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CNN's Deeply Cynical Garcia-Navarro: Trump-Melania Marriage 'Very Transactional'
NewsBusters ^
| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 08/21/2026 5:08:33 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
On Friday’s CNN This Morning, contributor Lulu Garcia-Navarro, formerly of NPR, offered a very cynical assessment of the first couple’s private life.
Discussing Melania Trump’s first public appearance in more than a month, Garcia-Navarro declared the marriage “very transactional” and claimed that Melania fails to fulfill the “traditional” First Lady role. Who made her the Melania expert? Would she like someone publicly judging her marriage as a sham?
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To: patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; KC_Lion; frank ballenger; ...
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posted on
08/21/2026 5:08:59 PM PDT
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governsleastgovernsbest
(Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
08/21/2026 5:09:52 PM PDT
by
ConservaTexan
(February 6, 1911/June 14, 1944)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Well, Mizz Navarro, maybe you never cover anything she does unless it is negative and judgmental coverage.
These women are asshoes.
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posted on
08/21/2026 5:14:16 PM PDT
by
dforest
To: governsleastgovernsbest
When CNN goes DEI:
When schoolteachers go DEI: 
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posted on
08/21/2026 5:16:10 PM PDT
by
rx
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Rich guy
Attractive younger woman
To: governsleastgovernsbest
A hateful personal comment by a hateful pretender-to-be journalist.
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posted on
08/21/2026 5:18:10 PM PDT
by
rod5591
To: governsleastgovernsbest
What was Lulu’s name when she was a man?
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posted on
08/21/2026 5:21:22 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Now do Jill Biden and how her ex husband said that, no, she did not meet Joey AFTER they divorced, unlike the story she tells.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Cupid Stunt didn’t have a problem with Big Mike boning the Halfrican Queen.
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posted on
08/21/2026 5:33:33 PM PDT
by
Feckless
(The US Gubbmint / This TagliCanne CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
like a lot of marriages, where men are suddenly begging for sex.
C’mon Lulu. Get an adult name and a clue.
Marriages are contrived for a lot of reasons that both parties agree too.
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posted on
08/21/2026 5:33:57 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: Vendome
Lulu had a few good songs.
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posted on
08/21/2026 5:37:37 PM PDT
by
bankwalker
(Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Many of these talking heads trot out gutter gossip as if it is news analysis. Doesn’t make it any less gutter slime, though.
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posted on
08/21/2026 5:41:23 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. --DJT)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
She talks like she thinks anyone is watching her on cnn.
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posted on
08/21/2026 5:47:07 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
You are allowed to say the most disgusting things you can think of if it is about a Republican. She was fawning over Jill and Big Mike.
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posted on
08/21/2026 5:57:34 PM PDT
by
bray
(Thank God for Israel)
To: Secret Agent Man
She talks to each other in the Old News bubble.
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posted on
08/21/2026 5:59:10 PM PDT
by
bray
(Thank God for Israel)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Clearly, IMHO, defamation suit material...
Alternatively, perfect case for that Russian umbrella...
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posted on
08/21/2026 6:11:50 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
08/21/2026 6:14:25 PM PDT
by
Aria
(Voted for Trump 2016, 2020 & 10/22/2024 )
To: Aria
She doesn’t know.
She is making stuff up.
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posted on
08/21/2026 6:21:38 PM PDT
by
SisterK
(to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Elanor was REALLY transactional.
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posted on
08/21/2026 6:33:01 PM PDT
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jroehl
(And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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