Donald and Melania Trump Reportedly Sleep in Separate Bedrooms. How Should We Feel?

[RandySF]

There are a few appropriate responses to the news, broken by US Weekly on Wednesday, that Donald and Melania Trump allegedly sleep in separate bedrooms. One is anger: How dare this magazine make me think about the president of the United States in the snoring, bedheaded, pajamaed state of slumber or in any proximity to conjugal activity?

Another is boredom. Of course the Trumps don’t share a bed—nothing about their body language or verbal references to one another has ever telegraphed anything approaching affection. Readers of this news may also experience strokes of schadenfreude (wheeee, more evidence that the groper-in-chief doesn’t ever have sex!) and discomfort (aren’t we supposed to think politicians’ consensual sex lives don’t matter?).

Yes, in general, adults should have the right to sleep and sex in whatever arrangements best suit their needs. No one should use a politician’s consensual sexual activity, or lack thereof, to besmirch his or her character or fitness for office. It was gross, for instance, when a Trump surrogate argued during the campaign that people shouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton because he didn’t think she and Bill have sex.

But that’s why this particular bit of news, for this particular president, does matter. Trump used a big-powerful-rich-daddy persona to win the presidency, and he painted that persona with the help of the ever-younger string of women he’s married and claimed to sleep with. All three of his marriages generated press “leaks” that suggested Trump was great at sex and had a lot of it with his respective wives, sometimes multiple times a day. The implication to anyone with eyes is that a past-his-prime man uses money and power to get sex and arm candy service from traditionally beautiful women. The US Weekly report turns that implication on its head.




http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/03/23/donald_and_melania_trump_reportedly_sleep_in_separate_bedrooms_how_should.html

[Heather MC]

1. We are footing the bill for their marriage problems

[Cha]

2. lol.. lucky

melania

But Hell on the Taxpayers if they're in different residences.

[radical noodle]

3. My husband and I sleep in separate bedrooms

There isn't necessarily a correlation with how often we have sex.

[True Dough]

5. Is "radical noodle"

your nickname for him?

[radical noodle]

14. LMAO!

No... and I imagine that it ought not to be!

[cwydro]

24. My parents did too. For all of their 50 plus year marriage.

They had a wonderful marriage.

This kind of prurient interest in someone's sex life is just stupid.

[roamer65]

35. Thank you.

[StubbornThings]

34. Same here.

But, we also see each other every day.

How many times has he seen his wife and young child in the two months he's been President? That's the question that needs to be asked.

[Lucinda]

4. Not my business. n/t

[7wo7rees]

6. Why the F should we give a f or care? NT

[milestogo]

7. She's a "trophy wife", which is hardly the same as an actual wife.

[democratisphere]

8. Ivanka must be his "acting wife".

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. Problem is the next "step mom" will likely be younger than the daughter.

That's the problem when you keep trading for younger models.

[Exultant Democracy]

9. They don't even sleep in the same zip code, sooo...

[Marie Marie]

15. Good point!

[mzteaze]

10. If...

I wouldn't care if she actually lived at the WH. But the fact that she costs taxpayers on a daily basis is the reason they have people (unwantedly) involved in their bedroom.

For those who don't live in or around NYC, you might not understand just how much VISIBLE security is involved in and around Trump branded buildings. Walk past it regularly and it's annoying.

[Doreen]

11. If they sleep in different rooms I could care less.

They however sleep at different houses and we have to pay for that and that needs to stop NOW.

[truebluegreen]

12. Why should we care?

[madamesilverspurs]

13. Their marriage is nonamy bidness.

My parents often slept apart due to my dad's chainsaw snoring. There were times the neighbors complained thinking he was playing with weird power tools in the middle of the night. But they were together for sixty years.

However, separate rooms is one thing; separate residences is another thing altogether, and that does merit both comment and concern from those of us who pay for that extra accommodation.


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[TeamPooka]

16. She is abiding by the terms of her contract. nt

[Maru Kitteh]

18. Shit, they sleep in separate states.

And we get to pay for it.

[iluvtennis]

19. Truth. We pay over $30k per day for her to sleep in another state

[MFM008]

20. I would pay HIM

30 K a day to sleep in another country................permanently.

[TalenaGor]

21. a little less vomit-y?

Cause....ewwwwwww

[Squinch]

22. Other than the cost to the taxpayer that Melania's bed is in Trump Tower and it doubles the

secret service costs, I don't care.

But about that cost? I care a lot.

[DFW]

23. I. Don't. Care.

I care that he thinks he can use nukes to satisfy his ego, or take health coverage away from 24 millions American citizens just to get himself seated as the guest of honor at a conference of big insurance companies.

What he does or doesn't do with his wife/wives in their bedroom(s) is of no consequence to me. I doubt any of the 24 million people facing their health coverage being eliminated care a whole hell of a lot, either.

[cwydro]

25. I completely agree with you.

I seriously doubt that any of the deplorables voted for him based on his sex life either.

I love how US Weekly is being used as a source here lately (this is not the first OP citing the rag). It's sad.

[DFW]

29. I didn't even look at the source

If I want stuff like this, I'll get the National Perspirer. This is (or should be) beneath us.

[GWC58]

26. Separate rooms? They sleep in

separate resistances.

[janterry]

27. Relieved

one more nightmare that isn't stuck in my head.

[WePurrsevere]

28. Except that we're paying for separate residences ATM...

I don't care, not my business.

Last I knew Melania and Barron were still going to be moving into the WH after he's done with school. If this actually happens at least that will be a bit less money we're putting out for this family.

[FrenchieCat]

30. I don't care?

[maxrandb]

31. I feel

That we could save $200M a year of taxpayer money if they just decided to live in the same "taxpayer funded mansion"

[Vinca]

32. Many married people sleep in separate bedrooms.

I'm more concerned they sleep in separate cities and the cost of security is doubled.

[shenmue]

33. Yes

[dalton99a]

36. Eh, I couldn't care less if they fuck their brains out

I doubt it would make a difference

[elehhhhna]

37. They sleep in separate fucking states

Also I call nacho. Nacho business.

[LaydeeBug]

38. They sleep in seperate states. Who are you kidding? nt