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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRuh-roh.Melania Trump rides solo to Air Force One, again
The official White House schedule, released Thursday evening, stated the first couple would depart the White House together aboard Marine One en route to Joint Base Andrews, but Mrs. Trump did not appear beside her husband. CNN reached out to the first lady's communications office for an explanation or comment on the change in plan but did not receive a response.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/23/politics/melania-trump-air-force-one-andrews/index.html
hatrack
(59,585 posts)Fun weekend ahead!
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Melania will never give up her FLOTUS position.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Her anti-cyberbullying is a no-show and that's the only "cause" she has, besides $$$ and maybe Barron.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Forgot the word "monkey" business. Melania likes the title and noteriety without any of the obligations.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)I have it on good authority that her sessions are non negotiable.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)erronis
(15,241 posts)between two bullies.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)She is the handler.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)wife and daughter wife.
They must be involved somehow. There is only a slim chance that they don't know what's going on, imo. And they've probably both signed NDAs.
erronis
(15,241 posts)in cases such as divorces.
I don't know about child molestation however. I wonder if Ivanka will have any tales to tell. Big book advances!
CatMor
(6,212 posts)and goes to Mar-A-largo with him so what does not riding with him to the plane accomplish. She doesn't want to give any of that up. She's as bad as he is.
janx
(24,128 posts)would be unbearable. She can sit elsewhere on the plane with her son and go to the other end of mara lago, but to be that close to him in a vehicle might be just too much.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)but I think your logic is right.
irisblue
(32,973 posts)Small space + very sharp stiletto + very publicly annoyed wife+1 Sec Ser guy= bad fiction.
George II
(67,782 posts)erronis
(15,241 posts)just walk in and grab some?
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)with the scores of other people on board.
I wouldn't ride in a car with him, either. Cooties!
louis-t
(23,292 posts)Mara-large-one is huge, she probably barely sees the big fuck.
janx
(24,128 posts)And it's not as if she has the choice not to go, but at least she can avoid being physically close to him.
elfin
(6,262 posts)Don't need a pic, but he is most likely on Spring Break. Why would she leave him?
He does deserve his own privacy, so it isn't necessary to show a photo of him. However, no mention at all is strange.
What an odd family.
He is the only one I care a bit about.
janx
(24,128 posts)I'm assuming he's with his mom.
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)I'm glad you care about him now, because in a few years he's going to just another Drumpf adult. Loyal to papa.
TeamPooka
(24,225 posts)mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)because trump's affairs are upsetting her, all of a sudden. Seriously? Like what was said up thread, she gets on AF1 and goes to mara loco with him, so why the show of taking the limo? Is she afraid trump would push her out of the helicopter, while shouting Obama made me do it?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Look at Ron Reagan.
dflprincess
(28,075 posts)she's probably just not happy that they've become so public. I'm sure she enjoys playing the "wronged" wife and using it as an excuse to avoid him. The only role she'd like more is "grieving widow". I'll bet she's already trying on veils like Jackie wore to see if she can find one heavy enough to hide her smiles.
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)I should have put the eye roll emoji after I wrote "suddenly upset". She would have to be oblivious to everything if she didn't know. I read somewhere one of her jobs for her husband was to scour the internet for him, to find out what was being said about him. Clifford gave an interview in 2011 to in touch about her affair with trump. Malaria knew then. She stayed with him. There have been other reports on his affairs throughout the years.
But now we are literally paying the price for her sudden outrage.
She is exactly where she wants to be. She knows he has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. Going by limo is a show for the cameras.
Submariner
(12,504 posts)She knew he cheated on his first wife (the one he raped) with Marla Maples, so all this porn star stuff should be no surprise.
Someone should tell this gold-digging dummy we taxpayers are tired of paying for her extra trips to the airport. Deal with it gold-digger.
janx
(24,128 posts)Porn star #2 thought she was in for a long-term relationship with the Don. She thought they were in love, that she was different somehow, that "maybe" they would get married.
erronis
(15,241 posts)by its name. Motor hips. Christine Lavin
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)and I have to listen to preachers saying how god picked him to be president.............bullshit
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Even if the prenup is ironclad, a tell-all book could help mitigate any potential loss of financial security.
janx
(24,128 posts)At least as long as he is president, I suspect.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)And that she isn't necessarily controlled by Trump, but by someone or something else.
She was a 28-year-old immigrant when she married the guy. Her body--or rather her decision to use it instead of her brain--got her there.
She has been controlled by him ever since. So yeah, she asked for it but I don't know that she knew what she was getting herself into.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)But what I don't get is why she stays.
Now would be the perfect time. She's in the driver's seat. A divorce could also destroy what's left of his popularity.
A good attorney could obtain her freedom and a decent financial settlement.
It could be battered spouse syndrome. But it could also be something else.
janx
(24,128 posts)but she is likely under a lot of political and financial pressure. I would not be at all surprised if the Don offers to edit her prenuptial agreement if she agrees to stay for the duration of his presidency.
Also keep in mind that this is a woman who has likely never had to support herself.
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)samnsara
(17,622 posts)Response to Tatiana (Reply #12)
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samnsara
(17,622 posts)...just like on tv!
PufPuf23
(8,775 posts)Not aligned with USSR, not part of Warsaw Pact.
Slovenia readily separated from former Yugoslavia and joined NATO.
Not much chance Melanie is Russian asset.
I think she should aggressively dump Trump.
janx
(24,128 posts)I knew her dad was was a communist in her country when she was little, but I needed to review the history.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)in this regard by a spouse or partner, you should recognize how revolting it is to be in close proximity to that person.
The added public humiliation (though unnecessary and illogical) would make it ten times worse at least.
So I don't know how much of it is self respect as it is the urge to vomit.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,993 posts)brewens
(13,583 posts)it's really Ivanka that takes care of that for him. He'll have to switch to a more normal looking spray tan I guess.
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)gibraltar72
(7,503 posts)costing we millions of dollars.Can we have a law that says marital spats won't be paid for with taxpayer dollars?
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)It's better for Trump that we spend our days talking about tabloid garbage than his collusion with Russia and his attempts to obstruct justice. Are we that blind?
janx
(24,128 posts)IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)as long as there is nothing illegal going on.
janx
(24,128 posts)except that this man is a misogynist and may have broken the law in his payments to his mistresses.
Jarqui
(10,124 posts)to the son she just bore this man, her husband was out screwing porn stars and playmates when he wasn't sexually assaulting women with his pussy groping or making a pee pee tape.
I heard a woman call Trump a pig on CNN. I think that defames pigs who are arguably more intelligent and better behaved.
With the hour-long interview of this seemingly rather credible playmate last night on CNN, the playmate humiliated Melania while much of the world watched declaring how frequently Trump told her that he loved her during their 10 month affair and put Melania at risk with a minimum of 5 sessions of unprotected sex per month with this playmate.
Melania now has Sunday night with Stormy to look forward to.
Trump must have one heck of a prenup to avoid paying tens millions for this.
janx
(24,128 posts)Or at least I hope so.
Jarqui
(10,124 posts)(and yes, in terms of sympathy or a lack of it, I get that she had to know some of what she was getting herself into)
but she can make a pretty good case for being one of the most humiliated - the whole world is going to know about the playmate and the port star.
I'd settle for Karma that would be a little dick pic and the pee pee tape.
janx
(24,128 posts)That has been obvious from the start. And in that line of thought, no, she will not be remembered as the most humiliated, but in modern times it's pretty close.
Jarqui
(10,124 posts)you blackmail for all it is worth while he is in office - as it appears they are.
But once he's out of office, why not humiliate a President of the United States? The tape is otherwise useless at that point for controlling the Oval office. They would have little to lose while making the leader of the free world look like the idiot he is - which is good for their cause.
janx
(24,128 posts)At this time, I don't think it needs to be. The Don has enough kompromat stuff here in the U.S. to portray him as the weakling he has always been.
BUT--as you mention, Putin might try to conflate this to any U.S. president who follows Trump. I don't think it will work. Our world allies know better and no doubt feel sorry for us now.
Jarqui
(10,124 posts)Not directly.
But when you review his conduct, they have some real dirt on him.
janx
(24,128 posts)I have been reading about Steele and how he has been vilified and am waiting for the verification of his report. He seems legit.
Also, prostitutes pissing on a bed don't interest me much. The implication of how Drumpf may have been compromised does, and I suspect that bed pissing in that case is probably the least of his worries.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Same thing with Stormy and all the others. Donald has been a known commodity since the 70s. It's like the boxers who fell for Don King's tricks during his heyday- dude was a known crook but still believed him.
janx
(24,128 posts)clinging to a man that they're probably not even attracted to. What healthy young woman is going to be physically, emotionally, intellectually attracted to a man like that?
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Money and power are the two greatest aphrodisiacs in the world.
janx
(24,128 posts)because well educated people generally know that.