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The Quiet Tragedy of Melania Trump
A small act of resistance highlights the public humiliation of America’s could-be First Lady.
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October 14, 2016 10:12 am
By Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
Melania Trump never exactly warmed up to the role of campaign spouse. She’s been reluctant, reticent at best, and really mostly absent from the trail for much of the last 16 months. And why not? The third Mrs. Trump liked her semi-private life as the wife of a New York real-estate billionaire turned reality star. She flitted around from one gala to another and split her days between the Trumps’ gilded Fifth Avenue penthouse and country home, or flew on private planes to Palm Beach. So it makes sense that she was hesitant when her husband was mulling whether or not to throw his hat in the ring last year. “I said to him, ‘You really need to think, because our family life will change. The three of us will change.’ I know what it takes, traveling and all that stuff,” she told Dujour magazine earlier this year. Once Donald Trump did decide to run, she made it clear that she would “be a mom first,” often sitting out the primary state shuffle that was running her husband and his older children ragged, before the general-election campaign dragged her once again into the national spotlight.
I've read that she has almost no contact with their youngest kid who, btw, has his own floor in Trump Tower but imo, Melania and his other wives are just as much victims as the women he bragged about assaulting.
A small act of resistance highlights the public humiliation of America’s could-be First Lady.
by
October 14, 2016 10:12 am
By Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
Melania Trump never exactly warmed up to the role of campaign spouse. She’s been reluctant, reticent at best, and really mostly absent from the trail for much of the last 16 months. And why not? The third Mrs. Trump liked her semi-private life as the wife of a New York real-estate billionaire turned reality star. She flitted around from one gala to another and split her days between the Trumps’ gilded Fifth Avenue penthouse and country home, or flew on private planes to Palm Beach. So it makes sense that she was hesitant when her husband was mulling whether or not to throw his hat in the ring last year. “I said to him, ‘You really need to think, because our family life will change. The three of us will change.’ I know what it takes, traveling and all that stuff,” she told Dujour magazine earlier this year. Once Donald Trump did decide to run, she made it clear that she would “be a mom first,” often sitting out the primary state shuffle that was running her husband and his older children ragged, before the general-election campaign dragged her once again into the national spotlight.
I've read that she has almost no contact with their youngest kid who, btw, has his own floor in Trump Tower but imo, Melania and his other wives are just as much victims as the women he bragged about assaulting.
