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EndlessWire

(8,103 posts)
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 01:43 PM Apr 2025

Why does Melania stay with the Orange Turd?

I've never been particularly against Melania. She had her minor son to think about. She had her parents and sister to think about. She didn't ask to be First Lady. When she tried to conform to the role she was called a hooker and opportunist. She was portrayed as a Russian player. She has bad taste in Christmas decorations, and I think she paved over a rose garden or two. But, I didn't hate her. I don't care about her nude photos, or whatever her background is. None of that matters.

Her Mom died, and her kid grew up. We have watched her bat away his tiny hands, and wear a hat with a brim to ward off his kisses. Nobody knows where she lives, and the bingo cards are guessing black Christmas trees this time around. But, why does she stay with this developing Shitler of a guy who is fat, vile, and vicious?

Is she like Eva Braun? Eva Braun was decent looking, young, and could have moved away from Hitler. Instead, she ended up dead and burning in a pit, all because of her loyalty to a monster. What has Trump done to earn this loyalty from Melania? Has she been threatened with rendition? Has he threatened to impoverish her?

By now, she should have a stash of money enough to keep her nonworking for the rest of her life. Barron is old enough to remain with her in spirit, at least. Why doesn't she slip across some border somewhere and free herself from the impending doom?

She doesn't seem to love him. She isn't affectionate with him. She doesn't even hang around him. She shows up for the most perfunctory roles during events like inauguration, state of the union speeches, etc. But otherwise, she's a ghost. After the way we treated her initially, I wouldn't blame her for being a no-show. But, I am curious why she remains married to this monster, who is only going to drag her down to destruction.

No matter what anyone says, she is still a good looking, stylish woman. She could divorce him and get herself a real love, and live in another country where she would be safe from the Orange Hellbeast. Life is too short to remain in a hell of her own choosing. To me, being First Lady would not be enough if it meant having to associate with this scowling Hitler wannabe. So far, she's just another Eva Braun, who wasted herself for...what?

Not a pressing issue. I'm just curious about why she hasn't divorced him yet. The power issue isn't enough, really.

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Why does Melania stay with the Orange Turd? (Original Post) EndlessWire Apr 2025 OP
Contract and grift. She's getting millions from Amazon biopic. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2025 #1
She doesn't care AdamThePhantump Apr 2025 #2
She likes the money and the lifestyle C_U_L8R Apr 2025 #3
First Lady AdamThePhantump Apr 2025 #6
Reports say she is the Third Lady. GreenWave Apr 2025 #52
What reports? AdamThePhantump Apr 2025 #54
You know, the news such as Wife Counter! GreenWave Apr 2025 #56
Hate to break it to you... AdamThePhantump Apr 2025 #57
The person you are posting against was joking. U R new here, calm down. Trueblue1968 Apr 2025 #64
I'm not new AdamThePhantump Apr 2025 #65
That's it. She likes the lifestyle. No worries. Anything she wants, she gets. brush Apr 2025 #42
She must like having "power" and the lifestyle. She speaks 5-6 languages kerry-is-my-prez Apr 2025 #49
I doubt that she speaks 5-6 languages. Nor that she has the claimed degree in architecture? SharonAnn Apr 2025 #63
And wasn't she in the US MorbidButterflyTat Apr 2025 #66
If by "five languages," you mean... buzzycrumbhunger Apr 2025 #82
She absolutely does NOT speak 5-6 languages Bev54 Apr 2025 #79
it is absolute BULLSHIT that she is multi-lingual Skittles Apr 2025 #84
Money and status. Ocelot II Apr 2025 #4
She's not even living at Merde a Lardo. GoCubsGo Apr 2025 #22
Because she is a greedy, sociopathic narcissist--just one who likes the media to let her do what she wants hlthe2b Apr 2025 #5
At least *honest* sex workers aren't grifting off us taxpayers. Ocelot II Apr 2025 #13
Yup. I don't think Ivanka gives a damn about the rest of the country either, but she at least has the decency hlthe2b Apr 2025 #19
Right. H2O Man Apr 2025 #58
She hasn't collected all her rewards yet. marble falls Apr 2025 #7
Cash, grifting opportunities, free security, pension when he dies, many other perks. Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #8
It's a transaction. Donald and Melania are two of a kind. Eugene Apr 2025 #9
I really like SMellania as a name. That's a good one! Maru Kitteh Apr 2025 #48
She's not likeable. We didn't do anything to her. She's livetohike Apr 2025 #10
Melania's a Mob Wife sop Apr 2025 #11
Trophy wives are usually well paid. Ping Tung Apr 2025 #12
I'm sure she has a circle of powerful MAGA friends (and frenemies) she enjoys. Shermann Apr 2025 #14
Yes, she is like Eva Braun mercuryblues Apr 2025 #15
Ugh. She's grotesque. They richly deserve each other NewHendoLib Apr 2025 #16
yes, two people using each other Skittles Apr 2025 #85
$$$ bif Apr 2025 #17
Good gue$$. Sneederbunk Apr 2025 #71
Maybe she's just mindfulNJ Apr 2025 #18
I don't see anything "good looking" or "stylish" about her. I think her heart is as dark as ITs. LoisB Apr 2025 #20
What would she get out of a divorce Demobrat Apr 2025 #21
Why do Dems think there is anything good in her? I dont get this. Not a second of who LizBeth Apr 2025 #23
I do NOT get it either. The woman is an ASSHOLE. She's an ASSHOLE. She is not kind, or Maru Kitteh Apr 2025 #46
All things point to... szhe is an asshole. Yest LizBeth Apr 2025 #88
Money, possibly sakabatou Apr 2025 #24
Path to citizenship? hatrack Apr 2025 #25
I always thought that too that he threatens Tree Lady Apr 2025 #37
"Why does Melania stay with the Orange Turd?" Botany Apr 2025 #26
A divorce instigated by Melania is highly unlikely. An attorney... keep_left Apr 2025 #27
. RandySF Apr 2025 #28
Y'all missing the fact Traildogbob Apr 2025 #29
lol Maru Kitteh Apr 2025 #40
Waiting For Him To Die Deep State Witch Apr 2025 #30
She's hanging on to protect her son's interests after her husband dies, which could be any time now. sop Apr 2025 #80
Because she's also a piece of shit. LoveSucky Apr 2025 #31
$$$$$$$$$$$ spanone Apr 2025 #32
Part of me sees her as a professional model doing the job she was hired to do. Walleye Apr 2025 #33
If she doesn't, she might accidentally fall out of a window. jalan48 Apr 2025 #34
Or fall down the stairs when the security camera is conveniently turned off.... MIButterfly Apr 2025 #51
_ LudwigPastorius Apr 2025 #35
Yes, that's the one FullySupportDems Apr 2025 #45
Why even give a fuck? AKwannabe Apr 2025 #36
I ain't saying she's a golddigger... JCMach1 Apr 2025 #38
Um, because she's a racist ASSHOLE. That's why. Next question? Maru Kitteh Apr 2025 #39
I live in Naples, FL and see many "Melania's here. I don't know how these women do it. kerry-is-my-prez Apr 2025 #41
$$$$$ mzmolly Apr 2025 #43
Her famous, I really don't care, do you? FullySupportDems Apr 2025 #44
My guess is that she has a lover who is caring and satisfies her sexually. And she wants to be with her son. CTyankee Apr 2025 #47
Simple answer synni Apr 2025 #50
She stays with him because she's just like him. jrthin Apr 2025 #53
Gold-diggers of 1933 struggle4progress Apr 2025 #55
Are you kidding? pamdb Apr 2025 #59
I stay away from family drama. multigraincracker Apr 2025 #60
Is called "GREED"!! InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 2025 #61
Why not. She doesn't have to have contact kacekwl Apr 2025 #62
"I really don't care. Do U?" Emile Apr 2025 #67
Someone said she made a deal for money JI7 Apr 2025 #68
"No matter what anyone says, she is still a good looking, stylish woman." MorbidButterflyTat Apr 2025 #69
Stupidity Abstractartist Apr 2025 #70
She is his russian handler Grolph_ Apr 2025 #72
I was just about to post this n/t AntiFascist Apr 2025 #73
Because Putin wants her there. Emile Apr 2025 #74
Money and power. Money and power. Money and power. GulfofMexico Apr 2025 #75
Still working. Like here's the latest Volga River beach book by Thomash Klanciova. "Red Kanary" Noodleboy13 Apr 2025 #76
Turds of a feather flock together. skylucy Apr 2025 #77
Putin hasn't allowed her to leave until he finds another handler. MLAA Apr 2025 #78
She doesn't want to end up like his first wife, falling down some stairs or from a 10 story window. nt ImNotGod Apr 2025 #81
I'd guess two reasons: buzzycrumbhunger Apr 2025 #83
Because she's as bad as he is. piddyprints Apr 2025 #86
$$$$$ Straw Man Apr 2025 #87

AdamThePhantump

(240 posts)
2. She doesn't care
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 01:45 PM
Apr 2025

She doesn’t care that she’s still married to him. She’s trying to defend him at every turn.

C_U_L8R

(49,384 posts)
3. She likes the money and the lifestyle
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 01:47 PM
Apr 2025

She gets her pick of pool boys and personal shoppers.
And where else is she going to go?

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
42. That's it. She likes the lifestyle. No worries. Anything she wants, she gets.
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 03:13 PM
Apr 2025

trump is not allowed in her bedroom. She picks who is. She was a soft porn nobody, met trump and became a gold digger and handler for the ruskies.

She's going nowhere.

kerry-is-my-prez

(10,283 posts)
49. She must like having "power" and the lifestyle. She speaks 5-6 languages
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 03:33 PM
Apr 2025

So she’s not a “dumb floozy.” My mother had a friend who married a multi-millionaire and people all of a sudden treated her like royalty and kissed her ass. She initially married a non-functioning alcoholic and had to scrape to get by.

MorbidButterflyTat

(4,512 posts)
66. And wasn't she in the US
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 05:09 PM
Apr 2025

on a "genius visa"?

I wonder if that was before or after her nudie pix with women?

buzzycrumbhunger

(1,931 posts)
82. If by "five languages," you mean...
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 07:32 PM
Apr 2025

"Blow job is $50," but I'm not sure that's considered fluent... 😏

Bev54

(13,431 posts)
79. She absolutely does NOT speak 5-6 languages
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 07:16 PM
Apr 2025

You have gotten sucked into Trump’s bullshit

Skittles

(171,710 posts)
84. it is absolute BULLSHIT that she is multi-lingual
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 07:36 PM
Apr 2025

besides her native language, she barely speaks English and that is IT

know who DOES speak five languages? Hunter Biden's wife.

Ocelot II

(130,533 posts)
4. Money and status.
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 01:51 PM
Apr 2025

She gets to live at Mierda-Lardo and attend all the fancy parties. If she's divorced, despite being well-plasticized and given new "kidneys," she's much too old to be on the arm-candy menu of another oligarch. There's probably a pre-nup and subsequent agreements that would keep her in face-lifts and Christian Louboutin pumps for the rest of her life, but she'd fall into obscurity like the other wives if she dumps him. I think she wants to hold out until Satan calls him home, which will probably give her a much better deal than she'd get from a divorce deal.

GoCubsGo

(34,914 posts)
22. She's not even living at Merde a Lardo.
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 02:16 PM
Apr 2025

She spends most of her time in their spray paint-gold dump of an apartment in NYC, as Barron is attending school at NYU. I'm sure she prefers to be nearby Hank, or whatever the hell his name is, too. She still gets to live that lifestyle, while having to spend as little time as possible with that demented, walking bag of stench to whom she's married, and has to be paid to be seen with him. I recall that when she does have to appear with him, she gets paid something like $250 K per appearance.

hlthe2b

(113,967 posts)
5. Because she is a greedy, sociopathic narcissist--just one who likes the media to let her do what she wants
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 01:51 PM
Apr 2025

without expectations or extensive or unflattering attention.

She has had multiple post-nup agreements that require her to make very limited appearances in support of the poseur President. Despite her protected wealth from TSF and want for nothing, WE, the taxpayers are paying for her extensive personal travel, protection, and all the benefits of being First Lady, but unless you call her nasty attitude towards separated young innocent children at the border her "sacrifice," then she is provided $millions of our tax dollars for nothing.

I DO NOT get your undeserved benefit-of-the-doubt of Melania. I just have to assume you haven't read what I have (and no, not from heavily biased sources). But, I stand firmly by my assessment. She is a horrible excuse for a human being and deserves nada from the rest of us.

Ocelot II

(130,533 posts)
13. At least *honest* sex workers aren't grifting off us taxpayers.
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 01:55 PM
Apr 2025

I doubt there's a whole lot of sex going on any more with that couple, but the premise is the same.

hlthe2b

(113,967 posts)
19. Yup. I don't think Ivanka gives a damn about the rest of the country either, but she at least has the decency
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 02:09 PM
Apr 2025

to (on occasion) make it appear otherwise.

Melania makes zero effort to hide her contempt.

H2O Man

(79,051 posts)
58. Right.
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 04:16 PM
Apr 2025

The felon is a sociopath. Sociopaths attract both men and women who have features from the four Cluster B personality disorders. This holds true from sociop[aths in the gutters and rural county jails, to those born in higher ecomonic situations and are found in the gutters of corporations and government. In this case, it is a walking, talking Cluster B in human form, who has sold herself to the highest bidder. And seriously -- what option does she have? What talent? Who would bid on her if she left her husband?

Eugene

(67,101 posts)
9. It's a transaction. Donald and Melania are two of a kind.
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 01:53 PM
Apr 2025

The Donvict has had to modify the prenup just to keep her on side. Meanwhile, $MELANIA is grifting a hard as her ever faithful husband.

livetohike

(24,282 posts)
10. She's not likeable. We didn't do anything to her. She's
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 01:54 PM
Apr 2025

as vile as The Felon. She wasn’t some naive teenager when she married him. She knew all about him, his supposed wealth and playboy persona. She wanted that.

I wish I had never heard of either of them. They tarnished the title of President and First Lady. Neither has my respect or sympathy.

sop

(18,619 posts)
11. Melania's a Mob Wife
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 01:55 PM
Apr 2025

"A beautiful woman, married to a man of poor character, who is expected to do nothing but smile, take care of the kids and household, and tend to her husband, while never ever acknowledging the abusive, sinful, greedy, selfish world she married into." - Urban Dictionary

And you know what they say about being in the Mafia: "Once you're in, there's no getting' out."

Shermann

(9,062 posts)
14. I'm sure she has a circle of powerful MAGA friends (and frenemies) she enjoys.
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 01:55 PM
Apr 2025

She gets to be the queen of that circle with an aura of protection.

mercuryblues

(16,413 posts)
15. Yes, she is like Eva Braun
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 01:57 PM
Apr 2025

She loves him in her own way. She attached herself to him and has defended him every step of their miserable lives.

He took he from a nude model and rent-a-date to being the 1st lady of a country she wasn't even born in. She has more money than she can spend. he taught her how to grift with the rest of them.

LoisB

(13,028 posts)
20. I don't see anything "good looking" or "stylish" about her. I think her heart is as dark as ITs.
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 02:11 PM
Apr 2025

Demobrat

(10,299 posts)
21. What would she get out of a divorce
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 02:14 PM
Apr 2025

that she hasn’t already got? She doesn’t live with him. She makes cameo appearances now and then, and does her own thing the rest of the time. She has the status and perks of the First Lady, without even living in the same city as her husband. And when he dies the perks will continue. Why rock the boat?

LizBeth

(11,222 posts)
23. Why do Dems think there is anything good in her? I dont get this. Not a second of who
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 02:17 PM
Apr 2025

we see her do we see anything admirable or good. I don't get this line of reasoning.

Maru Kitteh

(31,759 posts)
46. I do NOT get it either. The woman is an ASSHOLE. She's an ASSHOLE. She is not kind, or
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 03:20 PM
Apr 2025

smart, or giving, she is not active, or well-read. She has no expertise in any field of study. She has no grace or insight. She doesn’t give a shit about the Christmassss, okay, and she doesn’t really care, in case you were wondering, about the toddlers being psychologically tortured in wire cages on the border.

So what is it about her? People infuse her with positive characteristics and suspend skepticism because she is “attractive.” LIBERALS do it too. Based on her looks.

SHE’S AN ASSHOLE.

hatrack

(64,887 posts)
25. Path to citizenship?
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 02:19 PM
Apr 2025

Mrs. Hatrack here, posting on Hatrack's account.

I've long had the theory that there is something hinky about her path to citizenship that is his hold on her. We've read that she first immigrated on a "genius" visa, or that she wasn't supposed to work in the U.S. with whatever visa she came to the U.S. on and did, etc.

I wonder if her path to citizenship was not as legal as it should have been, and that she, and perhaps her family members who came to the U.S. after her (and are now citizens), are vulnerable because they know DJT could cause problems for them in this area if they leave the MAGA/Mar-a-Lago fold.

Just a theory.

Tree Lady

(13,282 posts)
37. I always thought that too that he threatens
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 02:57 PM
Apr 2025

to send both her and parents (now one parent) back to country they came from minus her son who means a lot to her about the only thing she does care about.

Botany

(77,323 posts)
26. "Why does Melania stay with the Orange Turd?"
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 02:22 PM
Apr 2025

Money. She is or was a sex worker who hit it big. She lives most of the time in NYC, has or had
a boyfriend who worked for Tiffany’s in Trump Tower, she lets Krasnov have his side dishes such
as Loomer, has a separate bedrooms in the White House, Merde a Logo, and other places, and
she gets paid millions just to show up @ events where Krasnov needs her to be there.

Or maybe she is working @ M.I.T. in molecular biology because she got into America under a
genius exemption.

And to think of the crap Hillary took.

keep_left

(3,210 posts)
27. A divorce instigated by Melania is highly unlikely. An attorney...
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 02:23 PM
Apr 2025

...friend of mine told me about the "merry widow clause" that's found in most prenup agreements. Basically, if Trump continues to inject his Ozempic and take whatever cocktail of statins and hypertension meds keep him alive a few more years, Melania gets an extra-rich payout. The clause in the contract is to keep her from encouraging Trump to pig out on "hamberders", KFC, and other various and sundry junk food--in the hope of him checking out sooner than later. Ain't love grand?!

Traildogbob

(13,018 posts)
29. Y'all missing the fact
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 02:25 PM
Apr 2025

That trump is a manly super stud woman pleaser.
The likes of which women have never seen before.

Deep State Witch

(12,716 posts)
30. Waiting For Him To Die
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 02:27 PM
Apr 2025

I'm guessing that she's waiting for him to die, so that she's got claim to his property, etc. Once he finally succumbs to heart disease, I'm sure that there's going to be a huge battle between the 5 kids and her to see who's going to get what.

Plus, I'm sure that there's some kind of pre-nuptial agreement that they had that she loses everything if she divorces him.

sop

(18,619 posts)
80. She's hanging on to protect her son's interests after her husband dies, which could be any time now.
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 07:20 PM
Apr 2025

Since they run the Trump businesses, Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka will try to screw Barron out of his share, much like Trump did to his brother when their father died. Melania will make sure she and Barron get what's coming to them.

Walleye

(44,805 posts)
33. Part of me sees her as a professional model doing the job she was hired to do.
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 02:32 PM
Apr 2025

But sometimes I look at her and see Angela Lansbury in “The Manchurian Candidate”

MIButterfly

(2,696 posts)
51. Or fall down the stairs when the security camera is conveniently turned off....
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 04:06 PM
Apr 2025

I'm just saying.

kerry-is-my-prez

(10,283 posts)
41. I live in Naples, FL and see many "Melania's here. I don't know how these women do it.
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 03:10 PM
Apr 2025

Tons of young, beautiful women with old, rich men. I would rather live in a cardboard box on the street with my boyfriend than spend one night being groped by some of these disgusting, greedy bastards. It is really just like being a prostitute having sex with some slime-bag, kissing them, or going on your knees in front of them. I don’t get it. I would have to be out of my mind on drugs or alcohol to even fathom it.

CTyankee

(68,201 posts)
47. My guess is that she has a lover who is caring and satisfies her sexually. And she wants to be with her son.
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 03:20 PM
Apr 2025

After all, she lives well. The checks keep coming in, covering her expenses such as her extensive wardrobe. I don't think she is all that bright, either. She looks like a totally uninteresting person.

pamdb

(1,439 posts)
59. Are you kidding?
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 04:18 PM
Apr 2025

She's got money, position, anything she wants. And of course, her son. I don't think she gives a flying fuck about the orange felon
but just what she can get out of it. And the idea she wrote a book? Give me a break. She landed on the gravy train and she's not getting off it. Especially since her husband is 78, overweight, doesn't exercise,...

JI7

(93,616 posts)
68. Someone said she made a deal for money
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 05:15 PM
Apr 2025

It's not like she is actually living with him .

She has her own life and does what she wants mostly apart from him.

She probably agreed to some deal to stay with him in exchange for money and a will that is mostly favorable to her and her son.

MorbidButterflyTat

(4,512 posts)
69. "No matter what anyone says, she is still a good looking, stylish woman."
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 05:24 PM
Apr 2025


I know, that "I don't care do you?" coat she wore to "visit" detained immigrant children was just tres chic, muah!

The mesh top showing her nips nuzzling an airplane propeller was to die for!

I doubt there's more than 10% pseudo-human inside her plastic, phony, touched and re-touched exterior.

This post is comical, and grotesque.
 

GulfofMexico

(46 posts)
75. Money and power. Money and power. Money and power.
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 06:55 PM
Apr 2025

Melania, an illegal alien, is a WINO--wife in name only.

 

Noodleboy13

(465 posts)
76. Still working. Like here's the latest Volga River beach book by Thomash Klanciova. "Red Kanary"
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 07:01 PM
Apr 2025

Born in Slovania in 1970. Enters the KGB Red Canary program as a teen. Sent to the Us in 1998 on a visa to work on her "modeling" Acquires and "marries" target in 2005. Target goes on to appoint himself President of the United States. Fully compromised, her mission is considered a resounding success.



Peace,
Noodleboy

ImNotGod

(1,194 posts)
81. She doesn't want to end up like his first wife, falling down some stairs or from a 10 story window. nt
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 07:29 PM
Apr 2025

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
86. Because she's as bad as he is.
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 07:53 PM
Apr 2025

Remember her phone call about "Focking Christmas?" Or her "I don't care, do you?" coat? She is completely undignified.

I really don't understand what anyone sees in her. She's too stuck up to actually do anything as First Lady. Oh yeah, her "be better" schtick that never seems to apply to republicans.

Sylish? She's a poseur. She thought she was Jackie O at his first inauguration. Her clothes fit as poorly as his do, but in the other direction. They really should get a new taylor. But who cares about that? She's ugly inside.

She doesn't love him. But they deserve each other.




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