Ok, maybe I am wrong about her (wouldn't be the first time because I'm a bad judge of character...). I guess it was simply just a dream of wishful thinking on my part...
But I guess we can all agree that she does love her son Barron.
She makes me think of the character Cersei from the show Game of Thrones, especially in the scene where she was cuddling her son Tommen while a bloody war was being fought outside their castle and she was telling him a fable about the the mother lion who would protect her cub from the evil beasts living in the woods.
I'd replace the words "Lion" with "Eagle" (as in the American Bald Eagle) and the evil "Stags and Wolves" with "Bears and Dragons" (as in Russia and China).
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Houston, Texas is the 4th largest city in the USA. There are more than 40,000 different streets within the city limits. Dowling St., named after a confederate Civil War traitor, runs, non-coincidentally enough, right thru the Third Ward, a historic black neighborhood. After a long political struggle, it was renamed Emancipation Boulevard.
And as soon as the new street signs went up, it was announced that the new Kiddie Koncentration Kamp would be located there. Of. All. The. 40,000 streets in Houston. It had to be on Emancimothafuckingpation Boulevard.
Make no mistake, Melanomia is a troll. Her anti-bullying campaign is not a protest against her husband's policies- it is just another way to mock his victims.
It is my unfortunate luck that I've known her personality type many times before. I think Cersei is a good analogy in more ways than one. She appears to rate her own intelligence higher than others would (as if people wouldn't notice her plagiarism) which is very similar to Cersei. She loves her son as an extension of herself, not as individual human being (Also Cersei to a T). If she found out tomorrow that he was switched at birth and not her biological child she would stop loving him. She loves what he is (her blood, DNA etc....) not who he is. When he grows up she will tell him what she expects of him in terms of behavior and career, I doubt she will listen to what he says he wants.
That jacket she wore with the words I don't care on it was no accident - she's not that brain dead. She went to visit migrant children and in heart she really didn't care at all about them, and she didn't understand why she was expected to care.
She is shallow, narcissistic, materialistic and as my friends tattoo so poignantly says "The bed you make is the one you lay in", she chose to lay in bed with the orange fool and I don't feel sorry for her at all.
My version of the fable from this particular scene with Cersei and Tommen:
"Shh, calm my sweet. No one is going to hurt you. I'll tell you a story, you know the one about the mother eagle and her eaglet? In a nest in the American woods there lived an eagle and her son, she loved him very much. But there were other things that lived in those woods, evil things... like bears... and dragons... You could hear them growling in the night, the little eaglet was frightened. His mother said "You are an eagle, my son! You must not be afraid! For one day all the beasts will bow to you, you will be their king. All the bears will bow, all the dragons will bow, the wolves of the north, and the lions of the south, all the birds in the sky and the beasts in the sea. They will all come to you little eagle to rest a crown upon your head." The boy asked "Will I be strong and feirce like my father?", "Yes!" Said his mother "You will be strong and feirce just like your father! I will keep you safe, my love. I promise you..."
Yeah I agree too, I now think Cersei's character suits Melania to a T...
I also felt that the Cersei analogy is a good one for Melania. Cersei was the most ambitious and calculating of her family. Melania came from humble roots but her cold ambition to achieve power through money and adoration made her a fitting consort to Donald Trump. His former wife, Marla Maples, was perhaps too normal for him so it didn't last. She's most certainly the one to have shared his 2001 tax returns with the press in an attempt to upend his candidacy. [Those tax returns should have been enough to keep him back. But not in today's atmosphere.]
Both Melania and Cersei have only sons. To gage Cersei's maternal instinct, you only need to remember that she was complicit when her lover/brother pushed a young boy out a five story window who happened to catch her committing adultery with her brother. Her only concern was when she learned that the boy hadn't died from the fall. Cersei's son, the union of her incest, was a sick demented monster who she protected in order to maintain power. Melania's son seems only to be vulnerable, and he has all of our compassion. She was in a bind when her husband won the presidency, but she did have a choice to opt out to protect him, and she stuck around. She tried to opt out in part, but she can't have it both ways.
For Cersei, her ambitions ended up with her city in rubble, and herself crushed to death. Like Cersei, Melania's ambitions come to nothing. She will be shunned by all but a small group of sycophants. She will love out her life like a hermit.
If she had been content to just make money as a top model and live well, she could have been happy. But her ambition to be so much more than that -- "the most photographed woman in the world," as she put it in her lawsuit, have melted her wings, and she will fall long and hard.
I definetly see Barron as Tommen (Cersei's youngest son). He was the most innocent of the two sons and very naive and gullible, where as Donald's oldest son Donald Jr. seems more like Joffrey (the cruel one who was a spoiled brat).
Speaking of the way Cersei brought her entire city of King's Landing to ruin... that scene really disturbed the HELL out of me! All those poor people...
I hope nothing horrible like that comes out of the Trump presidency!