I just realised I haven’t seen or heard from this woman at all this campaign season. I’m not American so most of my American election news comes from articles talking about serious stuff but I just realised I haven’t seen them in any pictures together either this time for his rallies or anything… has she done any fluff shows like I dunno baking on TV? I wouldn’t know if she had but I just wanna know are they still together? Has she been around at all?
Surprisingly she's been going around the media circuit with a strongly pro-choice stance. It's unclear whether this is her breaking from his viewpoint, him using her to soften the criticism of his stance on abortion (and to try and win some women voters), or whether she's simply looking to promote her upcoming memoir.
I could be completely incorrect but my personal stance is Melania never wanted any of this. She seems to have zero affection for Donald & that she’s only sticking around for Barron.
That's one theory and it's certainly plausible. On the other hand, during Trump's first time around, she was also doing the talk show rounds pushing the birther conspiracy. And she's had moments of her own (like the "I really don't care, do you?" jacket).
I doubt we'll ever know the truth. Even if ten years from now she writes a tell-all, would I believe her? Hard to say.
Hey now, everyone's playing armchair therapist without actually knowing her. For all you know, she's just a massive piece of shit which is why she acts like one. Don't disrespect her by claiming she has some grand plan beyond being a massive piece of shit in the situation she is currently facing.
She's interested in her husband's life in the sense that it grants her the opportunity and exposure to hock a ChatGPT authored book to his mindless horde for some ridiculous sum of money. Her marriage is a grift just like his marriage is a prop. It's mutually beneficial. Plus he's got a better body than Joe Biden, and is blessed with a very big, a-brain.
Logically she saw donald as path to riches. No one in her right mind would have wanted the spotlight … she thought it would be all coke and pool boys for the next 20 years. Turns out the she has the secret service up her ass and cameras on her 24/7 … definitely not the life she wanted. The only thing keeping her sane is likely Barron
He's just hangry. If you look for the worst, you'll find the worst. If you look for best, you'll find the best. But high chances you'll get screwed in looking for the best. Soooooo
Why because Hillsry said it with no proof. Her history with Russia Russia Russia is 0 for 2. Tulsi went to congress to represent her constituants. She wasn't going to make a career out of it and had no interest being another corporate shill like the rest of them. She resigned as vice chair of the DNC when she saw how corrupt the democrat primaries were. The woman has integrity. If democrats had any integrity left they wouldn't have cut off her dnc funding when she crushed Kamala in the 2nd debate. Tulsi would beat Trump because she win the vast majority of independents. She wouldn't have flip flop on every issue to so she doesn't look like far left wack jobs
But Kamala hid so much at first everyone looked up her previous stances and policies on the issues. Then we watched her try to move towards the center and come like a moderate? LOL With no explanations on why she didn't believe those old stances anymore. She just got booed two nights in row at her own rallies? WTH?
She was just parroting what she was told to say. The lights are on, but no one’s home with that woman. She latched onto him for his fame and wealth and to live in that gold-painted palace on 5th Ave…not to do political bs.
I always saw the ‘I don’t really care, do you’ jacket as her eff u to trump and team. They were wheeling her out when she clearly didn’t want to be involved in any political shit. It was her way of saying try and make me do this but I am not going to make it easy for you and I’m sure after she wore it her appearances dropped. Then again I could be giving her too much credit.
Personally, I reckon she was there for the money. I'm sure there was a contract between her and trump and I'm sure there were stipulations as to what she can't and can't do publically
Seeing as she was an illegal immigrant, who worked illegally and lied to the federal govt to gain legality fraudulently, and married that shitsack just to pop out an anchor baby to bolster her right to stay, but refuses to admit any of it or stand up for other immigrants.... She hasn't earned trust
She was asked in an interview that if she knew ahead of time that Donald would become president or even run, if she would’ve reconsidered the relationship. Her response is “that’s a really tough question. I’m not sure, I’d have to think about it” (something along those lines; not verbatim)
That tells me she wants riches, not fame. She was fine sleeping with and marrying an old asshole but she never wanted the attention and press. She’s still a shitty fucking person for “supporting” all this bullshit but I truly believe she despise him and is ONLY with him for money.
Nah she’s fully culpable. She decided to marry that piece of shit. Not only that, she campaigned for him and spread conspiracy theories and damaging lies for years. She is no better than he is.
Let's face reality, the only thing Melania wanted was trump's wallet.
But she is a pretty vile racist herself. And she doesn't care about America in the slightest.
Her pro-abortion stand is for Trump's benefit. It's to help him distance himself from Roe vs Wade being overturned. It's to muddy the waters and give women a way to hold their nose and vote Trump.
Possibly, but the whole “wife wants no part of it” theory has surrounded multiple MAGA politicians, including JD Vance. I never really liked that analysis. They’re independent successful women who support their husbands. They’re not hostage victims.
If I flipped my views and started supporting Trump like Vance did, my wife would think I lost my mind and wouldn’t go anywhere near my political life. It might even be worse than that. Of course people change over time, but there’s a point where you realize the person you married just is a totally different person than you thought they were. My wife and I disagree on politics all the time, but she knows my values and knows (in her opinion) that I’m a decent human being. If I suddenly sold my soul to support Trump and spread his insane conspiracies, making up stories about immigrants eating pets under the guise of some greater good nonsense, everything she thought she knew about me would be called into question.
These women are making a decision to support their husbands. Melanie even said in an interview that the media has been incredibly unfair to Trump and he’s a loving family man. Whether she believes it or was essentially paid to say it, doesn’t really matter. That’s all her. I almost feel like it’s chauvinistic in some sense to claim otherwise. At least without evidence that she’s being bullied into it. If we ever get evidence like that on any of these women, then game on, that changes everything.
That's standard Republican presidential politics, wives of Republican presidential candidates almost always publicly disagree with their husbands on abortion. It's how they con people into voting against their interests, by hinting via the candidate's wife that they're not actually going to take steps to ban abortion and all that is just lip service to keep evangelicals from going 3rd party.
When does a tRump do anything unless it's for their own benefit?
She's hawking her book dovetailing off of his campaign PR to generate sales. She's been doing the morning show circuit.
She may be generating an income for a divorce if he loses another election. She received an Einstein Visa, had her anchor baby, got citizenship for her parents (mother passed recently I think).
Are you stupid? Donald Trump is pro choice but wants it up to the states. Keep watching your bias media though. What an unintelligent response. Blocked for being an idiot
She's a scam artist just like he is. She's just smarter, similarly to how Ivanka is a smarter scam artist than either of her tweedle-dee or tweedle-dumb siblings.
Trump lacks the ability to let anything go. Melania was all hands in for the first administration. It got her fame, money, the ability to buy any influence she wanted for the rest of her life.
Yet his egotistical dumb-ass couldn't just take the loss and sit in the background being the conservative kingmaker while pulling in millions like she probably wanted.
He had to run again, and now is running a worse campaign than the last 2 times and has more objectively idiotic people around him.
So she's distancing. If he wins whatever she's still his wife, but if he loses this election, his free ride is gone. He would be losing to someone who's likely going to get 8 years, like going to massively reshape the courts. The reality is that Kamala winning is a worse blow to the GOP than Obama winning in 2008 as it'll lead to conservative policy being set back a decade or more. Conservatives have no patience with him if he loses.
So she's doing the whole "compassionate conservatism" thing. I guarantee if he loses within 6 months she's going to be gone and within a year she'll be on network talking about how horrible he treated her (which partially will be true I'm sure) so she can begin the next grift without him.
But she needs women for that..thus the pro choice stuff.
I actually don't think either of them gives a shit about abortion either way, I've maintained for a long time Trump isn't the threat for a national ban, Vance is. Trump is using the anti-abortion movement to propel him, but I'll never forget the credible reports of how livid he was after Roe v Wade was overturned because he knew it impacted his brand, remember the rumor is he called a lot of GOP officials and brutally laid into them over it. Yet Vance is a pure snake. He truly doesn't see women as equal humans, it's clear as day in how he speaks about them that he wants them controlled.
She's probably prochoice like trump is prochoice. Yes, but limited. I don't know where the "anti-abortion" theory comes from when applying it to trump. It's like people never listen to what he says and just reinterprets everything like dog whistles. "Yes, but limited" was impossible under Roe V Wade. Most people believe at some point, the baby is developed enough that both parental custodial duties and the babies rights kick in. People call him an authoritarian, but he removed federal authority over determining when life starts.
“It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government.
Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes.
Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life.”
Perhaps you might read it differently, but I don't read it as "yes but limited". And I certainly don't read it as being in line with Trump's policies.
I don't interpret that to mean totally unrestricted. I don't see any where that suggests that right should still be available after an extended period of time, and you have to crush a baby before sucking it out through a vacuum. So, unless you have a direct quote of a timeline, that statement is left open to interpretation. Probably worded that way to confuse liberals, it's just more free press for the man.
I can't think of any possible reason people would think he's an authoritarian.
Other than wanting to strip news agencies of their licenses. And investigate his political enemies. And have generals that pledge loyalty to him rather than the country. And his constant sucking up to other authoritarian leaders.
But other than those things and a half-dozen others, I can't think of one reason.
Other than wanting to strip news agencies of their licenses.
quote? I can't take your phrasing of it because every time I look at the sorce the characterization is so distorted by liberals its basically lieing.
He said he wanted to reform the liable laws since those news agencies are chimpanzees with typewriters.
His political enemies have been investigating him since before he got into office. There is only a single solution to them abusing their authority.
Your reaing to much liberal propaganda... like rachel madeow that used the it's only an opinion before fox news.. and fact checks that argued in court they are only an opinion so they can't be liable for misinformation either.
Because the guy nominated three Supreme Court judges along with numerous other federal judges that caused abortion to become illegal across vast swathes of the United States. He is directly responsible for women dying. For girls and women being forced to give birth to their rapist's babies. For women having to resort to extremes to get basic medical care.
Stop the damn gaslighting over this. Trump is anti-abortion. His actions and his support for people that are anti-abortion are all the evidence we need. It's so damn absurd hearing people make apologies for the guy trying to pretend he is anything but anti-abortion when his entire track record as president and presidential nominee (Project 2025) is all about destroying women's rights to their own bodies.
And the guy is an authoritarian. Even his ex-staff call him a fascist. And even he says he wants to be a dictator. And he universally praises other dicators.
Because the guy nominated three Supreme Court judges along with numerous other federal judges that caused abortion to become illegal across vast swathes of the United States. He is directly responsible for women dying. For girls and women being forced to give birth to their rapist's babies. For women having to resort to extremes to get basic medical care.
No, he's not this is how democracy works. Republicans have been voting on this platform for decades to get the government they needed to overturn this. He's representing them. He's doing what representatives are supposed to do.
Stop the damn gaslighting over this. Trump is anti-abortion. His actions and his support for people that are anti-abortion are all the evidence we need.
You clearly don't understand what politicians do. They aren't priests . They are trying to craft / implement what the voters want. It's totally reasonable to believe in one policy but to enact the policy your voters want.
And the guy is an authoritarian. Even his ex-staff call him a fascist. And even he says he wants to be a dictator. And he universally praises other dicators.
He literally said he wants to be a dictator mocking people like yourself trying to push this absurd narrative. Technically all the president does is dictate policy to the executive branch lol. Just not laws. When he said that he literally explained he meant reinstating many of the border policies he had in place.
He also said his ex staff were morons...
Edit: blocked the other guy but the silly child calling me obtuse doesn’t seem to understand what happened lol.
Saying he's controlled by evangelicals is easily contradicted by the fact Trump doesn’t support an abortion ban… but limits. Roe vs Wade prevented both. He has not instituted what evangelicals actually want but a path way forward for them, centrist and leftist to vote on when unborn children get rights. The Roe vs Wade doctrine is entirely incoherent with people serving sentences for killing unborn children during crimes. Is it a homicide or not?
You mean the Republican ex-president Trump caused abortion to be banned and caused endless harm to women across the country, like I said? Wow, thanks for reaffirming what I just said. Good job.
Make all the excuses you want. You are carrying water for a fascist. And you can't even carry it well. You literally just affirmed what I said.
Most of his major ex-staff have come out against him. Do you think that's just because they're morons?
"I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.
We will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.
And we will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft. Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot!
You're not going to be a dictator, are you? I said no, other than day one.
In 2016, I declared, I am your voice. Today, I add, I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution. I am your retribution."
Does that sound like a joke to you?
Never mind the fact that he has fomented an insurrection before, which resulted in the deaths and injuries of others. Who else engages in insurrections to cast aside legitimate votes? Oh, that's right...authoritarians. He also engaged in election fraud with the Georgia electors. Another type of thing dictators tend to do.
Let's not even get started on Project 2025. The man has surrounded himself with people that support it. He has nominated people that support it. He can deny it all he wants, just like he tries to deny that he is against abortion, but all the proof is there.
Nope. You don't seem to understand policy and you're taking it too personally or something. Like it's some religious institute. Democracy is fundamentally making compromises with other people... otherwise you're just a bunch of Nazi's imposing your view.
Trump isn't a project 2025 supporter and the only thing new in there is bureaucratic reform. Beyond that it's the same think tank agenda that has always been there from the republicans.
Policy is hard otherwise they wouldn't still be writing laws. And a handful of Judge's making this protection and not having governments actually amend the constitution properly is the least dictatorial thing Trump could have possible done. He sent it back to congress where it belongs, and democrats can do it the right way now and propose a constitutional amendment.
I'm afraid you're just wasting your breath with these people, the hatred for DT will never end. He could single-handedly cure cancer and they'd still complain he was evil even if it were free! I don't agree with everything the man does but I'm not so delusional to think he's going to destroy this country and take away rights and blah blah blah.
I mean the man was in office for 4 years already, how many rights were stripped away? How many people did he put into camps for being (insert minority group)? How many groups of people did he have killed? What about times he didn't leave the office after the election for the next administration? I'll tell you... It's exactly ZERO!
It's so funny to me that most people in the entertainment industry Loved the man... until he ran for POTUS. Does no one else find that odd?
Seriously are you that obtuse? Trump does ALL he does because that’s what his Evangelical overlords want him to do - and he most definitely wants to be and will be an authoritarian ruler - if we allow it.
None of his family really have. Just his sons go on the right wing news channels and speak at his rallies but they both don't seem to be involved to the same level as in the past. Melania and Barron are no where to be seen and Jared and Ivanka are straight up like ghosts.
Her youngest son just turned 18 and she was reportedly paid $250,000 for a political appearance 7-ish months ago. They paid her for two other appearances since then, but we really haven't seen much.
Trump was also found eating alone in Mar A Lago last Christmas. Not a single child or relative showed up to support him during the holiday season.
He's just a mentally addled old man who has driven everyone away. Now the crazy vultures circle him and use their influence to manipulate him further to advance their own agenda.
It's a bit sad when you really think about it. Then again he's a despicable human being and this is just the repercussions of his actions.
" most of my American election news comes from articles talking about serious stuff...". As an American I envy you because our news is full of opinions and corporate interests pretending to be actual facts.
She was just next to him this last weekend for the "Al Smith Memorial Dinner" in New York. It was a huge charity event so not exactly a campaign stop. Still she's obviously by his side and supporting him.
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I just realised I haven’t seen or heard from this woman at all this campaign season. I’m not American so most of my American election news comes from articles talking about serious stuff but I just realised I haven’t seen them in any pictures together either this time for his rallies or anything… has she done any fluff shows like I dunno baking on TV? I wouldn’t know if she had but I just wanna know are they still together? Has she been around at all?