After he had finished his incredibly tedious 92-minute acceptance speech at the 2024 Republican convention on Thursday evening, disgraced former president Donald Trump was joined onstage by his third wife, Melania.
But as Newsweek notes, what caught most people’s attention is the fact that the convicted felon leaned in to kiss his wife and was rebuked as she dodged away from him.
Immediately after the speech, he leant in for a kiss on the lips with his wife, which she appeared to “dodge,” former White House bureau chief Steve Herman wrote on social media platform Mastodon.
The moment was also shared to X, formerly Twitter, by journalist Aaron Rupar, who also accused the former first lady of “dodging Trump’s kiss.” The post has been viewed over 216,000 times.
In the clip, Melania Trump was seen turning her cheek to her husband on stage as he tried to kiss her before the couple walked off stage together, hand in hand.
Now that former president Donald Trump is officially a convicted felon, Stormy Daniels has some advice for his wife, Melania, and if you listen closely you can already hear the MAGA faithful screaming with outrage.
Speaking with the British tabloid Daily Mirror, Daniels was asked this question about the ex-first lady and her so-called “marriage” to Donald: “Should she leave him?”
Daniels: “Yeah.”
“On the grounds of?” The interviewer inquired.
“That he’s a convicted felon,” Daniels responded, adding, “That he’s proven to be abusive. He was found liable for assault.”
Trump was indeed found guilty of sexually assaulting writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused the ex-president of raping her in a New York department store dressing room in the 1990s.
That’s not all Daniels had to say about Trump, HuffPost notes, and she sounded defiant after helping Manhattan prosecutors secure 34 guilty verdicts against the Donald.
Trump is “an orange stain that is going to be on me for a very long time,” Daniels lamented elsewhere in the lengthy sit-down.
“It’s like a scarlet letter but worse,” she said.
Trump had been “unchecked until now, but checkmate motherfucker,” she added.
Trump will be sentenced by Judge Juan Merchan on July 11, four days before the Republican National Convention begins in Milwaukee.
Polls taken since Trump’s conviction show him losing support nationally, with 10 percent of independent voters saying they cannot vote for a convicted felon.
Here’s more from the interview with Stormy Daniels:
A former top aide to Melania Trump says the reason the ex-first lady remains with Donald Trump has nothing to do with love or keeping the family together. Instead, their marriage is just a business transaction.
Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper yesterday, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff noted, “I think people have to remember who Melania really is.”
“There is no enigma, there is no mysteriousness,” she added. “Melania really is who she has portrayed herself to be. There is a strength within her that is unlike any other individual I have ever met. She does not care what others feel about her nor does she feel she had to ever explain anything to the American people.”
Donald and Ivanka have a “transactional marriage,” Wolkoff explained.
“By marrying Donald, Melania really did finally get to be the Vogue cover model that she’s always wanted to be, that supermodel, and by marrying Melania, Donald was legitimized as trying to get away from that whole playboy mentality that everyone wanted to characterize him as.”
As the ex-president faces a possible criminal conviction in New York for paying hush money to Stormy Daniels and interfering with the 2016 election, no one should expect Melania to show up at the courthouse with her husband, Wolkoff said.
“I don’t think we’re going to see Melania Trump accompanying Donald to court,” Wolkoff said. “Melania is Melania’s own person, in regards, again, to a marriage that you want to consider to be something that most people are trying to still understand, don’t.”
“I do not see her supporting him this way because she is not someone who, I think, that you can feel that humiliation without having to put yourself in front of the cameras. Everything Melania does is staged, so everything is articulated in a way for her before she does her interviews. So everything, like I said, is very strategically planned. She is not going to put herself in a position where she’s giving anyone the opportunity to say anything negative about her.”
How romantic! Donnie and Mel are using each other and love money and power more than they do anything else. They’re perfect for each other because no one else would have them.
Ever the romantic, failed one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump used the occasion of Valentine’s Day to whine about his ongoing legal problems and suggest that his supporters should send money to him as a way of honoring his wife, Melania.
The Trump campaign sent out a blast email Wednesday morning which featured as the subject line “I love you, Melania!” according to Mediaite.
Once opened, the email revealed a tender message of love and legal persecution:
THIS IS A VALENTINE’S DAY LETTER FROM DONALD J. TRUMP:
Thomas, this is a Valentine’s Day letter to my beautiful wife, Melania!
Dear Melania,
I LOVE YOU!
Even after every single INDICTMENT, ARREST, and WITCH HUNT, you never left my side.
You’ve always supported me through everything.
I wouldn’t be the man I am today without your guidance, kindness, and warmth.
You will always mean the world to me, Melania!
From your husband with love,
Donald J. Trump
Please leave some kind words for the First Lady this Valentine’s Day!
SEND YOUR LOVE May God bless you,
Donald J. Trump
45th President of the United States
The email also contains repeated urgings for recipients to send $47 each. If you try to click off that message, another pops up that reads:
WAIT, BEFORE YOU GO!
No matter how many vicious lies and attacks they throw our way, President Trump will NEVER SURRENDER our great country to the Left’s tyranny! But the Democrats will spend billions and billions of dollars to try and stop our movement, and we’re counting on YOUR support to finish what we started.
Together, we will DISMANTLE the Deep State, WIN BACK the White House, and SAVE AMERICA in 2024! Please consider completing your contribution today. Thank you!
Need to feel the love? Here’s a video of the Valentine’s Day message from the disgraced, indicted loser ex-president.
According to an Australian billionaire who became a member of failed former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf resort, the disgraced ex-president treated his wife Melania like crap and even suggested she strut around in a bikini so other men could “get a look” at what they were missing.
The New York Times reports that the Australian, Anthony Pratt, owns an international paper and packaging company, has drawn the attention of prosecutors working for Special Counsel Jack Smith because Smith believes Pratt may be able to provide evidence that will lead to Trump being convicted.
The Times, citing a recording of remarks Pratt made to 60 Minutes Australia, reveals that Pratt said, “He knows exactly what to say and what not to say so that he avoids jail, but gets so close to it that it looks to everyone when he’s breaking the law.”
Pratt also explained how Trump wanted to show off Melania:
“He said ‘I asked Melania to walk around the pool in a bikini so all the other guys could get a look at what they were missing. Then Melania said back to him ‘I’ll do that when you walk around with me in your bikini.’”
It has already been reported that Trump also discussed top secret information about the United States nuclear submarine fleet with Pratt, including the exact number of nuclear weapons each sub carries, as well as other details that are clear violations of national security protocol.
According to sources familiar with the matter, Pratt mentioned to Trump that he believed Australia should begin buying its submarines from the United States, which reportedly led the ex-president to divulge to vital piece of classified information: The number of warheads each U.S. sub carries and how close they can get to their Russian counterparts without being detected.
Additionally, Smith has evidence that Trump allegedly took and then stored classified information at Mar-a-Lago. That material was not kept in a secure location, with some of it reportedly being kept in banker’s boxes at unsecured rooms such as restrooms at the former president’s Palm Beach golf resort.
Asked for comment on the report from the Times, a spokesperson for Trump said the recordings came from “sources which totally lack proper context and relevant information.” However, the spokesperson did not deny the validity of the facts themselves.
