Donald Trump's Mistress - Joining Putin And Xi In A Geopolitical And Sexual Triumvirate

Vladimir Putin's mistress, Christina Belenkaya - or at least his No. 1 mistress, his favorite and mother of two daughters, is well taken care of by the state, no questions asked.  Not only is this care a product of Russian security, but Russian tradition.  The Czars since Ivan the Terrible all had mistresses, considered the most beautiful women in the land, above comparison, prized possessions part of the royal treasury. 

So it was no surprise that President Putin had his choice of beautiful, desirable women - nor was it a surprise that these young women readily agreed.  Although they knew that their time in the palace would be short - an emperor has the right to exchange old goods for new - the riches, cachet, and sybaritic life would be memorable.  Better to have loved and lost, etc., especially when it comes to the concubines of the czar.  

For all this sumptuous royal tradition, President Putin is far more sexually recondite than, say Presidents Mitterrand and Sarkozy of France, men who invited their mistresses to live in their own chambers at the Elysees.  The French public thought nothing of these affairs - it was only normal for a French president to take his pleasure after a long day of looking after the Republic, and in fact, having a mistress was de rigeur for the normal, healthy French male.

Even the working class had their cinq-a-sept liaisons more often than not with the ladies of Pigalle - a working man spent his salary on food, wine, and women; and just like President Sarkozy, after a hard day at the factory, deserved a bit of a respite from metro, boulot, dodo. 

The Chinese imperial tradition was no different.  The emperors of every dynasty for thousands of years enjoyed harems of the most beautiful women of the realm.  The Emperor Tzu-Ling was particularly proud of the women in his charge, chosen from each of the many distinct regions of China.  Every night he took out his map of the Middle Kingdom, circled his finger with his eyes closed, placed it blindly on the map, and selected a woman from the region on which his finger had landed. 

The long Communist regime under Mao Tse Tung was a peculiarly chaste one.  There was no room in the Communist canon for sexual dalliance.  Work was the ethos of the era, work, work and more work; and the forced labor, internment camps, and failed agricultural communes made life so penitential for the Chinese peasant, sex was the last thing on his mind. 

However with China's entry into the modern capitalist world, money, time, and leisure became once again coins of the realm, and the members of the politburo were free to choose their lovers.  In fact, the current President, Xi Jinping, not unlike his Russian counterpart, has a reverence and respect for his imperial past where concubinage was part of the royal tradition. 

The President's mistress, Fei Fei Wang, is a young woman from Shanghai who came to the President's attention during a routine tour of the provinces.  Polite inquiries were made, respectful overtures advanced to the girl's parents and grandparents, and a generous donation made to the memory of the family departed. 

Fei Fei was installed in the Royal Suite of the Presidential palace, provided all the perks of her station but kept out of sight.  Things had changed in China since the dynastic emperors - the sexual conservatism of the Mao years still had currency, and so Xi found himself betwixt and between - anxious to enjoy the privileges of the old emperors, but cautious because of still modest populace. 

American Presidents have not had mistresses as much as they have had sexual dalliances.  Only Franklin Roosevelt had a longtime mistress with whom he developed a special, loving relationship.  The other presidents had no interest in sexual fidelity and picked and chose as they went along.  JFK, thanks to his youth, energy, and beauty had his pick of the most beautiful Hollywood starlets, and Marilyn Monroe was the jewel in the crown. 

LBJ used the Secret Service to pimp for him, and he was known as much for his herculean sexual appetite as for his workaholic approach to the presidency.  Even dour, sour, jowly Richard Nixon was reported to have a mistress - a woman in Dupont Circle who visited Camp David and spent long weekend with him.  

Henry Kissinger, a fat, rumpled, ugly Jewish man had his pick of the litter.  He famously observed that power was the greatest aphrodisiac and he benefitted mightily from it.  Women who ordinarily would have paid him no mind were anxious to share his bed once he was Secretary of State. 

Bill Clinton lowered the bar.  From trailer trash to fellatio under the Lincoln Desk with an intern, he was the laughing stock of the world; but at least he didn't suffer painfully like his successor Joe Biden who, with the scourge mentality of MeToo and under the watchful eye of a cabal of censorious progressive shrews, made fidelity a point, not just a circumstance. 

Which leads us to Donald Trump, a man who loves beautiful women, has squired and bedded them as long as he can remember.  He had women from Hollywood, Las Vegas, and New York - actresses, producers, real estate giants, call girls, and international beauty queens; but now that he is a second term president and nearing eighty, would that fire still be burning?

Konstantin Levin, a principal character in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina lamented God's irony for creating an intelligent, sentient, creative, insightful being, given him a scant few decades to live, and then consigned him for all eternity in the cold hard steppes of Russia. 

A worse irony say many is that God gave men a lifelong desire for women, but granted them but a few years to satisfy it; and so it is that Donald Trump, like the rest of us, thinks about women all the time, and given Presidential authority, a mere gesture can have them in the White House. 

The man is politically incorrect, dismissive of the uppity, censorious women who consider men a predatory evil, and is unconcerned about his political or economic future.  He cannot run for president again, has no particular concern for historical legacy, and has billions in his bank accounts for when he retires. 

Eliot Spitzer, former governor of New York who was caught in flagrante delicto with a high-priced call girl in the Honeymoon Suite of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, said that he had done nothing wrong. 'I'm too busy running the state to chase women, he said, so an hour or two with Mrs. Longworth's ladies is all I can afford', he said or words to that effect, but was dunned out of office by a critical, censorious public. 

So Trump could have his way with any one of Mrs. Longworth's girls - she runs an absolutely tight ship and with the one exception of the New York governor, has maintained complete secrecy for the afternoon affairs of Washington's power corridor elite. 

This, however is not Trump's style. He wants his own arm candy, female admirers, women who love him, so why not?  In the few years remaining in the White House, he could certainly become an octogenarian Al Pacino or Robert Di Niro who have young lovers and children by them. 

There have been rumors about Trump's sexual dalliances, and few doubt them. If Trump has joined Putin and Xi in a geopolitical triumvirate as powerful as the world has seen, then why not join them in enjoying the perks of Emperors, and Czars?

Not only does Trump want to feel his oats for perhaps one last time, he could care less if he is caught with his pants down.  The tone deaf presidential candidate Gary Hart dared the press to catch him in an adulterous affair and they did.  Hart withdrew from the campaign and was forgotten. 

Not so Trump.  In fact he would love to be caught - 'Powerful man with beautiful woman not his wife' would be just the headline for him.