Ruh-roh.Melania Trump rides solo to Air Force One, again

[janx]

CNN)The day after a CNN interview with a former Playboy model who claims to have had a 10-month affair with her husband, first lady Melania Trump opted to leave President Donald Trump alone for the ride from the White House to Andrews Air Force Base.

The official White House schedule, released Thursday evening, stated the first couple would depart the White House together aboard Marine One en route to Joint Base Andrews, but Mrs. Trump did not appear beside her husband. CNN reached out to the first lady's communications office for an explanation or comment on the change in plan but did not receive a response.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/23/politics/melania-trump-air-force-one-andrews/index.html

[hatrack]

1. Can't even stand to be around him for the limo ride . . .

Fun weekend ahead!

[democratisphere]

2. Melania will snub him for a week, then back to FLOTUS business as usual.

Melania will never give up her FLOTUS position.

[NastyRiffraff]

19. Correction: She doesn't do FLOTUS "business."

Her anti-cyberbullying is a no-show and that's the only "cause" she has, besides $$$ and maybe Barron.

[democratisphere]

39. Sorry, my mistake.

Forgot the word "monkey" business. Melania likes the title and noteriety without any of the obligations.

[dhol82]

40. Well, and her Pilates classes

I have it on good authority that her sessions are non negotiable.

[pangaia]

42. Pilates........

You mean like this?

:&gt ))

http://aviationtribune.com/airlines/south-america-and-caribbean/indaer-colombia-appointed-authorized-pilatus-pc-12-service-center/

[dhol82]

44. Um, nah. Just keeping the abdominals in shape for the next sugar daddy.

[pangaia]

70. LOL Good Plan...

[George II]

43. Ironic that the cause she chose is cyber bullying, the thing her husband does best (or worst).

[erronis]

46. Yes - that is the best offense. Say what you don't mean. Given her role as a conduit

between two bullies.

[liberal N proud]

32. The only reason she goes back is to maintain communication between Putin and Butternut

She is the handler.

[Control-Z]

38. I have wondered about the maggot's

wife and daughter wife.

They must be involved somehow. There is only a slim chance that they don't know what's going on, imo. And they've probably both signed NDAs.

[erronis]

48. Not that I really care but I think I've read that NDAs and other contracts aren't valid

in cases such as divorces.

I don't know about child molestation however. I wonder if Ivanka will have any tales to tell. Big book advances!

[CatMor]

3. Yet she gets on AF One with him....

and goes to Mar-A-largo with him so what does not riding with him to the plane accomplish. She doesn't want to give any of that up. She's as bad as he is.

[janx]

4. My guess is that the close proximity

would be unbearable. She can sit elsewhere on the plane with her son and go to the other end of mara lago, but to be that close to him in a vehicle might be just too much.

[CatMor]

5. I would think staying married to him would be too much..

but I think your logic is right.

[irisblue]

41. Maybe at the request of the Secret Service?

Small space + very sharp stiletto + very publicly annoyed wife+1 Sec Ser guy= bad fiction.

[George II]

47. It's a 747 with lots of individual "rooms", I would guess that she doesn't see him the entire trip.

[erronis]

49. I wonder how many additional "friends" are in each room. Does he knock first or

just walk in and grab some?

[Ilsa]

7. It's a big plane, and she can occupy herself

with the scores of other people on board.

I wouldn't ride in a car with him, either. Cooties!

[louis-t]

13. It's a big plane and she probably has her own room.

Mara-large-one is huge, she probably barely sees the big fuck.

[janx]

17. That's precisely what I was thinking.

And it's not as if she has the choice not to go, but at least she can avoid being physically close to him.

[elfin]

6. Where is Barron?

Don't need a pic, but he is most likely on Spring Break. Why would she leave him?

He does deserve his own privacy, so it isn't necessary to show a photo of him. However, no mention at all is strange.

What an odd family.

He is the only one I care a bit about.

[janx]

11. From the link:

The Trumps are headed to Mar-a-Lago; the President plans to remain for the weekend and the first lady is slated to stay for at least a week while the couple's son has a scheduled spring break vacation from school

I'm assuming he's with his mom.

[SoCalMusicLover]

14. Barron Is Being Groomed To Be Just Like Dad

I'm glad you care about him now, because in a few years he's going to just another Drumpf adult. Loyal to papa.

[TeamPooka]

37. Another Trump paste eater

[mercuryblues]

8. We have to pay for her limos rides

because trump's affairs are upsetting her, all of a sudden. Seriously? Like what was said up thread, she gets on AF1 and goes to mara loco with him, so why the show of taking the limo? Is she afraid trump would push her out of the helicopter, while shouting Obama made me do it?

[oberliner]

16. Doesn't always turn out that way

Look at Ron Reagan.

[dflprincess]

67. I doubt the affairs upset her, she can't be surprised by this

she's probably just not happy that they've become so public. I'm sure she enjoys playing the "wronged" wife and using it as an excuse to avoid him. The only role she'd like more is "grieving widow". I'll bet she's already trying on veils like Jackie wore to see if she can find one heavy enough to hide her smiles.

[mercuryblues]

72. oh yeah

I should have put the eye roll emoji after I wrote "suddenly upset". She would have to be oblivious to everything if she didn't know. I read somewhere one of her jobs for her husband was to scour the internet for him, to find out what was being said about him. Clifford gave an interview in 2011 to in touch about her affair with trump. Malaria knew then. She stayed with him. There have been other reports on his affairs throughout the years.

But now we are literally paying the price for her sudden outrage.

She is exactly where she wants to be. She knows he has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. Going by limo is a show for the cameras.

[Submariner]

9. This airhead knew what she was getting into

She knew he cheated on his first wife (the one he raped) with Marla Maples, so all this porn star stuff should be no surprise.

Someone should tell this gold-digging dummy we taxpayers are tired of paying for her extra trips to the airport. Deal with it gold-digger.

[janx]

15. People have a great capacity to fool themselves.

Porn star #2 thought she was in for a long-term relationship with the Don. She thought they were in love, that she was different somehow, that "maybe" they would get married.

[erronis]

50. I think you dropped a few significant digits there. "Porn star #246". Never call your lover

by its name. Motor hips. Christine Lavin

[Angry Dragon]

10. Family values on display

and I have to listen to preachers saying how god picked him to be president.............bullshit

[Tatiana]

12. She needs to call Gloria Allred and say goodbye to this marriage.

Even if the prenup is ironclad, a tell-all book could help mitigate any potential loss of financial security.

[janx]

18. She is controlled.

At least as long as he is president, I suspect.

[Tatiana]

21. This is what makes me think she is a plant.

And that she isn't necessarily controlled by Trump, but by someone or something else.

[janx]

22. Nah.

She was a 28-year-old immigrant when she married the guy. Her body--or rather her decision to use it instead of her brain--got her there.

She has been controlled by him ever since. So yeah, she asked for it but I don't know that she knew what she was getting herself into.

[Tatiana]

23. This could be true as well.

But what I don't get is why she stays.

Now would be the perfect time. She's in the driver's seat. A divorce could also destroy what's left of his popularity.

A good attorney could obtain her freedom and a decent financial settlement.

It could be battered spouse syndrome. But it could also be something else.

[janx]

26. I understand your points,

but she is likely under a lot of political and financial pressure. I would not be at all surprised if the Don offers to edit her prenuptial agreement if she agrees to stay for the duration of his presidency.

Also keep in mind that this is a woman who has likely never had to support herself.

[rzemanfl]

31. So the t & a pictures were for fun? n/t

[janx]

35. Exactly. This situation is so pathetic. n/t

[samnsara]

25. ME TOO!!!!

[samnsara]

24. Im still not ruling out melania is a putin plant from waaaaaay back

...just like on tv!

[PufPuf23]

68. Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia which was communist but

Not aligned with USSR, not part of Warsaw Pact.

Slovenia readily separated from former Yugoslavia and joined NATO.

Not much chance Melanie is Russian asset.

I think she should aggressively dump Trump.

[janx]

71. I had to look that up before one of my posts.

I knew her dad was was a communist in her country when she was little, but I needed to review the history.

[MoonRiver]

27. So, it appears she has a little bit of self respect left.

[janx]

29. If you have ever been taken advantage of

in this regard by a spouse or partner, you should recognize how revolting it is to be in close proximity to that person.

The added public humiliation (though unnecessary and illogical) would make it ten times worse at least.

So I don't know how much of it is self respect as it is the urge to vomit.

[MoonRiver]

33. Whatever it is, I'm glad she's coming forward with this story.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

28. Cuz this entitled golddigger just doesn't cost taxpayers *enough* already.

[brewens]

30. I there is real trouble with Mailordia, we should see his piss stain start to fade, unless

it's really Ivanka that takes care of that for him. He'll have to switch to a more normal looking spray tan I guess.

[rzemanfl]

34. Yeeewwww!!!! Gotta bleach my brain. n/t

[gibraltar72]

36. This little tiff is probaly

costing we millions of dollars.Can we have a law that says marital spats won't be paid for with taxpayer dollars?

[IluvPitties]

45. It's a Freakin' soap opera to keep us distracted!

It's better for Trump that we spend our days talking about tabloid garbage than his collusion with Russia and his attempts to obstruct justice. Are we that blind?

[janx]

52. Agreed, but it's not an either/or situation. n/t

[IluvPitties]

54. His love life is irrelevant

as long as there is nothing illegal going on.

[janx]

55. I could not agree more,

except that this man is a misogynist and may have broken the law in his payments to his mistresses.

[Jarqui]

51. Melania can now reflect that while she was at home tending

to the son she just bore this man, her husband was out screwing porn stars and playmates when he wasn't sexually assaulting women with his pussy groping or making a pee pee tape.

I heard a woman call Trump a pig on CNN. I think that defames pigs who are arguably more intelligent and better behaved.

With the hour-long interview of this seemingly rather credible playmate last night on CNN, the playmate humiliated Melania while much of the world watched declaring how frequently Trump told her that he loved her during their 10 month affair and put Melania at risk with a minimum of 5 sessions of unprotected sex per month with this playmate.

Melania now has Sunday night with Stormy to look forward to.

Trump must have one heck of a prenup to avoid paying tens millions for this.

[janx]

53. I think he's going to have to amend that prenup now.

Or at least I hope so.

[Jarqui]

57. I'm not sure she's the most humiliated wife in history

(and yes, in terms of sympathy or a lack of it, I get that she had to know some of what she was getting herself into)
but she can make a pretty good case for being one of the most humiliated - the whole world is going to know about the playmate and the port star.

I'd settle for Karma that would be a little dick pic and the pee pee tape.

[janx]

58. The karma will be nothing short of Shakespearean.

That has been obvious from the start. And in that line of thought, no, she will not be remembered as the most humiliated, but in modern times it's pretty close.

[Jarqui]

62. If you are the Russians and you have that pee pee tape,

you blackmail for all it is worth while he is in office - as it appears they are.

But once he's out of office, why not humiliate a President of the United States? The tape is otherwise useless at that point for controlling the Oval office. They would have little to lose while making the leader of the free world look like the idiot he is - which is good for their cause.

[janx]

64. You make a very good point, but the recording has not been verified.

At this time, I don't think it needs to be. The Don has enough kompromat stuff here in the U.S. to portray him as the weakling he has always been.

BUT--as you mention, Putin might try to conflate this to any U.S. president who follows Trump. I don't think it will work. Our world allies know better and no doubt feel sorry for us now.

[Jarqui]

66. "the recording has not been verified"

Not directly.

But when you review his conduct, they have some real dirt on him.

[janx]

69. Not officially, yet.

I have been reading about Steele and how he has been vilified and am waiting for the verification of his report. He seems legit.

Also, prostitutes pissing on a bed don't interest me much. The implication of how Drumpf may have been compromised does, and I suspect that bed pissing in that case is probably the least of his worries.

[IluvPitties]

56. She knew the kind of man he is.

Same thing with Stormy and all the others. Donald has been a known commodity since the 70s. It's like the boxers who fell for Don King's tricks during his heyday- dude was a known crook but still believed him.

[janx]

59. It's a matter of uneducated females

clinging to a man that they're probably not even attracted to. What healthy young woman is going to be physically, emotionally, intellectually attracted to a man like that?

[IluvPitties]

60. It's not about even about education.

Money and power are the two greatest aphrodisiacs in the world.

[janx]

61. I disagree,

because well educated people generally know that.

[IluvPitties]

63. Are Stormy, Melania and McDougal uneducated?

[janx]

65. Yes. n/t