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mrmpa

(4,033 posts) Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:27 AM Oct 2016

Has anyone else noticed that Trump does not wear a wedding ring?....

Just saw that tonight while I was watching MSNBC. My Dad didn't wear one, he worked around and with machinery. When he got married he was in the Marines, and that was the way it was.

But in 2016, it's less likely for a man not to wear a band. What does this say about Trump, particularly in light of what we have seen and heard today.

Maybe he thinks if he doesn't have a wedding band, that he's not really married & he can do or say anything he wants to in regard to women.

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Has anyone else noticed that Trump does not wear a wedding ring?.... (Original Post) mrmpa Oct 2016 OP

If we go to the photos, and look at him on his MADem Oct 2016 #1

It effects his grip Johnny2X2X Oct 2016 #2

Maybe it slipped off during one of his groping sessions? Buckeye_Democrat Oct 2016 #3

you beat me to it. Punchline stolen. nt TeamPooka Oct 2016 #4

I almost went too far with it. Buckeye_Democrat Oct 2016 #6

Eh. I don't wear one either and I work on a computer. Been married 39 years . . . Journeyman Oct 2016 #5

Neither do I or Mr. Retrograde Retrograde Oct 2016 #7

Definitely. But there's plenty of issues of substance on which to hold him to account . . . Journeyman Oct 2016 #8

Remember he's got tiny little hands. It keeps falling off? aidbo Oct 2016 #9

MADem

(135,425 posts)

1. If we go to the photos, and look at him on his

Reply to mrmpa (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:29 AM

Oct 2016

wedding day, and now, I'd guess he outgrew the thing.

The fingers are short, and chubbier than they were a decade or so ago....

Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)

2. It effects his grip

Reply to mrmpa (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:30 AM

Oct 2016

When he's grabbing them by the...

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,855 posts)

3. Maybe it slipped off during one of his groping sessions?

Reply to mrmpa (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:31 AM

Oct 2016

TeamPooka

(24,228 posts)

4. you beat me to it. Punchline stolen. nt

Reply to Buckeye_Democrat (Reply #3)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:32 AM

Oct 2016

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,855 posts)

6. I almost went too far with it.

Reply to TeamPooka (Reply #4)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:35 AM

Oct 2016

Journeyman

(15,035 posts)

5. Eh. I don't wear one either and I work on a computer. Been married 39 years . . .

Reply to mrmpa (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:33 AM

Oct 2016

Just don't like the feel of rings on my fingers.

Retrograde

(10,137 posts)

7. Neither do I or Mr. Retrograde

Reply to Journeyman (Reply #5)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:59 AM

Oct 2016

And we've been married 42+ years. I lost mine about a year after we got married, and haven't felt the need to replace it. I'm with you - I do a lot of hand work and don't like the feel of rings.

Donald Trump is still the most embarrassing candidate from a major party this country has ever seen, though - ring or not.

Journeyman

(15,035 posts)

8. Definitely. But there's plenty of issues of substance on which to hold him to account . . .

Reply to Retrograde (Reply #7)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:08 AM

Oct 2016

a wedding ring -- no matter how illustrative of trust and partnership -- is not one of them.

Could you guess the genesis of the wedding ring?
Mesopotamian cyclinder seals were altered by Egyptians
into the shape of a ring with the sacred horned beetle,
or scarab, carved on top and some personal design
incised on the undersurface. So, if a ring was reversed
it would serve very nicely as a seal of ownership;
and a man who placed one on his wife’s hand
signified that he was entrusting to her custody
all of his possessions. In other words, it symbolizes
not bondage as we commonly suppose,
but absolute trust.

~ Evan S. Connell
Points for a Compass Rose
(1973)

aidbo

(2,328 posts)

9. Remember he's got tiny little hands. It keeps falling off?

Reply to mrmpa (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 03:28 AM

Oct 2016

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