occasion. I recall the aunt & uncle (who were in the photo also) were Trump fans gave their permission - but I can’t remember which mass shooting it was, because we’ve had so many.
But who on God’s Green Earth thinks that’s appropriate? Melania & Donald do.
I realize that her prenups are probably continually going up, and with that the conditions that she must stay, but no amount of money and real estate and all the jewels in the universe would keep me from leaving.
Besides - she’s getting a little long in the tooth to be attractive to most other “real” billionaires.
Isn’t Barron 18 now as well? She doesn’t need to stay to protect him or his interests.
She’s staying because she wants to - I’m sure of it. Well, that and the spa at Mar-a-Lago.

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That's funny about smiling during a photo in a tragic situation, but for Trump it's always all about him. I'm surprised he'd even do a photo-op in a hospital, as he's a germaphobe.
I think Melania still looks good - but seems to me that most billionaires are choosing women who have some smarts or skills. Melania, the least educated First Lady in a long time, has said that her hobby is reading fashion magazines.

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yesmen · 29/06/2024 01:16

1Week · 13/05/2024 01:10

That's a very judgemental post.

I speak as one who is pretty uneducated and has also been rejected by the most interesting people in New York. 😥 I also don't give tell all interviews to the media.
Still and all, manage to have pretty lively dinner party conversations.

I'm no fan of the Trumps but the reflexive snidiness whenever he's mentioned seems very superficial.

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The man (Trump) got on television last night and declared that the opposing party kill new born babies.

He did this by claiming that they (the opposition) want to have legal abortions right up to nine months, even after the baby is born.

Think about that.

I am not sure about « reflexive snideness » but God above, listen to what he actually says.

mollyfolk · 29/06/2024 01:28

I’m a bit fascinated by her. She seems to hate him. There is video where he touches her and she brushes him off. She also seemed to have zero interest in being a First Lady. She was clueless about the role and seemed to have a poor team behind her so she often messed up a bit, like her Christmas decorations. And was attacked online/in the press which she seemed to hate. She doesn’t display any part of her personality in interviews and seems to have little to say about any topic. She’s mostly expressionless.

Why doesn’t she leave him? Sometimes I wonder if he has some kind of hold over her.

Passiflora2 · 29/06/2024 08:04

I imagine they live quite separate lives in their enormous mansions . She gets lots of dosh wnd does what she wants. He gets to say he has a wife.

eggandonion · 30/06/2024 19:07

I would love to read her autobiography. She must know a lot about the family.
I did read that at an international summit she didn't need the earphones for simultaneous translation because her French is good from the fashion world.
Or maybe she just didn't care.

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MsAmerica · 04/07/2024 02:05

yesmen · 29/06/2024 01:16

The man (Trump) got on television last night and declared that the opposing party kill new born babies.

He did this by claiming that they (the opposition) want to have legal abortions right up to nine months, even after the baby is born.

Think about that.

I am not sure about « reflexive snideness » but God above, listen to what he actually says.

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Now that you mention it, @yesmen, I'm surprised he didn't add that Dems drink babies' blood, as used to be said about Jews.

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Lalgarh · 25/07/2024 17:47

Melania is supposed to have met the Donald on the super rich party circuit

https://lithub.com/five-surprising-things-i-learned-from-partying-with-rich-people/

To distinguish itself as a high-end place, a club needs a so-called “quality” crowd which comes down to two indicators: men with money and women with beauty. The goal is to have significantly more women than men at all times. To that end, clubs hire party promoters to recruit women with a very specific sort of rarified beauty: fashion models who are, thin, predominantly white, and typically young.

Promoters take pains to find fashion models, recruit them, and bring them to the clubs, usually enticing them with free meals and bottomless glasses of champagne, sometimes also free transportation and accommodations in jet-set destinations like Cannes and St. Barts

Five Surprising Things I Learned from Partying with Rich People

In 2010, I began going out with club promoters, that is, people who set up parties for the world’s “very important people.” Over the next few years, I interviewed 44 promoters by day and followed t…

https://lithub.com/five-surprising-things-i-learned-from-partying-with-rich-people

BustingBaoBun · 25/07/2024 18:29

I think she is an awful woman. She enables Trump. She had done some pretty bad things herself (the coat) and my opinion of her plummeted when her first speech was a direct plagiarism of Michelle Obrama's word for word.

Then she said how fucking boring it was to have to decorate the
WH and she hated it. I think she is a thick airhead who only hooked up with Trump to gain citizenship for herself and all her family. Oh and money.
Dreadful woman.

MollyButton · 25/07/2024 18:55

See I can't condem a woman who has done what women in tricky times have done throughout history. She married Donald to get American citizenship and security for herself. I'm sure getting it for her parents was part of the deal at least once she went to the White House. And I think she went with her eyes wide open (unlike Ivana).
She could be compared to a Faust who knows what compact she has made and is going to live with it but also make sure she gets what is owed.
And the Obamas seemed to find her easier to be with than her husband.

Yorkshirewithlove · 25/07/2024 19:03

Well said

tribpot · 25/07/2024 21:22

You would have thought Melania could have found someone less dreadful to marry? Especially given his actual wealth appears to either to fluctuate wildly or have been drastically overstated.

Lalgarh · 26/07/2024 15:24

A memoir is coming

www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/26/melania-trump-memoir

Passiflora2 · 26/07/2024 18:31

If so it will be ghost written and terrible.

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MsAmerica · 01/08/2024 02:37

Lalgarh · 25/07/2024 17:47

Melania is supposed to have met the Donald on the super rich party circuit

https://lithub.com/five-surprising-things-i-learned-from-partying-with-rich-people/

To distinguish itself as a high-end place, a club needs a so-called “quality” crowd which comes down to two indicators: men with money and women with beauty. The goal is to have significantly more women than men at all times. To that end, clubs hire party promoters to recruit women with a very specific sort of rarified beauty: fashion models who are, thin, predominantly white, and typically young.

Promoters take pains to find fashion models, recruit them, and bring them to the clubs, usually enticing them with free meals and bottomless glasses of champagne, sometimes also free transportation and accommodations in jet-set destinations like Cannes and St. Barts

My impression was that he met her at a restaurant, but I suppose it could have been a club. What I remember is that I think he was with someone else at the time, which is pretty damn rude.

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MsAmerica · 01/08/2024 02:38

eggandonion · 30/06/2024 19:07

I would love to read her autobiography. She must know a lot about the family.
I did read that at an international summit she didn't need the earphones for simultaneous translation because her French is good from the fashion world.
Or maybe she just didn't care.

Well, she has a new supposed "autobiography" just about to be published. But I'd be more interested to see what she says after he's dead.

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MollyButton · 01/08/2024 08:15

tribpot · 25/07/2024 21:22

You would have thought Melania could have found someone less dreadful to marry? Especially given his actual wealth appears to either to fluctuate wildly or have been drastically overstated.

Well I have a highly intelligent Aunt who tied herself to a pretty ignorant and very young man to get herself out of Germany after WWII. Sometimes you takes what you can get and get out.

upinaballoon · 01/08/2024 10:53

MollyButton · 01/08/2024 08:15

Well I have a highly intelligent Aunt who tied herself to a pretty ignorant and very young man to get herself out of Germany after WWII. Sometimes you takes what you can get and get out.

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There's a novel there !!

Boomer55 · 14/08/2024 16:53

She’s a trophy bride - happy to put up with anything if her lifestyle is maintained.

Shes not interesting - she just follows a pattern.🤷‍♀️

BeaLola · 14/08/2024 17:26

I have no idea whether she would be super lovely as a dinner party guest or super boring as I have not met her - but if she wants to pop by for dinner I would happily seat her and see how the conversation went before I formed an opinion

MollyButton · 14/08/2024 17:33

BeaLola · 14/08/2024 17:26

I have no idea whether she would be super lovely as a dinner party guest or super boring as I have not met her - but if she wants to pop by for dinner I would happily seat her and see how the conversation went before I formed an opinion

I love this reply (as long as she doesn't bring her husband)

Canalboat · 14/08/2024 17:42

If she can just get on and lead a mainly separate life, isn’t she better just waiting for him to die rather than divorcing him? I’d like a chat to her, she must have some stories to tell.

missdeamenor · 14/08/2024 17:57

Ivanka Trump calls her the beautiful statue. I remember someone saying they attended a dinner party with the Trumps and Melanie didn't say a word. Is a personality necessary when you're a great beauty? Sadly I'll never know.

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