ARCHIVE: My Melania Trump Conspiracy Theory
Originally published on Facebook, November 5th 2016.
So I have a theory. Instead of assuming that Melania Trump is a shallow and clueless extension of her husband, what if she is covertly working to undermine his entire campaign?
Now, this may be a stretch. I'm *really* looking into her actions because there's no way she could obvious about it. She's got to be wrapped up in an iron-clad prenup and would lose every dollar she has along with custody of her son if she ever actively attacked the Trump campaign so it's all got to be on the DL. But there have been a few fairly public moves by her that have me wondering:
1) At the RNC, she scrapped her professionally written speech at the last minute to repeat Michelle Obama's words. At the time, we all wrote it off as an awkward misstep but she MAY have been trying to make a point about Democrats and Republicans not being that different from each other. The Trump campaign has capitalized on political hyperpolarization but when Melania repeated the words of Michelle Obama and they resonated with Republicans, she may have been trying to show that Obamas and the Democrats really aren't as bad as the RNC has made them out to be.
2) After the tape of Trump making his now infamous remarks about sexual assault, she was dressed for a very public appearance in a lovely pink blouse that had a giant ribbon tied around the neck in a bow. The official sartorial term for this embellishment is "the pussy bow".
3) So she had a scathing response to Natasha Stoynoff, a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexual assault, but the written statement came from her lawyers that are paid by her husband. Melania did publicly put her down, but remember that Trump is supposed to give the appearance of supporting her husband so I'm not sure if she would have been able to say anything else. Stoynoff maintains that Melania Trump a "woman of dignity" and cites respect for her as the reason she stayed silent so long.
4) This is the most compelling one to me: her recent comments about cyberbullying. She literally lives with Donald Trump so I'm sure she knows even more about his bullying than any of his Twitter followers. She is very passionate about people saying mean and hurtful things, but what if she already realizes the irony of her stance? She probably doesn't have the power to change his Twitter password or stop him from spewing hatred, but maybe she can make a public statement that it's not okay. Her husband is just arrogant enough to not realize that she was calling him out for being a bully.
Instead of writing her public appearances off as bizarre and tone-deaf, what if they are strategic moves that allow her to counteract her husband within the very real limitations of her marriage? She's a model and she's an immigrant, and I feel like it's not a coincidence that we assume the worst of her because of stereotypes surrounding both of those groups.
I know I could be completely wrong and misreading this entire situation, but it's still worth considering. LMK if anyone has any other thoughts!
So I have a theory. Instead of assuming that Melania Trump is a shallow and clueless extension of her husband, what if she is covertly working to undermine his entire campaign?
Now, this may be a stretch. I'm *really* looking into her actions because there's no way she could obvious about it. She's got to be wrapped up in an iron-clad prenup and would lose every dollar she has along with custody of her son if she ever actively attacked the Trump campaign so it's all got to be on the DL. But there have been a few fairly public moves by her that have me wondering:
1) At the RNC, she scrapped her professionally written speech at the last minute to repeat Michelle Obama's words. At the time, we all wrote it off as an awkward misstep but she MAY have been trying to make a point about Democrats and Republicans not being that different from each other. The Trump campaign has capitalized on political hyperpolarization but when Melania repeated the words of Michelle Obama and they resonated with Republicans, she may have been trying to show that Obamas and the Democrats really aren't as bad as the RNC has made them out to be.
2) After the tape of Trump making his now infamous remarks about sexual assault, she was dressed for a very public appearance in a lovely pink blouse that had a giant ribbon tied around the neck in a bow. The official sartorial term for this embellishment is "the pussy bow".
3) So she had a scathing response to Natasha Stoynoff, a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexual assault, but the written statement came from her lawyers that are paid by her husband. Melania did publicly put her down, but remember that Trump is supposed to give the appearance of supporting her husband so I'm not sure if she would have been able to say anything else. Stoynoff maintains that Melania Trump a "woman of dignity" and cites respect for her as the reason she stayed silent so long.
4) This is the most compelling one to me: her recent comments about cyberbullying. She literally lives with Donald Trump so I'm sure she knows even more about his bullying than any of his Twitter followers. She is very passionate about people saying mean and hurtful things, but what if she already realizes the irony of her stance? She probably doesn't have the power to change his Twitter password or stop him from spewing hatred, but maybe she can make a public statement that it's not okay. Her husband is just arrogant enough to not realize that she was calling him out for being a bully.
Instead of writing her public appearances off as bizarre and tone-deaf, what if they are strategic moves that allow her to counteract her husband within the very real limitations of her marriage? She's a model and she's an immigrant, and I feel like it's not a coincidence that we assume the worst of her because of stereotypes surrounding both of those groups.
I know I could be completely wrong and misreading this entire situation, but it's still worth considering. LMK if anyone has any other thoughts!
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