Talking About Politics: Do you think Melania Trump is a victim of Trump's wrath?

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Melania Trump on the cover of Vanity Fair Mexico. Photograph © 2017 Douglas Freeman. 
Do you think Melania Trump is a victim of Trump's wrath?
Nope.
I’m not a fan of either President Trump or First Lady Melania Trump, but I don’t think they have such a toxic relationship that Donald would take out his anger on his third wife.
Is Melania happy with Donald Trump, especially now that he is President? I’m not sure; I don’t follow Melania’s doings or sayings except when she makes either a social faux pas (such as embracing cyberbullying as her “Kids, Don’t Do This” pet cause and giving it a silly slogan - Be Best - while being the spouse of a President who has weaponized Twitter) or a sartorial one, like when she wore a safari outfit, complete with that infamous symbol of European colonialism, a pith helmet, on a goodwill tour of Africa.
Call me "Bwana"? Photo credit: © 2018 Doug Mills/New York Times
If Melania is unhappy with the fact that Trump had sex with Stormy Daniels at around the same time she gave birth to Barron Trump, she’s not saying. It’s possible that she probably wasn’t thrilled about it, or that the President paid hush money to Ms. Daniels to, literally, stay silent about the then-candidate’s long-ago tryst before the November 2016 Presidential election. But it’s even more likely that such unhappiness was eclipsed by the specter of suddenly joining the Donald Trump Ex-Wives’ Club, which currently includes Ivana Trump and Marla Maples. That pre-nuptial agreement and possible non-disclosure agreement probably do dances around Melania’s head every time she even thinks about getting mad about anything “The Donald” does.
Do the Trumps argue behind closed doors in the residential part of the White House? I’m pretty sure they do, but it’s probably about stuff that is not our concern. Heck, even the Stormy Daniels tryst thing was not our affair - pardon the pun - until Trump told his lawyer to pay off the porn star before the evangelicals found out about it prior to Election Day.
Is Melania a victim here? I don’t know. I don’t think so. She chose to marry the guy knowing his personal history of habitual womanizing.
But if she were the victim of Trump’s wrath, my answer would be an allusion to the slogan on a jacket she once wore when the news broke that the Trump Administration was separating children from their undocumented parents:
I don’t care. Do you?

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