It is hard to believe that 10 years ago, Bill and Hillary Clinton were at Donald and Melania Trump’s wedding. Those were the days before politics, when all Melania had to worry and wonder about was what to wear, where to go, who to see, and how best to please Donald. The GQ article Melania’s Rise reported Melania as stating about the Clintons:

“When they went to our wedding, we were private citizens.”

Yes, just two private citizens.  The GQ reporter described them as, “Just two private citizens getting hitched at the groom’s 126-room Florida palace. He in a tux; she in a $100,000 Dior dress that laborers’ hands had toiled upon for a legendary 550 hours, affixing 1,500 crystals—jewels fit for private citizens like them.”Are you kidding me. Where do private citizens like this come from?

The crystals on Melania’s wedding dress made me think about the crystals in the chandeliers of the casinos in Atlantic City where laborers toiled for Donald Trump and were never paid.  Roger Parloff’s article in Fortune Magazine “Why U.S. Law Makes It Easy for Donald Trump to Stiff Contractors” takes the shine off Melania Trump’s wedding gown crystals and off of her too. See  Trump Stiffs Workers. That she could wear a dress that laborers toiled over for 550 hours while her groom to be Donald Trump stiffed working class people says a lot about her and whether we would want her as a first lady.

Dishwashers, painters, architects, glass installers, marble installers, drapery installers, per Hillary Clinton, are just some of those who got stiffed by Donald Trump on his road to excess.  Yes, it’s true, the law allows for this type of business behavior.  As the Fortune article states paying a lawyer is expensive and therefore makes 75 or 50 cents on the dollar, if you are lucky to get it, look good compared to paying a lawyer to get what you owed.  However, how sad to stiff working people while paying for such lavish excess for yourself.