Everyone’s been talking about this clip of Melania Trump flinching at her husband’s touch as she was reciting the Lord’s Prayer during Donald’s 2020 campaign kickoff rally last weekend:
Literally even the slightest touch by that garbage monster makes her flinch pic.twitter.com/iCLTRbKvdj
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) February 19, 2017
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Shortly after the video began circulating, the hashtag #FreeMelania started trending again as people tweeted their concerns for the distressed First Lady.
Body language and communications expert Dr. Lillian Glass tells Elite Daily that Melania’s demeanor was likely caused by fear.
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“I find her to be extremely nervous and very uncomfortable in her role of First Lady,” Glass says. “She’s extremely tense, her voice shakes, it often cracks which shows a sign of muscle tension.”
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Glass continues: “Right when Donald Trump walked by, I noticed there was a shift in her demeanor. That’s showing disdain. He came up behind her, it was the touch on the shoulder and the shoulder shrugging to dismiss him.”
Now, let’s take a look at the Internet’s response…
First, there were the tweets…
PRAYER WARRIOR ALERT: Melania Trump is now even using the Lord’s words to send coded messages for help! #FreeMelania pic.twitter.com/7HRf3ob5kn
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) February 21, 2017
@TheDweck It's a warning squeeze. I'd venture to guess he doesn't like her getting more cheers than him.
— Meg Bee (@oneretrocupcake) February 19, 2017
Literally even the slightest touch by that garbage monster makes her flinch pic.twitter.com/iCLTRbKvdj
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) February 19, 2017
And then came the memes…
Melania, if you’re reading, light a candle in the north tower if you need us to come rescue you.
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1EqualityUSA
She has problems a mile high. Maybe she and the others will start a support group. What a miserable existence. She should distance herself from this circus and focus on the youngest son. That’s her number one job, even if it costs the tax payers money.
happy50132003
Well she is trying to focus on her son but the hatefuls and liberals are bitching because she is not at the white house. OK when dear Michelle Obama drug her mother to the white house (at tax payer expense) to take care of her daughters. Plus drug her mother all over the world when Michelle and the daughters toured the world at tax payers expense. SO STUPID when people can not see both sides.
jonasalden
@happy50132003: Doesn’t “drug” sound wrong to you? Never mind all the drivel you regurgitate about the previous First Family taking excessive vacations. Just saying…
DCguy
I LOVE the Right Wing’s desperation and lack of any policy depth outside of playing victim and wanting to piss of “Liberals”.
After her appearance there were comments ALL over the right wing blogsphere saying things like “Melania recited the lords prayer and LIBERALS ARE FURIOUS!”
IF you asked any of the commenters to provide any link showing that liberals were furious they suddenly went quite.
Look, I get why they had Melania recite a prayer. She got nailed for reading a plagiarized speech before and this was something they could have her practice over and over so she could read it ok.
But the only policy the right wing seems to have no is, if somebody tells them that this person, or this policy pisses off liberals, that’s all they need. They will actually vote against their own interest if they think it’s going to hurt some other people or piss them off.
This is FOX News’s gift to the GOP.
davidkohl
Heart breaking? Absolutely not! We ‘liberals’ have to learn to toughen up and fight fire with fire. We all knew what The Odious Man was like years ago – as did she. He is a narcissist and bully – that is what he does. Yet she stands beside him on platforms where he is at his most repulsive. She is so dumb she has to steal the very words of the Obamas. She is not some poor cowering browbeaten wife who has no choice but to stay in an abusive relationship. She is the ‘First Lady’ – however inappropriate that title is for he. If she left him and started divorce proceedings does anyone believe that he will somehow go after her and drag her back? No chance. Not even The Odious Man would dare do that. So that’s why i have no sympathy for her. She still wants the lifestyle of the billionaires wife, but even worse, she will happily crap on those minorities singled out by The Odious Man.
Jere
I don’t feel much sympathy for her since she chose to marry that person, likely knowing full well who he was. Everybody makes choices every day and, if she wanted to make the choice to leave, she would. BUT…that said, she really didn’t sign up for politics and being in the spotlight in this way. She didn’t sign up for making speeches or having the world watch her every move. She was a aging courtesan who thought she was just marrying a disgusting old rich guy who treated her poorly for his money and having a kid to ensure her financial security. She was signing up to be the trophy, in exchange for a life of wealth and privilege. Her husband would do well to just let her hang in the background, except for the photo ops where he needs her, and let his daughter(s) do the heavy lifting of being First Lady.
whatevz
that’s the price a stupid mail order bride has to pay to live (part-time) in a tacky gold tower with a 70 year old sexual-assaulting Hitler-loving racist…
da90027
this is what happens when you are a gold digger and marry a fat ugly mudslide of a creep. I am sure she has a signed power of attorney because one day that ugly freak will drown to death while being pissed on by a Russian Hooker
Kheft
I understand where the humor is coming from. Many of us are in a place of fear & darkness, or at least significantly heightened stress over US politics. Humor is both a means of coping, and a means of hitting back when we feel helpless. That acknowledged, I’ve advocated for survivors of domestic abuse and this is no laughing matter. What Melania is doing here is unwittingly shedding light on the fact that abuse knows no class or economic strata. Even a seemingly privileged woman living an enviable lifestyle can be a victim. We may be unable to help her, but make no mistake regarding the real issue here. ALL victims of abuse and exploitation merit our sympathy and compassion – and if they reach out to us, our help. THANK YOU Melania for putting domestic abuse in the spotlight. It is time to take this problem a lot more seriously.
Xzamilloh
“Blacks for Trump”? Are we gonna ignore that nonsense in the background? Enough with that nonsense already…. “Gays for Trump”; “Blacks for Trumps”; “Jews for Trump”; “P***y for Trump to Grab”…. come now.
DarkZephyr
Agreed! And lets not forget that gem “Twinks for Trump”.
jonasalden
I totally agree, and laugh to avoid crying.
wmca_goodguys
“…has the Internet very concerned…” You meant to say: “…the propagandist(arm of the Democrat party,) leftist, fake-news, bring-down-Trump-at-any-cost Internet…” Gee, and Bill Clinton would never touch his own wife (just other women when often his touch was unwanted). Refresh my memory on how Queerty reported on THAT “news”.
DCguy
You know, if you are going to change your screename to a new one so you can try to troll as a new account, try to tighten up your rambling so it isn’t so blatantly obvious.
That said, please provide a detailed list of what it is you love about Trump, and exact details on why he is great for the lgbt community. Otherwise just go cash your Putin check and get out of here. Before somebody drops a house on you.
DarkZephyr
Its not just people on the left Buddy. I myself am a moderate and know several Republicans who are disgusted with him. And have you been ignoring the town hall meetings across the country? MANY of those people are Republican constituents. People want him brought down at all costs to keep America safe from disaster. Wake up.
dwes09
Nobody is saying, or implying that Bill Clinton would not or did not touch his wife, and in fact President Obama was very physical with his wife in public. But you would be hard pressed to find videos that remotely imply what so many videos of Trump and Melania seem to clearly illustrate:
1.lack of affection and actual discomfort on her part with displays of affection from him.
2.lack of care on his part for her, or respect for her.
As for Queerty reporting on the adultery of Bill Clinton, IT WAS FOUNDED IN 2005. Connect with reality much?
davidkohl
Whatever Clinton did he faced the punishment of impeachment for it. At some point you have to give up using him to excuse The Odious Man currently, and illegitimately, occupying the White House. It’s also getting tedious to keep hearing the Trump lackeys use the expression ‘fake news’ – you are the masters of that. And finally, it is perfectly reasonable for decent people to want to bring down an illegitimate Presidency that is based on racism, sexism, homophobia, incompetence, sleaze and bullying. Clinton may have made serious mistakes in his time, but the The Odious Man currently in the White House is so much more guilty.
1EqualityUSA
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Marco
She should help herself by compiling files on Trump’s dirt: tax returns, etc. And for extra protection, she should park herself in the West Wing to gather political dirt. Then in no time she could write her own ticket out of her nightmare, and help the US out of its nightmare too.
Jack Meoff
I don’t know that she is that clever to pull something like that off. He probably keeps her in the dark about all of his business and political dealings for exactly that reason.
Spike
Something tells me she has no idea that she will have Secret Service following her for the rest of her life.
dwes09
But they won’t be in the bedroom or private quarters of the white house. If she is being abused (as opposed to simply disgusted as a trophy wife that got more than she bargained for), they offer no protection for her.
happy50132003
What a STUPID ARTICLE … I watched this when it happened and did not think anything like this article is indicating. People that think this and try to make something of this are filled with hate. How Sad that these people have to make up such things and insult our President and First Lady just because they are jealous and filled with hate. Grow up people.
Jack Meoff
There are multiple examples of this kind of behaviour so it is not peoples imaginations that their marriage is one based on fear and control. Her demeanour is that of an abused wife.
DCguy
Oh look, another fake Trump Troll. How adorable.
davidkohl
You can’t really insult someone who is not a legitimate President can you? It must really hurt that your Odious Man lost the vote by several millions. In any other country he would not be President. So let’s not get carried away with undue respect for him or his would be ‘Empress’. I had great respect for the former President and First Lady because they earned it and deserved it. This repulsive, usurping couple do not. As for growing up – well tell that to the bully in the White House.
batesmotel
That’s interesting as I’ve seen photos of her not “recoiling” with him and in fact looking pretty romantic. This is at the same event. You can find them if you choose to do the work, but your goal is to only look for the negative, which of course is inaccurate reporting. We now know why ‘fake news’ has become a thing recently. This article is an example of that. 😉
Jack Meoff
When she sees him coming and can prepare herself she smiles through it and acts the part but when he catches her unaware her true feelings show.
davidkohl
Interesting screenname @batesmotel – that of a fictional serial killer and his place of killing. Not surprised that you try to defend The Odious Man. There is nothing ‘inaccurate’ in this article – it is based on the study the psychology of body language – a well known and accepted method of studying behaviour. Because you choose not to see it does not make it ‘fake’. The reality is that he plucked a poor uneducated gold digger out of Europe and dazzled her with his wealth. Not surprisingly, she was duly dazzled. What he failed to prepare her for is his narcissistic personality and need for total control. What we are seeing now is the fall out.
readycarlos
I find it very difficult to feel sorry for Melania. She is an adult and made the choice to be the wife of a notoriously hideous person. DonDon has never kept it a secret that he’s an asshole. In fact, he’s made a career out of it. Mel hitched her wagon to what she thought was gonna be the cushy life of a NY trophy wife. Every First Lady has sacrificed and worked to be a credit and an ally to her husband’s ambition. They chose it. They wanted it. Mel didn’t choose that life. Like much of her husband’s atrocities I would imagine, it was thrust upon her. But she has an amazing opportunity. A staff and an office of her own in the most powerful home in the world. If she misses this opportunity to show the world her true heart, that would be the real tragedy.
Realitycheck
Thank you, she is exactly where she wants to be… she made her choices like most of us.
I cannot even begin to imagine how she can stand sleeping with that man… her choice,
sorry NOT sorry.
scotty
NO sympathy. NONE. careful what you wish for.
GayEGO
Bwahahahahahahahaha! Poor Melania, she not only has to fear Trump as our POTUS but she also has to put up with him as his wife. Odd, that the picture only shows their upper half. Hmmmmm….. I wonder if Trump is doing to Melania what he said he does in his locker room talk video!
Roy Moss
Oh give me a break. Who cares? If he’s abusive she can leave. She is a rotten human being, a grifter just like the rest of the Trump clan and deserves any bad thing that happens to her.
1EqualityUSA
so brilliant. hazelsimmons566. Love the misspelling.