This is in a way sad and in a way extremely touching. Sad is obvious, but I find the "I'm not hanging out here without her" just heartbreakingly sweet. He's gonna die right after her funeral because, why shouldn't he?
My wife and I are coming up on thirty years and I genuinely don't remember life without her.
That actually is a real thing. Sometimes when one long term partner dies, the other quickly follows with no explainable cause. Like a man who gets yearly physicals and no history of heart problems dies of a sudden heart attack with in a month of his wife dying, that sort of thing.
Other attendees on Tuesday will include President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris... ....former first ladies Laura Bush, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump...
Odd to see this name show up. At least her husband won't be there to try to make it about himself.
I'm not surprised. She had grace. Rosalynn Carter was consulted about the invitation list for her funeral, and it was her decision to include Melania Trump.
Inviting all living FLOTUS to attend the funeral of a former First Lady is a long standing tradition. But, Melania better mind her manners, as there are at least two in that crowd that would have no problem straighten her out.
Campaigning. I'd imagine she cares less about awkwardness and more about wanting to be seen as one of them.
Besides, she's married to an 80 year old ape, and all the countless shit that definitely happening with him behind clothes doors. Her whole existence is awkward, she's used to it by now.
Every now and then I seem to develop some sort of sympathy for her. It's painfully obvious she's a trophy wife, and she didn't sign up for any of this political bullshit. It's equally obvious she's just in it for what she thought was the money. She signed up to sit around, fuck an old man for a few years until he died, and life a posh life sleeping with the bodyguard or doorman to keep herself entertained until he did.
His foray into politics, and I think, winning the Presidency is probably her worst case scenario. I take her "I don't really care..." sweater at face value -- she doesn't care. She didn't want it, she doesn't care about it, and she kind of just wants to go back to being a pretty face whose name you can't quite remember.
Then I remember she not only enabled her husband, but actively supported him during his Presidency. Fuck that bitch. She made her choice, even if it's for silly reasons.
I don't think Melania is a complete piece of shit. Shitty by osmosis to be sure, but not a naturally occurring quantum singularity of suck like the family she's surrounded by. The woman has had to do a long laundry list of unsavory shit to survive and come out as best as she could. I just can't fault her for that.