FLOTUS Melania Trump?

[LudwigPastorius]

She hasn’t been seen in public going on 17 days now.

Is she seriously ill, recovering from cosmetic surgery, in rehab?

Or, should the American people accept the explanation that a minor medical procedure has her sequestered for over two weeks? Are we owed anything at all concerning the status of the First Lady?

I’m not implying something sinister is going on, but I do know that I don’t believe a single word that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth...about ANYTHING.

[sarcasmo]

1. D.I.V.O.R.C.E

[monmouth4]

49. I've heard rumors that she has left him. Whether to NY or Mar-a-Lago or somewhere else, I don't

know but heard it three times. The sources are not good enough for here but we will see.

[dawg day]

50. I heard she was in Maryland with her parents

"Going home to Mom."

[monmouth4]

54. I've been there and done that myself....n/t

[angrychair]

2. She went on nice drive with some of her husband's friends

To a pig farm in the country.

[samnsara]

3. well she cant do anything more to her lips or eyes or boobs...

...so im guessing lypo or some kind of fat freezing thing. Shes gotta keep up with Stormys looks!

[Kahuna7]

15. She's been showing a lot wrinkle lines in her cheeks...

and starting to become a bit jowly. It will be easy to tell if she's had work done.

[cyclonefence]

4. It's taking longer than expected for the swelling to go down

on her "freshening up" facelift.

[empedocles]

5. Seems

that trump cannot do anything without things not seeming suspicious - he has that 'touch'.

[Solly Mack]

6. Well, maybe she is a Melanie now.

New face, new hair, new everything...including her name.

[jalan48]

7. She was in over her head from the beginning. My guess is that stress became too much for her.

[LudwigPastorius]

16. Could very well be.

Maybe she sees (more realistically than Trump) the coming Mueller denouement, and wants any kind of national public humiliation & disgrace to just be over already.

[marylandblue]

8. She doesn't appear in public much anyway

[Blue_true]

9. I would not be surprised to find out that she has a severe drinking problem.

Presidential wives of far better men than Trump have developed that issue when put in the cauldron of a presidential campaign or living in the White House. She made a Faustian bargin, that never turn out good.

[LudwigPastorius]

19. Certainly plausible...

If you had to be around that crazed shitweasel every day, how could you NOT drink heavily?

[Blue_true]

21. Hell, I would be living under the spigot of the brewing tanks in a brewery. nt

[spooky3]

26. LOL nt

[fierywoman]

38. I found it curious that, years ago-- 2012 or so? -- she was asked who her role models

would be as first lady if Dotard became prez and she said Jackie O and Betty Ford. Betty Ford?

[Historic NY]

41. Betty Ford liked to dance on the cabinet room table...

[link:https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/the-working-west-wing-first-lady-betty-ford-dances-on-a-table|]

[fierywoman]

56. I didn't know that! That's interesting. I was only aware of her alcoholism ( and her subsequent

utterly brilliant work) and her cancer.

[bettyellen]

65. She partied at Studio 54 w Michael Jackson and Liz Taylor- two other pill poppin celebs.

[Blue_true]

66. She was a dancer as a young woman.

That photo looks like a one-off thing that she did as part of the leaving ceremony after President Carter defeated her husband. I thought that I once read that she would rather not have become a First Lady.

[PearliePoo2]

10. A few days ago BLOTUS was asked by the press (as he was going to his helicopter)..

how she was doing. He said she was doing great and pointed to an upstairs window and said look, she's up there watching us. Everyone turned to look at the window he was pointing to and there was no one there.

Is he hallucinating, bull-shitting us or (C). All of the above?

[Totally Tunsie]

22. If she WAS watching from the window,

it was probably just to make sure he was finally gone and out of her hair.

Wouldn't be surprised to hear, as soon as Barron is out of school, that FLOTUS and son are headed back to NYC for the summer, with the excuse that she needs to tend to some personal matters there.

I also contend that her quick trip to Mar-a-Lago when she wouldn't accompany frump on his trip to Davos, Switzerland, was her mad dash to collect her jewelry and belongs of value in Palm Beach.

She's getting ready to make her exit.

[PearliePoo2]

32. You may very well be right. I'll bet she's humiliated beyond words right now.

Every day, it's Stormy!...Stormy! Or Mueller!...Mueller! on the front pages of newspapers and on TV screens.
The real Stormy was on 'Saturday Night Live' FFS and that clip was shown over and over on TV for days!

I wonder what their pre-nup says? Is there an infidelity clause for example?

If she leaves or divorces him, he will look like a "loser" and being the revengeful, sadistic prick that he is, I think he would do anything to get custody of Barron just to deprive her of seeing him and may use that as a threat.
She's very protective of her son and asshole KNOWS that taking Barron would destroy her.
Personally, I don't think he really gives a shit about Barron. You never see them hanging out together or doing father/son stuff. I don't think I've ever even seen Barron smile.

There's SOMETHING going on and it ain't good. Stay tuned folks!

[womanofthehills]

35. Whatever Trump says - it's usually the opposite

So we know Melanie is not in the White House.

[SeattleVet]

61. Remember that sinkhole that opened up this week on the WH grounds?

Turns out that she just wasn't digging her escape tunnel deep enough!

[yonder]

53. the tanzaniac thinks everybody is watching him, all the time. nt

[treestar]

11. typical stupidity of the donald

Lets suspicion build up due to evasiveness.

[pwb]

12. If they don't tell us what happened to her then

I don't care. I will assume it was something republicans would rail against if it was a democrat.

[CatMor]

13. Maybe one of her breast implants was leaking and they had to be replaced.

[Ohiogal]

69. That was my guess.

[Kingofalldems]

14. Everything is sinister from these people.

[LudwigPastorius]

17. Good point

[TCJ70]

18. Must be off trying to BE BEST somewhere. N/t

[musette_sf]

20. she's on an extended visit

with Shelly Miscavige.

[Hekate]

23. My gods you people are spiteful. Americans are not "owed" information about the health of FLOTUS...

...or of any other non-elected or non-appointed person.

[TeamPooka]

25. you are wrong. She is a non-elected public servant. She serves America as FLOTUS and owes us

the truth.

[LudwigPastorius]

27. Re: "you people" are spiteful

Since you replied to me, I take that to mean that you think I am being spiteful.

You are reading something into the OP that isn’t there. I have no desire to hurt Melania Trump.

[nini]

30. Spiteful? WE are spiteful?

LOL

She stays and enables the most spiteful person in our history who is slowly destroying this country. Sorry, the gloves are off with all of those monsters.

[Retrograde]

52. As long as she's living on taxpayer money

traveling around the country at our expense, being supplied with a staff at our expense, speaking in public when she feels like it, accepting Secret Service protection, etc. she's fair game. She's an adult and can always choose to stay back in New York City and lead a life outside of the limelight, but if she wants to take the perks of the position she gets the criticism as well.

[treestar]

71. And don't forget she went along with

Birtherism.

[TeamPooka]

24. She launched #BeBest to international ridicule and needed some time to recover from the

Nervous breakdown.

[brooklynite]

28. I have a friend with solid media connections who thinks this might have been a drug OD...

[PearliePoo2]

36. Whoa...that's pretty heavy. Intentional or not? What's their speculation? nt.

[elleng]

37. Hope not. Hope the kid's ok.

[Golden Raisin]

70. I have great sympathy for Barron.

I had a narcissistic parent and it's tough and life-changing, even without your family living in the public spotlight.

[njhoneybadger]

39. Remember the picture of Barack and her at Barbara Bush's funeral.

Maybe her conscience became to much for her to live with.

[Pachamama]

67. I have wondered if she was poisoned (attempted murder) or if she tried to kill herself....

The news of her being in the hospital so suddenly for a routine procedure that has a normal recovery period in hospital of no more than 2 days is very suspicious.

She looked very healthy at the funeral of Barbara Bush and the smiles when talking to Barack Obama.

Something bad happened and its sad.

[Vinca]

29. It might be obvious whenever she reappears.

If she looks like a deer in headlights or a space alien, it was an eye job. If she doesn't look like Melania Trump, it was a face lift. If she looks happy she took a few days off and filed for divorce.

[Demovictory9]

34. I bet it's cosmetic surgery. anything else, they would have propped her up for a photo

[Achilleaze]

31. STORMY VAPORS - ongoing Super repube Shit Storm probably ain't

cheering her up much. When your draft-dodging, casino-sharpie KGOP republican hubby has been lying to YOU for years and is now DISSING and embarassing you massively before the entire freaking globe with his sick sexual predation, and all the rest of his degenerate crap, one might well contract A CASE OF THE VAPORS.

[Tikki]

63. Who is that actress?....looks like Anne Baxter....

Tikki

[blueinredohio]

33. Have people at Trump Towers ad Mar-a-logo looking for her.

[dhol82]

40. She probably went to have her motherboard swapped out

Possibly had her circuits reconfigured at the same time.
Now she’s buggy.

[nini]

51. LOL

[guillaumeb]

42. Bruises, perhaps?

It is known that Trump abused one of his wives.

[mnhtnbb]

43. It's hard to believe the Secret Service would allow the orange one to lay an abusive hand on her.

And it's hard to believe that if he did go after her, he would be quiet enough that the Secret Service wouldn't barge into the room and intervene.

[guillaumeb]

46. Many things about Trump are difficult to believe.

More difficult to believe is that people claim to believe him.

[mnhtnbb]

47. It's not hard to envision a scenario where he could

keep her quiet so he could get rough. The guy does, after all, pay to play with pros. So it's possible he could have abused her. But the docs have a duty to inform if she was hospitalized covered in bruises.

[guillaumeb]

55. Like the naval surgeon that testified about Trump's amrvelous physical condition

and 239 pound physique?

That doctor presumably also took a medical oath.

[mnhtnbb]

59. I actually just looked up the reporting requirements in the State of Maryland

where Walter Reed National Medical Center is located and was surprised to discover that Maryland does NOT require reporting of domestic abuse to law enforcement unless the victim agrees to the report. So if she did come in covered in bruises and didn't agree to reporting, it wouldn't happen.

[guillaumeb]

60. Amazing!!

And since the victim presumably often lives with the victimizer.....

[greymattermom]

44. Where are her parents? Where is Barron?

That's where she is.

[sunonmars]

64. It all sounds dubious, this is not normal.

[maxrandb]

45. I'm pretty sure

It was a suicide attempt

[Pachamama]

68. That's really cruel

Did it make you feel good to say such a cruel thing?

[davsand]

57. One comment I saw said he sold one of her kidneys to raise money.

Twisted, but pretty reflective of how low everyone thinks he is.

I'm not of the opinion that they owe me anything, however, I'm sure there are people that feel that way. I did see someplace that her staff was in the hospital with her and they were wearing scubs. (Not haz-mat suits, but scrubs.) I have yet to figure out the significance of that one given the fact that the procedure they claimed she had is not generally regarded as a several day stay in the hospital sort of thing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/us/politics/melania-trump-kidney-procedure-white-house.html

Curious, but it's kinda like asking how big was the tumor once somebody has it removed...

Laura

[JenniferJuniper]

58. 10 bucks says plastic surgery

and she'll be back soon.

[UTUSN]

62. Doesn't look like "the American people" are missing her - or anybody else cough cough!1

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

72. She's probably holed up with Michael "Fire and Fury" Wolff, working on his next book.

Or she's in Bob Mueller's witness protection program.