Melania Trump has a memoir coming out - and she's acting pretty strangely

[erronis]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/17/melania-trump-memoir-coming-out-acting-pretty-strangely
Arwa Mahdawi

There’s something weird going on with Melania Trump. I know that’s an evergreen statement – but bear with me, OK, because we’ve got a bit of a mystery on our hands. The former first lady, you see, has a memoir coming out on 8 October. There’s nothing particularly surprising about this: every grifter who spent five minutes in the Trump White House seems to have written a tell-all book. It was inevitable she would put pen to paper at some point. After all, if there’s a dollar to be squeezed from something – be that Mother’s Day jewellery, Bibles, steaks or cryptocurrency – you can be sure to find a Trump with their hands out.

What is surprising is how little fanfare there has been around this new book – which is simply titled Melania. Indeed, unless you keep a close eye on the Trumps, you may have missed news of the forthcoming memoir altogether. We’re only a few weeks away from the release date and there hasn’t been a big press tour. This seems bizarre. Presuming Melania wants to sell as many books as possible, you’d have thought she would have spent the last few months doing nonstop PR to drum up preorders. Then again, she may assume there is no need for marketing if the Republican National Committee does what it did with Donald Trump Jr’s “bestselling” book in 2019 and just bulk buys copies.

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The ever hopeful mischief-making part of my mind would like to think that Melania’s memoir contains some exciting truths we haven’t heard before. Some insights into where the proverbial bodies are buried – and why Ivana Trump’s actual body is interred on the former president’s golf course. Perhaps Melania, who is rumoured to hate politics and her husband, has played the long game and her memoir contains an October surprise that will sink Trump’s election chances?

You don’t need to tell me this is all wishful thinking. Rather than any bombshells, one imagines the book contains glossy photos of ugly and incredibly expensive knick-knacks interspersed with self-aggrandising drivel about her charity initiatives. The truth about Trump is out there but it’s not going to be in Melania’s memoir.

Look for it in the remainders tables.

[marble falls]

1. I can't wait. I've heard it is the exact thickness I need to level my "coffee" table. The beer keeps sliding off.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. We'll see it in the Clearance racks pretty soon

Just like Sarah Palin’s book.

[FreeForm73]

11. Ollie's Bargain Outlet is loaded with crap like that n/t

[Autumn]

3. Did her husband write it for her? Cause she sure as fuck didn't wire it herself, unless it just

the words "Be Best" typed over and over.

[erronis]

4. If he did the CAPS LOCK key is hardwired.

[GopherGal]

7. Like TSF can write.

I hear she had a team of interns working on it...correcting the character-recognition scans of Michelle Obama's "Becoming". (And maybe un-correcting the grammar so that it reads like Melania wrote it.)

[allegorical oracle]

20. But-but TSF said she's fluent in how many languages? (Can't recall

if he mentioned English.) But he said she's the smartest first lady ever. So it must be true.

[PufPuf23]

23. Not to complement Melania but likely she has some conversational ability

in English, French, Slovenian, Serbo-Croation and maybe Italian; doubt if Russian.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

27. Yeah, but only if you count...

that saying, “Blow job is $100” in those languages counts as being fluent. *smirk*

[UTUSN]

5. Or ... not look for it at aĺl

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. A book I am NOT interested in reading...

About how a tall nude Eastern European model with an Einstein VISA came to America to find rich husband who cheated on her with Playboy bunny and adult film actress. End of story. There are plenty of photographs on the internet to prove her history.

Grifters have to GRIFT I reckon.

[haele]

14. Unless she spills the grift...

Maybe amongst her claims of hardship and victim hood she spills the foreign agents who talked to him and what they discussed, expose his Mafia ties and his Chinese, Russian, and Saudi handlers, identified where his money was coming from, and what he was being blackmailed with vis a vis Epstein and Maxwell...
What he really thinks about "Christians".
His physical and mental decline.
Stuff like that.
If it's normal Courtesan of the Rich and Famous BS, who cares? But if she wants to get out with a bang, there's definitely some criminal info she can dish.

Haele

[Trueblue1968]

21. Truth please ..... Was she a hooker ?????

[Prairie Gates]

8. I'm really trying to imagine an audience for this other than the RNC and other bulk purchasers

She is a woman of almost no accomplishment or public interest. She has done nothing of note, period. Her only significant public speech - the 2016 RNC speech - was shockingly and appalingly cribbed from her predecessor who actually has lived a life of note and accomplishment. Seriously, who would read this and why?

(I should say that I am not a fan of biographies in general and haven't read any of the big political bios, but I still find this one just puzzling).

[LizBeth]

9. She is one of them and has been every step of the way.

[Freethinker65]

10. Any ghostwritten text or just photos? Perhaps she still has aspirations to be a (post menopausal) supermodel?

[newdeal2]

12. One book ban I'd be in favor of

[BoRaGard]

13. Maybe The Loomster (R) is just farting around with The Felon to boost sales?

Could be. G.O.P. brains work that way, as we have seen.

[republianmushroom]

15. She may have enough material for a sequel soon.

Donnie, Donnie, why, oh wait, I think this has played out before. Yup, it has, more than once.

[mikelewis]

16. The only flaw I see in that hope...

It's that horrible shit doesn't seem to sink his chances. I can't imagine anything she says that would remotely hurt his chances.

Unless she has actual photos of Trump blowing Putin while wearing a Nancy Pelosi pantsuit... I just can't see anything she says as mattering much. Even the pantsuit thing wouldn't sink him cause he'd just start picking on how Vance fucked a couch.

[mzmolly]

17. Snippets of the propaganda

have been released already. Melania laments her privacy has been invaded by the FBI 'raid' on the shitter at Ma-a-Lago. She's complaining about the cost of groceries and so no.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13850661/melania-trump-video-promotes-new-book-warning.html

It's just more bullshit from the tRump grifting machine.

[hatrack]

18. Nothing surprising - everyone is sick of Trumps, whether by marriage or birth . . . .

And no one wants to buy a book about one of the phoniest of the whole crew.

[betsuni]

19. The bulk-buy. A shame it can't be a tell-all, but way too risky -- the Russia connection.

Not worth anyone dying for, and she never put much effort into pretending to be someone she wasn't.

[Attilatheblond]

22. Knowing how fat cat GOP backers tend to buy buckets of books by their stooges so they make best seller lists & $$...

One assumes this is either how they are paying her off for keeping her mouth shut, or.... it's how Putin launders the payment for services rendered by the 'actress'. If there's not a lot of fanfare and book tour activity, she probably knows the check is in the mail already.

Look for it being used as a 'gift' for something or other. Isn't that what the rich backers do with the cases of awful books they buy to support their puppets with a bent to write?

[ecstatic]

24. In this case, I think the mystery is easily solved

First, nobody wants to hear from her. She would have to beg news organizations to interview her and it's possible that they're saying no.

Also, if she did do an interview, there's a chance that she would be asked about her text messages on January 6th, when she refused to say least try to stop her husband from inciting violence at the Capitol.

OF COURSE, GOP donor money will be used to purchase the books.

[Jack Valentino]

25. Possibly she needs the money from it less than everybody else hawking a book---

and she seems to prefer remaining out of the public eye at this time.

[Klarkashton]

26. Shelved next to the D'Souza books at the Goodwill.

Or off to the pulper.

[magicarpet]

28. People are saying,...

... keep Melania's new book by the toilet. If you ever run out of toilet paper,... having that book close by would sure come in handy.

[Ilsa]

29. Hey, doubters, this book will sell IF

she includes her nudie pics, the jet pic, etc. It'll be a classic!

[lindysalsagal]

30. If tscf thinks he can president, she gets to believe she can author.

I wouldn't mind a ghost-written book about an interesting person.

Where she shops and who's lame parties she attends don't interest me .

[keithbvadu2]

31. The Onion has their own take on her memoir and it is just as serious as it deserves.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219473953

[eppur_se_muova]

32. Wait 'til it's priced by the cord, then stock up for those cold winter days.

Though you may need to clean your chimney more than usual.

[duncang]

33. I remember something about tfg jr's book release

It was bought up with gop donor’s money. Will there be a repeat?

[BigDemVoter]

34. I find her almost as vile as her disgusting, piggish husband.