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Historian: Trump Marriage Is Most 'Awkward' Presidential Union in Modern Times (hurl alert!)
People Politics ^ | May 11, 2018 03:09 PM | DIANE HERBST

Posted on 05/12/2018 10:51:04 AM PDT by ethom

Prominent presidential historian Douglas Brinkley doesn’t think Donald and Melania Trump‘s marriage is “hinged right.”

“In modern times, we haven’t had such an awkward marriage — one that seems to be frozen. It doesn’t seem to be a very organic thing,” Brinkley, a professor of history at Rice University and CNN’s presidential historian, tells PEOPLE.

The first couple’s public image has been defined by viral video of Melania, 48, swatting away her husband’s hand when he’s tried to hold hers.

“That scene of the hand swat,” says Brinkley, “is a visual metaphor for a marriage that isn’t hinged right.”

It’s quite a departure from the many loving images of Michelle and Barack Obama, and of a doting George and Laura Bush during their tenures in the White House. But those husbands didn’t have a porn star and a Playboy model alleging affairs, or 19 women accusing him of sexual misconduct.

“It’s almost painful to watch the president and first lady together — they seem uncomfortable in the same photo frame,” Brinkley says. “There’s not a lot of warmth that is being exuded.”

Most likely, the viral news stories about Trump’s womanizing “all gets through to the first lady,” Brinkley says. “She knows this is happening.”

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To: cabbieguy

21 posted on 05/12/2018 11:06:31 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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Michelle Obama hosted Harvey Weinstein at the White House in 2013 for a workshop for students interested in the film industry. “I want to start by thanking Harvey
Weinstein for organizing this amazing day,” Mrs. Obama said. The Obamas got a job for their daughter at sex-maniac Harvey's company.

The Chicago ghetto girl was star struck by Weinsteins wealth and fame.
Here Michelle looks about ready to give happy Harvey a BJ.

22 posted on 05/12/2018 11:08:06 AM PDT by Liz
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To: ethom

Exactly. Yet Jackie managed to hold herself together and rise above her husband’s not very secret philandering. I don’t know if Trump is still behaving in that manner, but Melania holds herself with grace and dignity (without throwing ashtrays, getting drunk, and cursing like a sailor) and that’s what people will remember about this lovely First Lady (emphasis on lady).


23 posted on 05/12/2018 11:08:09 AM PDT by punknpuss
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To: ethom

Nothing but a bunch of rampant speculation and no facts. In fact, the supposedly infamous “hand swat” was said to be because Melania didn’t want to go against protocol in that particular moment, not because she was spurning the POTUS.
These people are pathetic. He neglects to mention that Melania was smiling very broadly at 3 AM the other night when she went to the trouble of accompanying her husband to the hostage arrival. She didn’t have to do that, and I appreciated seeing it.


24 posted on 05/12/2018 11:11:17 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: ethom
Wanna talk about weird mismatches? We present Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt:

First Cousins who parented children (yuck!)

He had a long time mistress who was with him when he died / She was a closet lesbian

He was a charismatic and generally non-ideological politician ("a second-rate intellect but a first-rate temperament") / She was the most doctrinaire Socialist to ever live in the White House until Barack and Michelle arrived

Him: Handsome / Her: Homely as an old boot

25 posted on 05/12/2018 11:12:17 AM PDT by katana
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To: ethom

Deranged Douglas Brinkley:

‘Sniveling’ Mike Pence Is ‘Kissing’ Trump’s ‘Belly’ Like He’s ‘Buddha’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU9dzo8iyAE


26 posted on 05/12/2018 11:12:47 AM PDT by donna (Jimmy Dean died in 2010. Why is he on TV selling sausage?)
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To: Bratch

"Bill, you're so close. I'm getting that old feeling."

"No time for sex, Hillary. My intern Monica and I have to go over some things."

27 posted on 05/12/2018 11:15:21 AM PDT by Liz
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To: ClearCase_guy

Calling a spade a spade.


28 posted on 05/12/2018 11:17:46 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: ethom

Or Bill and Hill?


29 posted on 05/12/2018 11:18:30 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: ethom

JFK with his women? Or was that just a fairy tale Camelot marriage with trivial distractions?

Bill Clinton with his many women, including rape victims? Or was that all part of the vast right-wing conspiracy?

Barack Hussein with his men? Or is that just a fantasy spread by men who had casual encounters with the communist?

There is a lot of awkwardness among men with power. I feel bad for Melania that she is a target of the malignant and hateful left, but she is certainly not in the most awkward presidential marriage in my lifetime.


30 posted on 05/12/2018 11:19:29 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Steely Tom

Different when it is sexual harassment which was illegal.


31 posted on 05/12/2018 11:19:43 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: ethom

No kidding. JFK was humping women right in the whitehut just like Billy Bob Clintoon.


32 posted on 05/12/2018 11:21:16 AM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: ethom


33 posted on 05/12/2018 11:23:26 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: Albion Wilde

Hot Mic Catches Tender Moment Between Trump And His First Lady

The two embraced once again. At this point, a hot mic caught Trump in all but a whisper saying to Melania “Thank you sweetheart. Congratulations honey.” The two kissed and Trump motioned toward the Oval Office saying, “Do you want to go with me?”

More at link:
http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/07/hot-mic-trump-melania/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_medium=Social


34 posted on 05/12/2018 11:27:23 AM PDT by donna (Jimmy Dean died in 2010. Why is he on TV selling sausage?)
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To: ethom

A historians perception filtered through a red hot hatred. Take it for what it’s worth.


35 posted on 05/12/2018 11:29:28 AM PDT by robel
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To: MNJohnnie
Bess and Harry Truman

My favorite picture of them, ever, after they left DC and returned home to their modest existence. Other past presidents should only be so humbly patriotic:


36 posted on 05/12/2018 11:31:39 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: ethom

Well let’s see Eleanor Roosevelt slept with her girlfriend “Hitch” the night before FDR was inaugurated in 1933 and slept with a leading Communist named Joseph Lash and JFK beded everything in a skirt and LBJ was known as a voracious womanizer and of course there was Hillary and her college roommate who wrote that she introduced Hillary to “the life” of a lesbian: so the author is full of hateful crap.


37 posted on 05/12/2018 11:31:57 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Bratch
😝
38 posted on 05/12/2018 11:35:19 AM PDT by Lent
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

The professor is CNN’s presidential historian. Need I say more?


39 posted on 05/12/2018 11:36:48 AM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: BunnySlippers

Yes, Nixon’s chief complaint about
his marriage was that he could never
get it down pat.


40 posted on 05/12/2018 11:38:12 AM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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