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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMelania Trump turned 49 on Friday
This is the saddest birthday picture EVER, wrote one Twitter user.The photo shared by the official White House account showed Melania Trump sat alone on an Oval Office couch as photographers snapped pictures of her husband, President Donald Trump.
Twitter users described the supposedly celebratory post as sadness personified, so strange and lame.
Why would any PR person choose this as a birthday picture?
Link to tweet
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/melania-trump-birthday-white-house-meme_n_5cc40325e4b04eb7ff9617ce
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)As I scrolled down, at first I thought that bouquet of yellow flowers was donalds hair!!!
PCIntern
(25,347 posts)Hed been scalped.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Funtatlaguy
(10,856 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)And couldn't say what he'd gotten her (because he'd gotten her nothing), and finally said he gave her a "beautiful card."
What exactly is the use of being a trophy wife if he doesn't give you any trophies? I guess maybe you go charge them on his credit card (which Trump won't pay).
This is what Granny meant when she said, "Marry for money, and you'll have to earn every penny."
I used to think he had to be paying her to stay with him in DC. Now I think she does it because she really has nothing better to do.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)Donald Trump Howard Stern Tapes Show Him Saying 35 Is 'Check-Out Time' For Women And Agreeing His Daughter Is A 'Piece Of Ass'
dhol82
(9,351 posts)Obviously not to celebrate her birthday.
Pluvious
(4,278 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,903 posts)
likes the way her legs look in this photo. She's very into how she looks... not a criticism of her character, just a fact which might make the picture more understandable.
Funtatlaguy
(10,856 posts)llmart
(15,499 posts)"Beauty's only skin deep but ugliness goes straight to the bone."
She's an ugly person just like her so-called husband.
Grammy23
(5,808 posts)Rarely is she seen with a genuine smile. But, of course, Botox injected at regular intervals tends to do that. And who knows what other products and procedures have been done on her face and body in her attempt to keep Donald interested. She is almost a sympathetic figure in this story. Almost but not quite. She chose her role as Mrs. Donald J. tRump. She knew who he was and went through with the marriage anyway, so that says pretty much everything we need to know about her. She could walk away, but chooses to stay with a despicable man who treats her shabbily. But the lifestyle is so alluring, so addicting, she cant or wont give it up. So theres that.
No tears for Melania, as her beauty clock runs out. Donald has a taste for the young. And no amount of money, surgery or drugs will bring that back a lesson she has not learned yet.
RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)well said!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)She is pathetic in that she tries to look younger and more beautiful for a soulless, shallow man who will never be satisfied with a real woman. Why can't she realize that she would be better off by leaving with her son and starting a new life either alone or with another man who would be far superior to DT in every way. She could not do worse and yet she stays with this pig. I don't understand it, unless she is as despicable as he is.
snowybirdie
(5,191 posts)the Orange One is trying to phase her out. A humiliating picture.
MH1
(17,537 posts)(from the twitter thread)
Where are her child and husband?
Yep, exactly their brand. No joy. Just suffering. Even for the wife of POTUS.
underpants
(182,274 posts)He was pretty huge for a while in England.
RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)Look like a dog on a TV set is looking at whatever its handler is holding off-screen to keep its attention.
Notice her eyes are never focused at where the camera is, they are just off like she's watching a handler holding a treat for her to keep her attention.
Frozen and no emotion.
Not sure why it's 'so sad' though - as official bride No. 3, she had to have known of philanderer in chiefs propensity to cheat at life and with his consorts....
Put another way: 'caveat emptor.'
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)otherwise, the pukes continue to reach for something that doesnt exist within their ranks to my knowledge.
JHB
(37,130 posts)It is lip gloss, right?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)QED
(2,730 posts)There's plenty of room next to her - this screams lonely. If she had been in the center, then it's a pose but I think this is a message. (Or the photographers asked her to sit there for a better pic and my psychobabble is way off.)
And no, I don't feel sorry for her.
tblue37
(64,979 posts)Here is another angle, showing the Czech president's wife sitting across from her:
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nolabear
(41,915 posts)They look like miserable old farts with too much power. The women look like Trophy Wives, the Collector's Edition.
Siwsan
(26,177 posts)Couldn't resist.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Pluvious
(4,278 posts)Maybe it was just a chosen pic from all the shots taken that photo op, and in her mind, it was the shot she wanted to be used on the official BD post.
It was certainly her decision.
As for the reason... We'll need to wait for the tell-all bestseller to find out.
dhol82
(9,351 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Did Donald take her to McDonalds?
Pluvious
(4,278 posts)GemDigger
(4,305 posts)In December, the first lady said the most difficult part of her time in the White House has been watching "opportunists" use her family's name to advance their careers.
We are more pissed that your family of opportunists is using this country as a way to use the US name, money and power to advance your carreers!
Shut up. Just shut up and go to your room.
woodsprite
(11,853 posts)KansasKali
(105 posts)She helped push birtherism. This is the birthday she deserves.
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)Polybius
(15,238 posts)She doesn't look older at all, but being that her husband is 72, I just think of her as older than her age
dameatball
(7,380 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)She looks closer to 60 than she does to 50, IMO.
Polybius
(15,238 posts)I think he looks around 46. I don't think she looks all that young for her age, although I have to admit she looks good. Looking good and looking young are two different things.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)If she had any warmth in there it couldn't break through the shell to get out.
Aristus
(66,093 posts)You believe that? Melania's face isn't even old enough to be out of diapers...
highplainsdem
(48,727 posts)mercuryblues
(14,491 posts)With all her plastic surgery she should look a heck of a lot better than she does.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I have had no plastic surgery and I don't have a wrinkle on my face. She looks older than I do. Plastic surgery makes people look freakishly strange and old, because it's obvious that they are trying to hide something.
snort
(2,334 posts)you visa dodging asshole.
hopeforchange2008
(610 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Nice. That's what I was thinking as well.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)At least according to the Donhole.
struggle4progress
(118,039 posts)harumph
(1,871 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Varicose veins, grey hair that cannot take color, and a muffin top!
Now hopefully, the orange shitstain will find her disgusting and cast her aside for wife 4, at which point ICE will scoop her up and deport her.
delisen
(6,039 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,746 posts)someone style her stringy hair. I think she chose this photo so she could show off her stiletto legs. 49? Since none of them ever, ever tell the truth will have to see her birth certificate.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)is going to give her the surprise dump.
KentuckyWoman
(6,666 posts)Who cares what she looks like? Really? The content of her character is not exactly the stuff of beauty and grace. Sadly.
The Blue Flower
(5,419 posts)Sadness is sweet compared to what I wish for her and her mate.