Melania

I actually ordered a used copy of this book because I had this crazy idea that I should read it. 🤔 I have never actually had any interest in Melania Trump.  Maybe it will be interesting.  Maybe I can pull myself away from searching for any news that her husband’s time in the White House might come to an end by distracting myself with her book.  If I actually like the book it will be quite a surprise.  If I actually read a book about Melania Trump it will be quite a surprise. 😵‍💫 

I started reading the book with the idea that I will find it interesting.  

Chapter 1 Melania arrives in America for the first time on August 27, 1996.  Little did she know that her future husband would wreck great havoc and threaten the foundation and continuation of America, the land of opportunity where she had arrived and would become a citizen a decade later. 

Donald Trump is less than one year younger than Melania’s mother.  He is older than both of my parents and is a few months older than my father Donald who was born in November 1946.  I myself am three years older than Melania.  She is three weeks younger than my younger brother.  Her’s and Donald’s relationship is really none of my business.  I just have this thing about facts and dates, so of course I would take note of the fact that she is younger than me and her husband is older than my father.

 I have something in common with Melania.  She writes:

“As a child I cherished solitude and found solace in the company of my family or in my own thoughts. I often found myself navigating the world on my own terms.

I learned that regardless of the circumstances or the company I found myself in, the most crucial relationship I could cultivate was the one I had with myself.”

And this is where the similarities end! 

Oops.  I peaked ahead a little bit.  What I read was disappointing.  I was impressed with Melania in the beginning chapters.  She seemed to be very smart, ambitious, hard-working, and a good person.  Based on the parts that I read while peeking ahead though, she appears to be either stupid, brainwashed, in denial or lying about what she actually believes, understands and feels about her husband.  Maybe a combination of these things are true.  It is just really hard to fathom.  As a very smart lady, how could she possibly not comprehend that her husband has serious psychological issues and that he is guilty of all sorts of corruption and immoral behavior and that he suffers from narcissism and detachment from reality.  At the same time, I suppose it would be stupid for a reader, such as myself, to think that she would be honest and open about these things in a book that she wrote and published while her husband is still living, and she is still married to him.  I will read the whole book though.  I am about to start the chapter where she meets Donald. 

I had more thoughts about Melania in my above rabbit hole post. 

Yikes!  Reading Melania’s book may make me interested in learning more about Donald Trump and his younger years.  What happened to him?  Melania initially saw a warm and friendly and charming man.  Was he a sociopath playing the part or is there some good in him that Melania brings out?  Good grief I really didn’t want to contemplate and wonder about Donald Trump. 🥴

Little Slovenian birthday girl, you have no idea who you will grow up to marry, or who you will become in the United States of America.