Rant #1,618: Mrs. Trump

As we move closer to the date when we are going to have to choose who the next president of the United States is, it is becoming clearer and clearer that Donald Trump's candidacy is far from a joke, and he might just have what it takes to at least be the Republican nominee, if not the actual president of our country.

He is a real estate mogul, a reality TV star, something of a creation of the time that he lives in.

He is P.T. Barnum and Robert Moses all rolled into one person, and you either love this guy or hate this guy; there seems to be no in between with Trump.

But he is hitting a nerve with a lot of people in this country, those who feel that they have become disenfranchised over the past eight years with Barack Obama at the helm.

You know what they say: behind every successful man is a successful woman, and it really is, for all intents and purposes, a true statement.

Who is Trump's wife, anyway?

He has been married several times--which, take it from somebody who has been there, done that, is not a terrible thing and should not be a mark against him--and currently, he is married to Melina, a Yugoslavian (now Slovenia) beauty who came to this country, made her mark mainly as a model, and who became an American citizen several years ago.

No, this is not Michelle Obama, or the wives of the Bushes, Jimmy Carter, even Ronald Reagan, and it certainly isn't Mr. Clinton's wife--this is another person who you can say is a creation of the times, a woman who came from little who might just become the First Lady of the United States.

If that happens, she will be only the second woman who has held that position who has been born out of the country, believe it or not.

I did some research on this, and I hope I got the Adams right, but John Adams' wife was not born here. Believe it or not, George Washington's wife was born here, in the Virginia colony years before we became a country. The other early first ladies all were born here, so if Trump is elected, his wife will just be the second foreign born first lady of our country's 240 years.

That, in itself, is an accomplishment, but wait for the firestorm of photos of her to emerge if, in fact, this happens ... or even if Trump is simply the Republican nominee for president.

Just look around the Internet, and there is plenty of food for fodder.

As a model, Melania posed in every conceivable type of photo, and some are saying that whatever the case, if her husband makes it all the way, she will be the "hottest" first lady ever, and those "pundits" may be right on the money.

She has posed in regular attire, in bikinis, in underwear, and I am sure she has posed in other things, or not other things if you get what I mean, and they are all available for your perusal on the Internet.

I have put up a couple of pictures here to show you the depth and breadth of what is available, but you can just bet that some photographer out there will probably have photos of her that he is just chomping at the bit to release to the world, perhaps showing her in more compromising situations.

Look, if Vanessa Williams can do it, can leap over this potential firestorm, then Melania can too.

If you remember the Williams thing, she had posed nude so she could eat years before she won the Miss America title, and then when the photos surfaced, she was forced to give up her crown.

All it did was make her more popular than any other Miss America winner, along with Bess Myerson, who stood out also for a reason that really should not have mattered as the first Jewish Miss America, and the rest is history.

But you have to bet that some photographer has itchy fingers now, and he or she is just waiting for the right moment to release these photos.

I can almost feel sorry for Mrs. Trump if and when this happens.

She will be open to ridicule, and yes, you have to say that if you pose in certain ways, it will be on your head forever that you did this.

That being said, I, for one, won't hold it against her. She was a model, and a model models. It is not like she was in some porn movie or something like that.

Will the liberated women of America feel the same way, or will they use this against her as a defense mechanism against her husband?

Who knows, but it should be interesting, even if all she did was pose in a bikini.

What other first lady has shown herself in a bikini, even if it was before their time as first lady?

I can't think of one, but in the Internet age, don't you think this situation was was somewhat inevitable?

Speak to you again on Monday. Have a good weekend.