Posted on 09/16/2026 6:19:57 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
First Lady Melania Trump is responding to reports that a Russian oligarch accused of helping lead an organization that facilitates the abduction of Ukrainian children helped pay for Donald Trump Jr and his new wife Bettina Anderson's lavish wedding party.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.com ...
Dear FRiends,
We need your continuing support to keep FR funded. Your donations are our sole source of funding. No sugar daddies, no advertisers, no paid memberships, no commercial sales, no gimmicks, no tax subsidies. No spam, no pop-ups, no ad trackers.
If you enjoy using FR and agree it's a worthwhile endeavor, please consider making a contribution today:
Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you,
Jim
Insane.
Thank you Melania Trump for clearly distancing yourself from this craziness.
Why would two people from rich families need a stranger to pay for their wedding?
Why in the world would he do something so stupid? Doesn’t he have his own money? Couldn’t he elope? I have no words.
For his first engagement he got engaged outside a jewelry store in return for a free engagement ring.
It's as if Trump switched sides to join the globalists and they assured him of a free pass when he left office in return, and now everybody is stuffing their pockets as fast as they can.
“Doesn’t he have his own money?”
He does. And he still has it because he didn’t have to pay for his own wedding.
Don Jr. has always been the Dumbest Trump.
Weddings are so expensive and young couples struggling to make ends meet and attempting to build a nest egg need all the help they can get to buy that rubbery chicken and watered ice tea they serve to their guests.
and Tiffany the most attractive ...
This and the other unseemly, money-grasping activities of the family are worse than unseemly, they are smarmy.
Besotted by gold filigree now cheapening the Oval Office and and obsessed with affixing the name "Donald Trump" to every visible object, even worse than that solipsism that afflicted Harry Byrd of West Virginia, the president is unwittingly cheapening what might've been a great legacy. He will be remembered as the Philistine in the Oval Office.
“Why would two people from rich families need a stranger to pay for their wedding?”
———
This. Hard to believe that especially DJT, Jr. didn’t think about the many potential downsides of this, vs.the simple and (for him) pretty much insignificant upside of saving a few bucks that he really won’t miss. Disappointing.
Because they are grifters.
Because they are grifters.
We are truly living in the economic golden age when a Trump can’t even afford a wedding.
Rich people looking for freebies. The Kennedys, Clintoons, the odoofuses, creepy gropin’ pedo joe and now the Trump offspring. Even Marla Maples one of the ex-wives. Anyone remember the President’s first inauguration where Maples offered a DC hair stylist to fix her & Tiffany’s hair in exchange for good publicity that Maples offered to give her?
Melania is a treasure. Few people who harp about Ukraine being a major source of human trafficking realize that Russia is the number 1 destination they are trafficked to, and Russian organized crime is one of the primary traffickers. By and large, Ukrainians are the victims, not the perpetrators.
Amusing.
I have quite often extolled free markets, pure capitalism, NO participation trophies, and the idea of personal responsibility and individually driven success.
I’m not what one would call “rich” - at least, I don’t have a yacht - and I grew up dirt poor.
But people who think the familial wealthy don’t run this gambit all the time?
You poor, naive fool.
I wonder if Umar Kremlev is in the drone business as well...
.
“It’s as if Trump switched sides to join the globalists...”
Would you be so kind as to give one particle of evidence for that accusation?
Otherwise, we are forced to conclude you pulled it straight out of your ass.
Who brings Ukrainian prostitutes to Florida?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.