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Donald Trump's recent public outing at a funeral to commemorate the life of his sister Maryanne Barry Trump revealed a telling sign about his marriage, a body language expert has revealed.
The former president was in attendance at the funeral in New York's Upper East Side, where, in footage shared on Instagram by @newyorkhoje, he appeared on the steps outside the church and looked "stricken by grief," according to body language guru Judi James.
She exclusively told The Mirror.com : "There is one moment on the steps outside the church when Trump appears to attempt to adopt a strong presidential pose, standing upright with his jaw squared and his head lifted, but otherwise he looks like a man stricken by grief,"
Judi added that his hand holding of his wife Melania was also telling. She said: "His tight clasp on Melania’s hand looks as though it is for practical as well as emotional support. Walking down the steps he seems to lean heavily on his wife for support so that her shoulders tilt towards him in a hint that he is placing some weight on that clasp."
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Last month, Trump spoke about his wife in a new interview, as speculation over her general absence from a number of key events remains. He said: "She doesn't need to be out there [to get interviewed]. She has confidence. She has a lot of self-confidence."
Judi added: "He seems slightly unsteady, which can signal extreme grief. His brows look furrowed and he is seen with a lip-clamp mouth expression that is pulled down at the corners in an expression of regret or sorrow."
Trump and his late sister were generally on good terms and the former judge once backed her brother in his political ambitions, but later became a critic of him in private, branding him "cruel" and a man with "no principles."
Trump and his wife, Melania (file image) (Getty Images)Maryanne was recorded in a secret conversation in 2020, according to the Washington Post. In it, she said her brother had "no principles" in regard to his political stances on major issues. She said: "All he wants to do is appeal to his base. He has no principles. None. None. And his base, I mean my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people. Not do this."
Maryanne is also reported to have said her brother was "cruel," adding: "His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God … I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy s**t."
The conversation was recorded by their niece Mary Trump, who is the son of Fred Trump Jr, the eldest son of Fred Trump Sr, a real estate developer and business mogul. Mary and the former president have a particularly public feud and they remain engaged in a lawsuit in which the latter claims Mary and New York Times reporters conducted an “insidious plot” he claims they masterminded to obtain his income tax records.
Trump with sister at a press conference after visiting the house in Tong, on the Isle of Lewis (PA Archive/PA Images)Maryanne, meanwhile, was reported to be on the way to repairing the relationship with her brother and the two even met over the summer at Trump's club in Bedminster, New Jersey, a source told ABC. Maryanne had benefited from the relationship with her brother before, according to a report in the New York Times, after she became an assistant US attorney in 1974 and then a senior judge on the US district court for New Jersey, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1983.
Trump has slammed the media in reaction to his sister's death in a Truth Social post, claiming it "went after her mercilessly."
Since her death, Trump has lashed out at the media and its supposed "merciless" treatment of Barry. "Her life was largely problem-free, PERFECT, until I made it difficult for her when I decided to run for president," he claimed on his media site Truth Social.
'My partner wants to go to a funeral I was excluded from - I'm devastated'
Barry once called her brother 'cruel' (Getty Images)It was well known that Barry, a successful judge, had received her first judicial appointment from President Ronald Regan in 1983, helped in no small part by Donald Trump ’s then-fixer and mafia-linked lawyer Roy Cahn. Barry was later appointed to the appeals court in 1999 under President Bill Clinton.
"The Fake News, and others, went after her mercilessly, and because of the fact that she felt it inappropriate, due to her position, to defend herself," she said, "It just never stopped!
'His tight clasp on Melania’s hand looks as though it is for practical as well as emotional support,' Judi said. This picture is from the funeral of Ivana Trump, Trump's former wife, last year (Getty Images)"While tough and strong, she was made to suffer in those years from 2016 until her retirement." She retired in 2019 amid an investigation into her family’s tax practices.
Of his sister, Trump added: "My great sister, Maryanne, passed away yesterday at the age of 86... A truly beautiful woman, tall and elegant, with a presence like no other, she was also a tremendous student, intellect, and judge, in charge of the United States court of appeals for the third circuit, just below the US Supreme Court."
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