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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt appears to me that Melania looks like a victim of domestic violence
Gaunt face
Her expression reflecting defeat
Her hair hastily pulled together
Her eyes look dead
While I don't especially have sympathy for her, I have seen this face before: my mother.
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lark
(25,822 posts)She is as bad as him..
AverageOldGuy
(3,252 posts)At least she didnt wear her I really dont care, do you? coat.
Irish_Dem
(78,902 posts)No class.
brush
(61,033 posts)And for onnc being a 'model' she sure has poor taste in clothing.
Autumn
(48,704 posts)jrthin
(5,214 posts)be concerned about those who really need it vs a woman whom I suspect is an abuser herself.
3Hotdogs
(14,920 posts)Orange Anus turned to her and said something. The look on her face --- it looked like he ripped her soul from her.
jrthin
(5,214 posts)I remember her pre 2016, and she's always been an obnoxious pig. Will never forget how she demanded Obama show his birth certificate.
NameAlreadyTaken
(2,193 posts)Trumpers were trying to claim "Oh that video is being played backwards! She smiled AFTER he spoke to her!" Baloney. It's obvious he said something to her that ruined her mood.
hamsterjill
(16,888 posts)I will not put her in a category as a victim like many woman who do not have the financial means to leave an abusive situation or have children to consider.
JT45242
(3,792 posts)She went into the honey pot scheme not expecting this fat, stupid lout who does not exercise or eat well to die a long time ago.
This was not supposed to be an assignment that lasted twenty years.
no_hypocrisy
(54,047 posts)Her face is the mask my mother wore.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)she honestly looks like death warmed over.........Maybe Trump told her that her pre-nup would be appealed up to the USSC.......
She sold out, literally, when she started dating Trump.............Did any President ever, publish mostly nude pictures of his wife?
Crowman2009
(3,375 posts)Dem4life1234
(2,533 posts)Their ugly inside starts to manifest to the outside.
He would have traded her in for someone new, knowing how he is, but right now he's kinda broke with all those legal lawsuits and alimony will sink him.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)of the humongous amounts of money he has grifted, just since the election????????
We have the best Politicians that money can buy with Corporate money, and Uber Wealthy money.........
Dem4life1234
(2,533 posts)Their ugly inside starts to manifest to the outside.
He would have traded her in for someone new, a newer model, knowing how he is, but right now he's kinda broke with all those legal lawsuits and alimony will sink him.
bdamomma
(69,128 posts)Russia loved laughing at her, or all of us. It was on their state-run media.
speak easy
(12,580 posts)
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)Melanoma and Ghislaine carry around enough silicone between them, to caulk thousands of tubs and showers, all in hopes they will get more attention from their spouses than their spouses give pubescent, under age girls......
julmur
(222 posts)I have to disagree, she just looks completely bored and put upon to having shown up for the service.
Rebl2
(17,273 posts)think. She likely didnt want to be there, so she didnt care what she looked like.
Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)JI7
(93,092 posts)enigmania
(393 posts)sex workers, but she looks to me like a jaded call girl.
Ocelot II
(128,705 posts)PCIntern
(27,926 posts)I have plenty of stories of housewives who dressed up and visited apartments and hotels during the day. One story involved a friends wife who is a retired cheerleader for a professional sports team. He thought he won the lottery when she attached herself to him. Shes 61, and you can imagine the rest. He found out by pure happenstance that she was servicing several wealthy men, when he stopped at a store and the owner recognized the last name on the charge card. He asked if the customer was related and the adventure began.
Ocelot II
(128,705 posts)PCIntern
(27,926 posts)A significant married guy. The only reason a single person has an affair with a married person is so that they can talk about it.
Diamond_Dog
(39,560 posts)But apparently as someone yesterday posted, yesterday was the one years anniversary of Mels mothers death, so being that she had to attend this funeral Im willing to cut her a wee bit of slack.
no_hypocrisy
(54,047 posts)There's an adage that when you marry for money, you earn every penny.
BattleRow
(2,075 posts)Skittles
(169,045 posts)they are both vile
niyad
(129,183 posts)Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)niyad
(129,183 posts)paid well, onecway or another. I wonder where the bank account where daddy vlad pays her is.
Attilatheblond
(8,086 posts)And doesn't need a porn star to show of to other man-babies
bdamomma
(69,128 posts)did not want to sit next to the felon. That's why Pres. Obama was sitting next to the felon. I don't blame her, and Mike Pence's wife didn't give them the time of day.
The felon and Melania looked out of place, so artificial. Like Boris and Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)But I guess that means, that as basically "fraudulent" immigrants, her father and Melania herself, will be deported by ICE without her mother's remains.......
Includes deporting Musk, Trump's cronies spouses, etc etc etc......
After Trump was snubbed and ignored by her repeatedly, esp during his first term, maybe he told her something "special" that he has planned for her now that he is about to take office.......
I'm just waiting for when he declares Indigenous Native Americans immigrants......
This is the most frightened I have been for us, and planet earth.......The corporations have driven their greed, and personal self interests way way past the point of no return...
GoCubsGo
(34,610 posts)she's at someone else's funeral, and not that of the shitbag sitting next to her. I'm sure she thought she'd be free of that scumbag by now, just as the rest of us did. The hair, clothing, and facial expressions strike me as those of an aging woman who is all out of fucks to give, and can't believe she's still stuck with that asshole. She's not even going to be living with him in the White House, and she's just going through the motions at this point. And, doing so half-assedly.
Baitball Blogger
(51,595 posts)Something was off, like she was physically forced to be there.
sop
(17,185 posts)Let that reality sink in for a few seconds. It's a miracle she hasn't jumped out of a fifth floor window.
Texin
(2,824 posts)And she definitely doesn't want to return to Washington (and never wanted to be there before). She looks as tired and unhappy as anyone who has been drafted into the military.
I don't hate her. I can almost pity her.
sop
(17,185 posts)barbtries
(31,052 posts)My guess is the Barron ship has sailed.
sop
(17,185 posts)barbtries
(31,052 posts)they're all sociopaths and grifters. Barron never stood a chance.
Why? Barron is turning into yet another trump POS kid
3Hotdogs
(14,920 posts)As Lennon wrote, "Let it be."
generalbetrayus
(1,460 posts)dlk
(13,086 posts)Melanie isnt the most sympathetic of women, to be sure, but no woman, of any station, at any place, at any time should be subjected to the degradation of domestic violence.
Any man who brags about sexually assaulting women is an abuser. No wonder she put as much physical distance between them as she can, when she can.
thebigidea
(13,554 posts)She isn't a princess that needs to be rescued, she's an out of touch birther creep
La Coliniere
(1,711 posts)and both rotting on the vine.
Irish_Dem
(78,902 posts)She reports he raped her.
thebigidea
(13,554 posts)Irish_Dem
(78,902 posts)His wife was most certainly correct.
And used it to her advantage in a nasty divorce.
Ritabert
(1,903 posts)...for s scalp reduction surgery and it was very painful. Then he allegedly attacked her although I think she retracted the charge later probably for a bigger divorce settlement.
Irish_Dem
(78,902 posts)Ritabert
(1,903 posts)dalton99a
(91,645 posts)Butterflylady
(4,584 posts)Because hubby just found out about her affair. Here's hopping she goes back to nyc.
Fiddlelady11
(99 posts)Full of regret.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)she married what the Republican's have created; A living, breathing, Frankenstein's monster......
Being married to the most vindictive sub-human being on earth, and not cooperating with him all these years, I wonder what punishment he is going to exact on her for revenge.......
He gets mad, and then he gets even.............Now that she has outgrown her usefulness in raising another one of his spawn, she is destined to be thrown under the bus. Exactly how he has done with everyone else in his entire life..........
GreenWave
(12,137 posts)* a small group that teaches that wives have to obey their husbands in everything
niyad
(129,183 posts)on the ridiculous white collar.
snowybirdie
(6,516 posts)psychological abuse. He's probably full of himself since elected again and acting like he's a god. Talking it out on her
Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)Take it from there.
snowybirdie
(6,516 posts)psychological abuse. He's probably full of himself since elected again and acting like he's a god. Talking it out on her
mountain grammy
(28,567 posts)I know that face.. that was me 50 years ago..I got out and, despite a few years of total chaos, my sons grew up to be kind and decent men who respect women and despise everything trump.
marshall
(6,697 posts)Ive seen it many times.
Blue Owl
(58,093 posts)Pre-embalmed with plenty of processed food chemicals check.
Hair sprayed and dyed check.
Heavy amounts of makeup applied check.
Bring on the grim reaper and be done with it already.
Emile
(40,075 posts)no_hypocrisy
(54,047 posts)I see defeat.
Emile
(40,075 posts)up to give his eulogy to President Carter?
no_hypocrisy
(54,047 posts)Sorry, just not seeing what youre saying, I see a woman who is completely uninterested in the service, the people around her & is resentful she had to attend
kimbutgar
(26,624 posts)Yes she does look defeated and depressed. And I wouldnt be shocked if he beat her. Didnt he hurt Ivana over a hair surgery that he had that was unsuccessful?
FSogol
(47,501 posts)Her path only crosses with Trumpy if she wants it to. She mostly stayed in NY while he was in the WH. After he left the presidency, she went to Maro-Lago. She could have stayed away.
orangecrush
(27,923 posts)To say that is a grave insult to real battered women, though unintentional.
allegorical oracle
(6,107 posts)this horrible man. How much is she getting from a new "documentary"? Something like $40M? If anyone's able to leave, it's Melania. She's a grifter just like her husband, imo.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,489 posts)Scrivener7
(58,027 posts)barbtries
(31,052 posts)I think shes looking more and more like her husband.
Shes not a woman without resources to get away. Everyone in TCSFs orbit is abused. WE are abused by him. The press. Congress. His political career has served to not only reveal, but to grow the sickness of our country.
I have zero sympathy for her. Unlike millions more of his abuse victims, she has a choice.
Meowmee
(9,212 posts)I have zero sympathy for her, she supported her fascist murdering husband and is a berther and more I am sure. She is complicit in at all
zero sympathy, for the people that murdered my father. And as you pointed out, what choice do we have to get away from this abuse and horror? We cant.
* in addition her son with him is now part of it too- he worked to get his psycho father elected etc.
orleans
(36,603 posts)there is/was a happy ending for your mother and her children.
Aaeia
(168 posts)Nadine. Randall Flagg's main squeeze in "The Stand", Stephen King.
Her eyes are dead. They've actually been that way for a long time.
Maybe, he's the one not letting her out in public?
NameAlreadyTaken
(2,193 posts)Joinfortmill
(19,800 posts)Poop in his pants.
FoxNewsSucks
(11,476 posts)Katinfl
(592 posts)Or even the same state. She made her bed, now she has to lay in it. I bet she never bargained for the spotlight though. Thought she could just coast along for a few years until he croaks, then she will have what she always wanted the $$$. I also bet she will be sadly mistaken when that time comes. I am sure she has it in writing, but with him nothing is set in stone. She is probably in for a rude awakening that cant come fast enough.
LeftInTX
(34,008 posts)He's all about himself, and she pretty much minds her own business.
3catwoman3
(28,418 posts)She looks frowzy in this picture - unkempt.
LeftInTX
(34,008 posts)Then combined with that high collar, she looks like a puritan.
joanbarnes
(2,067 posts)Iggo
(49,547 posts)bucolic_frolic
(53,653 posts)JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)Dem4life1234
(2,533 posts)Some of y'all give this chick too much damn credit and sympathy.
She is just as vile as he is, remember when she accused President Obama of not being a citizen? You must have forgot about that?
She is not worth any sympathy.
Tarzanrock
(1,250 posts)Malaria will soon be planted in that sand trap in the Trump National Golf Course in Bedminister, N.J. alongside and next to Ivana. Ivana had a $34 million dollar estate and just look at the hole she ended up in! Malaria well knows her fate.
peacefreak2.0
(1,044 posts)of her mothers death.
pandr32
(13,712 posts)She is not happy to be First Lady again. Her look was her protest.
Polybius
(21,324 posts)I think she would kick his ass in a fight. She's around 26 years younger and in far better shape.
Dan
(4,920 posts)Because I wouldnt want Donald killed by his wife in a domestic violence situation.
Then we would have to listen 24X7 about how Donald was victimized by Melania, and that he was killed by her when he tried to successfully beat her in one of his rages.
Then the Evangelical Christians will be crowing about how it is the wifes duty to submit to beatings and thus Trump is the victim.
The GOP will rail against immigrants killing good rich, white American men who just happened to wed foreign women for their looks.
There then will be an effort to further strip rights away from women in America probably led by the female-protector Vance.
I wont even comment on the possible State funeral that would be held for our former crime-boss President, held at a Honey-Bucket Headquarters with for-pay honey-buckets outside for public use.
Putin will speak at the State funeral about his mentee Donald and the Bigly work he was doing on Russias behalf.
Finally, Melania will get away with it - because the MSM wont want to post anything negative about their crime-boss.
Melania will go on with her life - marrying another rich white man, probably a Senator, either Lyndsay, McConnell or Scott, and live a happily ever after sex free life.
A guy can dream.
JoseBalow
(9,061 posts)Trash through and through
Vinca
(53,156 posts)She's always looked gaunt and messy hair is probably the style of the day among the women who can afford $5,000 blouses and Hermes handbags. She doesn't want to be there, she doesn't want to be First Lady again. I doubt she feels the need to look like anything.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,041 posts)of that scummy criminal asshole piece of grotesque shit.
mentalsolstice
(4,637 posts)I think most compassionate people, including us, would have understood her absence. Michelle Obama wasnt there, for reasons unknown. She also lost her mother this past year. Just pointing out facts without going into theory.
However, Melanias outfit was truly trashy.
tenderfoot
(8,982 posts)She's as awful as he is and repeatedly proves it.
no_hypocrisy
(54,047 posts)bdamomma
(69,128 posts)just business to her, (she must be getting money for doing appearances) they both hate or dislike each other. He's such an ass like he's so disinterested, just pure evil. Wait until his time comes, we will be celebrating the end of his destruction.
nini
(16,820 posts)She dressed intentionally and showed her lack of respect for it all.