Melania Trump

Enka, I believe she is unhappy, or more likely very angry, because she's gotten more than she bargained for and agreed to. Melanie never wanted Trump to be president. Election night she was up in her room instead of with Trump watching the results. Her excuse was that she wanted to stay with her son Barron, but really she was furious when he won. He told the group that he needed a few minutes to talk to his wife (before making an acceptance speech) but really he needed to convince her using his "art of the deal" tactics.  Follow the money for that one...he bribes and pays off. She has agreed to stay with him but only within her boundaries and play her role for all of the benefits but none of the married life. The more that is released about his affairs, the more furious she gets. He is not only embarrassing her but doing harm to their child as his vices come out. And she can't protect Barron no matter how hard she tries with her Tigress energy. Will she divorce him? Probably not. The longer this theatre of the absurd, runs the bigger her payoff. She came into the marriage not out of love but greed for the fabulous American lifestyle she coveted and dreamed of.

This is my take on her and her true role in this drama. Not a victim, not stupid. Really smart in using what she has to make more, be more in this life.

There is an old saying about this, "If you marry for money, you earn every cent."

Michele,

That is the most accurate view of Melania I have seen. Appreciate your insight.

I get very irritated when I see "Free Melania" memes. I have always had the sense that she is exactly where she wants to be, and that while she never wanted to be First Lady, she's "in it to win it." She's facilitating all the corruption that is helping to fill the Drumpf coffers, the better to take a crap-ton of it with her when she finally does go. I think she is undecided re: divorce. She may do it in future, but only if there's a significant payout. We don'tknow if there's a pre-nup. If there is, and it's enforceable, then she'll never leave. She'll go back to the life she had before the election - private, with her autistic son, and an absent husband (which she is grateful for his absence). Twitler may divorce her at some point if he can con some other young thing to take her place. In any case, she waits, she plays the long game, and she keeps her distance from Twitler and his antics when possible, and when not, she is just another shill, another cog in the machine that is dismantling our country.

There most certainly is a prenup. Trump had one with Marla Maples.  

The most telling thing about Melania was the lawsuit she filed against a blogger who wrote about a rumor that she had worked in an escort service. She showed up personally in court even though she didn’t have to but she wanted the judge to know how vehemently she felt about the alleged  defamation.

In suing the blogger —I think it was for  $500 million, she said that the blogger had tarnished her reputation at a time when she stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars in her private businesses (jewelry and fashion) because of her new fame as the First Lady.

She did not seem to understand that the office of First Lady is not for personal profit. But she has no clue about public service or how she could use that position to help millions of people. 

She always wanted to be a queen— to ride her  glamorous looks to the top. Well she is rich and widely photographed but she is not admired. Beauty comes from the heart. When I look at her I do not see beauty. She looks cold, fearful and resentful. I’m sure that deep down she is  very sad. 

 I feel sorry for her but not because she’s married to Donald Trump. I feel sorry for her because she looks trapped in a world where status is based  on appearances and crime boss wealth. She wanted to a be queen, surrounded by gold and jewels, and  wearing the best clothes and having people cater to her every need. She has that now. But she still looks dead inside. And afraid, and angry. 

 A First Lady could do so much good if only she had some depth and heart. She so doesn’t belong in the White House.  I imagine when she stays there, she feels it mocking her. 

I had a "pop-up", when thinking about her in the Whitehouse. 

Two things: 

Eleanor Roosevelt still hovers about there, watching everything. She is so impressive. 

She really does need to come back, and get into politics.  in the meantime, she is furious and  disgusted at Trump, and utterly displeased at Melania. She wants her out of the White House, and does not like her grasping greed. 

Also, the same, re Mrs. Lincolin who has the same opinion. Both were very honourable women, and feel that Melania is letting down American womenhood. 

The ghost of Mary Todd Lincoln may agree with Mrs. Roosevelt, but I have to disagree about her personality while alive. She was widely disliked due to her bizarre behaviors, which we know now were due to medical and/or psychological issues. I get the impression that Melania shares some of Mrs. Lincoln's spiritual illness, but so far is "keeping it together" for the sake of her son.

https://www.history.com/news/according-to-new-theory-mary-todd-lincoln-likely-had-pernicious-anemia

Good point that Mary Todd Lincoln may have been bi-polar and had other psych illnesses.  At the same time,  Lincoln did not suffer fools and is just the kind of spirit who would not make Melania feel at home.   The energies that also may irk Melania are those of Jackie Kennedy, a true iconic queen who, not even forty at the time she entered the WH, redecorated in a way that enhanced its historical value.  The other energy that likely bothers her is Michelle Obama, whose work she plagiarized (and got caught); who was so well liked, a Harvard Law School grad who also successfully promoted an effective nutrition and exercise program for families. Michelle was also admired for her beauty.

I might even add that Mr. and Mrs. Obama also exhibited a lot of class.  I think they really understood their roles and the responsibilities of the positions they were in.