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How soon until we start hearing calls to respect their privacy as consenting adults?
How will Melania react? Could the October Surprise be the filing for a messy divorce?
Will Loomer be Orange Jeebus Magdalene? Or Sumpsons Delilah? How will the evangelicals react?
Just more tRump being tRump? Only the best people?
Hey, Im just asking the questions that Im sure on many Americans minds about now.
Kingofalldems
(40,223 posts)If she has any self respect.
BlueKota
(5,274 posts)with him to begin with. He cheated on Ivana with Marla and lord knows how many others. He cheated on Marla with Melania herself, and lord knows how many others, then he cheats on Melania with Stormy, and now possibly with Laura Loomer. If Melania thought he would change she can't be too bright, and it's more likely her motive was money all along. I feel no sympathy for her. It's called Karma.
brewens
(15,359 posts)as thoroughly as possible. She's with the guy and his it coming to her. It's better if it's not true in a way. It's their own freakin' fault that it's so totally believable.
dalton99a
(93,760 posts)SheltieLover
(79,723 posts)Dulcinea
(10,012 posts)SoFlaBro
(3,773 posts)Dennis Donovan
(31,059 posts)She beat feet from the campaign right after the RNC convention. She's been MIA ever since. I doubt she even thinks of Loomer.
newdeal2
(5,308 posts)Do u?
Wounded Bear
(64,198 posts)Liberal In Texas
(16,211 posts)MaryMagdaline
(7,962 posts)Raven
(14,275 posts)think he would do it if he thought she could take him to the cleaners over it. I think he has lost what was left of his mind and I also think he's afraid he's losing his base and Loomer will help him politically. I also think he knows that this crap distracts everybody from the real issues.
WSHazel
(735 posts)Her lawyers aren't idiots, and Trump had no leverage at all when they negotiated the last amendment. Melania is getting paid a LOT for this. The reality is that Trump is probably worth more to Melania with his public indiscretions than he is being faithful.
GopherGal
(2,881 posts)My limited understanding of the custom of "we have an arrangement" arrangements is that both partners are usually free to go about their liaisons as long as they do so with discretion (as long as there are no offspring thereof). The public humiliation of cuckoldry is, I think, considered to be beyond the pale.
Melania was pretty much a borderline sex worker who married that ... thing for money, so she can't be imagined to be super high on the "if she has any self-respect" scale, but she has been seen to use her leverage to renegotiate her postnuptial agreement. And she seems savvy enough to have noticed (or at least hired lawyers wise enough to notice) that Trump is 3-for-3 in cheating on his wives, so it's not unreasonable to think that she may have gotten some sort of agreement that enforces penalties for public adultery.
Irish_Dem
(80,913 posts)Show Melania the money, she is fine with it.
GopherGal
(2,881 posts)n/t
Irish_Dem
(80,913 posts)GopherGal
(2,881 posts)We know the woman's interest or intent doesn't seem to matter a lot to him.
We also know that most of the right wing is figuratively whored out to him. And on the 'every accusation is a confession" front, if they accuse someone else of having reached the vice presidency "on her knees", the idea has certainly occurred to them. So maybe it's Vance's spot rather than Melania he's betraying.
And now I'll go feel shame for even brought this up. Or maybe drown the shame with a little mini happy hour.
Irish_Dem
(80,913 posts)What did some of the VP hopefuls do to curry favor with Trump?
We know what lengths they went to in public.
All that make-up, plastic surgery and hair extensions are there for a reason.
Trump is sexually obsessed and in a very sadistic way.
Someone who will meet those needs will gain some points.
What does Loomer want?
Money, power, influence.
As VP or First Lady.
First Mistress.
She doesn't care what she is called.
Or what she has to do.
Yes disgusting topic, but quite real.
GopherGal
(2,881 posts)As the constitution requires the president be at least 35, she is thereby not VP eligible.
So, she's not currently a threat to Vance's spot. Probably, given T...FP's Epstein-like proclivities, this may make her more of a threat to Melania's current position.
Blue Owl
(58,906 posts)GreenWave
(12,574 posts)central scrutinizer
(12,652 posts)When John Edwards was skewered by an extramarital affair.
Charlie Chapulin
(384 posts)On the good ship Monkey Business.
karynnj
(60,916 posts)He spent a HUGE amount of time in Iowa, which he did not win. His path pretty much would have required winning Iowa. That Obama winning led to a HRC vs Obama race.
rurallib
(64,670 posts)Catherine Vincent
(34,609 posts)He knows she fawns over him.
Politicub
(12,327 posts)Do you think she likes sweaty, strinky Trump rutting all over her?
If I were her, I would want to be as far away as possible from the disgusting pig.
Srkdqltr
(9,672 posts)Docreed2003
(18,714 posts)By now the entire world should understand that Trump uses women and moves between them as if they were just another business transaction. He's getting his, that's all he cares about. Melania has gotten hers, and, I'd wager, that's all she cares about.
I have little doubt that Loomer and Trump are close, and likely bumping nasties. That's the only explanation for why he keeps her around. That being said, this is Trump's modus operandi...he surrounds himself with women who serve a purpose. He's being cagey about Loomer because of her looney beliefs but the purpose remains the same.
Arne
(3,609 posts)Bev54
(13,407 posts)Skittles
(171,228 posts)all loathsome people
Intractable
(1,945 posts)She's ready for anything.
I'm ready for them all to fall into obscurity.
LudwigPastorius
(14,598 posts)that will be the tell.
Donny has always preferred that his concubine look like a FOX news cookie.
Charlie Chapulin
(384 posts)and thats great.
How do you think this will go over with the party, the base and the evangelicals?
How might it affect the voting in general? Certainly doesnt change my mind.
Skittles
(171,228 posts)"family values" means NOTHING to them
Jack Valentino
(4,887 posts)They'll want to talk about it, I'm sure