How much do you think Melania hates Donald Trump?
Are they doing each other a favor with their appearances as a married couple?
You could hardly see it. The petrified and loveless togetherness of the Trumps during the inauguration raises questions. For example: are they doing each other a favor with their appearances as a married couple?
This thought first came up when Donald Trump stepped onto the balcony on the day of the inauguration: Do they even like each other? He greeted Melania, the kiss wasn't worth the name, slowed close-ups show: The two don't even touch. Then lunch. Melania petrified, Donald's mind somewhere else. At some point he says something to her, she hardly reacts.
Are US presidents allowed to be single? Any campaign strategist will likely shout no to this, in fact it has happened twice so far: in 1856 with James Buchanan and in 1884 with Grover Cleveland. Martin Van Buren and Thomas Jefferson were widowers when they were elected, and the wives of three others died during their husbands tenure. In the recent past, however, married candidates have always run and won, that's the way it should be, that's what the conservative American public welcomes.
Now, in the case of Donald and Melania Trump, you have to ask yourself whether these two are doing each other a favor with their appearances as a married couple. Because of course, even with Hillary and Bill Clinton not everything may be full of pink clouds of love, but the two are professionals enough to at least somehow play the pair okay.
Do they ever have sex anymore?
Unfortunately, the Trumps fail completely here. The high point of the low points so far: The dance on the inauguration balls. No loving look, no harmonious togetherness - instead: cramped shuffling back and forth that almost looks as if the two are wrestling with each other, she looks helplessly to the side just not to have to look at him.
The involuntary thoughts while looking at it: What and how do you think the two talk to each other when they are alone? Do they ever have sex anymore? How much does she hate him? Why are they staying together? After all, Melania doesn't even want to move to Washington, but rather to stay in New York with their son, first, it is said, because of his school.
Yes, classic love happiness looks different, like, of course you saw that in perfection at the Obamas. But the office will tie Melania and Donald together for at least four more years. A president who breaks up with his wife? This has never happened before. Just because Trump is divorced, he is only the second president in history (after Ronald Reagan).
But maybe everything is not as sad as it seems and the relationship between the two in private is full of love. After all, they have been a couple for more than ten years - and every couple lives their relationship differently, making sweeping judgments difficult.
And there are other reasons why she doesn't even want to take his hand in public.
Yes, perhaps.
