Melania Avoiding Trump over Emerging Sex Scandal

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It's the nature of politics, man.

I, myself, wish the discourse would rise to a higher level.

Derailment bingo!

If you look at the threads that are being derailed the purpose is to hide the issue behind a smokescreen

It was just a couple of comments. Please continue bashing our president.

If you mean bashing = throwing light on his less than exemplary conduct then yes, by all means...

Whatever you folks want to call it, have at it.

What happened to "continue my noble quest"? did you edit your post?

I have no idea. Nobel quest is as good a euphemism as any.

you original post
"by all means continue your noble quest"

By all means continue your noble quest or whatever you folks want to call it, have at it.

yeah that one...

Many derailments are accidental and occasional by posters who post in good faith. Others are continued attempts to shut down a topic someone doesn't like, by poisoning the well. The crucial differences are that the first is motivated by good will and the second isn't, and the first is occasional while the second kind tends to be habitual.

If this thread is to continue it needs to get back on topic now.

Melania is back in the news
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-l ... 72ad0f38de
She is being conspicuous in both avoiding Trump and her lack of open support since her husband's infidelities have gone public

I am sorry you forgot where Libya is located. That's your mistake, not mine



Yep... Oddly, I can care less if he did or not (wouldn't be surprised if they had an open marriage). It's between Trump and Melania.

i bet when he had time off, he went back to his primal instincts and pulled on a balaclava and went robbing 7-11 stores and gas stations and stuff.
that would explain his fitness considering he would have spent much time running from the cops.
it would have been funny if he was shot dead in a chase, and when the balaclava was peeled off his head, it revealed that he was the president.

please mods. i am adopting a very yokel type of character for this post.

it also looks in the photo like he is in the act of saying "ahhhh shadddup" to some one who was interrupting his meal.

^very amusing actually.

..back to topic:



It's a stretch to reconcile Trump's insistence on loyalty (to himself) with his willingness to betray his wife with a porn star soon after the birth of their son (even worse, he apparently told Ms Stormy that she "reminded him of his daughter Ivanka"). That's not hard to believe, given his sexualised statements about Ivanka in the past. It's an icky record.

Not many women of my acquaintance (nor myself, in my married life) would tolerate such a tawdry and morally bankrupt betrayal. It's worse for Melania as such a public figure - she is humiliated before an audience of millions.

It would be surprising to me if Melania was not severely affected by it. Her arrival alone at the State of the Union address may well have been a calculated signal, it seems highly unusual behaviour. It may signal (and be intended to signal) her new distancing of herself from him. She may not be able to change her role but she can change how she performs it, and she strikes me as a woman who has the strength to do that.

The USA has never had a thrice married womaniser as POTUS before, AFAIK, nor a FLOTUS who was a third wife; unpresidential behaviour in a president has always made news, and there's never been one quite as unpresidential as Trump. I never thought I would feel sorry for Melania Trump, though that's what it has come too. Her position traps her more than it would ordinary women, in a situation neither of her choice nor her making. So she can perhaps only make token protests - though they speak pretty loudly in their own way, and this may prove to be the biggest mistake Trump has yet made as it all unfolds.

She will also know that she won't be able to keep this from her son - it's too public - and that will be a big factor for her in her inner response to the betrayal. She seems to take his well-being very seriously, this whole episode won't be a trivial or passing one to her, I'm sure of that, as a woman, wife and mother myself (though my husband is deceased).