He enjoys the cheers of large crowds, she prefers to meet with just a few people. He insults his opponents on Truthsocial and X, she calls cyberbullying an evil. If he had his way, only hand-picked immigrants would be allowed into the USA. She is from Slovenia and came to America to promote Camel cigarettes. The two are rarely seen together in public.
Donald and Melania have been a couple for almost 20 years
Despite this, or perhaps precisely because of these differences, Donald and Melania Trump have been married for almost 20 years. This is his third marriage and the longest to date. He was with his first wife Ivana for 13 years. After the separation, it was said in the New York tabloid media, with whom the then real estate mogul had a symbiotic relationship, that they were too similar. Later it became clear: she was better. She was the actual head of the successful company that bore his name. Ivana was more Trump than Donald himself.
The spoiled kid from a rich family didn’t particularly like this kind of competition. After his divorce, he resumed his old life as a playboy, collecting beauties as well as other art – and trying to market his name as best as possible. It wasn’t just skyscrapers that bore the word “Trump,” but also hotels, golf courses and casinos, and later steaks, vodka bottles and a university. However, the vast majority of excursions into business worlds without concrete failed.
How is Donald Trump’s haircut going?
Despite mixed balance sheets, various bankruptcies and countless lawsuits from business partners, he saved his image as a successful businessman on television and became a super celebrity with the manager reality show “The Apprentice”. In the mid-2000s, everyone knew Donald Trump, and everyone wondered how the man got that hairstyle and what his little hands would turn to gold next.
At that time, “The Donald,” as he called himself, was at the height of a glittering show existence that had to do nothing but be. “When you’re a star, they let you do anything. You can do anything, you can grab their pussy,” he once said backstage. The slogan “Grab’em by the pussy” could have cost him the presidency years later. But he didn’t. Because it was precisely this undisguised honesty that many Americans valued so much about him.
The man who can’t lose
Diplomatic restraint, friendly gestures and polite accommodation are not his thing. When Donald Trump was elected the 45th US President in 2016, no doubt to his own surprise, he fulfilled his office with exactly the bulldozing attitude that he had already displayed during the election campaign. It is only thanks to a few capable employees that his presidency did not completely collapse into the confused chaos with which he irritated the world public for years.
There was no re-election. Ironically, he received twelve million more votes in 2020 than four years before. But also seven million less than the winner Joe Biden. For Donald Trump, the man who cannot lose, this can only mean: the election was stolen from him. He has been spreading the false claim for years now – and is now entering his third US presidential election campaign.
