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Donald and Melania Trump Are Human, Too
With all the turmoil and conflict surrounding the Trump presidency and the Trump family, I have to wonder how Donald and Melania Trump are finding their way through it all. I have no idea what their marriage was like before the Presidency, but the stress must be enormous, especially with the constant attacks launched by the media.
So you can imagine my surprise at seeing a short CNN report while I was working out at my fitness club about the romantic dinners the Trumps have at Mar-a-Lago. I watched the entire piece, waiting for some kind of snark. There wasn’t any.
Apparently, Laurence Leamer, a part-time resident of Palm Beach, has written about their holidays:
Mr Leamer said: ‘What married couple spends three hours together alone at dinner? They’re there so long, other people are leaving and they’re just there.
‘They dine for hours. He likes a small table, a four-person table, so people can come over to say hello but there’s not enough room to invite people to join.’
A White House official confirmed Mr. Leamer’s account.
Gosh, who would have thought that the evil Donald Trump and his mysterious wife might actually like to talk to each other? That they might even like each other?
When was the last time you went out for a romantic, candlelit dinner and talked with your spouse alone for two to three hours?
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@randyweivoda and @thereticulator, let’s remember the point of the post, please. Everyone has a dinner with his or her spouse. Right? I was trying to make the point that Trump doesn’t spend every hour of every day terrorizing the Left. He has a life outside of those activities; he has a family, a wife and kids. As I said, he’s human. Well, I know, Nazis had families, too. So what? We’re talking about Trump. He could have said farmers, construction workers, teachers, secretaries–they all have dinners with their spouses. So what?
So let me ask you. What would be Valiuth’s point of bring Nazis into the conversation? Tell me how that contributed to the discussion? I’m sorry to belabor this point, and I’m the first one to admit when I’ve overreacted to something someone has said or defend them. But this?
I’m glad you posted the anecdote. It made your point. I enjoyed reading it and enjoyed the approving comments. Valiuth contributed by helping us keep it in context. As somebody who is always ready with a “so did the Nazis” or “so did Stalin” comparison, I appreciated being reminded of it here. And I’m used to putting up with the “How dare you compare X with Stalin” objections. It doesn’t bother me a lot, as I even compare myself to Hitler and Stalin. We have things in common, and we have important differences. In extreme situations I can even go so far as to compare apples and oranges. Most of how we understand the world is done by comparing and contrasting things — by finding commonalities and differences.
To say that Trump is, like, a Nazi.
Not true. He is saying that Trump is like a Nazi in every possible way with the exception of being alive at the time the Nazi Party exists and belonging to that party.
Right. Valiuth’s not saying that Trump has a time machine and was able to go back to 1944, three years before his own birth, in order to directly oversee the murder of jews, but other than that Trump is a Nazi. Because he eats dinner with Melania, who is a prostitute.
I think we get it, Max.
Exactly, can’t see why anybody would be upset by that.
BTW-we know for certain that Trump is a Nazi in all but name because there has been no evidence to the contrary that his enemies will find acceptable.
Have you ever seen Trump and Hitler in the same room?
QED.