their whole relationship is.

but, if she is, in fact, his handler, as many suspect, none of this is surprising, and she will not leave.

otherwise is dilusional.

A lousy comrade president and an awful 'first (lady)'

And the link is helpful for a dirty old man like me. (wink)

Melania knew what kind of man Trump was when she married him. She made a deal.

In fact, I don't feel anything about her other than a big... whatever. She's almost irrelevant. I write "almost" because if she's pissed at Trump, that will make his life even more miserable and I can enjoy that. But she's not the entree. That's all Trump.

Trump's profound corruption and criminality is coming to light. Robert Mueller is going to become an incredibly important person in the history of the U.S. If he does his job right, future historians may regard him as a re-Founding Father.

enough they remind me of Ivanka’s boobs.

You can spot them a mile off...Ivanka has had a boob job too, her implants cc's are too big for her rib cage...

I noticed that and pointed it out to my daughter, I told her damn their boobs are identical, you would think they were related. I wonder if dump paid for both of them with his preferred size stipulated?

and GQ is a respected magazine, known for their style.

There are many issues with Melania - birtherism, hypocrisy regarding her immigration, hitching herself to a fascist for wealth/power, etc - but her career as a model/pinup is not one of them, IMO.

extremely sexist. Most men who have choices, and women, give serious priority to income when considering a mate. A hostile mind could choose to believe most men and women prostitute themselves. But I wouldn't.

Of course the life this woman would have with Trump mattered as long as she stayed with him given a reported whopper of a prenup. She was 35 and he still a decent looking 58 or so when they married.

But take a look at this. These are Melania's parents. Note a certain resemblance? Reportedly, her father is a boisterous, rather trumpish man in personality also.

through chained migration (in GOPig terms) the hypocrisy never ends.

about them. Most anyway. They just don't have the liberal problem of thinking that what is right for them should be right for everyone. Very much to the contrary, and our inability to understand why that is so is a big part of why they see us as intractably stupid and our preaching insufferably sanctimonious.

Equality? Pffft!

but also a calculating gold-digger aspect to her regarding marrying a narcissistic billionaire playboy.

she is waiting (and hoping) for him to die. soon. she'll be so happy until the will gets read.

I don’t think so! As for the 1st lady, we’ll that goes without saying. No, really. Our First Lady has, still does, style and grace. The 1st lady has none of that. Never had, never will.

Only Ivanka.. The other 4? can bite it.

More likely is that Melania is depressed, filled with regret and resentment. It oozes out of her.

Charles Blow puts it very well. There is no way she doesn’t understand the kind of man she married. Her marriage is her business. However when she, in a position of power, supports a disgusting bigot, a self-confessed sexual assaulter and a hypocrite who promotes policies that harm everything from girls and women to the entire planet, who she is and what she does becomes my business.

The American voter

I agree with both meanings of that! Sorry, couldn't resist!

Bird in a Gilded Cage--1899--Arthur Lamb

The ballroom was filled with fashion's throng,
It shone with a thousand lights,
And there was a woman who passed along,
The fairest of all the sights,
A girl to her lover then softly sighed,
There's riches at her command;
But she married for wealth, not for love, he cried,
Though she lives in a mansion grand.

CHORUS
She's only a bird in a gilded cage,
A beautiful sight to see,
You may think she's happy and free from care,
She's not, though she seems to be,
'Tis sad when you think of her wasted life,
For youth cannot mate with age,
And her beauty was sold,
For an old man's gold,
She's a bird in a gilded cage.

they're not.

She did not come here on a work visa. As a matter-of-fact, she was forbidden to work in this country on the type of visa she was issued.

Cut her a fucking break for Christ Sake

but folks like to try and forget..Nope..not cutting her any slack or break...

She's playing along with a monster who doesn't give a crap about anyone, including her.

is a birther. and a plagiarist, and possibly an agent of a foreign government. on what, exactly, should she be cut a break?

White supremacists are notorious for engaging in this practice. For example, William Pierce.

Leave her alone. Focus on her husband.

"Leave her alone. Focus on her husband..."

To what specific end?

Last year, you yourself said politics is a dirty game and that rules are for the weak... or was that merely situational ethics wholly dependent on what particular narrative of yours it either reinforces or denies?