Chatter And Banter - Politics In North America

Made me think back to Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe; but then that was in the age when news/rumors could not travel fast. And often the media was in cahoots with the powerful.

One young'ish first lady married to an old guy (23 years older in this case) was Jaqueline Kennedy's marriage to Ari Onassis. She sought privacy for herself and her children and an extremely wealthy man with a private island far away from the noise of the American media is what she chose. If Melania wished to be far from the madding crowd, what would she do ? Is there some kind of Overseas Citizen of Slovenia visa (see note*) ?

Jackie’s second husband was Aristotle Onassis. He was already 62, 23 years older than his bride. Plus he wasn’t even American—--(Sure enough, they married off the coast of Greece on his private island of Skorpios.)
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Aristotle Onassis was not the great love of Jackie Kennedy’s life, nor was she the great love of his. (Indeed, many would argue that neither particularly loved the other at any point.) Yet somehow their union lasted until his death in 1975. Nonetheless, their nuptials 50 years ago would forever change the way First Families are covered by the media
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When Jackie died, she was brought back to USA and buried next to John Kennedy at The Arlington National Cemetery .... and not on Skorpios in the Onassis mausoleum.

*NOTE: Slovenia is part of the EU, and EU citizens are allowed to be dual citizens of America; no need for a visa of any kind to visit/live/work in either region.
Why does Ari Onassis look like Zorba, played by Anthony Quinn ?
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She is as calculating as her husband. That’s the end of bargain.

We always try to compare with normal life people. But it doesn’t work like that. There have been nearly 50% of the votes, which has a significant female voter population who are still liking and supporting Trump. They don’t seem to even care about his tweets or his response.

Melania belongs to that category. She has got a really good bargain and she is not thinking about anything other than herself. If Trump had won she would have been Flotus for another 4 years. Actually if not for this Covid, Trump would have won for sure. That’s what the results had actually shown.

Understanding Melania Trump: 'Everyone knows her – but nobody does'

 

Marc Thiessen writes for WSJ as well? I thought it was enough of a curse to read him in WaPo. The Journal has excellent reporters. One of my friends works there. But the editorial board became very Trumpy after the 2016 election. They continue to blithely publish embarrassments such as Epstein. The actual reporters are very annoyed since most people think the op-eds speak for the entire newspaper.

 

She fits the stereotype of a certain type of East European woman of a certain era. As for dignity, I don’t know how much one can have left after literally leaving nothing to the imagination. She actually said the kids separated from their parents at the border were better off since they now had beds to sleep in. Be Best, indeed.