Last night was the biggest night of 2024 primary season. Donald Trump won 14 of the 15 states that voted, bringing his total delegate count up to 995 of the 1,215 needed to secure his party’s nomination, and knocked his last remaining primary opponent, Nikki Haley, out of the competition.
The one-term, twice-impeached, quadruply-indicted, 77-year-old ex-president gave a rambling, fact-free speech at Mar-a-Lago celebrating his victory and thanking his supporters.
In attendance was his oldest son, Don Jr., and his fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle, as well as his son Eric and his wife Lara, who’s currently trying to elbow her way into a top post in the Republican National Committee.
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Oh, and Tiffany. We always seem to forget about her.
Noticeably absent from Trump’s victory speech was his other daughter, Ivanka, who was just in India celebrating the wedding of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani over the weekend, as well as his wife, Melania.
Evidently, the ex-FLOTUS couldn’t be bothered to come downstairs from her private suite at Mar-a-Lago to join her husband in the ballroom.
Not that anyone’s surprised.
Melania hasn’t appeared at any of her husband’s rallies or attended any of his court appearances. She also hasn’t given any interviews in almost a year and has rarely been seen out in public, aside from a very brief appearance at a fundraiser last month.
Oh, and the time she was caught refusing to share a car with him after her mother’s funeral earlier this year.
In January, Trump promised his supporters that Melania would be joining him on the campaign trail “soon.”
“She’s gonna play, and she always did play, a big role,” he said. “She was somebody that you could rely on. She’s very smart, a very compassionate person… She wants to make America great again, too!”
That was almost two months ago, however, and she still hasn’t emerged.
Then during his speech at CPAC at the end of February, he appeared to mistakenly refer to her as “Mercedes”, prompting President Biden to take a swing at him during an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers.
“You got to take a look at the other guy,” he said. “He’s about as old as I am, but he can’t remember his wife’s name.”
Trump later clarified that he was referring to Mercedes Schlapp, who served in the Trump Administration as White House director of strategic communications, and who was sitting in the audience at CPAC.
Watch the video and determine for yourself.
Whatever the case, it’s clear Melania isn’t interested in participating in her husband’s efforts to stay out of prison presidential campaign. Just like she wasn’t interested in being First Lady, as evidenced by the fact that it took her six months after her husband’s inauguration to finally move into the White House.
Once she got there, she reportedly had little interest in doing, well, anything. Last month, the New York Times reported that Trump White House staff turned her East Wing office into a “gift wrapping room” because she never used it.
The report also claimed Melania spent most days in the White House residence “wearing terry cloth bathrobes during the day and sorting through what office aides referred to as her ‘swag room,’ a locked room filled with key chains, crystal bookends and other trinkets from her time at the White House.”
According to Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Melania’s former BFF, senior adviser, and author of Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady, the ex-FLOTUS “never wanted to be there in the first place.”
Speaking to the MeidasTouch podcast recently, Wolkoff said Melania becoming the first lady again would be “the most tragic thing for our country” because “giving her that platform [would] do positively, absolutely nothing, except create more controversy.”
Wolkoff also opined that the reason Melania remains so elusive is because it’s the only way to seem interesting.
“If she says nothing, there is nothing for anyone to report. If she doesn’t give an interview, there is nothing for anyone to say,” she said, adding that Melania uses speculation to “stay relevant.”
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abfab
Cardboard people. Fitting.
Baron Wiseman
Melania Trump is not running for political office. Obviously, she is a very private person.
I believe the pertinent question is – where was Joe Biden? Why isn’t that question being asked?
We saw President Trump out speaking to the public, thanking his voters, stating his desire to return to office, etc. Where was Joe? Asleep? Literally and figuratively.
Once again, Joe was missing. President Biden came into office promising to restore relations with journalists after his predecessors four combative years, but Biden again skipped the traditional end-of-year presidential press conference. President Biden also skipped the annual pre-Super Bowl presidential interview that President Obama made so popular and used to his advantage.
Mr. Biden has been less accessible to the press during his three years in office than any other modern president, according to data from the American Presidency Project.
We may want to know where Melania may be, but the more important question is where is President Biden and why is he not communicating with the press and the American public.
still_onthemark
Impressive concern trolling from Baron today! As I’ve said before, when Trump was president I never complained about how much he golfed. The more he golfs, the less trouble he gets the country in, I figured.
still_onthemark
Baron has a “what about Biden” response to literally every Trump story here, but at least this one looks like it came from the National Review instead of the Daily Mail. Classy!
dbmcvey
If Jill Biden was doing this you would be typing your fingers to the bone with invective.
abfab
Reading Baron Crap is so last year. What did KAREN say this time? I’m certain the short answer will be nothing.
ZzBomb
I prefer presidents who are running the country and not trying to be media fame whores who threaten journalists.
Biden is doing just fine if he’s triggering you so much.
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
“Biden is doing just fine….”
His polls say otherwise.
abfab
ZZ, recall that tacky noovo-reesh show ”Lifestyles Of The RIch And Famous” with that obnoxious guy from Australia? POS was always on it. As were other whores in debt up to thier nostrils. The right wingers were in love with this shithead and are still hoping his ”good luck with business’ would rub off on him when they went to Atlantic City.
We all know how that story ends………
dbmcvey
We’ll see Barren. It’s still several months away and people aren’t paying attention.
You should be wary of Trump winning. You have real Erns Rohm vibes.
Baron Wiseman
@dbmcvey
You have real Chicken Little vibes.
LumpyPillows
I applaud Melania for renegotiating her contract so she does not have to parade around with Don. She loathed it the last time. Don’t expect to see her this time at all. Hope she got her payment in cash, up front. We all know Don.
Flamingo Falls
Melania was probably out hooking. Someone in the family has to earn $$$ to pay off that half-billion dollar judgment.
abfab
POS is begging elon musky now.
mildredspierce
She’s embarrassed and humiliated because he’s the world’s biggest loudmouth. He’s embarrassed and humiliated because he makes her flesh crawl.
LumpyPillows
I don’t think she cares, do you? She got her payout. It was never love, how could it be? Don is a slug. It was always a transaction.
still_onthemark
Hmm, Melania refuses to ride in the same car with someone who has long been rumored to occasionally poop his pants.
abfab
His SUV has a diapering table.
abfab
According to the photo, if you buy the pair who is not really a pair, the pipe bombs and the yello pressure cooker propane tank comes with.
bachy
This ongoing shltshow makes me long for an actual “conservative” candidate – instead of Trump and the parade of deranged imbeciles he’s been subjecting us to for the past 9 years.
abfab
The conservative train left the station many many decades ago, so good luck with that longing. Conservatives can’t even get CONSERVATIVE right!
They are stuck between a rock and an even harder rock. Please, the POS and his tacky family have been trolling the streets since the 80s. 9 years?
I was over joyed tho when he barged into Central Park to repair the Wollman Rink, with his own, no, sorry, someone else’s money……
His buildings are so dated as is that mess on top of his fat, empty head.
Yes, a shit show.
ZzBomb
Melania is too busy turning tricks at Maralardo.
Once a cheap eurotrash whore, always a cheap eurotrash whore. She’s the only first lady who you can freely google her cooter. So classy!? Said no one ever.
abfab
Ew……She was one of them who liked it…you know, when Mr Trump grabbed her by the pu ssy. It excited her.
Chrisk
Seriously doubt she wanted the Orange fatty near her Puss. Only thing going on in this Gold Diggers mind was Donald he Rich Man.
LumpyPillows
Melania is not turning tricks, at least not in the typical sense. Her whole marriage was a transaction, true. She might be onto the next big fish, but with her bank, she’s not slumming.
Baron Wiseman
Tomorrow is the State of the Union:
Say. Her. Name. President. Biden.
Laken Riley
You have blood on your hands.
Chrisk
Does someone pay you to come here? You’re like a fart in the elevator here. No one wants to hear or smell your BS.
Baron Wiseman
@Chrisk
The murder of an American citizen by an illegal alien that was welcomed into our country by President Biden and the Democrats is not “BS.”
LumpyPillows
That’s one of their talking points. I am 100% confident Biden will speak about the need to better manage immigration, all while not demeaning immigrants. Something the republicans can’t do.
abfab
Everything Baron Wiseman says is BS. He has become literally unbelievable.
Baron Wiseman
The House of Representatives on Thursday voted 251-170 to approve H.R. 7511, dubbed the ‘Laken Riley Act.’
170 House Democrats voted against the Laken Riley Act. Democrats hate Americans.
The bill requires ICE to arrest and detain illegal aliens like Laken Riley’s murderer until they are removed from the US.
abfab
Baron Wiseman has found a new cause célèbre. It makes him sound caring. And that’s all.
MTG will be handing out Laken Riley pins tonight. She’s tough on crime, you know.
Baz01
Melanoma busy looking for an exit strategy for herself and Barron, so as to not get caught up in Punkin Head’s legal woes. Orange probably not her colour.
Meanwhile – staying in her suite upstairs? I can well understand her nervousness about being anywhere near a staircase…
LumpyPillows
So wrong. Melania has already renegotiated her contract. She’s funded. She’s just biding her time. She may be a cruel, gold digger, but she’s not a fool. She played Donny for all she could get. Thanks Stormy Daniels.