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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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(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...


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To: katana
First Cousins who parented children (yuck!)

FDR and Eleanor were fifth cousins, once removed. Barely a yuck.

Search engines are your friend.

41 posted on 05/12/2018 11:38:48 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

Remember when 0bama refused to kiss The Mooch when they put then on the “kiss cam” at the basketball game they were at? That was ver awkward.

Of course Bill and Hillary is a great American love story, right?


42 posted on 05/12/2018 11:43:34 AM PDT by Angels27
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To: ethom

They desperately want to rant about how Trump hates foreigners, and Melania is in the way.


43 posted on 05/12/2018 11:44:34 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: ethom

Ay por favor-esta mierda otra vez? When did the professional credentials of a presidential historian also qualify them as a marriage therapist? And where was this “expert” during Bill’s sexcapades, the loud profanity filled arguments in front of the SS and other household staff, Hillary’s ashtray throwing tantrums and other scandals of the Clinton years-was he meditating in a cave in Tibet?


44 posted on 05/12/2018 11:50:23 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Bratch

Thanks I almost had this Vision out of my mind permanently from seeing it years ago for the first time
blech!


45 posted on 05/12/2018 11:55:28 AM PDT by connyankee (#covfefe lives!)
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To: ethom

Brinkley isn’t hinged right.

5.56mm


46 posted on 05/12/2018 11:57:09 AM PDT by M Kehoe (THIS SPACE FOR RENT)
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To: Bratch

Thanks I almost had this Vision out of my mind permanently from seeing it years ago for the first time
blech!


47 posted on 05/12/2018 11:57:20 AM PDT by connyankee (#covfefe lives!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Moochelle isn’t likely to be a transsexual-that oldest daughter looks like her and even has that same constant sour scowl and mannerisms-Moochelle is just another unattractive big ol’ heifer with a fat ass-but she would be worth a 1st prize at a stock show...


48 posted on 05/12/2018 12:05:12 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: ethom

Worse than Obama and his first wife Larry Sinclair?


49 posted on 05/12/2018 12:18:18 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: ethom

...with John Kerry.

50 posted on 05/12/2018 12:18:52 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: ethom
More like it's the hottest.
51 posted on 05/12/2018 12:20:43 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped)
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To: SpaceBar

Brinkley is a clown whose lips are still on the Kenyan’s a**.


52 posted on 05/12/2018 12:21:20 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: ethom

Day-um…I haven’t heard such a load of ugly gossip since I used to accompany my Mama to a little beauty shop in Texas, where hair dryers blew less hot air than the patrons.

Most unbecoming for a man to sound like a jealous old biddy.


53 posted on 05/12/2018 12:23:32 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Albion Wilde
Doug Brinkley is JEALOUS of all the winning that is not on his side! haters gonna hate..


54 posted on 05/12/2018 12:30:15 PM PDT by ethom
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To: ethom

It’s true. The huge age difference (no way would I even do anything if I was immoral with a 70+ old guy, and I’m her age), her past in Playboy. It’s not really ideal.


55 posted on 05/12/2018 12:30:58 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: ethom

“But those husbands didn’t have a porn star and a Playboy model alleging affairs, or 19 women accusing him of sexual misconduct.”

Actually, the winner if Billy-boy Klintoon.

LOL, all the women accusing him of affairs, assault, and just plain lech.


56 posted on 05/12/2018 12:32:28 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: ethom
Douglas Brinkley

Back to you, Chet.

57 posted on 05/12/2018 12:33:44 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: ethom

The Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Vince Foster, Hillary Cinton, Webb Hubbell marriage was pretty normal and healthy.


58 posted on 05/12/2018 12:37:41 PM PDT by dead
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To: ethom

the commieNazi leftist propaganda mill is running low on ammo if they have to write irrelevant trash like this, ha!


59 posted on 05/12/2018 12:45:43 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Albion Wilde

Ooops! Thanks.


60 posted on 05/12/2018 12:56:19 PM PDT by katana
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