Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:27 AM

mrmpa (4,033 posts)

Has anyone else noticed that Trump does not wear a wedding ring?....

Just saw that tonight while I was watching MSNBC. My Dad didn't wear one, he worked around and with machinery. When he got married he was in the Marines, and that was the way it was.

But in 2016, it's less likely for a man not to wear a band. What does this say about Trump, particularly in light of what we have seen and heard today.

Maybe he thinks if he doesn't have a wedding band, that he's not really married & he can do or say anything he wants to in regard to women.

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9 replies	Author	Time	Post
Has anyone else noticed that Trump does not wear a wedding ring?.... (Original post)	mrmpa	Oct 2016	OP
If we go to the photos, and look at him on his	MADem	Oct 2016	#1
It effects his grip	Johnny2X2X	Oct 2016	#2
Maybe it slipped off during one of his groping sessions?	Buckeye_Democrat	Oct 2016	#3
you beat me to it. Punchline stolen. nt	TeamPooka	Oct 2016	#4
I almost went too far with it.	Buckeye_Democrat	Oct 2016	#6
Eh. I don't wear one either and I work on a computer. Been married 39 years . . .	Journeyman	Oct 2016	#5
Neither do I or Mr. Retrograde	Retrograde	Oct 2016	#7
Definitely. But there's plenty of issues of substance on which to hold him to account . . .	Journeyman	Oct 2016	#8
Remember he's got tiny little hands. It keeps falling off?	aidbo	Oct 2016	#9

Response to mrmpa (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:29 AM

MADem (135,425 posts)

1. If we go to the photos, and look at him on his

wedding day, and now, I'd guess he outgrew the thing.

The fingers are short, and chubbier than they were a decade or so ago....

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Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:30 AM

Johnny2X2X (15,838 posts)

2. It effects his grip

When he's grabbing them by the...

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Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:31 AM

Buckeye_Democrat (14,597 posts)

3. Maybe it slipped off during one of his groping sessions?

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Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:32 AM

TeamPooka (22,413 posts)

4. you beat me to it. Punchline stolen. nt

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Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:35 AM

Buckeye_Democrat (14,597 posts)

6. I almost went too far with it.

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Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:33 AM

Journeyman (14,726 posts)

5. Eh. I don't wear one either and I work on a computer. Been married 39 years . . .

Just don't like the feel of rings on my fingers.

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Response to Journeyman (Reply #5)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:59 AM

Retrograde (9,225 posts)

7. Neither do I or Mr. Retrograde

And we've been married 42+ years. I lost mine about a year after we got married, and haven't felt the need to replace it. I'm with you - I do a lot of hand work and don't like the feel of rings.

Donald Trump is still the most embarrassing candidate from a major party this country has ever seen, though - ring or not.

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Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:08 AM

Journeyman (14,726 posts)

8. Definitely. But there's plenty of issues of substance on which to hold him to account . . .

a wedding ring -- no matter how illustrative of trust and partnership -- is not one of them.

Could you guess the genesis of the wedding ring?
Mesopotamian cyclinder seals were altered by Egyptians
into the shape of a ring with the sacred horned beetle,
or scarab, carved on top and some personal design
incised on the undersurface. So, if a ring was reversed
it would serve very nicely as a seal of ownership;
and a man who placed one on his wife’s hand
signified that he was entrusting to her custody
all of his possessions. In other words, it symbolizes
not bondage as we commonly suppose,
but absolute trust.

~ Evan S. Connell
Points for a Compass Rose
(1973)

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Sat Oct 8, 2016, 03:28 AM

aidbo (2,328 posts)

9. Remember he's got tiny little hands. It keeps falling off?

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