Does anyone else feel badly for Melania Trump?

[Joe the Revelator]

Lets put these things aside:

1. Her choice in men
2. The assumption if she did or didn't write the speech.


I don't think this woman ever believed that she would be, at some point, 'running' for First Lady. She was born in another country, in another culture and...lets just say didn't have the career that most First Lady's have leading up to their run in the spotlight.

The way I see this going down is that a lot of pressure was put on her. She found some pretty words from Michelle Obama, because the speech was a bigger moment then even she expected. She was unprepared, and thrown out to the hungry wolves by her power hungry user of a husband.

Plagiarism is bad and terrible, and what she did should be the purpose of a ton of discussion, but somewhere in my heart, I do feel BADLY for her, because I don't think she appreciated the size of the moment and now she's is taking a ton of fairly personal hits.

Again, I understand that is part of being in the public eye, but I do have sympathy for her.


Edit: Apparently I AM the only one who feels sympathy for her. Got it loud and clear!

[giftedgirl77]

1. No

She's a grown ass woman she should be held accountable for her bullshit.

[Joe the Revelator]

5. Fair enough.

I always feel bad by the people who get hit for other's ambition. But i understand your point.

[giftedgirl77]

9. Meh, you are who you hang with.

She's just as dirty as the rest of them.

[Skittles]

19. especially if you're a gold digger

[TexasBushwhacker]

29. Who the hell would marry Trump who WASN'T a golddigger

Seriously, who would want to live with that combed over, orange asshole unless he had money?

[Skittles]

35. no one

if he wasn't a billionaire, no one would give him the time of day - he's an annoying fool

[TexasBushwhacker]

66. There was that Playboy/Penthouse model

Victoria Zdrok who, after 4 dates quit returning his phone calls. She blabbed that he only talked about himself and bragged that he gave the best orgasms.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/16/trump-denies-dating-model-called-her-a-f-king-third-rate-hooker.html

[Skittles]

82. just the idea of that sweaty orange bastard

[TexasBushwhacker]

86. Do you think he gets his whole body spray tanned

or just his face? You would have to pay me a lot of money to do that.

[Skittles]

87. SCHEDULING TEXASBUSHWACKER FOR ASS KICKING

*EGREGIOUS VISUAL*

[3catwoman3]

92. "Seriously, who would want to live with that combed over, orange asshole unless he had money?"

There is not enough money to make it worthwhile having to go to bed with and and wake up next to [it]that.

[Skittles]

2. LOL

um..............no

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Not at all.

[Joe the Revelator]

6. Understood. :)

[JenniferJuniper]

4. Nope

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. Er . . . . Nope.

A world model, pushing her image for years, agreeing to join one of the most arrogant, greedy, loud mouthed self-promoters who cheats his workers and contractors, and we should feel sorry for her hen she gets caught with her panties down? When I've seen her without her panties?
Naw, no way.

[1StrongBlackMan]

47. LOL.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. ROFL

Strategy #18 on this.

[Joe the Revelator]

13. What's that? nt

[JenniferJuniper]

61. rolling on floor laughing

[Joe the Revelator]

67. No, that I got :)

I meant 'Strategy #18 '. I thought it was alluding to something.

[Warpy]

10. No, she shacked up with Drumpf long enough to know what he is

before she married him. She made the choice for wealth over integrity a long time ago.

[stopbush]

45. Any sympathy I might have for her is mitigated by mental images

of her in the sack with that bloated buffoon.

[Siwsan]

12. Not a shred of sympathy available. She made the choice, so she can face the consequences

[Dirty Socialist]

14. She Will Cry All The Way to

The Bank.

[C_U_L8R]

15. No, she's a grownup in the party of 'personal responsibility'

And if she's going to take the stage and say something,
it's her responsibility to ensure her words are actually her own.
She's no victim, that's for sure. She's a plagiarist.

edits: dang typos

[GP6971]

16. Not in the slightest

There are choices in live. She didn't choose well

[Joe the Revelator]

21. That is also a good point. She is responsible for her actions.

I just felt like she's being taken on a ride she never intended to be on.

[anneboleyn]

17. HELL TO THE FUCKING NO.

[Ms.Lib]

18. Not even a tiny little bit

[chillfactor]

20. Hell no! n/t

[leftstreet]

22. This seems condescending n/t

[Joe the Revelator]

26. Wasn't meant to be.

[Gabi Hayes]

23. you feel deep sympathy over her lying about her degree? she dropped out

after one year to enter that slavehell world of modeling

such a SACrifice

[Joe the Revelator]

28. The degree thing I have not read about yet. nt

[gratuitous]

24. I feel sorry for victims of sudden circumstance

Melania Trump has had some time to get accustomed to the notion of running for first lady. Where does she think her husband has been for the last several months (leaving aside the possible relief of not having him underfoot during that time)? He's had the nomination sewed up for weeks, and she has to know what that's going to mean for her personally. This didn't just sneak up on her, and unlike a flood victim (for example), she has had the time and the wherewithal to prepare herself.

[Ineeda]

90. Nope - no sympathy. I'd bet my SS check that

the pillow talk/sweet nothings being whispered in her ear for at least the last year was "Baby, I'm gonna b*ng you blind when we move into the White House. And we'll gild and glitz the whole place up right." Yeah, I know - gross thought.

[joshcryer]

25. I'll be the first to say it. Yes.

She was dealt a bad hand. Full stop.

Stepford wife she may be, she doesn't deserve, even with the silver platter, the shitstorm that is incoming.

OK, maybe a little. Still, social media can be and is vicious. I would not wish that upon anyone.

[geek tragedy]

41. but, how fake do you have to be to plagiarize someone when talking about

your own family and the values you're passing to your children?

I mean, that's something she should be able to talk about without copying and pasting another woman's experience.

[joshcryer]

55. Absolutely true.

And still, as a human who has compassion still in them, I can't hate her.

Unfortunately, she has not come out and stated she did wrong or apologize. So. I'm increasingly less sympathetic. She has her chance. Each minute is fleeting.

[geek tragedy]

69. I don't hate her, but don't feel much empathy for her either. nt

[joshcryer]

71. That is increasingly the case for me.

She did what she did. A full out apology is all I'll accept.

[dem in texas]

52. Yes. I feel very sorry for her

Rich Wife, Trump's wife or whatever, she depended on a group of people who were supposed to be helping her, but failed her - big time. Now, rather than find the persons responsible and fire them, her jerk of a husband has totally disrespected her and thrown her under the bus. No woman deserves such treatment. I am really surprised at the cruel comments on this page.

[joshcryer]

56. I shouldn't be astonished by Trumps response.

But I am. It was relatively easy to get out of this. Admit the mistake. Move on. But nope. They doubled down. It's insane.

[tinrobot]

27. She got caught up in something she never really wanted.

So, yes, there is some sympathy for her.

[Joe the Revelator]

32. That is where I was coming from. nt

[Skittles]

39. too bad her gold digging prize is suddenly costing her

*NOT*

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

30. No, she's aiding and approaching a racist who wants to turn our country into a fascist dictatorship

a lying birther who advoocates physical assault on his critics, who demonizes religious minorities, women and anyone else who disagrees with him.
His dangerous and ugly campaign has fired up the KKK and other white nationalist groups.

And she's not only fine with it, but is appearing publicly to promote his efforts.

Fuck her.

[greatauntoftriplets]

37. Nailed it.

Plus, there's something wrong with a woman who would sleep with -- or let him put his hands on -- THAT orange yam.

[hamsterjill]

31. Another "no".

I think she's an obedient wife. That's not something that I, personally, respect in another woman.

I think she was told to speak, told what to say, told how to dress, and I think she complied. If that's her decision as to how to live her life, then that's fine. But it's not something that I can respect.

[hopeforchange2008]

33. If you sell your soul to the Devil...

No sympathy.

[Peregrine Took]

34. Hell no. Not in a millon years.

She gives me the creeps with those cat eyes - not to mention her "catch" of a bizarre husband.

[Joe the Revelator]

36. This is kind of what I'm talking about though....were we cool with people commenting on looks of

our candidate's spouses? I think THAT part is petty as all hell.

[geek tragedy]

38. No, she stole from another woman's experience in order to use her own family

as a marketing hook.

She knew what Trump was when she married him.

[tallahasseedem]

57. +1

[rjsquirrel]

40. No not at all next question

[elleng]

42. Yes. Thanks, Joe.

Some bits about her (and her father.)

'Her father, a larger-than-life personality who reminds her childhood friends of Mr. Trump, belonged to the Communist Party, an exclusive club whose members sometimes joined because of career ambitions as much as ideology. . .

Mr. Knavs, a traveling car salesman, spent a lot of time on the road. But when he was home, he was noticed. Friends say he had a jocular personality and a fondness for his Mercedes sedans and his coveted Maserati. Ms. Trump’s childhood friends recalled him incessantly washing the cars, but also carrying himself in a self-assured way that now reminded them of Mr. Trump.

“Donald and Melania are similar to Viktor and Amalija,” said Nena Bedek, who was close to Ms. Trump in childhood, and who added that she was “not surprised” that her friend had married someone similar to her father. “Melania was closer to her mother than her father. Viktor was often away, and Malci and the girls were often alone.” ..

Mr. Knavs sought to distinguish himself from his neighbors. “He always wore a tie, smart clothes and carried a briefcase,” Mr. Vuk said. “You could not avoid noticing him.” . .

In Sevnica, Mr. Knavs has confided in Matej Novsak, his longtime mechanic, and complained recently about Mr. Trump’s whiplash-inducing inconsistency.

“ ‘One time it is this, the other time that,’ ” Mr. Novsak said Mr. Knavs had told him. The mechanic said that Mr. Knavs had also said that Mr. Trump was unwanted by Republicans and that he did not understand his wealthy son-in-law’s need to pursue the presidency. “ ‘Why does he have to do it?’ ” the mechanic said Mr. Knavs had told him.

When told of his in-laws’ bewilderment, Mr. Trump said, “They are not the only ones.”'

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/us/politics/melania-trump-slovenia.html?

[maynard]

43. Feel sorry for melania

It just goes to show that she is only there as a decoration to "The Donald"

She was not considered important enough for anyone to fact check her speech.

I hear divorce proceedings in the background.

[white_wolf]

150. I hope she takes everything.

I DO feel sorry for the woman. I don't respect her decisions, but I respect her as a person who, as far as I know, hasn't harmed anyone and so deserves empathy for being stuck with a narcissist.

[Phentex]

44. No

not an ounce

[Person 2713]

46. As if she had something better to do than be trumps wife. She can go roll around in gold and cash

to feel better if she is smart enough to be sad.
Big egos love the public eye . She was a f'n model, sometimes half naked in the public eye.
Why is she being painted as a hurt fawn in some media?

Probably thinks Hillary did this to her and she is mad at team Clinton

[Joe the Revelator]

59. What does her being a model or 'half naked" have to do with anything?

and there is obviously a difference between being that and being a political figure....

[PufPuf23]

48. Somewhere about 8 minutes intoi Melania's speech she did a rickroll.

Now if not for DU, I would not know of the rickroll.

But listen closely and catch a phrase.

Maybe Melania reads DU?

The woman is in an unnatural position and bears the fruit.

[1StrongBlackMan]

49. Actually, I do ... In the same way I feel badly for ...

anyone that suffers when caught up in a mess that they made.

[Joe the Revelator]

60. We agree.

[1StrongBlackMan]

68. But then, I do not take pleasure in seeing anyone crashing and burning ...

though it gets easier ... moves to ambivalence ... when they have crashed, yet insist they are soaring.

[Cali_Democrat]

50. hahahaha. nt

[Seeinghope]

51. People on this board have said not to blame Hillary for what Bill has done. So I don't blame

Melanie for what Donald Trump has done. I do feel sorry for her. Just because he is such a creep doesn't mean that she realized all of that when she Married him. She was from a foreign country. Young and dazzled by his life and romance. I am sure that she never expected to be in this position. She is probably scared to death. Time will tell on what type of person that she is. I am willing to give her a chance.

[tinrobot]

54. Good point.

[WinkyDink]

126. She said she wrote her speech.

[Seeinghope]

141. I'm really not in the mood to be mean hearted because I hate Trump. She made a mistake....who

really knows why. I am just very surprised at the vehemence on this board towards her. She is virtually an unknown. All we really know is that she is married to Donald Trump. This shouldn't put the last nail in her coffin. Unfortunately this kind of reminds me of a Republican board, not a Democtatic board with all of the gleeful hate and nastiness coming down on this woman. I really thought that we were better than this.

[Squinch]

53. Someone put a speech in her hand and she read it. What's to feel sorry for?

And for that matter, we are assuming she feels bad about it. From what I have read about her, she is an entitled and vapid person, so there is every possibility that she doesn't care.

[Joe the Revelator]

65. Links to her being 'vapid'? That's the kind of shit I'm talking about. We wouldn't accept that type

of criticism towards our candidate's spouses.

And 'feel sorry for her' because under your scenario, she was handed a speech and told to read it, and now she's become the laughing stock of the country, a position that should be reserved for her husband.

[Squinch]

70. Gosh, sorry. No. I'm not going to go and find something for you that I read

months ago simply because you have a thing for Trump's wife. Google is your friend.

And this is kid gloves compared to the way MY candidates' spouses have been treated. Your candidates' spouses may vary.

[Joe the Revelator]

73. So in other words, you called someone vapid, but don't want to back it up.

"Google is your friend'- the mantra of someone who makes charges they aren't sure of.

She very well may be 'vapid' but we should be above calling her that.

The same way we shut down discussion on Elizabeth Edwards looks, because it was silly.

Or Jane Sanders, because it was silly.

Or the idiots who call Michelle names, because they are silly and normally racist.

Or the people who punched at Teresa Heinz-Kerry because she talked with an accent, and came from money, because those are silly reasons to hammer someone.

[Squinch]

75. Now you're just being vapid.

[Joe the Revelator]

77. You brought absolutely nothing to the table.

Thanks!

[Squinch]

79. And you did? Ain't no muffins in your basket, binky.

[Joe the Revelator]

91. Aside from name calling, do you have anything else?

[Squinch]

103. Binky? That qualifies as name calling these days?

[Joe the Revelator]

105. So the answer is 'no'

Should I have googled that as well?

[Squinch]

108. If you need to. Do you have anything else?

[louis-t]

58. Apparently, you are the only one.

On this side of the aisle, anyway.

[OldHippieChick]

62. Seriously?

This is a beautiful woman who married a man twice her age for whatever reason. We can conjecture. She made a decision. She is an adult. She gets no sympathy from me and is not deserving of it from anyone else.

[muriel_volestrangler]

63. Let me cure that: she used her 7 year old son to sell her caviar-based moisturizer

Melania Trump is famous for her glamorous lifestyle, and she's passed down her luxurious predilections to her son Barron, 7.

"He's not a sweatpants child," says Trump, 42, of her only child with her husband of eight years, Donald Trump, 66. "He doesn't mind putting on (a suit)-but not every day- and he likes to dress up in a tie sometimes like Daddy."

Trump tells ABC News that in addition to dressing her son nicely, she makes sure that he takes care of his skin, slathering him in her eponymous Caviar Complex C6 moisturizer after his nightly bath.

"It smells very, very fresh," says the businesswoman, who launched the skincare line this week at Lord & Taylor. "I put it on him from head to toe. He likes it!"

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/04/melania-trump-my-son-7-is-not-a-sweatpants-child/

Anyone who uses a child like that for a bit of personal fame (on a complete waste-of-money topic) deserves some public humiliation.

[Squinch]

74. Caviar based moisturizer. How creepy. It's ostentation that is trying too hard to be ostentatious.

[muriel_volestrangler]

109. I was going to complain it cost $150 a pot, but then I found a similar product for $300

so she's not the only person saying "feel the luxurious touch of money all over your body".

[Squinch]

111. When she finds out, she'll raise the price. No sense NOT being the most wasteful, if the purpose of

your product is to waste money and let everyone know you are doing it.

[Doodley]

64. No - she is trying to let Trump get his fingers on the nuclear codes

[Moostache]

72. I am still way too busy laughing at her to care an ounce about her feelings.

You lay with the dogs, the fleas come along for free.

[Laffy Kat]

76. You're kidding, right?

I also no longer care to defend the kids. The entire family is disgusting.

[Joe the Revelator]

78. About being sympathetic to someone who I think is getting taken on a ride?

No. Not kidding. I realize now that I'm not in the majority though.

[MrWendel]

80. OH....

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL NO!

[sarae]

81. No. I don't feel bad for the complicit wives of Nazis, either.

She's supporting a monster. I might have respect for her if she left him.

Also, she fed the journalist Julia Ioffe to antisemitic internet trolls, so she's not exactly innocent.

[HipChick]

83. Not at all.. I don't believe she has even written as much as grocery list

before

[backscatter712]

84. As far as her choice in men...

She most likely sees two things in Donald Trump:
1. A 5 billion dollar net worth (or however much or little it is)...
2. High cholesterol.

And no, I don't feel the least bit sorry for her for her speech performance. She made the speech, plagiarism and everything, she owns it.

[B Calm]

85. God's girlfriend had a bad night. Feel sorry for her, no!

[stage left]

88. No, not a bit.

Now Trump's team is blaming Hillary Clinton.

[Demonaut]

89. absolutely not

[hlthe2b]

93. not a lot, but a little...

Especially if she is being set up, as I suspect.

[JohnnyLib2]

94. Perhaps, but closer to pity.

[fleabiscuit]

95. No. And have a question for you.

Do you think the speech she gave at the republicthugs convention was political?

[Joe the Revelator]

98. I'd have to watch the entire thing to answer honestly, but for the sake of argument, sure it was.

[tirebiter]

96. Mel isn't the issue

The Trump campaign is.

[Joe the Revelator]

101. Yeah, but she's taking a lot of personal flack. Check out the political cartoons....

they aren't hitting trump or the campaign, they are hitting her.

[TeddyR]

97. Feel sorry for her? No

I deplore the personal and petty attacks on her accent, or speaking ability or looks because they represent the type of internet bullying we should speak out against. But I don't feel sorry for her.

[sarae]

113. That's how I feel.

She's worthy of criticism because of who she supports and her own shady behavior, but not because of her accent, her nude pics or anything else.

[Ilsa]

99. She volunteered to give the speech.

No one had expected her to speak to the convention.

Do I feel sorry for the billionaire's wife? No. She can always take a long vacation in November.

[LenaBaby61]

100. Does anyone else feel badly for Melania Trump?

...

[Squinch]

104. Right?

[Joe the Revelator]

110. What the hell are you talking about Sea?

I never stood up for the one woman you wanted to be President? Sure, you got me there.

I've been on this site for 13 years, and I have ALWAYS stood up for woman and especially families of candidates. Don't make accusations you can't back up.

[Nevernose]

106. I would feel badly were she a victim.

But she's not. She's a grown woman with all of her faculties operating under her own agency and voluntarily. It sounds like you're infantalizing her.

If the speech was written for her, I would have a lot of sympathy. However, she already claimed to have written it herself.

[OregonBlue]

107. She claimed she wrote the speech herself. Now Trump is blaming it on Hillary.

I don't feel even a smidgen of sympathy. Look at who she chose for a spouse.

[ailsagirl]

112. Nope

'nuff said

[lunatica]

114. You're very naive if you think any first lady anywhere writes their own speeches for the Conventions

Very few politicians, even highly seasoned ones write important speeches themselves. Mostly because most are smart enough to know a speech can really fuck things up if anything is wrong with it.

Melania may say she wrote it herself, but she didn't. Not even the Donald is fool enough to let her go out there without making sure everything is perfect. He has an image to protect, and his wives are especially important.

[Joe the Revelator]

115. Lets assume she didn't write, doesn't it make it worse that she's taking the personal attacks?

and not the speech writers?

[lunatica]

142. Yes. She is only doing what she's been told to do.

She couldn't have had any idea whatsoever that the speech was plagiarized. Lot's of people are saying it isn't her fault and that the speech "writers" should be the one's who pay the price.

But Trump is choosing to leave them out of it and he's allowing the world to make a fool out of her. That's the most shocking thing out of all this. He just chose to deny it. And so far no one has gotten fired. That's bad beyond anything else he's done as far as I'm concerned. Melania is his wife for crying out loud! He's just letting her, no demanding, that she hang out there flapping in the wind.

[Libby2]

116. nope n/t

[Iggo]

117. Actually...Yes, I do. (n/t)

[Motley13]

118. I feel sorry for her being married to that maggot

I don't think the $'s are worth it.

I hope the prenup has expired & she can leave with lots of dinero.

[tenderfoot]

119. No. She'll get by on her looks.

It's all she has.

[Joe the Revelator]

133. That's pretty disgusting, no matter the person in question. nt

[BigDemVoter]

121. Why?

Rich. . . Entitled. Thinks the Donald is "wonderful."

[HockeyMom]

122. As a woman who met Trump in my youth,

No, I do not feel sorry for her. She had to know what she was getting into bedding, and marrying him given his past record. "No Spics will ever live in any of my buildings" was enough for me over 30 years. Bye, bye Donald.

Melenia must be very NAIVE. Politics? Expect anything with this kind of a man.

[Booster]

123. I truly believe Trump has done everything he can think of to lose this election & nothing's working.

Either Trump set her up to be humiliated in front of millions, which you just don't do to someone you love, or he just isn't paying attention to his own campaign details, which means he's totally unfit to be President of these United States. Either way, this all falls on him not her. I think she was just following orders and got used big time. But I still don't really feel sorry for her.

[Adrahil]

124. LOL.... NOPE!

She is attempting to prop up a fucking con for POTUS. She stepped into it, she has to own it.

[WinkyDink]

125. Not just no; HELL, no! Good golly, Miss Molly---she married TRUMP!! Lie down with dogs, wake up with

fleas---Ben Franklin.

[MichiganVote]

127. Oh God...look, see a therapist. These aren't people to waste pity on.

[BlueStater]

128. What's there to feel sorry for?

She chose to marry that vain, Cheeto-skinned, wannabe daughter fucker for his money and is willingly being dragged around by him in his dangerous egofest of a presidential bid. So, no. I don't feel sympathy for this trophy wife.

[zappaman]

129. no, but I'm not a Pinebagger

[Aristus]

130. Only a little.

She doesn't seem very bright.

She doesn't have a lot of marketable skills unrelated to her looks. (And if she keeps up with the plastic surgery, those will go pretty soon...)

She's a pawn (albeit a willing one) in a massive long-con dreamed up by the unscrupulous men in her life.

She saw a spotlight, and thought all she would have to do is look pretty. Well, people who require more from women in particular, and public figures in general, were watching. She didn't expect all of this.

Plus, she is going to be traded in for a newer model (literally so, I'm sure...) in a few years. So all she has to look forward to is humilation and an empty life.

So yeah, a little. But only a little.

[JI7]

131. no. But i also don't dislike her. at least not in the way I feel about trump and others.

[trueblue2007]

132. NO. Melania the bad Model has made her bed, let her lie in it.

dumb naked woman, go get a REAL job
(maybe nursing, teaching, gardening. do something but lay around).

she is not a good role model

http://gq-images.condecdn.net/image/xre9XV9B6kg/crop/1620

more here http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/donald-trump-melania-trump-knauss-first-lady-erections

[Joe the Revelator]

135. We're puritans now? Who gives a fuck if she posed nude?

Serious question, there is apparently a lot to dislike her for, but who cares if she was a model or posed nude?

[Skittles]

143. really love the career paths you have for women

are you stuck in 1950?

[Warpy]

151. She designs expensive watches and purses for other trophy wives

That makes her a career woman when she's not supervising the staff.

I don't give a flying fornication at a rolling breakfast pastry how much soft porn she did. I know of several women who paid their way through undergrad school and went on to medical school, law school, and other post grad degrees and on to great careers by doing one form of soft porn or another. Slut shaming is so 1950s, especially when done by men who love their soft porn.

Even being a trophy wife, especially to a narcissistic dirtbag with a rotten temper and a vindictive streak a mile wide like Trump isn't the easy gig it used to be before Viagra and Cialis came out. I find her an excellent example of the pitfalls of choosing that career path.

Still, she's not the one running for office and I can't see putting on judge's robes and dissecting her life to be productive. She recited a speech someone else plagiarized for her. It will take her long enough to live that one down.

[maryellen99]

134. I do...she has a sad look in her eyes

She didn't want him to run and I could see her leaving him after the election if he loses.

[radical noodle]

136. I would feel sorry for her if

someone else wrote the speech and set her up to fail. I could even applaud her if she did it purposely to scuttle Trump's candidacy. Neither appears to be what actually happened, but we likely will never know.

It's just come out that the speech writer did not have that passage in the speech when he delivered it to the Trump campaign. Someone in the campaign or family did it.

[Mike Nelson]

137. No, but...

...your opinion is admirable.

[gwheezie]

138. I don't care

I think her plan was to marry a wealthy man and it turned into this, which she did not want. She will be scrutinized and the kids are against her. It's her problem to deal with however because honestly this is a 1% problem.

[Crunchy Frog]

139. No.

[Rex]

140. lulz

You and one other person.

[awoke_in_2003]

144. ...

https://m.

[Mister Ed]

145. Well yeah, I've been feeling kinda sorry for her.

Looks like it's just you and me.

[blue neen]

146. No.

I do feel bad for the women of this country who will no longer be allowed to make decisions about their own bodies if Trump is elected. Melania is supporting Donald, and therefore she is advocating for unjust treatment for the rest of us.

She's coming after our rights as women, among other things, so I sure as heck do not feel sorry for her.

[Kablooie]

147. She married into money and that comes with costs. So no.

I feel sorry for Melanie Turnip though.

[sir pball]

148. I'd feel Melania quite well, actually.

Are your hands severely burnt, or your fingertips seared with acid? She's reasonably hot, I'd feel her quite well. While still not feeling much of anything for her.

I have no tolerance for people without basic linguistic capabilities - you can feel Melania as "badly" as you wish, but you're just saying you couldn't grope her well.. Back to third grade: "feel bad" is the adjective, to have a sad, "feel badly" is adverbial - you have literally said, multiple times, your sense of touch is defective. Adverb, badly, points to verb, feel.

[mrmpa]

149. No, she's a college graduate...

[Buns_of_Fire]

152. Yeah, I do. She's out of her element.

The big orange turd with the little itty-bitty hands tossed her right into the wood chipper.

All this sturm und drang over the obligatory fluff speech about how wonderful their spouse is and how they're the greatest thing in the world. Meh. I didn't pay any attention to Michelle's fluff speech about Barack (either when it was originally given or during the recent reprise), I won't pay any attention to Bill's upcoming fluff speech about Hillary. They could recite the Gettysburg Address, word for word, for all I care.

[usedtobedemgurl]

153. No.

Why feel bad for her? Even if she had never heard the word 'plagiarize', people have to know at a gut level that stealing someone else's words is just plain wrong. It is not as if they are poor and they could not afford to hire someone to write her speech for her, as politicians and their families often do. Oh wait, they actually did hire two people. The men wrote a presumably good script and she tore it to shreds in a decision that she was much better than any professional speech writers after all, she had years of public writing and speaking under her belt. *rolling eyes*

But beyond that, do you think she is paying attention to the media or even cares what everyone thinks? If she paid attention to the media then she probably would have left Trump a long time ago or she made her decision that money is better than ethics. I imagine she is a lot like her husband and sequesters herself in an earmuff made of a cocoon of money. The only blowback she is getting is from her husband. If she did not know who he is then why did she marry him?

All of that being said, I cringe every time I hear of anyone being abused. When I heard rumors hat Trump disappeared to possibly take his approval out on her, I was deeply saddened. I was in a mentally abusive relationship and it leaves deep scars. Abuse is never ok. Perhaps he just shouted at her but my impression is he would have demeaned and belittled her. I do not feel sorry for her but if that did happen, it is never ok.

[ellie]

155. No