[Melania] spends much of her time with Barron and her parents. Barron speaks Slovenian... “Trump has complained to others,” [author Mary] Jordan writes, “that he has no idea what they are saying.”...
[O]ne of her former New York roommates... told the author that Melania, in those pre-Trump days, liked to watch “Friends,” ate seven fruits and vegetables a day, didn’t drink alcohol and walked with weights on her ankles to keep toned.
Jordan confirms that the first lady and her husband sleep in separate bedrooms. He likes darkly colored walls and rugs; she prefers light ones. They rarely seem to interact. He uses Irish Spring soap....
When someone once hazarded a joke about Trump’s penis size, the author writes, Melania replied, “Don’t say this — he’s a real man.”
Donald Trump appears to dwell in the White House, for the most part, like a sultan among his pillows. Melania is self-exiled with her parents and son. On many days, Jordan writes, her press office doesn’t answer questions about where she is....
June 14, 2020
"Melania has been overheard referring to Ivanka as 'The Princess'.... Ivanka, when younger, called Melania 'The Portrait' because she spoke as often as one."
Writes Dwight Garner in "A New Book Brings Melania Trump Into (Slightly) Better Focus" (NYT). Also:
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They are all bitches out there, men, women, NPR, and Yale. It's bitch Sunday.
Palace intrigue.
Melania seems OK to me. Tough life, but one she chose for herself. She's got her secret language and keeps her family close.
The coverage of Melania is less than positive. On reason is Melania refuses to play the dnc/media game of genuflecting to the power of the dnc/media. They tried to pretend Michelle was a model, dozens of magazine covers. Melania is a model with lots of magazine covers before she was First Lady. Melania is accomplished. Michelle is neither accomplished nor credentialed.
This is why leftists are always so tired. They have so many multiple standards they must carry around.
Good for her. I wish they all would just leave her alone. The "institution" of First Lady is a useless and silly one in which unelected women are pushed to become national busybodies. I think of Nancy Reagan's war on drugs and Michelle Obama's war on lunch.
This book is Garnering more attention than it deserves.
Jordan confirms that the first lady and her husband sleep in separate bedrooms.
And so??? Many people sleep in separate bedrooms for a lot of very logical reasons.
1. Different biological clock rhythms is a big big reason. Trump, like many workaholics, probably stays up late and/or gets up early. Maybe Melania likes to sleep or has a different biological clock. My first husband would stay up until 1am, have the lights on and sleep late. I like to go to bed early and get up early 5am at the latest.
2. Sleep apnea and snoring. They don't call it sawing logs for no reason.
3. Different ideas about lighting levels. Bed softness, hardness. Amount of blankets. Sheet thread count or type of bedding. Hot room or cold room.
4. Night time insomnia and periods of wakefulness, reading or working, that destroy the sleep of your spouse.
5. COVER HOGS!!! Waking up in the middle of the night and your husband has all the covers....again!!! 😣 (or maybe it's me with all the covers...anyway...)
Why in the world should we care about their sleeping arrangements. We have bigger fish to fry than this!
I like light colored walls and rugs.
Melania has more grace than the rest of the family combined. I have all kinds of respect for her.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, could take a lesson or two from Melania.
On many days, Jordan writes, her press office doesn’t answer questions about where she is....
Because that is none of their flipping business.
It's interesting the spin on everything. "Self exiled" could be "away from the noise".
I *like* the way Melania doesn't make the presidency all about her and all about their relationship. It should be the model for all future First Ladies.
I don't want to be asked to care about the POTUS and FLOTUS relationship, love story, wants and needs. I don't want to be asked to fall in love with their children. I don't want to hear what FLOTUS is doing every day, what poems she thinks we should read, how she thinks we could better ourselves.
It's all propaganda anyway. Feminists and family advocates should really applaud this idea of not using the women as ways to up the man's polling numbers.
Look at the different way Merkel's husband and May's husband and Thatcher's husbands were treated. Even Kamala Harris's husband. We leave them alone. They leave us alone.
So?
Apparently, President almost never sleep with their First Ladies. We aren’t talking just the emasculating wives of Dem Presidents like Clinton and Obama, but living ones too like the Bushes. It appears to have something to do with the important business of the country not being o an 8-5 clock, but rather goes on 24/7. Imagine a nuclear alert, the Joint Chiefs need the launch codes, and the President is busy wit his wife. In any case, I have heard that Presidents are woken up in the middle of the night at least occasionally. Could this be what happened that night that our consulate in Benghazi was burned and four State Dept people murdered?
People have been overheard calling Dwight Garner a cocksucker. I'm sure they meant well and this is a factual account.
Don't guffaw! This is critically important stuff - even if it's only made up.
As I'm sure you can imagine, unlike say, Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton, Melania was not looking to live this way. Though an international model, she was not used having to be part of this particular circus, and have to say all the right things- knowing full well that she'd be hated and corrected for whatever she said, anyway. Hell- she's the most beautiful First Lady we've ever had, but still they mock how she looks, how she dresses. What books she reads to kids. What 'causes' she takes up. If only she could be more like Michelle.
This is not the life she thought she'd be getting marrying Trump. She's doing it the only way she can to survive it, until they are out of the White House and then....divorce. Or not. But freedom at the very least.
Trump uses Irish Spring soap. Well, that's one thing we have in common.
Melania played the President of the United States in a commercial in Slovenia. She knew what to expect--except for the toerags in the American Media. Classic Communists had standards.
A neurosurgeon friend of mine had a wife who was Danish. She taught their daughter to speak Danish first, before English, so she would not lose it. I know other people with multilingual children who start them that way.
My wife was an ICU nurse before we married. She said she had no idea how many times a night I would be called by nurses when I was on call. I had a rule; If a nurse was dumb or uncertain, call me for anything. Anyone not smart enough or knowledgeable enough needed to call for everything.
this dynasty on the potomac is very meh, that's all they got, mostly recirculating the carp that earned the telegraph and the mail, retraction notices,
Barron speaks Slovenian... “Trump has complained to others,” [author Mary] Jordan writes, “that he has no idea what they are saying.”...
See, I read that as Trump being funny.
what-- nothing about Melania's genitalia?
...isnt that sexist, or...sexist?
It's this author's misfortune to come along at a time when there's absolutely no reason for a reader to put any trust in the credibility of the media's reporting of the Trump White House.
it would stand to reason he would pick up snippets of the language,
"ate seven fruits and vegetables a day, didn’t drink alcohol and walked with weights on her ankles to keep toned."
So, she was a model?
Dust Bunny Queen said... Many people sleep in separate bedrooms for a lot of very logical reasons.
My ex and I had separate bedrooms for the last 10-12 years of our marriage. I had insomnia issues and a much different schedule with business travel. That probably hurt the marriage.
I have since been diagnosed and treated for severe sleep apnea. My new wife and I sleep together every night. It definitely improves one's sex life.
I wonder how many recent US Presidents sleep and have sex with their wives. I am guessing very few.
I've been thinking about getting a weighted vest to wear on my daily walk.
Something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/ZELUS-Weighted-Reflective-Strength-Weightlifting/dp/B07519W8L1/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3UTJ4USPVYIYD&dchild=1&keywords=weighted+vest+men&qid=1592146766&sprefix=weighted+v%2Caps%2C172&sr=8-3
Or maybe I'll just put a bag of kitty litter in my back pack. Its a real hikers back pack with a frame and you carry most of the weight on your hips.
she is a trophy wife, right?
they have a pre-nup (which I've read has recently been updated)
Again, I think all of this is fabricated.
Well, using Melania to attack Trump is at least a change from attacking Melania.
The whole point of all this is to damage Trump. So painting Melanie as "Weird" or having a loveless marriage to Trump is part of the program. IRC, the Press used to constantly claim that Pat Nixon and Richard Nixon never had sex and loathed each other - so as to put them in a bad light. They couldn't do that with the Reagan's, so Nancy was painted as a "Dragon lady" who was hated by her children. And with the Bushes, we got shots about how "Barb" was really George Washington in a dress or whatever.
The NYT/WaPO tried to make the Clinton's look as good as possible, but it was obvious that with constant "bimbo eruptions" that it was a loveless marriage, more a partnership than anything else. Of course, we were told "Children are off-limits" so the Press was OUTRAGED whenever anyone made a joke about her. This all ended when Bush II's kids came into view. The biggest Democrat Press fakery of all times was JFK. Painted as a vigorous "Family Man" - we now know JFK was boinking everything that moved including Gangster molls, prostitutes, Ben Bradlee's wife (ben was cool with it), and white house interns.
The other problem is that the Press/Media LIE about Trump constantly, and have used FAKE anonymous sources, so often, that I don't know if any of this is true or false. Basically, if its not the "Authorized" version, I don't believe a word of it.
Yancey Ward said...Again, I think all of this is fabricated.
Of course it is.
The gossip is boob bait for people like Inga, Howard and ARM who lap it up.
“2. Sleep apnea and snoring. They don't call it sawing logs for no reason”
We have bee together over 20 years now, and there is only one time that we spend the night in the same bed, and as I near 70 this year, that is less and less often. I often hear false allegations of snoring on my part from her. Or, at least I rarely hear it on my part. She sleeps extremely hot and hard. Hot enough that her heat can wake me up. On the other hand, she will try to roll me over if she mistakenly believes that I am snoring. After a bit of this, we are both awake. I move out to the living room to go back to sleep, and she, not having yet mastered the skill of falling back to sleep after waking up in the idle of the night (at least after her kids quit needing to be nursed almost 40 years ago) ends up watching late late night TV until the daytime shows come on.
Proving once again that most media and social writers are assholes.
Battlespace preparation for the 2020 election is getting to be really trivial.
It appears this New York Times writer was disappointed to learn Melania is not a dumb broad.
Melania is a FLOTUS
Michelle was a FLATUS.
I welcome discussion if this article is giving Hillary Cankles diet advice for her upcoming candidacy,
@Ron Winkleheimer said...
"ate seven fruits and vegetables a day, didn’t drink alcohol and walked with weights on her ankles to keep toned."
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"she is a trophy wife, right?"
And you're a worn out old slut, right?
By just commenting from AA's selected excerpt, maybe folks are missing the import of the details of the bio Garner picked out. I think his review is signalling, wait for something after she has exited the pond.
New York Times Fake
BamaBadgOR: "It appears this New York Times writer was disappointed to learn Melania is not a dumb broad."
sunsong hardest hit.
It is indeed unfortunate DJT and Melania do not have the loving relationship that Bill and Hillary have.
I guess not all marriages are made in Heaven like theirs.
Hey, remember when the media somehow magically got a reporter/photographer "snuck" into the beach residence property where the reporter/photographer was able to catch a glimpse of Bill and Hillary in a loving embrace while dancing "alone" on the beach and then, somehow, managed to get off the perfect shot of this loving couple in a warm embrace.
If I recall, it was right at the height of the Lewinsky incident. You know, the one where Bill was shoving cigars up the interns in the oval office.
Trump has really destroyed Presidential "norms", hasn't he?
unsong said...
she is a trophy wife, right?
they have a pre-nup (which I've read has recently been updated)
sunsong reminds me of the old Churchill quip when some angry Karen type told him that if he were her husband she would put poison in his coffee. His reply was classic. "Madame, if I were your husband, I would drink it."
Might have been Lady Astor.
Sounds great.
yes it was indeed, but it's very low rent melodrama, I think she borrowed it from that jackalope, that wrote that trash book about roger ailes, name escapes,
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I fully understand the President's reaction to his wife and son speaking a language he does not understand -- it is almost universal in families where one parent speak a language the other does not, and teaches it to the child(ren). I've spoken French with my 9 yo daughter since the day she was born, and for most of the intervening years we've spoken it in the basement, or outside, or when Mama's not around.
Natural multi-lingualism is a free gift of immense value, most importantly because it solidifies language-learning pathways in the brain so that they're not wiped out in the great de-myelination which occurs just before puberty. In my own case, I don't remember a time when I did *not* speak Spanish. I studied Russian in college, the only language I learned in school; the rest were learnt "on the street" if you will. I became near-native fluent in French around age 30, picked up pretty good German by 40, and solid conversational Hungarian before 50.
People who learn only one language never use those multi-lingual pathways in the brain, and after de-myelination acquiring another language become vastly more difficult. Not impossible, but much more difficult.
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