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The Politico article "The Loneliest Man in Washington Just Got Lonelier" is about the loss of Hope Hicks and long-time body man Keith Schiller and how this is likely to make Trump more isolated. All they said about Melania was:
He’s got his literal family—though his son-in-law is reeling from the controversy over his security clearance, there have been enough off moments in public to feed speculation about the state of his relationship with the first lady, and Donald Trump Jr. said in India last week that given all the president is dealing with, he feels “it’s almost trite to call him just to say hello.”
I can't envision Donald Jr. calling daddy just to say hello. To the point of this piece, I have trouble imagining Melania being to Trump what Michelle was to Barack Obama: a true soulmate and confident, a wife as best friend. Who does Donald Trump have to help ground him when he’s beset with narcissistic rage? Who can help him think rationally? Is it John Kelly whose advice can easily be undone by Trump’s go-to Fx News hosts? I doubt Kelly could do this. Unfortunately for the country, and perhaps the world, Melania is unlikely to break through Trump’s psychopathology and get him to see reason.
While cold-hearted cynics may say to Melania "you made your bed, now you have to sleep in it" there's no way she has avoided being emotionally torn each time a new accusation of her husband's sexual exploits is made public.
The oddities in the relationship between Donald and Melania Trump did not go unnoticed. For example, consider this from the gay website QWERTY
Body language experts decode Donald and Melania Trump’s bizarre behavior
Six days ago, many people’s worst nightmare came true. Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. As that terrifying fact starts to sink in, the analysis can begin.
Susan Constantine is a communication and body language expert who has trained U.S. government departments and top lawyers. She recently spoke with Mic about her observations of Donald and Melania Trump at last week’s inauguration, and what their body language says about the couple.
“If you didn’t know that they were married, you wouldn’t know that they are married,” Constantine says. “I don’t see any warmth or true love and compassion in that relationship whatsoever.”
It’s Constantine’s professional opinion, based on close observations of last week’s inauguration festivities, that Melania is more of “an object” to her husband than a wife or even a human being.
Related: This candid nine second video will actually make your heart break for Melania Trump
Patti Wood, a body language expert and professional speaker, agrees.
Speaking specifically about the moment when the Trumps were greeted by the Obamas at the White House entrance, Wood says, “Not only did he not wait, he went up the stairs and greeted the Obamas. He didn’t even look back to see if she was there or help her up the stairs.”
All the presidents in my memory had wives I could describe as their being best friends with their husbands.
Malignant narcissists don't have true best friends. Ask any woman married to one. There’s a cottage industry of books available to help women who are married to extreme narcissists. (See Amazon)
Now there's even more pressure on Melania Trump: Did she deserve an “Einstein visa?”
Melania generally gets a pass from the press because they view her as a victim. The Washington Post reopened the questions about her EB-1 visa which Trump promised to answer during the campaign. This story was picked up on numerous news websites.
This is all over the Internet now.
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In March 2001, she was granted a green card in the elite EB-1 program, which was designed for renowned academic researchers, multinational business executives or those in other fields, such as Olympic athletes and Oscar-winning actors, who demonstrated “sustained national and international acclaim.”
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“We called it the Einstein visa,” said Bruce Morrison, a former Democratic congressman and chairman of the House subcommittee that wrote the Immigration Act of 1990 defining EB-1.
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The year that Knauss — now first lady Melania Trump — got her legal residency, only five people from Slovenia received green cards under the EB-1 program, according to the State Department.
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In all, of the more than one million green cards issued in 2001, just 3,376 — or a fraction of one percent — were issued to immigrants with “extraordinary ability,” according to government statistics.
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Melania Trump’s ability to secure her green card not only set her on the path to U.S. citizenship, but put her in the position to sponsor the legal residency of her parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs. The Washington Post
reported earlier this month that the couple is now close to obtaining their own citizenship.
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The biggest one: how did she convince immigration authorities that she qualified for the EB-1 program?
Many women fall head over heels in love with malignant narcissists. They may recognize the lack of empathy and selfishness in their boyfriends, or during courtship, their boyfriends hide it. Regardless, hope springs eternal and many women become victims by blaming themselves, and/or thinking they can change their men.
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Melania is as fastidious a wife as she is a mother, which Donald appreciates. Things come easy with her. “I work very hard from early in the morning till late in the evening,” Donald told Larry King in 2005. “I don’t want to go home and work at a relationship.” To the twice-divorced Donald, Melania is terrific. He’s never heard her fart or make doodie, as he once told Howard Stern. (Melania has said the key to the success of her marriage is separate bathrooms.) He can trust her to take her birth control every day, he boasted to Stern; she’s just amazing that way. She has the perfect proportions—five feet eleven, 125 pounds—and great boobs, which is no trivial matter. Stern once asked Trump what he would do if Melania were in a terrible car accident, God forbid, and lost the use of her left arm, developed an oozing red splotch near her eye, and mangled her left foot. Would Donald stay with her?
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“How do the breasts look?” Trump asked.
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“The breasts are okay,” Stern replied. Then, yeah, of course Trump stays. “Because that’s important.” There are other pluses. He appreciates Melania’s restraint when it comes to Shopping While Trump. “She’s never taken advantage of that situation, okay, as many women would have, frankly,” he has said. (“I prefer quality over quantity,” Melania tells me.) Donald does his part to make things work, too. “He is a very understanding husband,” Melania once told an interviewer. “If I say, ‘I need an hour, I’m going to take a bath,’ or I’m having a massage, he doesn’t have nothing against it. He’s very supportive in that way.” She lets him have his space; she’s not “needy” or “nagging,” as she tells me.