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[–] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Melania has taken him and fucking noped them both out of life with Donald.

You know, I'm not entirely certain any more that she wants out of life with Trump.

Melania was a former topless model who wanted nothing more to spend the rest of her life as some billionaire's trophy wife once her tits stopped making her money. Her entire "marriage" to Trump is and always has been nothing more than a dystopian business transaction. I do not believe for a second she has ever loved him or even pretended to. And for all the times we've seen her in public where she looks like she'd rather be anywhere else and with anyone else, she has always, always held the standard views of the stuck-up, holier-than-thou trophy wife she is, who thinks she's better than everybody else because she was blessed with mediocre genetics, a half-decent plastic surgeon, and some luck.

I think, rather than a general disdain for Trump, she has an even bigger disdain for having been dragged into public life where she'd have things like responsibilities and expectations of her. How is she supposed to be spending her days showing off her plastic tits to the pool boy if she's having to give a political speech she doesn't believe in, is completely uninformed on, and can't even deliver very well to an audience of people who she'd never dare let shake her hand? Having to sit and be the "first lady" at one of Trump's WH events means that's time not in Gucci having her ass kissed by overpaid 20 year olds selling her tacky shoes. It means she can't talk freely to her debutant friends about the peasants that work for them without worrying that it's going to become front page news. That wasn't part of the deal, in her mind. She wanted nothing to do with any of that.

Heck, even stealing "Be Better" from Michelle Obama and turning it into "Be Best" probably was less about just one more thing to shit on the Obama legacy, and more because even coming up with that probably expended more time and thought to the idea than she ever intended to give it in the first place.

I don't think she hates Trump. I think she hates that he dragged her into the spotlight with him. If she truly hated him, she could have easily divorced him years ago and be spending her days getting wildly fucked on the yacht of some businessman in Dubai right now. Someone who, most likely, has even more money than he does.

The two may not be like a couple of lovers on their honeymoon, but she doesn't hate the guy either. She's made it abundantly clear that she's perfectly willing to stick with Trump as long as the money continues to flow freely and, more importantly, she can go back to spending her days quietly showing her tits off to the pool boy.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

If she truly hated him, she could have easily divorced him years ago and be spending her days getting wildly fucked on the yacht of some businessman in Dubai right now. Someone who, most likely, has even more money than he does.

Disagreed on the first half, second half made me a believer.