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US FIRST LADY Melania Trump travelled in a separate motorcade from her husband Donald as the pair travelled to Florida following this week’s school shooting.
The decision by Melania to make a separate journey to the Andrew’s Air Force Base comes amid further claims of infidelity on behalf of the US President.
The New Yorker magazine has published a handwritten account of a former Playboy model in which she details a nine-month extramarital affair with Donald Trump in 2006.
In the account, Karen McDougal describes how Donald Trump showed her his wife’s bedroom in Trump Tower and brought her to his private bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
The 1998 Playboy Playmate of the Year confirmed that she wrote the account but added that she was constrained in what else she could say publicly because of a confidentiality agreement.
As the story broke today, Donald Trump and Melania Trump were to travel to Florida.
Trump tweeted he would be meeting “some of the bravest people on earth” but it was not confirmed whether he would be meeting those affected by Wednesday’s school shooting in Parkland in which 17 people were killed.
Before the US President and First Lady travel from the White House to Air Force One, it is traditional that they walk across the South Lawn together, as they have done on previous trips.
On this occasion they travelled separately, with the First Lady’s spokesperson telling CNN: ”With her schedule it was easier to meet him on the plane.”
The White House also told CNN that Melania Trump does plan to accompany her husband when he visits with victims of the Parkland mass shooting.
Donald Trump had already been slated to travel to Florida to spend the weekend at his Palm Beach estate, which is about 40 miles from Parkland.
Affair
In McDougal’s account of her affair with Trump, the model said that she ended it in part after she started feeling guilty about it and after Trump made an offensive comment about her mother’s age as well as a vulgar remark about the anatomy of black men.
The White House said Trump denies having an affair with McDougal.
The alleged affair occurred not long after Trump married his third wife, Melania, who had recently given birth to their son Barron.
- With reporting by Rónán Duffy
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I aint saying shes a gold digger….. But i feel sorry for Melania. Marrying a billionaire to live the high life, then the stupid cvnt goes on to become president… She didn’t sign up to become first lady she only signed up for the money
@phil: No money was not the only reason, because Melania was already earning millions as a model before marrying Trump. She could have married anyone and she’s not as stupid as you think she is just because she is quiet.
@Ania_on_coffee: correct. If Donald was a petrol pump attendant she would still have married him. for his charm, kindness and warmth. Some people just don’t understand true romance. SAD
@Ania_on_coffee: You think she was earning millions? LOL
@Michael Herron: And you think most women choose a potential husband based on charm/warmth alone? Blue eyes too?
@Ania_on_coffee: Sure how would you know what women want ‘Ania’, you’re probably a man in your mid-forties.
@Jennifer Mann: don’t know how much she was earning but she was pretty comfortable. Also Trump looks like her dad which is weird on many levels. His billions couldn’t tempt me that’s for sure. Are you saying she deserves to be cheated on after marrying him and giving birth to their son? It’s a man’s world for you alright Jennifer.
@O Swetenham: That’s your comeback to a woman you disagree with? Classy. People like you are very ‘brave’ online but are cowards in real life.
@Ania_on_coffee: any proof that she was earning millions before she met Trump? Also, where did anyone say that more than one woman got married for the money? The only woman that was mentioned was the first lady. You just made up the rest so you could argue against the words you put in the mouths of others.
@Michael Herron: Ha Ha true romance my a@“e trump is a serial cheater, I do feel sorry for that gorgeous woman Melania married to a clown like trump, I’m sure she could have got a lot better easily.
@phil: I guess because she’s a woman you can make such a comment!
@phil: what bugs me about Trump is that he said 17 people were shot in Parkland but the 14 injured 5 of which are critical would disagree with him. Always shuffling the numbers for the NRA.
@Murf: the only person I feel sorry for in that whole mess of a marriage in their son Baron.
@Ania_on_coffee: She was not earning millions as a model. She was never more than 3rd rate and was getting too old to be offered many jobs by the time she hit New York. Doing soft porn posing , as she did, is not something that any high earning model would stoop to doing. They met at a party that was set up to hook up men with such 3rd rate models who were looking for a better meal ticket than low end modelling and porn jobs.
@Ania_on_coffee: Hey!! I’ve blue eyes. Don’t bring me into this. Lol
@Ania_on_coffee: it’s so easy to be brave sitting in your pyjamas, mug of tea at your side, toast crusts congealing on a plate, probably a cat or a dog for company, nothing in particular planned for the day ahead, so let’s pick on someone who won’t answer back with too much force. Yeah, keyboard warriors are alive and well…..
@Deborah Blacoe: that was in reply to your comment response to ‘o sweetenham’
@Dave O Keeffe: What is wrong with stability or status being part of the reason why she married Trump initially? She wouldn’t have married a petrol station attendant just because he is charming or handsome, why should she?
@Ania_on_coffee: I never said there was anything wrong with it, in fact I don’t think anyone actually said it was wrong, they just said it was what happened. You were the one that leapt in with false claims about her financial status.
@Ania_on_coffee: well they should, it is called love…this comment seems to admit that she married trumpsky because of his money…thanks for the confirmation
@Ania_on_coffee: so only the likes of Trump can give stability to his partner? Hahahaha! I am no Trump, not have his money and possessions and I give stability to my partner – and vice-versa. How’s that possible? Besides, stability of what kind? I suppose you mean just material stability…
@Toki Wartooth: How is marrying for only looks or charm somehow more noble (or implies real love) than marrying for stability/ambition of a man? I’m sure though she had more than one reason.
@O Swetenham: Said with such conviction… “probably”.
@O Swetenham: And it’s all a bit rich coming from the Twitter account of someone of questionable gender, who represents themselves to the world with a stained glass effect cartoon image. Denim vest. Shades. Now there’s the look of someone going through a midlife crisis.
@Michael Herron:” If Donald was a petrol pump attendant she would still have married him.”
Lol, funniest thing l’ve read in a while. I bet it was a fairytale romance alright.
@Dave O Keeffe: your chum, Herron, was referring to a hypothetical situation. In that hypothetical situation, Trump is a petrol station attendant. Melania is still Knauss. She’s not the First Lady. If you’re going to be Peter Pedant, try and be consistent.
@Pauline Mott: Let’s see now… in one message you’ve managed to be:
- ageist
- sexist
- lookist
This is extremely superficial and shallow of you, Pauline, and not what one would expect of a middle-aged woman wearing a baseball cap and holding a fish. It’s really quite disappointing.
@Deborah Blacoe: One imagines there’s a little bit of projection going on here, isn’t there, Debs? Hmm?
@Deborah Blacoe: with that explanatory message (“that was in reply to…”) I’m reminded of the pathetic comedian on stage, before an unamused crowd, mumbling into the microphone, “Erm, that was a joke”
@Jonathan of Toast: you’re hilarious! ‘One’ can imagine what one wants. That’s the beauty of imagination.
@Deborah Blacoe: Yes, I am. And no need to explain myself. Unlike some, whose posts are so trite and cliched. Somehow you consider drinking tea, eating toast and perusing news sites to be… what exactly?
And yet, here you are, like anyone else, posting your insipid musings and warbling on about imagination. Using the word ‘congealed’ isn’t imaginative. It’s merely descriptive of what you see before you on your red and white checker plastic tablecloth. The banality of your reality and imagination, pet.
@Jonathan of Toast: you may have replied to me in error. I wasn’t talking to herron at all or referring to their comment.
@Jonathan of Toast: my goodness you are an angry fellow aren’t you? Getting so worked up about a banal, trite and cliched comment from a ‘pet’ who lives in a house with a checkered tablecloth (and yes, you really do have a wonderful imagination!). Look son, go and take your frustrations out elsewhere. Because to feel so deeply about such a ‘cliched’ comment suggests someone with issues. You should do something about that. Oh, and cliches are such that they are derived from the truth.
Will Melania jump ship or will she tough it out? She is being publicly humiliated more and more as this story evolves. With Kennedy it was kept generally private. With Clinton, Hilary had her own political ambitions to think about. With the Trump’s, she seems averse to publicity and doesn’t seem to have any political ambitions.
@Mick Jordan: Why divorce him and get half, when the Big Macs and Cola will kill him in less than 10 years and get it all
@Mick Jordan: swimming with da fishes
@phil: he’s 80 + years old do you really think it will take Big Macs & cola to kill him of
@phil: there is zero chance that he doesn’t have a pre-nup
@Mick Jordan: She would be shoved off the fec*in ship more likely!
@Oscar Leary: with an infidelity clause I’d imagine.
Ugh… Seriously considering just stopping reading the Journal altogether. It’s like a glossy Sjw gossip mag these days. Shame really, they could try do some actual reporting and not the copy and paste, petty drivel. What a waste of a large platform.
@PutinBot 5000: well, as long as people are commenting on articles they’ll continue to publish them.
@PutinBot 5000: no one forcing you to they still have a huge following
@EillieEs: Are you being serious? Less than half a % of tge people that read the articles comment and most of the commenters have multiple comments. I actually think that they should do away with the comments altogether.
@PutinBot 5000: see ya!
@PutinBot 5000: I don’t like these tittle tattle stories either. It’s not news and has nothing to do with his job or inability to perform in his role as president.
@PutinBot 5000: i find the comments often more entertaining and more interesting than the news reports.
@PutinBot 5000: The Journal isn’t an airport, you don’t have to announce your departure.
@PutinBot 5000:
Bye!
And in on their news
The pope lies on his back, Dolly Parton sh!ts in the woods and bears are Catholic!!!
@PutinBot 5000: i think they actually write their articles on their phones too, based on the serious amount of typos.
@stefanovich: I think they’re just idiots who don’t care about their work. My phone has a dictionary and spell check built into it. They have no excuse other than laziness.
@PutinBot 5000: mine does to, i still have many, many spelling errors in my comments. I’m not a professional like yourself though :)
@Dave O Keeffe: English isn’t even my first language bruh. They gave us a few lessons at the troll farm and I study at night.
@PutinBot 5000: brilliant
Melania means as much to trump as Mexicans.
CNN breaking news…president Trump travels in a different car than the first lady… Collusion.
@Eleanor of Aquitaine: Trump is a Great President thankfully Hillary wasn’t elected.
What a sad existence.
The real opposition to Trump in the US is the media lead by CNN rather than Democrats ….Is that entirely healthy when a media network embrace one political side……..Bit like Pravda and the communist party…..
@John003: if you wanted to make a balanced impartial comment you could have included Fox News – the official Trump channel
@WJ Dunphy: Yes true Fox is very biased but so is CNN biased against him….Fox is only 10% of US mainstream media….
@John003: FOX News is the most watched news channel by far in the US and I’m pretty sure they are all in for Trump and his followers in the Republican Party.
Fox has daily audience of around 1.5 million….Its numbers are going up but still US population is 323 million….63 million people voted for Trump….
@John003: now compare the numbers and realise that there aren’t 323 million tvs
@John003: Thr real opposition to Trump is not CNN it is the majority of Americans who are constantly humiliated and embarrassed in front of the rest of the world by the behaviour of their lying, fornicating defrauding, traitorous POS POTUS.
@Pauline Mott: you can leave fornicating out. That’s not exactly something the majority of Americans are against.
The Journal.ie tragically UNDER REPORTS a staged COUP happening the US right now, which could have destabilized the world if it had succeeded i.e. the politicization of federal US Intelligence agencies to undermine, attack and destroy the democratically elected president of America, Donal Trump, via a ridiculous made up story of Russian Collusion, which up to date, has zero evidence to back it up; and OVER REPORTS tittle TATTLE gossip stories regarding Trump and his associates ? The Journal.ie has descend lower than the lowest of the low tabloid muck filth – at least these base offerings have no pretensions of being light bearers of cutting edge objective journalism. Shameful.
If you’d payed close attention you’d know that it’s potentially even worse, since special counsel Robert Mueller can investigate pretty much as he sees fit. But that problem is of Trumps own making, as this would not have been the case if he hadn’t fired James Comey (which he did because he wanted his ‘loyalty’). And similarly the potential of Trumps problems with Russia contacts is of his own making. At least Comey would have been restricted to this in FBI investigations, but Mueller can go much further.
Don’t go blaming the Journal for not going along with your idea of some deep state coup. How would they possibly go about reporting this? If Trump trips over the investigation, it’s entirely his own fault.
@raymond grehan: Will you be fcking off now? Here’s hoping…
@raymond grehan: deluded nonsense
@raymond grehan: Trump is deeply in debt to the Russian Mafia. The Russians are virtually his sole source of financing as no American or European bank will touch him anymore due to his total ineptness in accruing massive debt. Since Putin controls Russia he controls the Mafia and he is using that to take over control of the USA. He backed Trump because he is afraid of Hilary Clinton, and he has enough on Trump to exert total control over him. Yesterday’s indictment of 13 Russians by Mueller’s team should have been met with horror and demands for further investigations plus praise for those agencies that excelled in bringing these indictments in but did we get such a response from the White House.? Not a chance…. Trump isn’t the least bit concerned about selling his country out if it saves his sorry ass from a long stint in a federal penitentiary. Bottom line is if it looks like treason ,sounds like treason and smells like treason then that’s what it is.
Least we forget one of his quotes pre elections, “I could shoot someone & people would still vote for me”
@Colette Kearns: He is shooting people by proxy – repealing Obama’s restrictions on allowing mentally disturbed individuals from buying guns .
Trump card required!
CNN = the 24/7 anti-Trump obession.
@delboy28: he makes his own scandals
More trash reporting.
If she thinks for one minute she could leave him, she needs to think again. Trump would never stand for the humiliation. She would end up either a set up suicide or an unfortunate car accident!
@Colette Kearns: it could be another Marilyn Monroe. Unexplained death.
@Colette Kearns: What sort of it twisted mind do you have, you really need to get out a little more maybe now that Spring is here you can get a little more fresh air to that brain of yours!
Stormy Daniels would have been gorgeous back then and “Karen McDougal 1998 Playmate of the Year” can’t do much better than that!
President Trump doesn’t mess around with 2nd raters only top of the line meet his standards
In a world of Gay Marriage and trendy modern education which teaches/forces children to experiment with homosexuality
isn’t it great to have a 100% male as leader of the free world.
He truly is an inspirational Leader.
Since becoming President he has shown what real leadership is about and we should be thankful to American voters for choosing Donald Trump rather than Hillary Clinton who would have been a disaster for western world
@Joe Byrne: In what alternative reality do you reside. Obviously one where the only qualification for greatness is to be a slut hound. He couldn’t honour his marriage vows and he certainly brings nothing but shame and humiliation to his country.
@Pauline Mott: Calm down Pauline: All normal males (Including your husband if you’ve got one) are attracted to women like this who have manipulated males for generations.
@Pauline Mott: Pauline, if your husband is reading up on these stories he will definitely have a bit of admiration for Trump…I doubt he would ever tell you that though…
@Untriggered Non-Snowflake: believe it or not there are husbands that don’t admire people for having extramarital affairs
@Dave O Keeffe: Good evening, Dave. How was your day?
“You know, I’m not sitting here, some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette.”
Bozo trump
This reporting of news is tiresome and boring. Go find another scape goat.We will still have a great AMERICA in spite of all the so called reporters.
@Elizabeth Hellings: lol
@Elizabeth Hellings: ha feck off.bless your cotton socks.
@Elizabeth Hellings: So great it had another mass shooting of innocent children this week.
@Philip G Roark: point well made. America is so messed up. So messed up.
@Anne: first sentence of the original comment is phrased in the manner of someone for whom English is not their first language. Hmmm.
In another blow to Melania’s dignity Stormy Daniels is scheduled to perform at a stripper club directly across the street from Mar A Lago April 12 -14th. Methinks poor old Mel will not be visiting Florida that particular weekend.
@Pauline Mott: Stormy is a bit of a marketing genius…reports saying she is now earning tens of thousands a night for all these performances…
She will definitely be voting Trump in 2020…
blame the russians.
Does this mean the end of Donlania ?
what the premier of Italy doesn’t sleep around? I’m more concerned with the Climate Change Denying
@Dave McCrea: The climate around the White House has changed ,by all accounts
How is this news, do I care no
@Anne Kerins: I don’t care either. But i imagine Americans should as having the president and first lady living separate lives must be a considerable drain on tax payers money and on national security resources as it’s doubled every time they both go to an event. I’ve never understood the business of first lady. In my opinion, it’s a president/prime minister who’s elected. Their family should have no public role and family matters should not drain the public expenses
Here’s a summary of this article: President and wife take separate cars. Maybe it’s cuz he had an affair. Maybe not. They said that’s not the reason but we think it might be. The end. Utter garbage. YAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNN
@PutinBot 5000: here’s a story http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-environmental-chief-first-class-flights-avoid-public-scott-pruitt-climate-change-us-a8213651.html Pruitt managed to pay $1500 of tax payers money to fly first class from Washington to New York. He flies first class so he doesn’t have to speak to the lower and middle classes. That’s a four hour drive! Also, there’s a fu(King train!
@Dave O Keeffe: and them there’s this. One which is even more baffling https://gizmodo.com/taxpayers-covered-trump-cabinet-members-122k-family-va-1823004920
@PutinBot 5000: both more worthy of an article than who may have taken a ride on the tangerine dream over ten years ago
@Dave O Keeffe: Tangerine dream… love it.
Free Melania
She’s a clown, with her fake face and her fake marriage. Her family must be so proud, she make baby by American man with trillions of Papučkayas. suck cess
It is sad to see the decline in the standards of some of the top news organisations in the United States. They have basically become gossip columns…even worse, they are simply reprinting stories from many years ago.
I suppose they have to have something to attack Trump for after the Russia investigation seems to be pointing to a big nothing burger…Pathetic really,,,
who gives a shit!
@Dave McCrea:
Hear ,Hear.
I feel certain that Melania stays for one reason and one reason only = HER SON. She would give her life for him and basically she is giving the best years of her life right now. However, there will come a point in time when he is secured and she can leave and will do so. In the meantime, she is trapped between several choices – all of which are bad. She’s a millionaire prisoner trapped in her own real life situation.
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