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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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1 posted on 08/21/2026 5:08:33 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; KC_Lion; frank ballenger; ...

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 08/21/2026 5:08:59 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Said the Hillary voter.


3 posted on 08/21/2026 5:09:52 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1944)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Well, Mizz Navarro, maybe you never cover anything she does unless it is negative and judgmental coverage.

These women are asshoes.


4 posted on 08/21/2026 5:14:16 PM PDT by dforest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
When CNN goes DEI:

When schoolteachers go DEI:

5 posted on 08/21/2026 5:16:10 PM PDT by rx
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Rich guy
Attractive younger woman


6 posted on 08/21/2026 5:17:40 PM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

A hateful personal comment by a hateful pretender-to-be journalist.


7 posted on 08/21/2026 5:18:10 PM PDT by rod5591
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What was Lulu’s name when she was a man?


8 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. )
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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.


9 posted on 08/21/2026 5:32:58 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Cupid Stunt didn’t have a problem with Big Mike boning the Halfrican Queen.


10 posted on 08/21/2026 5:33:33 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This TagliCanne CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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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.


11 posted on 08/21/2026 5:33:57 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Vendome

Lulu had a few good songs.


12 posted on 08/21/2026 5:37:37 PM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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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.


13 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)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

She talks like she thinks anyone is watching her on cnn.


14 posted on 08/21/2026 5:47:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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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.


15 posted on 08/21/2026 5:57:34 PM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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To: Secret Agent Man

She talks to each other in the Old News bubble.


16 posted on 08/21/2026 5:59:10 PM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Clearly, IMHO, defamation suit material...

Alternatively, perfect case for that Russian umbrella...


17 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?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

How would she know???


18 posted on 08/21/2026 6:14:25 PM PDT by Aria (Voted for Trump 2016, 2020 & 10/22/2024 )
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To: Aria

She doesn’t know.
She is making stuff up.


19 posted on 08/21/2026 6:21:38 PM PDT by SisterK (to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Elanor was REALLY transactional.


20 posted on 08/21/2026 6:33:01 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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