It’s still startling to me that the media, as a whole, doesn’t really care about the Trump marriage. We’ve collectively decided several things all at once: Melania Trump is an a–hole undeserving of sympathy; the Trump marriage has always been a disaster; she doesn’t love him; she doesn’t give a sh-t if he cheats on her. But Melania has to keep up appearances in various ways. Like, she didn’t want to join her husband at Davos last week – she canceled at the last minute, citing vague scheduling and security conflicts, and then flew down to Florida for some alone time at a spa, which I guess was supposed to make us think that she might genuinely be mad about Stormy Daniels. But she also has to keep up appearances with her sham marriage, which is why her office released that statement about how she’s focused on her family and her role as FLOTUS. And now here’s one more “keeping up appearances” thing: Melania will attend the State of the Union tonight.
Melania Trump will be on hand to support her husband during his first State of the Union address on Tuesday evening. During Monday’s briefing, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed the first lady’s attendance and added that all of the president’s children would also be there, with the exception of his 11-year-old son, Barron.
The news comes after the first lady abruptly canceled a planned trip to Davos, Switzerland, with President Trump last week amid allegations that he had an affair with porn star Stormy Daniels. (Trump has denied the claims through his lawyer Michael Cohen.) The change of plans — and the fact that the first lady reportedly traveled to West Palm Beach, Florida, instead, according to CNN — stirred speculation about a possible rift between the first couple.
This was announced around the same time the New York Times reported that Melania was “furious” about the Stormy Daniels story and the NYT notes that Melania has not lifted a finger to publicly or privately excuse or defend her husband in weeks, since the Stormy story broke. In the past, Melania was sent out to “clean up” for her husband’s assaults and his bragging about assaults, but she hasn’t done anything this time… because by all accounts, Trump’s affair with Stormy Daniels was a consensual relationship and not an assault? It’s crazy what Melania will put up with, eh? That New York Times story also confirms that Melania’s last-minute, “whirlwind” trip to Palm Beach last week (as her husband was in Davos) cost taxpayers $64,600 for the plane ride alone.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
“Melania Trump is allegedly ‘furious’ with her husband”
Get in line, honey.
No kidding! ! Excuse my language, Trump, his mail order bride, his spawn and anyone who is associated with this ahole can kiss my a**.
He is seriously a repulsive sub human and she knew exactly what she was marrying.
No, malignant narcissists can put on the charm before the wedding. Check out “love bombing”. Many women have been fooled by such men. So Melania truly may not have know what he was before she married him. She did want financial security, but I doubt that she would have signed on for abuse. There are other rich men she could have cultivated.
This is why you sometimes hear accounts from people who have had interactions with Trump, saying he was charming and even kind. If he wants something and doesn’t have the power to demand it, he knows how to imitate normal human behavior. We see more of the real Donald now because he thinks he has absolute power over everybody.
Her hair kills me!!!!! I can’t even read the article because I can’t find the part in her hair!!!
Ever since someone here mentioned it, it’s the first thing that draws my eyes even though I’m only ever in her posts for the outfits.
It looks like a fall to me with her own hair in the front? It’s odd looking for sure.
It’s like a comb over. The part is in the back and the hair is combed forward to give the illusion of bangs (JMO).
Sounds like she lets Dotard do her hair
@juls 🙂
LOL, Juls.
It’s not a wig. She just grabs a bug chunk of hair at the top, pulls it down along her face (sort of like long bangs) and sprays it with a lot of hair-spray, to fix it.
Wrong Rhys….it’s a “fall” from the crown back….and her own hair from the crown forward… It’s the first time I’ve seen her hair look obviously fake. She obviously had a meeting with the wind…and it undermined her normal poofy-like top…exposing that it’s artificial hair…from the crown back. Jesus…can’t either of them get a better stylist. He has alopecia so that explains why he takes a script for it and combs his hair the way he does. His orange fake tan is designed to cover his rosacea so that explains the reason he tans so heavily. Ugh. With all their money and connections…you’d think they could get their hair looking top notch…but no.
Getting wiggy with it. I hadn’t noticed, but i saw it online and now can’t unsee it!
It looks like a wig.
She has wigs. This is no secret.
I was just about to ask wtf is going on with her hair?! Did she just start doing this or have I never noticed before? I can’t stop looking at it.
Her hairline is so low now, it looks ridiculous.
Yes! Her hair and hairline (or lack thereof) drive me insane. All I see when I look at her is Teresa Giudice!
OMG – that last pic with the little girl. How does real hair fall like that??? I didn’t really believe she wears wigs but I guess she does. And the Obama kids were at the SOTU . Barron should go – might be the only SOTU big daddy cheeto gives.
That photo looks so weird. I have never seen someone just push their hair forward like that to hang like a frozen waterfall off of their face. So bizarre!
Me too! I cannot even focus on the content of the post because I can’t get past her ridiculous hair.
And if it’s a wig, how/why is it so bad?!
I’ve been saying this forever! Omg, her hair is so weird. Like she took cue from the Cheetoh she’s married to and decided not to blend her wiglet either. It’s so bizarre yet mesmerizing fr.
The old saying is true: when you marry for money you earn every penny. No sympathy for this overprivileged twit.
So Melania is going to be at the SOTU? Wonder what inappropriate outfits she and the daughter-wife will be wearing? Last year they were disgraceful.
We had the same thought! See what I posted below,
It will be interesting if she wears black.
Since she’s not bringing her son – wonder who her plus one will be?
I think she’s speaking rather loudly through her silence, though. Mayhap a line has been crossed.
I dont believe she is furious. I don’t think she gives a toss.
Let’s be honest – no one is surprised by this, least of all her!
I tend to agree, although they’d probably lock her up if she didn’t go. Oh the humiliation for Trump if she wasn’t there.
Exactly.
I actually think she is pissed but not because of the infidelity, I’m convinced she was on the verge of bolting and planned to do so after the election, but the surprise win changed everything, I believe she got a renegotiated prenup to stay through his presidency. Implicit was he not be humiliated by his wife’s defection…..I’m sure she expected some quid pro quo meaning he not humiliate her (any more )as a wife with his behavioral shenanigans
And that’s why she’s pissed.
Agreed. Even so it’s disgraceful that she has no regard for her position and is not even attempting to use her platform for anything positive. But that’s pretty much how that entire family rolls. *cries tears of rage and frustration*
Esmom – Melania didn’t sign up for the FLOTUS job. It was imposed on her by people who still assume that a wife is an appendage of her husband and that being married to the POTUS means she has to be FLOTUS with a bundle of expectations that she really does not have the skills for. Comparing her to others who deliberately decided to make the best of it and pursue their own personal agendas is simply unfair. She has no obligation to fulfill those sexist expectations. If she had more self-confidence and wasn’t married to such an abusive jerk, she might be able to simply say so and decline the job. She doesn’t owe us anything.
They can always hire staff to do all the stuff people want the FLOTUS to do. Not all Presidents are even married, so no automatic twofer. We need to dump the whole idea of FLOTUS.
And as far as the cost of her travel to Florida is concerned – sorry, that’s the normal cost of having a President and his family under Secret Service protection. They don’t just take commercial flights. And we can’t expect them to hide away in the White House for four years.
It’s really a minor part of the budget and certainly a much better use of tax money than all the WMDs we keep buying. The military budget was obscene to begin with and keeps growing. We get less safe with every increase. For some odd reason, other people don’t like being bombed. Our own bad behavior creates terrorists. FLOTUS or POTUS trips to Florida don’t.
@jwoolman:
Melanie absolutely CAMPAIGNED for the job of FLOTUS. Unless I imagined her pushing the racist birther crap on TV, plagiarising Michelle Obama’s words at the RNC and trying to downplay her husband’s dozen-plus sexual assaults.
She could have bailed out pre-election at literally any time.
I don’t think she cares that he dipped his wick somewhere else. I do think she’s mad that it was with a porn star who got paid, and that he was indiscreet.
And used no protection
It’s the indiscretion. After she birthed Barron (and all the $ that comes with him), I don’t believe she ever slept with him again. Would you? Ew.
Perhaps she is pissed about the nature of the evidence Stormy Daniels has of her affair with Trump. No way Trump would have paid Daniels off if she didn’t have some solid proof.
And what relic from Macy’s Dynasty collection will she wear? And how inappropriately dressed will Princess Nagini, the Other One, and suck up Lying Lara be? For his last joint session speech, Nagini wore a one shoulder cocktail dress.
LOL. Macy’s Dynasty collection? More like the K-mart Jaclyn Smith collection. Macy’s is too high class
OMG!
Perhaps they’ll all wear something from Nagini’s brand?
Serious question. How is it that in the U.K. the Queen and family travel on trains and commercial flights but our politicians cannot. It does not make sense to me. Our politicians get treated like royalty more than actual royalty.
Eh, the royals also travel on private transportation ALL the time. Also, they constantly need to justify their existence, and the only reason they continue to exist is because Mary and John down the street love them – they can’t alienate themselves from the masses (while our nhs, pensions and salaries deflate), too much.
When commercial flights are taken entire cabins/rows are booked out etc.
It’s all optics.
Also, the UK is a tiny ‘country’ in comparison. I think 870 miles from one end to the other, so trains are a lot more doable, I suppose.
Distances covered for one thing.
Figs cared about defrauding taxpayers for another.
The security issues are quite different. The POTUS has real power, the royals don’t. And we tick off a lot more people by our military actions …. Plus we have home-grown terrorists and well-armed crazies who do try to assassinate politicians.
Judging from what was openly said on the net and on the radio shows I heard, I was really amazed that Obama even made it alive to the end of his first term. The vicious hatred expressed was very scary. I had to listen to the Glen Beck show at the vet’s and really wondered why Secret Service wasn’t breaking down their door. They really were basically suggesting armed overthrow of the elected government. Trump is relatively protected because the armed crazies are mostly his supporters, but can’t count on that.
When the POTUS travels, it’s in Air Force One because it’s set up as a flying Oval Office with security and communication measures not possible on a commercial flight.
I think this time Melania has been publicly humiliated, and she’s embarrassed. All the other women were just dismissed. This story has MONEY attached to it and Stormy is not going away. I have no sympathy for Melania, who is a vapid and self-centered gold digger and who has always known Trump is a dog.
Run Melania! If you spill your guts to Mueller and get Dotard nailed, it will go a long way toward softening anger about birtherism.
I’ll bet she doesnt know anything about Trumps Russia stuff. My guess is she was in the marriage to live in luxury, not buisness.
I know! This is what I dream of if I ever think of Melania. And as @Lori says, she probably knows little to nothing – but those people sometimes make the best witnesses because they can innocently corroborate a fact or unveil a detail that seems harmless on the face but illuminates something critical about the perp.
Plus, a FLOTUS testifying against her husband to the FBI while POTUS is in office? Screw the anti-bullying facade; that shiz will get you in the history books forever.
But she’s not known to be brave, smart, tactical, or surrounded by competent people, so I doubt this will happen.
Honestly, I know she’s super racist and probably came here illegally and gets to stay even as her pimple of a husband keeps trying to get rid of immigrants (if they’re not white! white illegal immigrants can stay!) and she “married for money, is earning every penny” but she looks to me like what I imagine an emotionally abused person would look like. I know that not all emotionally abused people even manifest symptoms most of us can see and I certainly don’t have a stereotype about it, but you can’t tell me that her falling face at the Inauguration Day was a healthy person.
I don’t know. I hate her even as I want to protect her.
And also on some level I don’t care about her.
People really seem to think that Melania is in some way a victim wanting to escape her situation as if she wasn’t spewing the same racist rhetoric as her husband. You are the company you keep and she’s just as much as a scumbag who I highly doubt cares about half of the vile bs her man does if it doesn’t stop her from shopping.
THIS!!!!!!!!!
On the NYT home page, her appearance tonight is one of the first articles, yet the refusal to enforce sanctions is getting little coverage today.
Maybe she’ll show up dressed in cellophane and bring those immigration papers she promised to show. Transparency at last!
These two have the most strange hairstyles ever (outside of 90s hair).
She is NOT furious. She knew about Stormy in 2011, why would she still be mad? This is just a storyline to make you feel sorry for her. I think she’s trying to build sympathy for herself because she’s going to divorce him. Or it’s to give the illusion she cares who he sleeps with. Hint: she doesn’t!
How can they tell? That she is furious, I mean…..Fem bots can’t express emotion, can they?
lol
“Focus on her role as FLOTUS”??
LOLOLOL. What the the hell does she do? We are 1/4 the way into this god awful presidency (unless Mueller saves us) and I don’t think she’s done a single thing that could solely be called her initiative.
I’m sick to death of this lazy, entitled woman.
Well good thing she will be there, since no one else will.
She is all about the money and lifestyle. No sympathy. Bed made.
I have never seen her as a sympathetic figure. Her life has been very self centered, seeking out finanicial security by marrying drump (a repulsive choice in mates). Until recently she parroted drump’s lies and slander. She takes her kid to school, does some Pilates and shops.
Not much there to evoke sympathy.
She is a worthless individual. No sympathy.
It was her choice to marry him and she’s choosing to stay married, so I have no pity for her. Before she even met him, Trump had a well-known history as a cheater and dishonest pig, so the pussy grabbing tape and porn star affair shouldn’t be a huge shock to her or any other human being.
I don’t even know if I can handle watching him give his speech today on TV, so being there would be a million times worse
Dont watch it live! Dont give him his beloved ratings.
Dammit, I wanted to watch that but you’re right, Lori. I’ll catch highlights here tomorrow, or use the ‘net.
Know what sign I DIDN’T see at this year’s Women’s March?
FREE MELANIA
I think this is a sad situation and doubly sad that she has a young child that has to witness/read all about this. I can’t ever really get pleasure in seeing anyone go through this. Her position untenable.
Please let her divorce him while he is in office. Clown face deserves it.
Totally read ‘SOTU’ as STFU. Long day.
She brought her sister and her whole family over here to keep her company in Trump tower (chain migration, anyone?). Her deal was to live the rich lady life. As Trump’s ex Ivanna has cattily said, Melania didn’t even bother to learn English. She’s angry that he got them caught up in this mess. It’s all a bother to her, and I assume her usual attitude is that of a disaffected teenager.
Ivana is a fine one to talk about language skills. Have you ever heard her speak?!? And she’s been in the USA much longer than Melania.
I’m sure Melania knows English as well as Ivana. They both certainly can read and understand spoken English. Those are the easiest skills for adults to acquire when immersed in an environment using another language. But learning to actually speak a language as an adult is very difficult for many adults. They usually can’t even shake the accent from their native language, as we see with both Trump wives #1 and #3.
Children are much more flexible, and if they arrive before the age of about ten they typically don’t have any foreign accent at all. Their brain still has easy access to all the sounds. Above that age, there may be traces of a foreign accent, less for younger ones and more for older teenagers. But they still typically become as fluent as the native-born and they acquire reading and writing skills equal to natives because English is used in schools. Once the brain begins to lose that linguistic flexibility, though, it’s a struggle for many. Has nothing to do with intelligence but rather just the stage at which your brain development is on arrival and your opportunities. People who are continuing their formal education, for example, will have a huge advantage over those who have jobs requiring minimal language use (like Melania as a model), because they are forced to use the language in a more challenging and intensive way.
Hey, now–about that picture at the top of this story…don’t they resemble each other? Same pouty, sullen expression.
Just read that his campaign solicited people to give at least $1 to get their name scrolled at the bottom of a livestream of tonight’s speech.
They were originally asking $35 minimum. Must not have had many takers! 😂
Is any network other than Fox News actually going to do this? Or is it just from a campaign website?
I know CNN will be live streaming on their website.
It’s apparently a campaign website. Bigly traffic, right?
How many will pay a dollar, thinking they’ll see their name scroll by on Faux News tonight? Quite a few, I’d guess.
I hope she is charging him by the appearance at this point. And saving up for the escape.
birther chick can sit down, i am in no mood for her whinging
This!!!!
I’m a girther. I want to see 6’3″ 239lb Donald’s long-form girth certificate. And him standing next to a certified height measuring stick in his socks.
Generally speaking, there comes a point in every SOTU address when the president praises the First Lady and everyone stands up to applaud. I am sitting here fantasizing about that moment, and as the camera pans to Melania, she slowly but definitely gives Donald the finger, then leaves the gallery. As the doors open to allow here exit, Stormy Daniels is there. Melania kisses her on the cheek, and gestures for Stormy to take Melania’s seat. Then Melania leaves, the door closes, and
I had a friend who used to say ‘Nothing is for free.’ She is a perfect example. She has paid ten times over in misery for a marriage for money. I feel sorry for her despite what you guys probably think, but nobody deserves a husband like him, imagine how he speaks to her, i’m Sure her calls her stupid etc. I like her and hate her husband.
This is what happens when shallow, vapid women marry for money…she doesn’t need sympathy, she desperately needs some integrity.
And she canceled her subscription to Forbes.
She needs to do better with her wigs. They have not been on point lately.
People think the Stormy Daniels thing is pissing her off right now… and it could be. Wasn’t it reported that they had unprotected sex? I would be irate. It’s one thing to look the other way or have an open marriage but you d*mn well better be using protection.
However. Michael Wolff was on Bill Maher a few weeks ago and he hinted that there is a current affair going on. A lot of people suspect Nikki Haley but I have major doubts. I think she has to be smart then that.
I believe it is Hope Hicks. And that could be what is drawing Melania’s ire at this point.
Current affair? No one is sleeping with the Orange Twat. I mean, who would ? Not even Huckabee-Sanders to keep her job. Also, not to be indelicate, but that there dead cannot be raised.
I don’t give two fucks about whether this woman does or doesn’t attend…she is absolutely complicit in every single thing this asshat President has said or done to this country in the past year. She purposely married him for the money, so as the saying goes, you live by the sword, you die by the sword. I hope to hell Robert Mueller buries this man and his entire administration and we never have to see his ignorant, orange face ever again.
They both look miserable. See photo 1.
Oh my gawd, the WIG!
She canceled her subscription to Forbes.
They kind of look alike in that picture.
There is no chemistry between these two. She is dead on the inside. I think the marriage is killing her from within and slowly. I’m betting she will divorce him after his term.