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Rare Barron Sighting at Mar-a-Lago Comes in the Form of a Video by a Russian Influencer

A fancy dinner shot by a fashionista — how very American.

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Barron Trump came “home” for Thanksgiving, although it’s hard to say that Mar-a-Lago is home for him. It’s always been a structure of pure Donaldry, etched in the fake gold leaf of pretentiousness. Barron, like his mother, is far more likely to see New York as his home, since he, you know, lives there. He goes to school there. His mom lives there. He was born in Manhattan.

He was spotted Saturday night having dinner with Donald and Melania at the Southern White House by none other than “life coach” and “wellness alchemist” Karina Safarova Rudeva, a Russian influencer who spends a lot of time hanging around Donald Trump.

I wonder why.

Rudeva posted a number of videos to her Instagram story of the family eating with Barron’s grandfather also in attendance. The young man is visiting from NYU’s Stern School of Business, where he’ll return after Thanksgiving. Barron should be back in Florida one more time before his dad’s inaugurated, right around mid-December in time for Christmas.

The video was reposted to X by “FLOTUS Report,” an account that exclusively follows Melania:

Interestingly, Melania appears to be exercising her standard distance from her husband — as far away as possible. If he leaned over to the right as far as possible, he wouldn’t have been able to even touch her pinky finger.

That always throws me off personally, because I sit on the same side of a booth with my girl when we go out for dinner and nobody’s even with us. I can’t help but wonder what the point of their marriage is, if neither of them cares enough to even hold hands like Junior does with that woman he’s cheating on Kim with.

Then again, I’m never going to understand the mindset of that kind of person. I am literally never going to be photographed stepping off a plane with an entourage, or at least I hope I’m not.

The strangest part of all is just how much contact Trump seems to have with “important” Russian people. You’d think after he was caught colluding with Russia in 2016, he’d try to distance himself the way Melania does from him.

Andrew Simpson
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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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