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OmegaX

(42 posts)
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 04:38 AM Yesterday

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

Irish_Dem

(80,526 posts)
4. Trump will be one of the richest men in the world when he leaves office.
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 05:07 AM
Yesterday

Stealing US and world resources is a lucrative haul.

But this is not enough for madam Melania.

Irish_Dem

(80,526 posts)
5. She is too lazy to put in the work needed to do this.
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 05:09 AM
Yesterday

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

(112 posts)
6. Sounds like someone who is idlely rich is bored
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 05:24 AM
Yesterday

And needs a new way to kill time while burning money

2naSalit

(101,428 posts)
7. Since others have...
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 05:33 AM
Yesterday

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
Yesterday

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
Yesterday

hlthe2b

(113,384 posts)
10. LOL. Pretty obvious that Michael Wolff is the source for this...
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 06:32 AM
Yesterday

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
Yesterday

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
Yesterday

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

(8,829 posts)
36. Probably so she can flee the country easier
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 08:43 AM
Yesterday

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

Ilsa

(64,109 posts)
12. What a waste of potential to do something good
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 07:04 AM
Yesterday

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

mdbl

(8,391 posts)
15. I think they should call her line of crap "Bribe"
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 07:23 AM
Yesterday

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

Botany

(76,857 posts)
20. How about Triple S? Slovenian Sex Worker.
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 07:35 AM
Yesterday

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

3catwoman3

(29,054 posts)
18. She's rather long in the tooth to sell "modeling"...
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 07:30 AM
Yesterday

…(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
Yesterday

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

(48,955 posts)
24. Oh no! Who will oversee the next round of hideous White House Christmas decorations?
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 07:57 AM
Yesterday

😮

newdeal2

(5,125 posts)
25. Sounds like she knows the time is coming soon
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 07:58 AM
Yesterday

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

(67,984 posts)
28. She's getting a little too old to pose in the nude again...
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 08:05 AM
Yesterday

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

Johnny2X2X

(23,911 posts)
32. She's almost never there anyway
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 08:23 AM
Yesterday

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

OC375

(599 posts)
37. Does it matter?
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 08:46 AM
Yesterday

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
Yesterday

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

(24,340 posts)
42. Party's over. Putin called.
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 03:48 PM
19 hrs ago

Preparations are being made.
For the last ride.




To the landfill.

struggle4progress

(125,815 posts)
43. Get ready for the second Melania documentary, covering six days in Melania's life
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 03:53 PM
19 hrs ago

as she decides what her second documentary will cover!

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