Why is Ivanka Trump replacing Melania Trump as First Lady?

I think some of the public displays I have seen between Trump and Ivanka make my skin crawl.

My father NEVER touched me like this after an age I can even remember. Trump has repeatedly talked about “how hot she is and how if she wasn't my daughter I would —— her”. Howard Stern show quote. WHAT father thinks or even speaks that way about their daughter? The really sick thing is that she looks like her mother did when they first met. Ivana was an Olympic skier and an attractive woman when they first met. I think part of this obsession is almost like a lost youth thing.

Either way, I don't think she has any qualifications that recommend her for a job in the White House. When he ran, he said she was going to take over the family businesses. What happened to that? All I see is everyone of his kids and son-in-law in the White House. Except for Ivanka’s step sister whom he barely acknowledges.

Melania, plain and simple doesn't want to leave her gilded palace and social life in NYC. Kids change schools all the time, that issue of Barron switching schools is as bogus as seeing Trump’s tax returns. You watch, this fall will roll around and we will still be picking up the tab for the Secret Service to continue living at the President’s hotel on our tab. I still don't see how that is legal.

No, the Trumps have beaten even the number of Kennedys occupying government positions. This whole circus at our expense drives me over the edge.

On this topic you may enjoy this response re stats of costs re Melania in NYC…

“What is so Wrong with the First Lady putting her son First instead of the American People.”

Nicola P

My opinion is that Melania does not have the psychological toughness to step up to the role. She is trying to protect herself and her child from the fallout that comes with the office. I feel desperately sorry for her. Photos appear to indicate that he has no interest in her and no real respect for her. She is left trailing along behind him always on edge and trying to check to see if she is doing the right thing.

She is scared of him and she locks herself away in the Trump Tower because she doesnt feel safe out in the world now.

Imagine her life before all this. She is married to an alleged workaholic chauvinist who ditches wives as soon as they displease him. She has invested everything (rightly or wrongly) into being Mrs Trump but she gets by because he’s rarely home and she only needs to keep up the charade for a few hours a day. She treasures every minute with her child because it is one of the only real relationships she has. She cant really be at Trump’s beck and call, if she has any other real relationships because as narcissistic and bullying as he appears, he wont allow anything to interfere with him coming first.

During the day she is out and about some of the time with the odd charity and business interest. Then he decides to run for office. Her heart sinks, he never asks her if she wants it and quite possibly she is too scared to tell him, No, I cant do it. Unexpectedly he wins the election and she finally lets him know that she just cant do it or he makes an assumption that she cant. They come up with the Barron story to give Ivanka time to get her feet under the desk and be accepted. Meanwhile people are supposed to forget about Melania.

Melania becomes even more isolated. She has no local family support and was brought up in a different culture, people in the MSM and on social media, have treated her viciously and she retreats further and further. Her glamour first lady photo says it all. She is going to look like the perfect beauty as it is the only thing she knows well enough that she can do to support him. Melania the perfect mannequin. Michelle O was always going to be a hard act to follow and Melania would never have willingly volunteered for the comparison.

I think she is a gentle soul who has been cast as arm candy and pushed to the bottom of the heap for the last?15?? years. She no longer has any sense of identity outside of that and being Barron’s mother. She is scared of losing her child as there is such a huge power imbalance so she keeps hanging on by her fingernails, putting one foot in front of the other trying to act beautiful and happy.

Many of you will say she is just in it for the money and that she should grow a pair if it is really that bad but the truth is that many women are scared to make a move from a life they hate and this is exponentially harder when your husband is controlling and you have a youngish child. Also as parent to an Aspie kid (Barron is rumoured to be one??) I know how much they rely on stability and routines and how ‘home’ is all important to them. So in that respect, there is truth in them genuinely not wanting to move Barron. But really look at her in photos and videos and you will see the truth written plain.

If I could, I would wrap my arms around Melania and take her home with me.

Jacquie Smolak Stephens

FLOTUS is an honorary office. You can get through a presidency without one. All of the Trumps are hoping to profit from the presidency. They are interchangeable. If Melania doesn’t have the wherewithal to be FLOTUS and Ivanka does, so. what. If Eric or Donny Jr. looked good in a dress and “appropriate lady clothes” I wouldn’t care if they helped out (that part is mostly sarcastic).

With all of the Executive Orders, events, issues, protests, “fake news”, “alternative facts” and everything else going on in the Trump Administration, which woman in his family is by his side when he greets official visitors matters not at all to me.

The official reason given is that Melania is a stay at home mom whose responsibility is Barron. Of course, that seems a little odd given that Ivanka has three very young children for whom she is responsible, but whatever. Its not like we’re going to get the truth from the Trumps.

Angela Stockton

works at Law Firms

She isn’t; Ivanka is simply an unpaid adviser to her father although, based on results to date, her advice must be atrocious.

When a president is married, almost always his wife serves as First Lady. Unmarried presidents have had relatives (sisters, daughters, nieces) serve in that capacity.

I wonder, though, if you are confusing Ivanka (Trump’s older daughter) with Ivana, who is Ivanka’s mother and the first of Trump’s three wives. Ivana recently said that she, not Melania, is Trump’s First Lady.

This is nonsense, which Ivana said only because she’s just written and published a memoir which she needs to sell. Frankly, I doubt that there’s anything in it worth reading. Trump has paid both his ex-wives what appears to be generous alimony and child support, and I’d bet the rent that as part of their divorce settlements, they both had to sign confidentiality agreements.