Melania/Melanie is not missing or hiding in NYC...

[BigmanPigman]

CNN just reported that she is still recovering from kidney surgery and that is why no one has seen her since released from the hospital last week. Nothing nefarious or mysterious as many were suggesting.

[tonedevil]

1. Still plenty mysterious...

will have to wait to see how nefarious.

[hlthe2b]

2. I hope that is the case for her sake. OTOH, when did anything the WH reported end up being true?

i.e., And we believe this, why? Shit, they lie about the weather. They lie when it is less damaging or even more convenient to tell the truth. Shit, they lie just because...

I hope that is the case for her sake, though.

[sarcasmo]

3. Almost 3 weeks recovering from Kidney surgery, Ha...

[Scurrilous]

4. I'm totally convinced this is true.

[Hortensis]

5. Oh, my. I hadn't been noticing. Wonkette:

OK But Seriously, WHERE THE FUCK IS MELANIA?

Saturday night, we were walking down 7th Avenue in Chelsea with a friend and, encountering a MASSIVE situation where a cross street was being dug up in the middle of the night, we and our friend almost simultaneously made the hilarious joke that Trump sure was going to great lengths (allegedly!) to hide the body of his wife Melania, assuming the reason we haven’t seen her in over three weeks is that the president of the United States mighta coulda had his beloved bride offed. (HAHA! JOKE! Not to be taken literally like well-known newspaper The Onion, Michael Cohen! The first lady has not been murdered! WE THINK!)

Seriously though, where the fuck is Melania? “She’s doing great. She’s looking at us right there!” The reporters turned to look where the president was pointing, but there was no Melania. Perhaps she is currently invisible. Perhaps she is a shape-shifter. Perhaps Melania is one of those things that really feels like it exists, if you believe in Melania with all your heart. Perhaps she is like Christ in that regard.

Or perhaps the entire White House is lying right now, saying Melania (or “Melanie” as the president likes to call her) went into the “hospital” for a “kidney procedure” and proceeded to stay there for “five days,” which is weird because said “kidney procedure” is usually an over-nighter at the most, and now she’s on week three of her recovery at home. Maybe the truth is that she went in for the kidney procedure, then found the nearest sexxxy man nurse and said, “Gabriel! Please to give me piggyback ride back to New York City so I never have to see my husband President Shitwad ever again! It will be WEEKS before he even notices I am not there!” ...

Read more at https://wonkette.com/634516/ok-but-seriously-where-the-fuck-is-melania#2omGMAffSsOwG1Hr.99

[BigmanPigman]

14. I love Wonkette!

[Hortensis]

17. Makes me smile also. Hope her "I'm not Louise Mensching"

speculation turns out to be right. If Melania's ill I'll have to feel sorry for her, and I'd much rather she was just dumping that unhappy face along with whatshisname. Amazingly, a divorce during this presidency would just be a variation, one blip among many in a long stream of scandals.

Just kidding, Melania is #complicit, but we’ll at least drink shots of the finest Fireball in celebration if she suddenly decides to lose several hundred pounds of dead weight, all of which is named “Donald.”

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. She hasn't been seen for 2 weeks after a procedure that is normally performed

on an outpatient basis, where you rest for a couple of hours and then go home. "Still recovering from kidney surgery" my ass.

[Shrike47]

7. I assume she's still recovering. Surgery hits some people harder. Let's be nice.

If something else is going on, we’ll hear about it soon enough.

[gratuitous]

10. Indeed

I think we all remember the courteous and measured commentary from our conservative friends when they thought Hillary Clinton was suffering from something besides overwork and dehydration. The restraint they showed was a lesson to us all.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

8. I bet she's in Mueller's witness protection program.

And that she requested to be put there.

BTW, who's looking after Baron? Certainly not his father.

[maxsolomon]

9. This "Kidney Surgery" recovery looks exactly like recovery from PLASTIC Surgery.

A long hospital stay away from prying eyes, then a long period out of public view. There's any number of procedures she could have had, just as maintenance - switching out her breast implants, more botox, nips, tucks, lifts...

And don't try and tell me she hasn't had Plastic Surgery. Just look up before and afters on Bing, or Alta Vista, or Yahoo! She was quite a handsome woman pre-surgery.

[unitedwethrive]

11. Because we can totally trust every statement that comes out of the White House.

[red dog 1]

12. According to WaPo, she stayed five nights in the hospital

From May 25, 2018 WaPo article titled:
"Trump says the first lady is 'doing great.' She hasn't been seen in public for two weeks"

This week her office did not say when she planned to resume public events but said she had been holding meetings with her staff.
"We've had several internal staff meetings in the past week involving a variety of topics, including her initiatives," Stephanie Grisham, the first lady's spokeswoman said in an email.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. Surgeries take longer to heal when they're done on injuries.

[sweetroxie]

15. Even kidney transplant patients recover faster than this!

nt

[spanone]

16. without the courtesy of an update, people fill in the blanks