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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPLACE YOUR BETS! Will she or won't she?!
Mika Brzezinski sez:
I know Melania. I havent talked to her in months, but if my gut is right, I dont think shes going to put up with it much longer. I know nothing. Thats just my instinct and I go with my gut and my guts always right. Im just telling you, Melanias got the worst job in the country and I dont think she wants do it a lot longer. I think she will do it for as long as she has to for her son, and thats it.
I think she is part of the problem, but what do I know?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)wont be pretty.
Your life is in danger. My life, all of us.
Putin is coming.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Yes.
underpants
(182,884 posts)Either while Putin can personally watch Trump twist or thereafter. Remember he invaded the Ukraine right after Russia hosted the Olympics.
kairos12
(12,873 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Hound her about her cyber bullying platform...ceaselessly. She'll get the picture that Donnie is kryptonite.
LakeArenal
(28,845 posts)Neither on of them has ever said anything meaningful to me.
I guess there is always hope the might.
Squinch
(51,016 posts)Oh, and we appear to be going to war with North Korea.
Gothmog
(145,567 posts)Hekate
(90,827 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)moose65
(3,168 posts)This morning I saw a clip of Melania when she was talking about bullying, and I suddenly had this image in my mind of waking up one morning and reading that Melania and Barron had fled the White House in the middle of the night and were in hiding somewhere, and she had called 911 and you could hear Trump in the background yelling at her and calling her the "C" word and threatening to beat the shit out of her. I wonder if even THAT would be enough to turn the True Believers against him. I seriously doubt it, though!
brooklynite
(94,738 posts)I assume the pre-nup will hold up in Court; it might be embarrassing to be dumped, but he can always pick up a new trophy wife ("when you're a celebrity, they let you..."
Hekate
(90,827 posts)njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)I'm sure he told her if she ever tried to leave he would take Barron and ruin her.
moose65
(3,168 posts)Up until now, she has been 200 miles away from him. Now they are presumably living together, and when he gets angry in the middle of the night, she is the closest person to him! I don't think he'll touch her, but you never know.
bresue
(1,007 posts)and uphold a prenup agreement to be able to keep her investments. It looks like his will be confiscated.
B2G
(9,766 posts)TIA!
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)"thats just my instinct and I go with my gut and my guts always right."
She's a twit.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Maybe not the twit thing, but anyone who says their gut feeling is "always right" should be shunned.
As to Melania, it would be difficult for me to care less about a grown woman who has made a deal with the devil and (perhaps) can't bring herself to walk away. There is no shortage of vulnerable women in abusive situations who are trapped or who feel so trapped that they are paralyzed. The trap is usually one of isolation, which can take practically any form: Physical, mental, emotional, or financial. Melania Trump is better positioned to walk away from this situation than almost any other person on the face of the planet, if she wants to.
Alea
(706 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,157 posts)frogmarch
(12,159 posts)that she goes through news stories looking for ones to show him to egg him on.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)can have separate sleeping quarters and limited appearances, I see her sticking it out until he is out of office. She may know w his health, his time may be limited.
As a former divorce attorney, I would advise her to go now, while she has some leverage, do a legal separation w all of the terms spelled out, get more than the pre nup, keep quiet and live in the tower. Announce: trying to work it out, but she is shy, and things have gotten tense, so they are going to separate.
When he is out of office, announce that since the separation did not work, convert it to a divorce. In the meantime, she can do a few special appearances.
Another reason she needs to go now, is she is hearing too much. She could go down also.
BigDemVoter
(4,157 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Also , she would get high child support.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,215 posts)She had to sign off on the tax return the year he lost $900 MILLION.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Leverage is greater now. Onve he is not prez, she will have less leverage.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)she is a gold digger and she continues to dig
dubyadiprecession
(5,722 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,968 posts)...the latest Trump marriage isn't very difficult to explain. Mika thinks she's "Miss Cleo" now? Melania will leave if she gets a good settlement - and she will find an younger partner.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)So she won't be voting for him next election .lol
FakeNoose
(32,770 posts)Barron's school year will start back in mid-August so she'll have a good reason to split for New York.
She'll put up with her husband as long as she's allowed to use the ruse of Barron's school schedule to get out of the White House. I believe she'll want a divorce when the bright spotlight is no longer on her. (It will always be on Cheeto.)
Trump would be just as cray-cray even if he weren't married to Melania, so it's not fair to blame her and call her part of the problem.
Just sayin'
B2G
(9,766 posts)I thought he was.
FakeNoose
(32,770 posts)If true, she's stuck in DC.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)I have no sympathy for someone who enters into a relationship, business or otherwise, with Trump. Any Trump.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)Similar to my SIL in the past few years. It isn't just strangers (press, celebs, women), but will be close family members as well. Melania? Her comment about him giving back 10 fold was very telling. What has she experienced herself? Why so reluctant to move to DC? She keeps to herself and keeps him at arms length. Protecting her son too? Defense strategy?
Family covering up for him for as long as they can, but it cannot last for very long.
HeartachesNhangovers
(815 posts)rusty fender
(3,428 posts)tainted shellfish she ate