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OmegaX

(42 posts)
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 04:38 AM 14 hrs ago

Melania Reportedly Considering Moving Out ...

...After Report She & Trump Live ‘Separate’ Lives— ‘She’s Done’

What a shock...

https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/1234969205/trump-melania-live-together/

...“D.C. was always temporary in her mind,” the insider said. “Melania is a New York woman.” The source explained, while Melania will continue to travel regularly to Florida (where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort is based in Palm Beach), she’s planning to make New York City her home base.

Another reason Melania is considering moving back to New York City is her reported plan to launch a lifestyle and luxury brand called Melania, which will include premium fragrances, skincare, luxury home goods, fashion items, and more collectibles, according to Shuter’s source. “This is about turning Melania into a global luxury brand,” the insider said. “New York is where that happens—not Washington.”

The source continued, “She’s done being decorative. This is about control, creativity, and cash.”

Shuter’s post also comes after Michael Wolff told “The Daily Beast Podcast” in May 2025 that Melania and Trump “live separate lives.” A source also told People in January 2026 that the couple have very “little interaction” outside of their public appearances together. “There is little interaction between them, just what is expected,” the insider said. ”Then they go back to doing their own thing.”

The source also claimed that Melania and Trump have their own “quarters in the White House,” and that Melania “leads her own life and joins him when appropriate.” The insider also reported that Melania typically “keeps to herself” when the couple are in Palm Beach for work, though she does accompany her husband to dinner “on occasion.”

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Melania Reportedly Considering Moving Out ... (Original Post) OmegaX 14 hrs ago OP
May the Melania TRUMP luxury brand fail miserably n/t luv2fly 14 hrs ago #1
Bezos will secretly buy up the stock BlueWaveNeverEnd 13 hrs ago #8
Better hurry. Once Trump is out of office, no one will fund the grift Raven123 14 hrs ago #2
Fashion items? SheltieLover 14 hrs ago #3
Trump will be one of the richest men in the world when he leaves office. Irish_Dem 14 hrs ago #4
She is too lazy to put in the work needed to do this. Irish_Dem 14 hrs ago #5
Bezos will manage it for her. Lonestarblue 12 hrs ago #17
Yes he will keep the money flow going for Madam. Irish_Dem 11 hrs ago #23
Sounds like someone who is idlely rich is bored Tim S 14 hrs ago #6
Since others have... 2naSalit 14 hrs ago #7
1st term- when she was in Pootin's presence get the red out 11 hrs ago #34
Yeah sure... been hearing that for ten years. And somehow that power hungry MAGA monster sticks with him. Takket 13 hrs ago #9
LOL. Pretty obvious that Michael Wolff is the source for this... hlthe2b 13 hrs ago #10
When was she ever in DC to now "move out" DUMember24 12 hrs ago #11
Her son Delarage 12 hrs ago #13
Probably so she can flee the country easier Captain Zero 10 hrs ago #36
What a waste of potential to do something good Ilsa 12 hrs ago #12
Trouble in paradise? twodogsbarking 12 hrs ago #14
I think they should call her line of crap "Bribe" mdbl 12 hrs ago #15
How about Triple S? Slovenian Sex Worker. Botany 11 hrs ago #20
they haven't been together for years. Javaman 12 hrs ago #16
She's rather long in the tooth to sell "modeling"... 3catwoman3 12 hrs ago #18
Ha! Good luck with that. She is about to become a pariah. Joinfortmill 11 hrs ago #19
Nah lonely bird 11 hrs ago #22
She could come clean about what happened with Epstein AllyCat 11 hrs ago #21
Oh no! Who will oversee the next round of hideous White House Christmas decorations? tanyev 11 hrs ago #24
Sounds like she knows the time is coming soon newdeal2 11 hrs ago #25
"decorative"??? niyad 11 hrs ago #26
The smell was getting too much for her. Doodley 11 hrs ago #27
She's getting a little too old to pose in the nude again... CTyankee 11 hrs ago #28
I don't care, do u? sinkingfeeling 11 hrs ago #29
She's got $28M of Bezos money in her pocket now underpants 11 hrs ago #30
The skin care line will be called "Emoluments." Scrivener7 11 hrs ago #31
She's almost never there anyway Johnny2X2X 11 hrs ago #32
Wonder if she'll set up JustAnotherGen 11 hrs ago #33
The smell of rotten roast beef is too rich for her? C_U_L8R 10 hrs ago #35
Does it matter? OC375 10 hrs ago #37
One of my favorite Billy Joel songs DFW 10 hrs ago #38
Dem First Ladies are held to the highest standard NCDem47 10 hrs ago #39
Yeah, but she's white so it's okay MustLoveBeagles 9 hrs ago #41
Is she coming back for the, well, funeral? twodogsbarking 9 hrs ago #40
Party's over. Putin called. usonian 3 hrs ago #42
Get ready for the second Melania documentary, covering six days in Melania's life struggle4progress 3 hrs ago #43
She didn't live Greg_In_SF 3 hrs ago #44
Is she still keeping a lover in Manhattan? nt City Lights 3 hrs ago #45

Irish_Dem

(80,517 posts)
4. Trump will be one of the richest men in the world when he leaves office.
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 05:07 AM
14 hrs ago

Stealing US and world resources is a lucrative haul.

But this is not enough for madam Melania.

Irish_Dem

(80,517 posts)
5. She is too lazy to put in the work needed to do this.
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 05:09 AM
14 hrs ago

So she is perhaps just going to sell her name to someone else to create and run the company.
She hopes a rich investor buys it right away.

Or it is a way for Putin and US enemies to launder the cash they send her.

Tim S

(110 posts)
6. Sounds like someone who is idlely rich is bored
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 05:24 AM
14 hrs ago

And needs a new way to kill time while burning money

2naSalit

(101,410 posts)
7. Since others have...
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 05:33 AM
14 hrs ago

Taken on the role of handler for pootin, she can retire her role as 'the wife'.

I can hardly wait for her trials to begin. I hope I live to see that.

get the red out

(14,007 posts)
34. 1st term- when she was in Pootin's presence
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 08:32 AM
11 hrs ago

I remember seeing her and Trump officially greeting/being greeted by Pootin (I can't recall if it was here or in Moscow) and my first thought was "that woman is scared to death". I figured she was worried that she would get a bad "performance evaluation", which would be far more serious than with most supervisors.

Takket

(23,583 posts)
9. Yeah sure... been hearing that for ten years. And somehow that power hungry MAGA monster sticks with him.
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 06:12 AM
13 hrs ago

hlthe2b

(113,375 posts)
10. LOL. Pretty obvious that Michael Wolff is the source for this...
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 06:32 AM
13 hrs ago

That said, I don't care, do you?

DUMember24

(101 posts)
11. When was she ever in DC to now "move out"
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 06:38 AM
12 hrs ago

Thought NY is where she reportedly was all the time...to be near her son while in school. She never made a point to pretend she was in DC. Not sure why this is new info for "the source" to be reporting on unless they're implying a legal separation or divorce - which would be old speculation.

Delarage

(2,557 posts)
13. Her son
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 07:08 AM
12 hrs ago

Is going to school in NY to be near her (or the MONEY), I'm sure. If he chose to go to school in Idaho, I doubt she'd be so doting as to move there to be with him.

Unless she's still rubbing his body down with fish oil crap after his baths---like she did when he was 7+ years old. They're a strange family.....

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/1131129/melania-trump-news-donald-trump-japan-first-lady-twitter-pictures-barron-spt

Captain Zero

(8,826 posts)
36. Probably so she can flee the country easier
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 08:43 AM
10 hrs ago

As more and more Epstein perfidy emerges, and that could lead to her being more connected to it all.

Ilsa

(64,105 posts)
12. What a waste of potential to do something good
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 07:04 AM
12 hrs ago

in the world. She, Baron, the other Trump lugnuts are a waste of carbon, pushing more consumerism, more fancy junk.

mdbl

(8,374 posts)
15. I think they should call her line of crap "Bribe"
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 07:23 AM
12 hrs ago

That's how she got the money to start it all.

Botany

(76,854 posts)
20. How about Triple S? Slovenian Sex Worker.
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 07:35 AM
11 hrs ago

Nobody is gonna buy that crap except members of the International Crime Ring that Trump is
part of or the fossil fuel industries.

3catwoman3

(29,051 posts)
18. She's rather long in the tooth to sell "modeling"...
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 07:30 AM
12 hrs ago

…(aka soft porn) photos anymore, so gotta make a buck somehow.

“Luxury brand” my ass. Based on her taste, whatever she hawks will be expensive but ugly and tacky. Luxury price tags only.

lonely bird

(2,851 posts)
22. Nah
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 07:38 AM
11 hrs ago

I wish but it won’t happen. There are enough wealthy and morally vacant people out there who like being celebrity adjacent that she will have a relatively soft landing at least for a while.

The sickness of celebrity worship in this country is amazing.

tanyev

(48,953 posts)
24. Oh no! Who will oversee the next round of hideous White House Christmas decorations?
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 07:57 AM
11 hrs ago

😮

newdeal2

(5,120 posts)
25. Sounds like she knows the time is coming soon
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 07:58 AM
11 hrs ago

She better set herself up now because she’s not getting anything more than what’s in the prenup and he will probably try to screw her out of that too

CTyankee

(67,979 posts)
28. She's getting a little too old to pose in the nude again...
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 08:05 AM
11 hrs ago

I'd post the photos but I don't think I should...

Johnny2X2X

(23,908 posts)
32. She's almost never there anyway
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 08:23 AM
11 hrs ago

Moving out means something different to these global elites who own property all over the world.

OC375

(597 posts)
37. Does it matter?
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 08:46 AM
10 hrs ago

People in that space travel the planet at will, and can buy/rent one of thousands of vacant luxury properties anywhere, anytime. “Moving” is a highly subjective term in this instance. Perhaps “distancing” would be more appropriate?

NCDem47

(3,379 posts)
39. Dem First Ladies are held to the highest standard
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 09:05 AM
10 hrs ago

My GOD how we heard about the daily inner workings of the Clintons, Obamas and Bidens.

Here with the Trumps? Zero. Zilch. Nada. "Nothing to see here! All-American couple!"

And while we're on Melania...who long has she been in the U.S? 30 years? Right Wing bitches and moans about immigrants and foreigners and Melania sounds like she can barely form basic English sentences.

usonian

(24,327 posts)
42. Party's over. Putin called.
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 03:48 PM
3 hrs ago

Preparations are being made.
For the last ride.




To the landfill.

struggle4progress

(125,810 posts)
43. Get ready for the second Melania documentary, covering six days in Melania's life
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 03:53 PM
3 hrs ago

as she decides what her second documentary will cover!

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