I would imagine Trump insists the whole family publicly back him. He probably thinks his wife will appeal to women voters more than he does.

I think she is lovely in every way TBH.
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I think Melania is lovely in every way & an asset to the USA.
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Sorry Apricot, but I look past all that and do not see what her lovliness has to do with politics? The whole thing is staged and acted, and yes, it helps Trumps cause to have a good looking woman by his side.
I doubt he would have married an ugly woman as she wouldn't further his career enough.

I bet he's hell to live with. I bet everyone in his house has to do exactly what they are told. He's a control freak.

I guess he needs all hands on deck given the mess he is in.

I guess he needs all hands on deck given the mess he is in.

President Donald Trump inherited the world's best economy in 2017 and helped make it one of the worst. The coronavirus pandemic would have made Americans miserable under any president, but it was Trump’s defiance of science, his muddled messaging and his incessant vitriol that has plunged the country into a swamp of joblessness, receding labor participation and slumping business confidence unseen in other developed nations. Trump's four years in office already measure up as the biggest economic disaster for any U.S. president in modern times, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Trump's disdain for antibody tests, contact tracing, social distancing and masks, among other prerequisites for containing the coronavirus, enabled the U.S. to lead the world in confirmed cases and deaths (though not in deaths per capita). Instead of peaking in late April with more than 30,000 daily new U.S. Covid-19 infections, the virus is resurgent in July — a stark contrast to such densely populated regions as Hong Kong, where Covid-19 retreated to insignificance within a month of its March high.

The 14.7% April unemployment rate was the highest since 1948, when Harry Truman was president, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Trump cheered when the Labor Department reported a decline to 11.1% for June. He didn't mention that U.S. joblessness had continued to dwarf the 3.9% rate in the U.K., which lowered its daily infections in two months after experiencing the most Covid-19 deaths in Europe.

..... and what a mess:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/ar...is-such-a-mess





Tonight, of course, Trump will:

a) provide his own (addled and deluded) interpretation of the State of the Union

or

b) blame any or all "impediments" to his reign on the Democrats or Socialists or both

or

c) go off on a complete ranting tangent

or

d) all, or a combination of, the above