@laura-f I watched the Nascar video, also on mute. She wears a mask. Her eyes betray nothing. Her smile is a fake little child's smile that comes when parents command that she smile. She knows by now that every appearance will be examined. There is no warmth. Her expression when she's not smiling feels stony, stone face. To me she feels angry and has always felt angry. I wouldn't want to be around her when no one is looking.
She clearly married him for money, citizenship, and the promise that she'd never have to go back to her former life in Slovenia. Aside from his money, he has no redeeming qualities and, on top of that, is abusive and disgusting. My feeling is she would rather have gone back to her life of poverty in Slovenia than be where she is right now but she has no way out. It wouldnt surprise me if she had been threatened not to leave by him/his henchmen as well.
@jeanne-mayell I have always had the sense that she is a very bitter woman who is, as you said, very angry and resentful. She had no inner wisdom and is just a narcissistic shell herself. I believe this was about power and money for her, and she likely always felt that her fate would be much better than his last two wives.
As for him, his karma is beginning to come due, and we are seeing it unfold before us. Barr might go down first and others will follow.....
@mas1581 I don't know what her former life was like, but all indicators are that she loves the money, craves the admiration, wants to be a Jackie Onassis-type icon. Ironically, in spite of her beauty, wealth, and fame, she can't get even close to that. She has not received any notable fashion recognition that First Lady's get.
Vogue put Hillary on the cover when she was First Lady and Michelle Obama was on their cover three times. But aside from a wedding cover nod back when she married Trump and no one knew who she was or what she stood for, she has never been asked to pose for the Vogue cover, in spite of being First Lady.
It is a big snub for someone whose whole life has been about and fashion and beauty.
The queen of the fashion world, Vogue editor, Anna Wintour (the woman portrayed in The Lady wears Prada), said this about their decision to put First Lady's on the cover:
“As I said before, I think it’s very important to have a point of view,” Wintour said. “We profile women in the magazine that we believe in the stand that they’re taking on issues we support them in the fact that we feel that they are leaders.”
So she must be bitterly disappointed in how she is snubbed, that they don't believe she stands for any thing Vogue thinks is important, or is a leader.
Another tipoff about her values came when as First Lady, she sued a Maryland blogger who passed along a rumor that she had been in a high end escort service. Her lawyers crushed the guy and she showed up in court to ensure that the judge knew it was she, not Donald, who was bringing the lawsuit. In the court papers she makes it clear that she had expected that with the opportunity of becoming First Lady, she had a chance to establish a “multimillion dollar business relationships” during the years in which she would be “one of the most photographed women in the world.”
Must be a bit disappointing to realize that her brand isn't making it the way she would like. She may be highly photographed but she can't get on the Vogue cover and the Trump brand is in the doghouse world wide.
I sense that she is angry about her life and that it is not fun to be around her.
If she really stood for anything, then perhaps she could do something really courageous like speak out about her horrific spouse. I had to give Tiffany's mother, Marla Maples, credit. She sent her and Donald's tax returns (filing jointly) to the newspapers, albeit anonymously. But she was the only one who could have done that.
But Melania won't do that. She runs an anti-bullying campaign, but won't call out her husband whose bullying has increased child bullying manyfold since he took office.
As you have said, she is so very stuck in a kind of hell.
P.S. It seems that everyone around Trump gets stuck in a kind of hell.
I agree. She is a loving mother and that is her genuine self. Michele Obama wrote about the struggle for normalcy for her children whose children's childhoods were almost totally in the White House. It was heartbreaking to read.
Why I loathe her. I've got news for Miss Melania. People with disabled sons love them as much as she loves her son. How dare she act indignant when someone says something about her kid, then stay silent while her husband mocks other children & people. That disabled reporter Twitler mocked is someone's son.
Like all of them, she thinks the world revolves around her and her own.
I agree I am a mom to a child on the Spectrum and I love my son with all my heart and hate everything this administration is trying to do with people disability. She should be suing her platform to help children in need and she does not. She only loves and care about is her son which is shameful.
I remember when he was first elected someone interviewed a friend of hers from NY. They ask what Melania was passionate about. The friend said all she was passionate about was Pilates and fashion magazines. Makes perfect sense. If I hear her or the daughter say they want to impower women one more time I think I’ll spit! These key words they use are ridiculous.