• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Maybe stating the obvious, but I feel like their marriage was transactional. Less about romance and more about the money and image.

    If she stays with him, it’s because he’s still paying her.

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      5 months ago

      Each of his wives married him for a reason— and it certainly wasn’t love.

      They all got what they deserved, too.

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        They all got what they deserved, too.

        That’s a little harsh. He allegedly beat and raped Ivana. Many years later, when she died by “falling” down the stairs, he buried her in a pauper’s grave on his golf course so he could get a tax write-off.

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          Honestly, I think that’s how my marriage will end, except while she doesn’t have a golf course we do live near a park.

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        Everyone who ever helped him get where he is today got what they deserved, from Mrs Buried on a Golf Course, to America’s Mayor sweating away the last vestiges of his credibility on a landscaping company forecourt.

        It’s like all the warning signs are right there, and every single one just believes everyone else was dumb, and they’ll be the one to get a reward.

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          They’re truly capitalists: no risk no reward. Except they’re really bad capitalists as in “this is all risk no reward.”

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      I almost kind of doubt that they have had sex. It wouldn’t surprise me to find out that Barron was conceived via IVF.

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        Nah, trump would absolutely have it in the pre up that he gets to have sex at least one a year and she gives him one kid.

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          That may be true. It still wouldn’t surprise me if Barron was conceived through IVF. I can’t imagine the dude who doesn’t exercise because he thinks a person’s energy over a lifetime is finite has the best sperms count or motility.

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      What beautiful model wouldn’t want to marry an arrogant liar, who paints his face orange, is 25 years older, has a public history of infidelity, and has one of the weirdest combovers the world has ever seen?

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      She knows that if she ditches him, and he becomes dictator, and he becomes more Putin-like, he may have her murdered or torture-murdered.

      I’d say she has no choice about sticking with him, now: it’s a fact of her basic-survival, in the long-term view.

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        I feel like people that are that calculating are also capable of calculating what happens if he karks it.

        She becomes a martyr, gets to fade away with what’s left of her dignity and his wealth,