• FuglyDuck
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    1091 month ago

    Maybe stating the obvious, but I feel like their marriage was transactional. Less about romance and more about the money and image.

    If she stays with him, it’s because he’s still paying her.

    • EleventhHour
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      451 month ago

      Each of his wives married him for a reason— and it certainly wasn’t love.

      They all got what they deserved, too.

      • @aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world
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        601 month ago

        They all got what they deserved, too.

        That’s a little harsh. He allegedly beat and raped Ivana. Many years later, when she died by “falling” down the stairs, he buried her in a pauper’s grave on his golf course so he could get a tax write-off.

      • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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        81 month ago

        Everyone who ever helped him get where he is today got what they deserved, from Mrs Buried on a Golf Course, to America’s Mayor sweating away the last vestiges of his credibility on a landscaping company forecourt.

        It’s like all the warning signs are right there, and every single one just believes everyone else was dumb, and they’ll be the one to get a reward.

        • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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          21 month ago

          They’re truly capitalists: no risk no reward. Except they’re really bad capitalists as in “this is all risk no reward.”

    • SeaJ
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      131 month ago

      I almost kind of doubt that they have had sex. It wouldn’t surprise me to find out that Barron was conceived via IVF.

      • Lemminary
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        1 month ago

        I think so too, but I also expect Melania to stoop that low for money.

        • SeaJ
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          31 month ago

          That may be true. It still wouldn’t surprise me if Barron was conceived through IVF. I can’t imagine the dude who doesn’t exercise because he thinks a person’s energy over a lifetime is finite has the best sperms count or motility.

    • Ghostalmedia
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      71 month ago

      What beautiful model wouldn’t want to marry an arrogant liar, who paints his face orange, is 25 years older, has a public history of infidelity, and has one of the weirdest combovers the world has ever seen?

    • @Paragone@lemmy.world
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      129 days ago

      She knows that if she ditches him, and he becomes dictator, and he becomes more Putin-like, he may have her murdered or torture-murdered.

      I’d say she has no choice about sticking with him, now: it’s a fact of her basic-survival, in the long-term view.

      • FuglyDuck
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        29 days ago

        I feel like people that are that calculating are also capable of calculating what happens if he karks it.

        She becomes a martyr, gets to fade away with what’s left of her dignity and his wealth,