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According to several White House staff members, Melania has erected a de facto wall between the East Wing, where she is renovating her office and enjoying growing popularity, and the West Wing, where her husband and Ivanka Trump, her eldest stepdaughter, have offices.
While she goes to the West Wing for official duties, she does not walk down the hall, pop her head in and see how the president’s day is going.
“She seldom sets foot in the West Wing,” said one person with firsthand knowledge.
Yet, many political analysts believe that Trump will need Melania at his side if he wants to win again in 2020.
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Paolo Zampolli, who helped arrange for Melania to work in the U.S. fashion industry and sees her in the White House, said Melania is blossoming.
“It’s an incredible story. It’s the American Dream,” said Zampolli. “She really will become the queen of people’s hearts, like Princess Diana was. I think the world will be seeing more of her.”
Melania Trump steps out of Donald's shadow – after a year and a half: The Guardian
No doubt there will be fawning coverage on Fox News. However, on MSNBC and probably the other networks, the emergence of Melania into the spotlight will bring up aspects of Donald’s behavior like his adultery and womanizing, and his cyber-bullying, that hopefully will backfire on Trump’s intentions in allowing his wife to speak out. That is, if he even had a choice.
We may learn of how she demanded to be able to do this “or else.” After all, if what the Washington Post says about political analysts believing Dear Husband will need Melania by his side in order to win a second term is true, the more leverage she has to get what she wants from him, even a revision to the prenuptial.
Also on MSNBC this morning:
I may have more to say about this. First, let's have some Kossack comments.
Correction on my poll (below): One of my lawyer friends just reminded me that Melania can’t run for president because she wasn’t a natural born citizen. I should have known this considering that the very first story I wrote here, March 2016, was Too bad the Republicans can’t nominate the Trumpinator:
Too bad the Republicans can’t nominate the Trumpinator. Just think, were it not for two words in Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, Republican and former Mr. Universe, two term governor of our largest state, world renown movie star, and the man selected to replace Donald Trump as host of “Celebrity Apprentice" Arnold Schwarzenegger could be running for president. Take out the words “natural born” from our Constitution and it could have happened.
Adding to his appeal is the fact that Arnold has actually governed; but he also fathered a child with the family housekeeper showing he is truly a man of the people as opposed to Trump who only has had affairs with supermodels.
Of course Trump couldn’t discredit him with the birther attack, and even if he could, who would care since Austria last I knew was a mostly white country.
I can visualize a debate where one candidate is a real actor, one who can effect an ominous presence and a voice that would prompt urinary incontinence in his competition.
I can hear in my head Schwarzenegger saying things like “whose finger do you want on the nuclear button, mine or one of these guys” or for that matter, “who do you really want going mano a mano with Putin, tiny fingers Donald, sweaty Cruz, or Conan the Destroyer?"
Finally, can you imagine Trump trying to stand on the same stage with him and try to dismiss his candidacy by calling him little Arnold?
I wonder if the Terminator ever thinks about all this.