I first wrote about Melania Trump in February 2017, because she’d sued a blogger for $150 million (and extracted a substantial settlement) for writing about her questionable past. A president’s wife suing like that seemed despicable. These Trumps don’t believe any criticism should be allowed.
Seeking a picture to accompany my own blog post, I was shocked by what came up at “Google Images.” Not what you’d expect for a first lady. I selected one of the tamer photos.
Melania revealed herself too when traveling to a migrant child detention center wearing a coat inscribed, “I really don’t care, do U?” She claimed that was directed at her critics.
Or maybe she imagined this garment was somehow sardonic cool. I think that sartorial thumb-in-eye told us who she really is.
I saw only a snippet of the new “Melania” movie. Showing a phone exchange she had with Donald. Not sounding like intimates, like husband and wife. They don’t give a shit about each other. (Or anyone else.)
He married her for her body. She married him for his money. The Art of the Deal.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos paid her $40 million for the right to make that film. Vastly more than any other such deal ever. You’d think just making the movie would be flattery enough. Bezos also pledged another $35 million to promote it. Good luck — no way will it sell enough tickets to recoup those outlays.
But Bezos is no financial fool. This whole thing is a barely camouflaged bribe, paying off the Trumps to benefit his other huge business interests.
The Trumps’ continuing greed is astonishing. Donald is 79, and president; what can more money do for him? But his greed for everything is boundless.
Bezos had already greased Trump by killing a Washington Post editorial endorsing Harris in 2024. Bezos owns the paper. This craven deed sent it into a death spiral, a quarter million cancelling subscriptions, and now its staff has been decimated by layoffs. “Democracy dies in darkness” was its slogan.
Another great institution hollowed out by Trumpdom is the former Kennedy Center. The “Melania” film premiered in its shell, and outside, The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper interviewed attendees.
Generally posh glamour poseurs. It’s increasingly clear that wealth and smarts don’t correlate. Indeed, riches often corrode the mind, making people insufferable. Believing they attained their status deservingly rather than through mere luck, and hence sneering at everyone else as losers.
This lurked behind the supercilious effusions of Klepper’s interviewees, who’d drunk the Trump Kool-Aid. Actually believing America’s being made great. Oblivious to the reality of sick moral degradation — with the “Melania” flick itself a prime exemplar.
