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Marriages are all very different. However, when it comes to observing couples in major positions of power, especially the United States Presidency, the American public is used to seeing a united front. The first couple is typically bound together to be admired and to further reinforce the stability of the nation. However, like everything else that has to do with his presidency, Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump don’t have a traditional marriage. The couple, who has been married since 2005, constantly seem at war with one another. From strange body language, hand-swatting, allegations of sexual harassment, rumored affairs, and rude treatment, we wouldn’t be shocked to learn that the Trumps were headed to divorce court. The latest news of the president’s affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels might have put the final nail in the coffin. Even before Trump’s presidency, the first couple seemed content on living separate lives. Recently, after the whole Stormy Daniels affair hit the media, the first lady canceled at trip with the president to Davos and rode to the State of the Union address apart from him. According to The New Yorker, Mrs. Trump said, she’s “not a nagging wife.” Since Melania is used to doing her own thing, being forced into the role of first lady probably didn’t do much to help her marriage. If there is one thing we know about Melania Trump, it’s that she’s a devoted mother. Obviously, her husband’s presidency has sent her life and her son Barron Trump’s life into a tailspin. We don’t need a body language expert to tell us that the president and the first lady aren’t exactly warm with one another. However, body language expert Susan Constantine says that the couple’s relationship has deteriorated since they’ve been in the White House. I think [Melania’s] a very unhappy person, and I think their marriage is in deep, deep trouble … You can see that this is all show, there’s no connection. I just cannot imagine that these two are going to stay married; they don’t have even the elementary foundation of couple love and compassion and physical-ness between them. There’s none of that; I don’t see it. I wish there were but, this might be the first presidential candidate in office that goes through a divorce at the same time during his candidacy. At present, half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce, so a White House divorce wouldn’t be a shock to the public’s system. After all, Trump himself has been divorced twice. Ronald Reagan was the first previously divorced person ever to elected to the presidency. However, there has never been a sitting president to pull the plug on his marriage. Still, we all know that Trump doesn’t do anything by the book. He could also call his dear friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin, to get pointers. After all, Putin split from his ex-wife while running the country. In both of Trump’s previous marriages, he had prenups in place, but both of his ex-wives contested them. His first ex-wife Ivana Trump (mother of Ivanka, Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric) was awarded a hefty $14 million and several properties. Tiffany Trump’s mom, Marla Maples, was awarded $2 million after contesting. If the Trumps do dissolve their marriage while the president is in office (which hopefully won’t be for much longer), Trump will probably be advised to handle the situation with grace and dignity. Prominent divorce lawyer Sandy Ain told the Washingtonian, “I suspect if they got divorced, he would pay her a lot of money, and it would be done in an appropriately dignified way. You don’t say ‘you’re fired’ to your wife.’ You say ‘here’s a really nice severance package—and it’s gonna be more than $130,000.’”So how much money would Mrs. Trump actually get if she left her husband? We don’t know what exactly is in their prenup, but we can assume that she’s going to get a hefty amount of money.Jacqueline Newman, a managing partner at Berkman Bottger Newman & Rodd, explained to Town and Country Magazine, “In this situation, if she has $50 million, she can afford to buy something. But $50 million, while it’s definitely a lot of money, in New York City, for what she’s used to, she wouldn’t be able to replicate what she has now. He probably had a good sense of what kind of lifestyle they’d be living, so I would imagine the payout would be fairly generous.” Unfortunately, Trump rarely does anything quietly. According to Newman, it’s very hard to get a New York state prenup overturned. However, if Trump is smart (or if he listens to his advisors), he’ll probably pay Melania much more than the prenup indicates.
After all, he would want her silence. We already know that The White House isn’t equipped to handle a scandal of this magnitude, they’re barely hanging on as it is.We all know that the first lady adored her life in NYC. She lived in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue and took care of her young son. Mostly keeping to herself, she spent her time taking her son to and from school at Columbia Prep. If there is one thing we know about Melania Trump, it’s that she’s a devoted mother. Obviously, her husband’s presidency has sent her life and her son Barron Trump’s life into a tailspin. We don’t need a body language expert to tell us that the president and the first lady aren’t exactly warm with one another. However, body language expert Susan Constantine says that the couple’s relationship has deteriorated since they’ve been in the White House. I think [Melania’s] a very unhappy person, and I think their marriage is in deep, deep trouble … You can see that this is all show, there’s no connection. I just cannot imagine that these two are going to stay married; they don’t have even the elementary foundation of couple love and compassion and physical-ness between them. There’s none of that; I don’t see it. I wish there were but, this might be the first presidential candidate in office that goes through a divorce at the same time during his candidacy. At present, half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce, so a White House divorce wouldn’t be a shock to the public’s system. After all, Trump himself has been divorced twice. Ronald Reagan was the first previously divorced person ever to elected to the presidency. However, there has never been a sitting president to pull the plug on his marriage. Still, we all know that Trump doesn’t do anything by the book. He could also call his dear friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin, to get pointers. After all, Putin split from his ex-wife while running the country. In both of Trump’s previous marriages, he had prenups in place, but both of his ex-wives contested them. His first ex-wife Ivana Trump (mother of Ivanka, Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric) was awarded a hefty $14 million and several properties. Tiffany Trump’s mom, Marla Maples, was awarded $2 million after contesting. If the Trumps do dissolve their marriage while the president is in office (which hopefully won’t be for much longer), Trump will probably be advised to handle the situation with grace and dignity. Prominent divorce lawyer Sandy Ain told the Washingtonian, “I suspect if they got divorced, he would pay her a lot of money, and it would be done in an appropriately dignified way. You don’t say ‘you’re fired’ to your wife.’ You say ‘here’s a really nice severance package—and it’s gonna be more than $130,000.’”So how much money would Mrs. Trump actually get if she left her husband? We don’t know what exactly is in their prenup, but we can assume that she’s going to get a hefty amount of money.Jacqueline Newman, a managing partner at Berkman Bottger Newman & Rodd, explained to Town and Country Magazine, “In this situation, if she has $50 million, she can afford to buy something. But $50 million, while it’s definitely a lot of money, in New York City, for what she’s used to, she wouldn’t be able to replicate what she has now. He probably had a good sense of what kind of lifestyle they’d be living, so I would imagine the payout would be fairly generous.” Unfortunately, Trump rarely does anything quietly. According to Newman, it’s very hard to get a New York state prenup overturned. However, if Trump is smart (or if he listens to his advisors), he’ll probably pay Melania much more than the prenup indicates.
After all, he would want her silence. We already know that The White House isn’t equipped to handle a scandal of this magnitude, they’re barely hanging on as it is.We all know that the first lady adored her life in NYC. She lived in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue and took care of her young son. Mostly keeping to herself, she spent her time taking her son to and from school at Columbia Prep. If there is one thing we know about Melania Trump, it’s that she’s a devoted mother. Obviously, her husband’s presidency has sent her life and her son Barron Trump’s life into a tailspin. We don’t need a body language expert to tell us that the president and the first lady aren’t exactly warm with one another. However, body language expert Susan Constantine says that the couple’s relationship has deteriorated since they’ve been in the White House. I think [Melania’s] a very unhappy person, and I think their marriage is in deep, deep trouble … You can see that this is all show, there’s no connection. I just cannot imagine that these two are going to stay married; they don’t have even the elementary foundation of couple love and compassion and physical-ness between them. There’s none of that; I don’t see it. I wish there were but, this might be the first presidential candidate in office that goes through a divorce at the same time during his candidacy. At present, half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce, so a White House divorce wouldn’t be a shock to the public’s system. After all, Trump himself has been divorced twice. Ronald Reagan was the first previously divorced person ever to elected to the presidency. However, there has never been a sitting president to pull the plug on his marriage. Still, we all know that Trump doesn’t do anything by the book. He could also call his dear friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin, to get pointers. After all, Putin split from his ex-wife while running the country. In both of Trump’s previous marriages, he had prenups in place, but both of his ex-wives contested them. His first ex-wife Ivana Trump (mother of Ivanka, Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric) was awarded a hefty $14 million and several properties. Tiffany Trump’s mom, Marla Maples, was awarded $2 million after contesting. If the Trumps do dissolve their marriage while the president is in office (which hopefully won’t be for much longer), Trump will probably be advised to handle the situation with grace and dignity. Prominent divorce lawyer Sandy Ain told the Washingtonian, “I suspect if they got divorced, he would pay her a lot of money, and it would be done in an appropriately dignified way. You don’t say ‘you’re fired’ to your wife.’ You say ‘here’s a really nice severance package—and it’s gonna be more than $130,000.’”So how much money would Mrs. Trump actually get if she left her husband? We don’t know what exactly is in their prenup, but we can assume that she’s going to get a hefty amount of money.Jacqueline Newman, a managing partner at Berkman Bottger Newman & Rodd, explained to Town and Country Magazine, “In this situation, if she has $50 million, she can afford to buy something. But $50 million, while it’s definitely a lot of money, in New York City, for what she’s used to, she wouldn’t be able to replicate what she has now. He probably had a good sense of what kind of lifestyle they’d be living, so I would imagine the payout would be fairly generous.” Unfortunately, Trump rarely does anything quietly. According to Newman, it’s very hard to get a New York state prenup overturned. However, if Trump is smart (or if he listens to his advisors), he’ll probably pay Melania much more than the prenup indicates.
After all, he would want her silence. We already know that The White House isn’t equipped to handle a scandal of this magnitude, they’re barely hanging on as it is.We all know that the first lady adored her life in NYC. She lived in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue and took care of her young son. Mostly keeping to herself, she spent her time taking her son to and from school at Columbia Prep.
Looking from the outside, it’s quite clear who is the more hands-on parent with Barron Trump. The elder Trump has also been vocal about his role as an aloof parent, with the first lady doing the bulk of the child-rearing. Since the president would be presumably busy doing whatever it is that he does each day, we’d assume Barron would live with his mother full-time.Newman told Town and Country Magazine
, “It’s handled by the courts. Given what I’ve read in the tabloids, it doesn’t seem as if there’s going to be much question as to who the primary caretaker is. My guess is that she would get primary custodial rights and he would get access whenever he happens to be in town.”Newman told Town and Country Magazine
, “It’s handled by the courts. Given what I’ve read in the tabloids, it doesn’t seem as if there’s going to be much question as to who the primary caretaker is. My guess is that she would get primary custodial rights and he would get access whenever he happens to be in town.”
Divorce attorney Cheryl New told the Washingtonian, “[Trump] would not be able to do this in a way that would be quiet. I don’t think he’s constitutionally capable of that. He’s so cocksure that he would put this out there for everybody to see. I think he underestimates Melania totally. She is a chess player. He is a checkers player.” We wouldn’t exactly call the first lady well-liked. After all, she’s complicit in her husband’s horrendous behavior and policies, but we would guess that the majority of the public would be on her side.
With a decent lawyer, we’d be willing to bet the Melania Trump walks away from her marriage to Trump with a decent check. (At least we hope so.) Even if she doesn’t get a hefty cash payout, Barron Trump will be well taken care of.When Trump divorced Marla Maples in 1999
, she only got $2 million in cash, but she received money for Tiffany Trump’s private school tuition, payments for nanny costs, and coverage for medical expenses.
Though Trump would most likely unleash all of his thoughts and feelings about the demise of his marriage to the world (he’d probably find a way to try and blame immigrants), we’d expect the first lady to keep it classy.The court systems would also be on her side
, and any reasonable judge would seal any agreements in an attempt to protect the privacy of the first couple.
If we’ve learned anything from Melania Trump’s body language in the past couple of years, we know that her husband’s presidency is a circus that she did not sign up for. (Neither did we.) However, something is keeping her at the president’s side, and love doesn’t seem to be it.As Attorney New told the Washingtonian
, “If he wants to keep her around for the remainder of his presidency, she could say, ‘You want me to be quiet? We need to do a little postnup.’”
After reports of Trump’s infidelity hit the media, the first lady’s secretary tried to dismiss them, but the facts are that she wasn’t seen publicly with her husband for over a month. Melania Trump might not be ready to pull the plug on her marriage just yet, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t plotting her way out.Until then the president is probably going to play nice with his wife until she “gets over it.” According to Life & Style
, “Trump risks losing favor with his supporters if Melania was to leave him, which could hurt his chances of getting reelected in 2020. We expect Trump to do whatever he can to ensure that Melania doesn’t leave him.”It might seem astounding now, but we’re pretty sure the moment Melania Trump got fed up didn’t actually have anything to do with her marriage, at least not directly. In fact, it all stemmed from some comments made by the president’s first wife, Ivana Trump. According to CNN
, Ivana has been calling herself the real first lady in her new memoir.
The president didn’t respond to the comment, probably because he and Ivana are still friendly, but the first lady wasn’t having it and she came out swinging. Her communications director, Stephanie Grisham, released a statement calling the comments, “attention-seeking and self-serving noise.”
Clearly, Melania isn’t letting everything blow over her head.
