Ever since a candid nine second clip that captured Melania Trump looking absolutely distraught over something her husband grumbled at her during last week’s inauguration began circulating on social media, the Internet has been crying out for America’s new First Lady. The hashtag #FreeMelania started trending, with people uploading memes and other messages of support to a woman who clearly has no desire or preparation for the tremendous new responsibility that has been thrust upon her. She appears to be floundering in a swamp of chaos with no one, least of all her husband, to reach to for support.
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But not everyone’s heart is bleeding for the 46-year-old QVC saleswoman with an alleged billionaire husband. Many have pointed out that she used to peddle the racist birther theory and once went on national television to accuse President Obama of being a foreigner. She also defended her husband’s “p*ssy grabbing” remarks during the campaign, and threatened to sue media outlets out of existence if they wrote unfavorable things about her. Oh, and she stole Michelle Obama’s speech. All this, of course, was after she stole her husband from another woman way back in 1998. So, yeah, she’s not exactly the perfect picture of a charity case.
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Still, it’s hard not to feel just a little for a woman who spent all of last Friday morning looking like this:
And all of last Friday evening looking like this:
What do you think? Does Melania Trump deserve our sympathy? Share your thoughts…
MikeE
Well she certainly doesn’t deserve to be in a “glided cage” (whatever the heck that’s supposed to be).
But maybe all that stuff she did was under duress. Maybe she read from a script (her English isn’t exactly fluent). For all we know Trump may be holding her “hostage” by menacing to take her son away from her if she leaves him.
The change of expression in the video is the face of a beaten woman. She may not be perfect – actually, we know she isn’t – but no one deserves to be in an abusive relationship.
1EqualityUSA
Having salt poured into our wounds may make us want to hurt Trump’s wife or child, as a way of attacking him, a practice despised in war. Unbecoming and ineffectual. If she had stood by her man on his political climb from Supervisor, Mayor, Senator, then President, it would be explicable. The collateral damage Trump’s antics have cost this family is detrimental; gloomsville. Some just want to be notorious. Vlad the Impaler is top dog in that category, not that there’s a contest. “If I can’t be the best, Vlad-action.” I wonder if presidents have tallies in their heads of the people killed on their watch. Torment.
Sluggo2007
She’s a common gold digger. She knew what she was doing when she married Trump. I have NO sympathy for her.
Herman75
Come on girls! She’ll be our new straight woman fashion diva! How can we resist that!!??
BigWoody
She chose to be essentially a “mail order bride” for money.
Mo Bro
I hear glided cages are all the rage this year.
dustashed
Gilded Cage
FTFY
Christopher
What is a glided cage? Is that one made by ID Lube?
Warner27
I’m sure that Melania will cope with the situation. She has been able to handle Trump for years, so she’s a tough enough cookie. But overall: No mercy. She’ s getting (but maybe a bit more) what she bargained for.
Jack Meoff
No sympathy what so ever. She wanted the money and position Trump afforded her but her biggest mistake was binding herself to him by having a child. Now she has to deal with more than she bargained for and is trapped. I am hoping she leaves him because the media frenzy will be a hoot but I doubt she will because he will threaten her with cutting her off with no money and of course the poor child.
sfbeast
Poor Melania. What happened to the ‘sparkle’ they saw in each other when they met. I believe the sparkle she saw were actually dollar signs.
Winter
She doesn’t deserve my sympathy. She’s a common gold digger.
JerseyMike
Hell no..
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
No. She a whore not a slave. She can stop selling her cat any time.
Charlie in Charge
If people are willing to lay the sins of Bill CLinton at the feet of Hillary why is Melania exempt? I don’t envy her relationship, I can say that much.
mhoffman953
Hmmm. Seems like a double standard based on these comments.
Liberals say they hate Trump because of his comments regarding immigrants (illegal ones) and women, but then they continue to trash the first lady who is an immigrant and a woman by calling her “mail-order bride” or “whore”
AlexEf
So… what do you think about Melania herself?
AlexEf
Poor thing! She probably does her own makeup and hair because Trump doesn’t want to spend any money on her.
Kangol
This birther b&tch deserves what she gets. When she produces her immigration papers, and not some threatening letter from a lawyer, I’ll give her a shred of sympathy. No one forced her to consort with Drumpfster, and she could have walked away at any point if she had any good sense, especially given Drumpfster’s self-admitted sexual assaults against women.
nifty1jg
Why feel sorry? She married him. She is still married to him. She will stick around until he is kicked out of the WH and then maybe she will move on. She has his son and so she is set for life no matter what happens.
jjunke
sympathy!!!!!! you must be joking………this awful woman was quite supportive of the ‘birther’ movement. She was seen in an interview with Joy Behar questioning the right for Barack Obama to be president. Interesting coming from a woman, born in Slovakia, speaks broken English and worked illegally in the US as a ‘model’.
ptcruiser13
Who wouldn’t empathize with anyone who shared their bed and their bits with Trump? I’m certain she loves him – it’s been 13 years guys. Is this the price one pays to access a billionaire… er millionaire… er comfortable lifestyle? He’s an egomaniacal, thin-skinned aging idiot with a big mouth, false bravado “we’re #1” and “leader of the free world?!” (if you’re white, Christian and love guns and white Jesus) to spare. Her European manners are assaulted daily and whatever he said to Melania, it obvious struck a pang in her heart and one can’t help but sympathize with her – at that moment. She looked gorgeous that day and her self-proclaimed desire to emulate the amazing Jackie O is admirable; if only Trump was JFK, “I think to myself, what a wonderful world it would be”.
Neonegro
Why would she need the sympathy of angry gays?
She is beautiful, rich and can reproduce.
The gays are the ones in need of her sympathy.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
That reproducing thing didn’t go so well. Kids not exactly right, now is he?
Neonegro
Who cares, the kid is rich.
bbg372
Let her eat cake.
Jack Meoff
I just looked up her age online and was shocked to learn she is only 46. I thought she was in her 50’s. That outfit and hairdo she wore to the inauguration aged her terribly. I also didn’t realise the age difference between her and the doofus was so big.
russ_klettke
As any good mother tells her daughters, when you marry just for money you have to work every night.
eightinchnail
But she’s lives the money, I mean the man she married.