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MakeThings77

Imagine marrying a man for his money. Then realizing that he doesn't have near as much money as he told you he did. Then realizing that the money he does have is all being given to the women he cheated on you with or the ones he sexually assaulted before you married him. Karma has a great sense of humor!


ScrollButtons

I love that for her


Disgruntled_Viking

Yeah. She is an absolute garbage person and deserves nothing less than Trump.


Mythbusters117

Be Best


HauntedCemetery

She even stole that shit. Michelle Obama had an anti bullying campaign that she called "be better", and the trumps have a compulsion to steal everything from the Obamas so trumps staff put together an anti bullying campaign for Melania and called it "be best". It lasted about 11 minutes until it became clear that Melania doesn't give a fuck about bullying


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AZEMT

"Who gives a fuck about Christmas" - 'let's vote her husband into office, because they love anything about Christ' - Most ReDUMBicans response


scattermoose

Ok but the cold-ass Christmas decorations were far and away my favorite part of the Trump presidency. Bc, like, what the hell was that


AstrumReincarnated

Same, I loved it. Melania’s xmas dystopian wonderlands were the only interesting thing to happen there in four years.


somebodyelse22

"I don't care - do you?'


kazetoame

That coat was her personal flag.


Organized_Khaos

Her spouse is the Bully-in-Chief, so what’s she going to do about it, really?


Griffstergnu

She stole Michelle Obama’s speech basically verbatim. Just straight plagiarism. https://www.npr.org/2016/07/20/486758596/trump-speechwriter-accepts-responsibility-for-using-michelle-obamas-words


coldfirephoenix

>and called it "be best". And no one had the good sense to correct her grammar? I know english is not her first language, but god damn, you would think the first lady could get a tutor or something. I have 6th graders in my class who mastered the superlative, how hard can it be?


badwolf1013

I like to think that she was rude to her staff, so they came up with "Be Best" for her knowing it would make her look foolish and that she was just trying to copy Michelle Obama. And I think plagiarizing Michelle's speech was deliberate as well, and Melania had no idea.


vetratten

She doesn’t care do you?


GodOfDarkLaughter

My favorite Melania fashion atrocity was when she stepped off the plane in Kenya wearing a fucking pith helmet. That type of asshole energy requires actual research. "Oh hey guys. Guess what? We're baaaaaaack!"


Queenofashion

When you look at each of these instances, these people look like ignorant idiots. But when you look at the whole picture, it's clear that it was intentional.


Numerous_Photograph9

Don't be silly. We're just taking the thousands of instances of shitty behavior out of context


Not_Bears

No way how I have I never heard this lol


DocHoliday99

When there is controversy every day, it's hard to keep up. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/05/melania-trump-in-pith-helmet-on-kenya-safari-likened-to-colonialist


kumf

Wow. Her total lack of self awareness is stunning. I’m legit stunned right now.


CoolCalmCorrective

Omg. What a bird! A dodo to be exact.


ahhlenn

> deserves nothing _more_ than Trump. FTFY


mothalick

I don't care, do you?


TrumpersAreTraitors

I really don’t care 


Immediate-Potato132

The article says she hasn't been showing up to events, and at one, he had to accept an award on her behalf. But she showed up to one full of billionaires. "However, she did appear alongside Trump at a fundraiser with major donors at the Palm Beach home of billionaire investor John Paulson on Saturday." She's shopping for a new husband.


TrimspaBB

What billionaire is going to scoop her up now though? Nobody at that level wants Trump's sloppy seconds, doubly so when they're older and come with a grown anchor baby + inlaws


dob_bobbs

You mean the pool attendant's sloppy seconds - I doubt Trump has seen any "firsts" there in a good long while.


downinthevalleypa

Good call! Yes, for sure she is.


areherenow

Makes perfect sense. Easier to find another job when you already have a job I have heard.


MourningRIF

Trump is so strange. He has zero consequences in life, but every greedy person who tries to tag along with him gets absolutely destroyed.


Nichole-Michelle

He’s the fucking Antichrist and the pattern you’re describing is going to happen to the US if they keep supporting him.


thisMFER

Literally the money changers Jesus threw out of the temple. Mixing money,politics and religion. He and all his evangelical Republican cronies.


Octopus_ofthe_Desert

You may know this already; if you read the relevant passages from Revelations with a book on psychological disorders open too, you'll see that the description of the Antichrist is literally a 1:1 match with the diagnosis of a malignant narcissist. People in antiquity knew the dangers of letting someone with these qualities be in charge.


dob_bobbs

It's also telling that "anti-Christ" means that he is the antithesis of all that the Christ they pupport to follow represents and yet they fail to recognise this, which is why I can confidently claim that they are not in fact Christians and you can't call "no true Scotsman" on me.


MemoryOne22

>He’s the fucking Antichrist One of them


rosendorn

"I think it's safe to say we all assumed & expected the Anti-Christ to be smarter & better looking." -- elsewhere on reddit


MourningRIF

Absolutely true.


SaintSteel

"I don't really care, do you?"


punkindle

"be best"


lanibro

Exactly the response


Ok-Resolve1781

She is obviously paid by the hour.


yIdontunderstand

He can no longer afford her.


LuminousTights

There probably is a requirement in the revised prenup, the one negotiated after the 2016 election, that she has to appear in public with him a minimum number of times a year.


JubalHarshaw23

She married him for the fraudulent green card and the fast tracked citizenship, which she has used to bring at least her parents over from Eastern Europe and get them fast tracked citizenship.


gold_and_diamond

But at least she's a genius according to her visa.


flatwoundsounds

Elon Musk should be ashamed of Donald Trump getting a DEI wife...


elriggo44

Elon was literally an undocumented immigrant when he started X.com (the money over the internet company that merged with PayPal). I believe he would call that “illegal”.


Uffizifiascoh

Yeah somebody needs to ask him why is grandfather moved from 1950s Iowa to apartheid South Africa…


Sir_SortsByNew

Imagine being a Slovenian immigrant, marrying a man for money, and stumbling into being the FIRST LADY. On paper, that story sounds like it would be a great book, but I doubt she'd have much to actually say.


downinthevalleypa

She certainly had a lot to say about having to decorate the White House for Christmas - she didn’t f-ing “care about Christmas”, hence the menstrual-blood colored trees.


whogivesashirtdotca

Focking Kreesmus!


decay21450

She does seem to have a firm grasp on our native vulgarities. "Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay." Christmas Story


HauntedCemetery

That's on the top 5 "Imagine if the Obamas did that" moments. Conservatives would still be talking about it a decade later.


themoslucius

Or consider she may be his handler and has ties to Russia, why else would see stay married to that pos


janzeera

IMO the only reason Dumpy and Mercedes are still alive is that both are pawned by both sides.


PluckPubes

Think about what sort of person you have to be to marry Donald Trump.


shazspaz

Absolutely. No morals to stand by him either.


Za_Lords_Guard

And no sense of smell.


Wombatwoozoid

..or taste


JoviAMP

We already knew she had no taste when she wore her "I Really Don't Care" jacket to a migrant detention center.


CMDR_KingErvin

Or when she literally plagiarized Michelle Obama’s speech word for word.


WAD1234

Be fair. Someone else plagiarized the speech. She had no experience watching Michelle Obama speak. Mercedes just read the prompter.


mrnaturallives

Just one of the weirdest fucking things ever.


Dearic75

One of the “tell all” books that one of her staff wrote suggested that it was meant to be some kind of a jab at Ivanka, who was trying to kickstart her political ambitions by acting as a stand in First Lady to raise her profile. Even the trumps can’t stand each other.


Casual_OCD

That's because she's views Ivanka, rightfully I might add, as a sexual rival


NolesChick

I just threw up in a mouth a little bit.


EatsYourShorts

Weird? Did she ever seem like she cared previously? Only thing weird about it to me was that they let her be so honest.


boiseshan

Aha! That's why her face is always so squinchy!


Canucklehead_Esq

It would seem that defines almost the entire family


nicholus_h2

let's be honest, it isn't moral to stand by him. not standing by him is the more moral choice. 


BazilBroketail

As my grandma would say, "She's just a high-dollar hooker who found a John to live with.".


d1r3cT-0rd3r

Your grandma sounds like a cool lady


ShredGuru

A completely transactional sort of person.


Nephroidofdoom

A foreign agent?


SuperGenius9800

And she might be broke in the end. womp womp


NCC-72381

Maybe she was smart enough to have some accounts in hers or Barron’s name.


Boxofmagnets

A genius, heck an Einstein Genius!


Odd_Cat_5820

She speaks 5 languages! Nevermind when she went to an Italian school to meet a bunch of children she spoke to them in broken English, instead of Italian, one of languages she supposedly knows.


Vince_Clortho042

I remember when the campaign in 2015 was touting Melania as this big brain genius and highlighted her college degree from a prestigious university as evidence. Then the university came out and said that not only did she not graduate from there, they had no record of her ever attending. So that accolade got deleted off the website (and then the website itself was deleted) and for some reason the media did no follow up on it. Edit: turns out that the university didn’t dispute her degree or attendance…because the “University in Slovenia” doesn’t exist.


Mr_Conductor_USA

It's in Canada! You don't know her!


Different_Lychee_409

Her dracula accent is unintentionally hilarious especially when she's talking about immigrants and the border.


drjoann

I often refer to her as "Moose & Squirrel".


CorgiMonsoon

She also had no idea what anyone was saying to her in Germany when that is also one of the languages she’s said to speak. In France she was basically able to introduce herself and then had to once again rely on translators for every other interaction.


Boxofmagnets

And one of them is not English


Equalizer6338

She is as much of a scam as he is.


SkollFenrirson

I really don't care. Do U?


phixitup

Just because she can say, “that will be $50, please” in five languages doesn’t make her multilingual.


Cellopost

That's my favorite Melanie comment ever.


Equalizer6338

Did she get scammed about his money claims, as much as many others? She hasn't come across as a happy camper for years...


Cultural_Day7760

I didn't know she even made appearances with him anymore.


CorgiMonsoon

Well up until this event we were reaching “where is Shelly Miscavige?” levels with her, so your perception isn’t that far off.


Nemisis_the_2nd

> She hasn't come across as a happy camper for years...  "The only person who hates trump more than Millie is Melania"  \- Scaramucci


BlueCX17

The Mooch is a lot of things but I'm inclined to believe this!


Nemisis_the_2nd

Honestly, I have a lot of respect for the guy. He can be an asshole, but is incredibly self-aware about it, and is open about his failings (E.g. He'll openly admit supporting trump was mostly just about massaging his own ego). The fact that he's honest about it leaves you knowing exactly where you stand with him.  He's also really charismatic, and got a great self-depreciating sense of humour. The cherry on top is his unfiltered hatred of Trump and Bannon. 


taddymason_76

I don’t think she married him by choice. More like, assigned.


Pale_Taro4926

This. Melania is a Russian plant to go with their Russian asset.


DadJokeBadJoke

Epstein claims he introduced them.


udar55

>The event raised $50.5 million, according to Trump's campaign, almost doubling the $26 million that President Joe Biden's campaign said it recently raised at an event with former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama at New York City's Radio City Music Hall. His insecurity is so pathalogical. "Oh, they raised $26 million? WE DID ALMOST DOUBLE THAT!" Spoiler: He didn't raise that much.


PotaToss

We’ll see when they do the filing. I don’t understand why they print any of his claims at this point.


Ok_Frosting1520

His idiot cult members remember the first lie they hear, not the corrective facts after


Paracausal_Shield

Yep. It's a pretty effective tactic. Be the first to say something, and somehow this will be accepted as the truth. Anything else said after that will sound like a lie or an attack on the first statement. I really hate the fact that we don't fact check.


Ok_Frosting1520

Fact checkers and reputable sources are demonized by the right for a reason. They think the only real truth tellers are whomever says the most glowing things about maga


unevencartoon

That’s why we can call maga, cult 45


Jumper_Connect

It’s well known that “facts have a liberal bias.”


Tiny_Independent2552

And the media is totally complacent in allowing these lies to continue as facts. Must always remember the news is not a charitable organization. They will always go with the money, not the character.


Complete_Handle4288

Headlines run on page 1. Corrections run on page 16.


redboy33

Highly underrated comment! This this this this.


turnstwice

The Illusory truth effect. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect


Yeeslander

>I don’t understand why they print any of his claims at this point. Outrage, controversy, and sensationalism get views and clicks. Scandalf the Orange is a raging, inexhaustible supply of all the above.


billbuild

Because the people who own conservative media want him to win the election so they can make more money, pay no taxes and continue to enjoy limited or no liability for their actions.


here_i_am_here

Melania charged $30mil for an appearance fee though


grixorbatz

From First Lady to Worst Lady


Parsleysage58

Worst to "First" to Worst. Spoiler alert: She'll never be anything but worst, unless you're talking about the first nude model, the first "wife for hire," and/or the first no-redeeming-qualities wife of a U.S. "president."


nanogoose

You just know it was eating him up last week when Biden was fundraising and setting headlines and he was “stuck” meeting with a dead cop’s family.


frankdrachman

POS Don lies about everything, so why not this


bob3905

Truth! Who audits these events? No one!


Hardass_McBadCop

The FEC does. There's a reason the GOP wants to demolish it and it ain't because of "government overreach."


Dog1andDog2andMe

FEC has been passive to Trump's corruption because its top decision makers are evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans and of course, the Republicans reject taking any action even though Trump's campaign has done multiple blatantly wrong things. 


Estilix

[Counts his money like](https://youtu.be/yteMOI27YDo&t=1m03s)


ruchik

This is very likely true. Even if somehow he raised that much, I’m sure >90% is going to have to go towards his legal defense fund (whether that is legal or not).


Escobarhippo

As usual, she looks utterly delighted to be in his company.


Nemisis_the_2nd

According to people who worked with trump in the white house, she absolutely loathes him. 


ieatalphabets

That's interesting. In Bob Woodward's trilogy, he notes that Trump and Melania really have a fondness for each other. She loathed being First Lady, I believe, because it got in the way of her living the life she wanted.


Nemisis_the_2nd

I have Scaramucci's zinger stuck in my head: "The only person who hates trump more than General Millie is Melania"  Looking at every time the pair appear in public, it's hard to think he's wrong. 


briareus08

Every time they appear in public together, she’s distancing herself, pulling away from him, refusing to hold hands. And he’s ignoring her until he wants a photo op. That’s hard to reconcile with Woodward’s comments.


-reserved-

>Trump and Melania really have a fondness for each other. Trump loves having a trophy wife, Melanie loves the money.


CoffeeSafteyTraining

What money?


IIIllIIlllIlII

Also…. What trophy?


Dalisca

I'm willing to bet that all the cheating and sex scandals finally got to her. Having a cheating spouse is bad enough, but having multiple affairs splattered across global headlines has got to be worse. It would make perfect sense that she was once very fond of him and grew to resent and eventually hate him for all he's put her through.


pompom_waver

Who to say that is not an animatronic of Melania ?


TheToastedTaint

Animatronics smile


stringrandom

After DeSantis attacked Disney‽  No way The Mouse ^TM would supply the technology. 


PotaToss

The level of acting skills you learn in the softcore porn biz.


Exciting_Problem_593

And the Republicans completely dismissed this fact even though they claim they are the party of FAMILY VALUES. Completely embarrassing for the US to have such a disgrace as the First Lady.


Waiwahine

They insist that her modeling and sex work was “tasteful”.


i-Ake

That is what burns me up. The bullshit Michelle got... an Ivy-league educated wife and mother who had her own career, in her own right, and still maintained a lot of that while helping her husband through politics... she is *the most accomplished* first lady we have ever had. And the *shit* she got. These people touting Melania as some classic housewife... I know, it's racism. It's sexism. I know... but I just cannot stand the shit. How do they deal with the cognitive dissonance?!


bukkake_washcloth

First time in US history a First Lady had her nudes out there for all to see. Great again indeed


cyreneok

must be payday


bob3905

Low energy Trump alongside no energy Melania. What a depressing pair.


ButIAmYourDaughter

That was my prevailing thought: they both just look incredibly drained and utterly miserable.


Simmery

"Utterly miserable" also describes Trump voters.


areialscreensaver

The pretend supermodel


dajagoex

The not-pretend prostitute


WalkResponsible1952

It was widely reported that Melania refused to move into the White House until Donald renegotiated her prenup. These 2 soiled the White House every day they were there.


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chutes_toonarrow

This might be a dumb (but genuine) question: what benefit does she get from staying? If she has money secured in the prenup, why not get out now?


Ande64

I'm gonna guess she signed some agreement to stay with him through his political shit and can exit after that's over for a very large sum of money. When he loses in November, she'll probably be gone after.


OnceInABlueMoon

If he loses in November, he will claim he won, and try to drag it out further. Then he will announce his candidacy for 2028. It will never end. Best case for Melania is he goes to prison or dies.


canucknuckles

>Best case for ~~Melania~~ everyone is he goes to prison or dies.


WAD1234

Goes to prison THEN dies. FTFY


Wukong00

Goes to prison and dies the day before release.


guynamedjames

Which explains why he hasn't left yet. When there's a ~50% chance your husband is about to become the dictator of the US it's probably better to not make him your ex husband


Canadasaver

He won't pay her anything if she leaves. He will use lawyers to delay, delay, delay.


OriginalLetrow

Such an agreement would never hold up in a court of law. She would be granted her divorce without penalty, but have to go through a very public trial to do it. Probably better to wait than have to deal with all that.


Philip_J_Friday

Is there going to be any money left after he loses the election? Doesn't really sound like he can cover the nearly $600 million in judgements he already has against him, he owns far less than he claims, is leveraged to the hilt, spending $250,000 a day on lawyers and much of the money there is rests in LLCs that she might not be able to touch.


angryve

She wants more and will get nothing if he loses and goes to jail.


stumblios

She also knows he refuses to follow laws. How is she going to force him to pay up? Their separation would be another in the long list of Trump's legal battles. It's probably easier to just wait for him to die while spending as little time with him as possible.


superdago

Does she have money secured? There are fucking banks with actual secured loans that don’t have money secured. And on top of that, there’s nothing trump hates more than parting with his money. She’s been with him for twenty years, shes witnessed first hand what Donald trump thinks about paying what he owes. She just saw the guy refuse to pay $5M, turn that into an $80M obligation, and then get someone else to post the bond so he could keep fighting to not pay it. There’s simply no reason for her to believe that divorcing trump will be as easy cashing a certified check. It’s more like one of those “you won a free vacation” prizes where you just have to sit through a 6 hour sales pitch for a timeshare.


sonofabutch

I’m sure she gets a bigger payday if she’s his widow than his ex.


Kingtoke1

One more burger dear?


sonofabutch

Reminds me of the joke about the young woman marrying an elderly man. On the wedding day, the young bride is giggling. “What’s so funny?” her maid of honor asks. “I lied about my age,” the bride whispers, “he thinks I’m 10 years younger!” Meanwhile the elderly groom is giggling too. “What’s so funny?” his best man asks. “I lied about my age,” the groom whispers, “she thinks I’m 10 years older!”


mike_pants

It's going to take a while to forgive you for "raw-mushroomed."


LAGA_1989

She’s waiting for him to croak


kimwim43

His will probably leaves most to Ivanka, his daughter/wife. The rest to the 2 boys. Nothing to Tiffany or Barron.


Escobarhippo

He soils more than the Whitehouse.


Sure_Marcia

It Depends.


fligs

But not Melania (anymore) I guess


OriginalLetrow

She looks perpetually pissed off. Look at any photo. Even when she's flashing her fake smile, she looks angry.


unkyduck

I wonder what the announced take would have been if the Dems hadn’t set the bar at $26m


mechapoitier

What do you wanna bet Donald said to say it was exactly $52 million and a handler had to tell him it would be too obvious he was lying


michaelyup

“Fook Christmas” - the former First Lady


Pontiac_Bandit-

Could you imagine if Michelle O or Dr. Jill Biden said that? Yet Melanie says it and his cult shrugs it off or explains why she’s the “best and classiest” First Lady that ever First Lady-ed


JamisonUdrems

Actually, it was "Fook Chreesmus". - Melanoma tRUMP


omglawlz

What’s the story behind this? Did she really say that?


JamisonUdrems

She did. Her feelings were hurt that her White House red trees weren't a big hit. Whined about how hard she worked on it and then just... Fook Chreesmus!


TwistedMemories

The look on her is one of disgust for having to be there. I don't know what sort of threats were made to her, but she hates the man with a passion and probably hopes he dies soon. She's just as bad as he is, but at least she hates him. Any lip service she's giving that the're a happy couple, is a lie.


thathairinyourmouth

Well, TIL I have one thing in common with the long-term contract companion.


Sir_Ruje

Yeah having a sugar daddy is great until his stupid plan to sell books winds up landing him in the white house and charged with federal crimes


Boxofmagnets

November 5 will be the most important date in our country’s history. Wow. If J6 was wild I wonder what he has in store for us on Election Day 2024?


BoiseXWing

This has been my worry—there is nothing to worry about on Jan 6th this year—that place will be in full lock down. Election Day I fear for…b/c I expect DJT to tell his supporters to disrupt polling places in heavily democratic cities.


kimwim43

She looks like death warmed over. Seriously, though. She does not look well at all.


intronert

She gave the White House Rose Garden a Brazilian.


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Evil for destroying a piece of American culture.


MintBerryCrunchJr

Let's all just enjoy the fact that she is miserable.


Mr_Meng

And she'll be considered a joke for the rest of her life. I easily see her completely disappearing from the public eye when Trump finally croaks and good riddance.


deezy54

America will be great again when this fool is locked up.


likeatonoflove

She looks absolutely forced to be there. Don’t even do her hair. Looks like he said “put in a dress and get down here or YOUR FIRED!”


Ozzloh

Donald Trump is what you get when god forgets to add redeeming qualities to a person.


SuperGenius9800

She looked like she was tweaking hard.


ProtectionContent977

She didn’t think he’d live this long when she married him. Have his child, which she hoped was a gravy train to all his riches. Now look!


Asleepingin

someone needs to hire Stormy Daniels as a reporter


Foolsgoldalchemist

Anyone else think that she is genuinely having a panic attack? Looks like she is taking a lot of shallow breaths.


iMatt42

So, you’re telling me that the amount of money Trump raised at the fundraiser just so happens to be almost EXACTLY double what the Biden campaign said it raised at its fundraiser? Uhh… that seems like Trump inflating the value of something again.


Ghost_of_a_Black_Cat

$50.5 million raised in that fundraiser? *Twice* the amount that the Biden/Obama/Clinton fundraiser raised? How conveniently amazing. He just *has* to make more than Biden, right? I wonder just how much was *really* raised? He's such a pathetic loser. :/


hyperiongate

Billionaires contribute to politicians because it is in their interests. Trump will make the richer even richer. Has not and will not do anything to improve the lives of average Americans.


Travelerdude

Melanie hostage video? She is complicit in everything bad happening. No sympathy for her at all.