# What's your Melania Trump theory? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 1, 2018, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254 "2018-06-01T13:13:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/101 "2018-06-03T23:21:53Z")
She won’t be attending the G7. > **[Melania Trump won’t travel to G7, Singapore summits](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390485-melania-trump-wont-travel-to-g7-singapore-summits/)** > > First lady Melania Trump will not travel with President Trump to the Group of Seven (G7) summit later this week or the meeting with Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12.Stephanie Grisham, … ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/102 "2018-06-04T01:19:53Z")
If only she would release a few record albums, so we could search for the death clues. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/103 "2018-06-04T02:07:39Z")
She’s expected to attend a White House event honoring Gold Star families Monday night. > **[Melania Trump expected to attend Gold Star event at White House | CNN Politics](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/06/03/politics/melania-trump-return-public-gold-star-ceremony/index.html?__twitter_impression=true)** > > First lady Melania Trump is expected to attend a White House event on Monday evening to honor Gold Star families, her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, confirms to CNN. I hope there’s a lot of video for us to pore over for clues. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/104 "2018-06-04T02:16:29Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > She’s expected to attend a White House event honoring Gold Star families Monday night. > > [Melania Trump expected to attend Gold Star event at White House - CNNPolitics](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/06/03/politics/melania-trump-return-public-gold-star-ceremony/index.html?__twitter_impression=true) > > I hope there’s a lot of video for us to pore over for clues. There are no press and no Donald at the event. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/105 "2018-06-04T02:20:44Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > She’s expected to attend a White House event honoring Gold Star families Monday night. > > [Melania Trump expected to attend Gold Star event at White House - CNNPolitics](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/06/03/politics/melania-trump-return-public-gold-star-ceremony/index.html?__twitter_impression=true) > > I hope there’s a lot of video for us to pore over for clues. If she does appear, watch her eyelids. She may blink “torture” in Morse code. My theory is she’s back in New York with her rumored lover and preparing to file for a divorce. Once announced, Chump will declare this a victory for himself. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/106 "2018-06-04T02:29:48Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > There are no press and no Donald at the event. Ah, right. No press. I shoulda read my own cite closer. Even so, if she turned up at the event looking visibly unwell or injured, I’d imagine word would leak out. If not, I think that would feed the theory that she’s just sick of Trump and the never-ending circus and is doing the absolute minimum required of her until either the administration or the marriage is put out of its misery. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/107 "2018-06-04T02:36:09Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > She’s expected to attend a White House event honoring Gold Star families Monday night. > > [Melania Trump expected to attend Gold Star event at White House - CNNPolitics](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/06/03/politics/melania-trump-return-public-gold-star-ceremony/index.html?__twitter_impression=true) > > I hope there’s a lot of video for us to pore over for clues. Will the Khan family be there? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/108 "2018-06-04T02:51:06Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > If only she would release a few record albums, so we could search for the death clues. Play them backwards and listen for secret messages. > [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > There are no press and no Donald at the event. No doubt some enterprising person will get some unauthorized video. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/109 "2018-06-04T03:00:01Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Quite possibly, yes. Millions of women who live in everyday anonymity might look at the fame, the attention, the wealth, being aboard Air Force One, the Secret Service protection, the service/staff/butlers/chauffers, the White House or Trump Tower or Mar-a-Lago being your rotating homes, the food, the influence, the power, the status, and think, “Yes I’d like that.” I could see [Tomi Lahren](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeGu5MXTN-A) going for it. But seriously, men like him specialize in making a woman feel like she is different than all the others and will make him a better man. By his own admission he spent decades practising the art of seduction, and he apparently got pretty good at it. > [@Lightnin](#): > > . . . > The best, most likely theory I’ve heard is that she tried to commit suicide. I mean, hell, would you be all that surprised? Yes, I would be utterly shocked, to the point that I’d be convinced it was actually a murder attempt made to look like suicide. Not for a single moment would I believe that she would leave Baron alone to be raised by that man, or (more likely) as a second-class citizen of Ivanka’s household. > [@Sherrerd](#): > > Even if Trump himself wouldn’t notice any difference, others in the White House (John Kelly for one) would be aware that the tweet looks completely faked. > > The logical conclusion is that some in the White House _wanted_ speculation to grow. > . . . The flaw in this theory is that it assumes competence in some[one] in the White House. Currently, all the competent staff there work for the Chef or the Butler. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/110 "2018-06-04T03:01:00Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Will the Khan family be there? I heard they kahnnot attend. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/111 "2018-06-04T11:21:28Z")
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Just ask William Jefferson Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/112 "2018-06-04T14:06:37Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Will the Khan family be there? Too brown and too muslim. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/113 "2018-06-04T14:27:02Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > If there’s a First Lady to envy, it would be Michelle. Melania knows this too. Not only is MO considered smart and accomplished in her own right, but no one questions Obama’s love and fidelity towards her. That is something Melania will never have. Despite my general loathing of the GWB administration, I’ve never seen anything to suggest the Bushes were anything but a loving couple either. As for Melania, I assume that either she’s fed up and gone off to NYC to spend some time alone with Barron, or she is recuperating quietly somewhere after some minor medical procedure (possibly involving her kidneys). I’m not going to assume assault without more evidence. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/114 "2018-06-04T14:47:42Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Despite my general loathing of the GWB administration, I’ve never seen anything to suggest the Bushes were anything but a loving couple either. If you think about it, most Presidential couples have been pretty good marriages, even when you look in the closet. The Reagans and Carters seemed like happy couples. The first Bush is said to have dallied, but he and Barbara seemed happy in their marriage anyway. For all Bill Clinton’s voracious adultery, his arrangement with Hillary carries on as strong as ever. In a sense, of course, perhaps this is to be expected; becoming President is an insanely difficult thing, and it sees likely that a disproportionate number of men who has accomplished it would have to have wives who are both supportive and equally dedicated. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/115 "2018-06-04T17:23:53Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Is he really germophobic? She could have gotten, say, a UTI that could have been treated at home but he didn’t want to have a sick person in the house. She can come back when he stops shuddering. Anyone who (allegedly) has unprotected sex with a porn star is not a real germophobe. ---
**Author:** ![FatOrangeCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@FatOrangeCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatOrangeCat)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/116 "2018-06-04T17:45:37Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > the White House can contain only one feckless cunt. If this is the case, where does Sarah Huckabee Sanders fit in? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/117 "2018-06-04T18:13:06Z")
> [@FatOrangeCat](#): > > If this is the case, where does Sarah Huckabee Sanders fit in? Lying “Christian” hypocrite. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/118 "2018-06-04T18:29:51Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > Has anyone seen Baron lately? He’s usually close to his mother’s side. Not sure if the school year at [St. Andrew’s Episcopal School](https://www.saes.org/) is over, but if the Secret Service are hanging around the school, he’s almost certainly there. > [@TruCelt](#): > > Not for a single moment would I believe that she would leave Baron alone to be raised by that man, or (more likely) as a second-class citizen of Ivanka’s household. This. Here’s my Melania theory: the “_a rich old man, and she won’t have to worry_” life plan seemed like a good idea to her at the time, but it’s proved far more soul-deadening than she anticipated. Barron’s probably her only reason for continuing to exist at this point. No way she’d abandon him to The Donald. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/119 "2018-06-04T18:33:30Z")
She \*might \*have expected to be a rich widow by now, instead of just the latest trophy wife to age out. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254/120 "2018-06-04T19:15:33Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > Anyone who (allegedly) has unprotected sex with a porn star is not a real germophobe. _shrug_ Maybe he thinks the five second rule applies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-melania-trump-theory/815254.md?page=7)