Melania Trump: How she's useful to Donald Trump in the election campaign
Melania Trump has been US First Lady at the side of her husband Donald Trump for four years. But is the relationship only a marriage of convenience?
- Melania Trump repeatedly made questionable appearances during her time as First Lady.
- Melania Trump's image of women speaks to many women in the USA: Donald Trump uses his wife for political purposes.
All information about the elections in the USA on November 3rd can be found in the news about the 2020 election.
Washington - According to political scientists: women, especially those from the “white middle class” in the suburbs, are voting-decisive in the USA. So the votes of American women voters are extremely important to US President Donald Trump and his challenger Joe Biden.
Donald Trump was supported by the Women for Trump movement back in 2016. Donald Trump's image of women and the Trump family is therefore a decisive factor for the 2020 US presidential election. The appearances of Donald Trump's wife Melania Trump are therefore highly political and staged.
First Lady Melania Trump: An unrealistic ideal of beauty
In the USA there are women's clubs that have Melania Trump as a role model and accept cosmetic surgery for their ideal female image, as an ARTE documentary shows. However, Melania Trump represents an unreal ideal of beauty that was itself modeled through numerous operations. Shortly after their meeting in the 1990s, Melania Trump is said to have undergone a series of cosmetic operations for Donald Trump at the age of her late twenties. A far-reaching step, considering that billionaire Donald Trump was known in New York for surrounding himself with many women and was even married at the time they met.
Melania Trump: First Lady met Donald Trump and had an operation
Melania Trump has submitted to the will of a white, older man, and has been degraded as inadequate and "improved" through operations. This move may suggest that Melania assessed the relationship as long-term, or at least hoped it would. And for the fact that Melania Trump moves in sexist and racist structures: Her husband Donald Trump is accused of standing for toxic masculinity.
But - as has already been discussed in the USA - no one should feel sorry for Melania. The first lady chose this life herself and propagates these structures, which she endowed with power and money. So she could well be called a collaborator with Trump. By voluntarily discrediting her person as an object in favor of wealth and power, she does not express solidarity with those women who are suffering from these power structures.
Melania Tapes: marriage of convenience between Melania Trump and US President Donald Trump?
Melania Trump, who grew up in rather modest circumstances in socialist Slovenia, was sent to fashion shows and modeling competitions by her apparently ambitious parents as a little girl. When Melania Trump meets Donald Trump, she is actually too old for a career by industry standards.
- Melania Trump First Lady of the USA and former model
- Birth Date April 26, 1970
- Birthplace Novo mesto, Slovenia
- Spouse of US President Donald Trump
- Birth name Melania Knavs
- Children Barron Trump (born 2006)
How would Melania's life have been if she hadn't met Donald Trump? One can only speculate about the alternative to marrying Donald Trump. “Donald got a pretty companion on his arm, Melania two dynamic decades. When she met Donald she was a young, unknown model. Then she married, became an American, had a son and became the First Lady of the United States. ”Her former confidante Stephanie Winston Wolkoff describes the relationship between Donald and Melania Trump to the BBC, as the FAZ reports.
Melania Trump - many female voters are fascinated by Donald Trump's wife
Nevertheless, Melania Trump likes to present herself as an emancipated woman who accompanies businessman Donald Trump on business trips, preferably in high heels. Often, however, she is also accused of not showing any sensitivity in her choice of clothing and of wearing stilettos even in inappropriate situations such as during a visit to Texas, which was shaken by storm “Harvey”.
Melania is loyal to Donald Trump, even if he attracts attention through escapades. Otherwise she holds the position in the White House - mostly in silence - takes care of charity events and their son Barron Trump.
Melania Trump thus partly conveys characteristics with which many women in the USA who are at home as housewives and represent conservative values can identify. Extremism experts also speak of right-wing populists who stage themselves as caring for their mother, as the SZ reports. The image of women in these movements is also described with "authoritarian demands for adaptation", as experts report in "Zeit" online.
Toxic femininity: First Lady Melania Trump is often criticized
Melania Trump's behavior fits well with this. At the same time, Donald Trump uses his wife Melania Trump to play down his politics: When Donald Trump rumbles, Melania relativizes it with slight appeasement or even reproaching her husband by slapping her hand away. Melania Trump either denies or belittles allegations of extramarital affairs or the sexual abuse of women. “They're just men, they can't help it,” seems the attitude behind it.
Melania Trump seems to be useful as a migrant but also to relativize the racism of Donald Trump to her husband. According to the motto: If the wife is a native of Slovenia, the husband's racism cannot be that bad. In the countries of the former Yugoslavia there is sometimes very strong racism against minorities and conflicts between population groups.
Melania Trump: speculation about her marriage to Donald Trump
The state of the marriage of Melania and Donald Trump is also fueling rumors again and again: Why doesn't Melania Trump just go, take her son, her American citizenship and have a severance payment paid out? But that doesn't seem to be enough for Melania Trump.
Melania is said to have tied her approval to move to Washington to a new marriage contract, which should give her son more rights in the Trump dynasty and thus to the inheritance. In addition, as is common in many Eastern European countries, Melania Trump could have a very conservative sense of family, which is shown by the fact that she lives in the USA with her entire family. An illegitimate son of her father is said to have not been recognized for years.
Melania Trump: First Lady polarizes and divides with clothes
Melania Trump seems to use the toxic masculinity of her husband Donald Trump and, like her husband, to polarize and divide - also through her clothing: For example, Melania Trump wore one on a visit to a camp for migrant children who were separated from their families Jacket with the inscription "I really don't care. Do you? ”The first lady later claimed that this message was directed to left-wing media.
Like her husband Donald Trump, the first lady seems to relativize her statement, which could have been addressed to all the extreme right in the country, shortly afterwards so as not to scare conservatives too much.
Melania Trump - many female voters are fascinated by Donald Trump's wife
Nevertheless, Melania Trump likes to present herself as an emancipated woman who accompanies businessman Donald Trump on business trips, preferably in high heels. Often, however, she is also accused of not showing any sensitivity in her choice of clothing and of wearing stilettos even in inappropriate situations such as during a visit to Texas, which was shaken by storm “Harvey”.
Melania is loyal to Donald Trump, even if he attracts attention through escapades. Otherwise she holds the position in the White House - mostly in silence - takes care of charity events and their son Barron Trump.
Melania Trump thus partly conveys characteristics with which many women in the USA who are at home as housewives and represent conservative values can identify. Extremism experts also speak of right-wing populists who stage themselves as caring for their mother, as the SZ reports. The image of women in these movements is also described with "authoritarian demands for adaptation", as experts report in "Zeit" online.
Toxic femininity: First Lady Melania Trump is often criticized
Melania Trump's behavior fits well with this. At the same time, Donald Trump uses his wife Melania Trump to play down his politics: When Donald Trump rumbles, Melania relativizes it with slight appeasement or even reproaching her husband by slapping her hand away. Melania Trump either denies or belittles allegations of extramarital affairs or the sexual abuse of women. “They're just men, they can't help it,” seems the attitude behind it.
Melania Trump seems to be useful as a migrant but also to relativize the racism of Donald Trump to her husband. According to the motto: If the wife is a native of Slovenia, the husband's racism cannot be that bad. In the countries of the former Yugoslavia there is sometimes very strong racism against minorities and conflicts between population groups.
Melania Trump: speculation about her marriage to Donald Trump
The state of the marriage of Melania and Donald Trump is also fueling rumors again and again: Why doesn't Melania Trump just go, take her son, her American citizenship and have a severance payment paid out? But that doesn't seem to be enough for Melania Trump.
Melania is said to have tied her approval to move to Washington to a new marriage contract, which should give her son more rights in the Trump dynasty and thus to the inheritance. In addition, as is common in many Eastern European countries, Melania Trump could have a very conservative sense of family, which is shown by the fact that she lives in the USA with her entire family. An illegitimate son of her father is said to have not been recognized for years.
Melania Trump: First Lady polarizes and divides with clothes
Melania Trump seems to use the toxic masculinity of her husband Donald Trump and, like her husband, to polarize and divide - also through her clothing: For example, Melania Trump wore one on a visit to a camp for migrant children who were separated from their families Jacket with the inscription "I really don't care. Do you? ”The first lady later claimed that this message was directed to left-wing media.
Like her husband Donald Trump, the first lady seems to relativize her statement, which could have been addressed to all the extreme right in the country, shortly afterwards so as not to scare conservatives too much.
Melania Trump: Another term of Donald Trump would be a triumph
Melania Trump is already going down in US history as the first lady, who is not a native American. * Another term of office of her husband Donald Trump would certainly be a triumph for the whole Knavs family from Slovenia, as Melania Trump did before her marriage Donald Trump's real name was. The image of women that Melania Trump represents seems to be particularly popular in rural America. In times when conservative groups suffer from a loss of identity, a conservative or right-wing gender identity is also defended, political scientists justify these tendencies.
Nevertheless, a revelation book of her former confidante, who also published the so-called "Melania Tapes", revealed that Melania Trump does not necessarily think traditionally about Christmas and is said to have blasphemed against her confidante about the Trump family. (By Delia Friess)
