What's your Melania Trump theory?

She won’t be attending the G7.

If only she would release a few record albums, so we could search for the death clues.

She’s expected to attend a White House event honoring Gold Star families Monday night.

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.

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.

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.

Will the Khan family be there?

Play them backwards and listen for secret messages.

No doubt some enterprising person will get some unauthorized video.

I could see Tomi Lahren 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.

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.

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.

I heard they kahnnot attend.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Just ask William Jefferson Clinton.

Too brown and too muslim.

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.

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.

Anyone who (allegedly) has unprotected sex with a porn star is not a real germophobe.

If this is the case, where does Sarah Huckabee Sanders fit in?

Lying “Christian” hypocrite.

Not sure if the school year at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School is over, but if the Secret Service are hanging around the school, he’s almost certainly there.

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.

She *might *have expected to be a rich widow by now, instead of just the latest trophy wife to age out.

shrug Maybe he thinks the five second rule applies.