KELLYANNE AND GEORGE CONWAY: A STRANGE RELATIONSHIP

…Kellyanne & George Conway

In the Conway household, it’s a house divided.

It must be a challenging husband and wife relationship in the Conway household.

The household I am referring to is that of the Senior Advisor to the President of the United States, Kellyanne Conway and her husband, George Conway.

Here’s an exert from a reporter’s interview that occurred in their home:

George Conway to Kellyanne: “You gotta see this picture,” the 54 year old attorney said. “You should like this, it’s of your boss.”

51 year old Kellyanne responds: “He’s not just my boss, he’s our president.”

“Yeah,” George says, walking out of the room. “We’ll see how long that lasts.”

In another example, Kellyanne comments how George, was so proud of his wife, he “wept for joy” for Kellyanne when Trump won the 2016 election:

Kellyanne: “That photo was from just before you cried.”

Walking away, George mutters: “Now I cry for other reasons.”

At the Conway’s, it’s a house divided. She is Trump’s loyal adviser, the woman who carried him over the finish line to the White House.

George has become one of the president’s most notable conservative critics and he wishes he had never introduced his wife to Trump in the first place.

The interviewing reporter had initially been invited to the Conway house because she thought it would be a good symbol for her commitment to, and the enduring strength of, the Trump presidency.

What the reporter found was what must be happening in other houses like the Conway’s across the country.

That being, the Conway’s household has been jolted by the Trump presidency. These two do love each other, but they are exasperated by each other.  They talk about each other behind each other’s backs. Yes, they do share a roof, but they are both living in different bunkers.

This marriage is, in many ways, an example of our national political predicament.

And their feud, thanks to George’s newfound Twitter hobby, is now playing out to more than just the neighbors.

George has retweeted dozens of articles critical of the president and his administration, and he personally penned a 3,473-word essay rebutting Trump’s assertion that special counsel Robert S. Mueller’s Russia investigation was “unconstitutional.”

Because George is married to the chief architect and top saleswoman for “Trumpism”, his initial dissent seemed to come out of nowhere.

But George’s tweets eventually did go viral. His retweets were themselves retweeted and his follower count has soared to more than 90,000.  The far left has even adopted this conservative super lawyer as an honorary member of their resistance to Trump.

But for anyone wondering how Kellyanne and George manage to live in the same place these days, they should first see their house.

The 7.7 million dollar Mediterranean mansion with a terra-cotta roof and a three-story turret, looks like a mini Mar-a-Lago.  It is about 15,000 square feet, and it gives the Conway’s lots of room for their four children, two corgis dogs and a large art collection.  It has plenty of space left over for the kind of dinner parties typical in this high-end neighborhood off of Washington’s Embassy Row.

When these two first got married, George was extremely supportive of Kellyanne’s independence and her career pursuit.

That was 17 years ago and back then, Kellyanne was building her business as a Washington pollster. She remembers one of George’s friends telling him that the best thing for their marriage would be for her to shut down the company she had built from scratch.  But George, even though he made more than enough money to support the family, he encouraged her to keep working toward her own dream.

She made it clear to the invited reporter about his up-coming article on her and George.  “If you make this story all about him, I’ll definitely push back on that after it’s printed,” Kellyanne said, talking about George. “There’s no story about me, except the overcoming of circumstance and the fact that I’m so independent.”

When asked about some of the Trump administration’s problems such as the dividing of the children from their parents at the border, Kellyanne just said, “It’s not Trump’s fault.”  But apparently, according to Kellyanne, it’s never Trump’s fault.  Kellyanne is very proud that she will go on CNN and take the fight to the journalists that Trump calls “the enemy”.  If the president throws his playground bully punches at the news media, the Justice Department, his fellow Republicans, then Kellyanne’s job is to find a way to make it that Trump is the one being bullied. And she does it with the ferocity of a mother bear for her cubs.

It has become an absolute political spectacle, as her fans call her courageous, while her critics call her totally shameless.

When asked about how she feels about George, she responded with: “I feel there’s a part of him that thinks I chose Donald Trump over him, which is ridiculous. One is my work and one is my marriage.”

Kellyanne is still that very independent woman that George fell in love with.  She is an independent woman stuck between two men who regularly blow up her day with their tweets.

“Nobody knows who I am because of my husband,” she says. “But people know of my husband, because of me.”

Nevertheless, how this all started was that George liked Trump well enough for a time that he considered joining his administration as a top position in the Justice Department. But his possible pre-nomination process occurred at the point when Trump fired FBI ­Director, James Comey, which was with the beginning of the Mueller investigation.

Friends of George said he decided he did not want to be part of a department that would constantly be at odds with the president.

So, after listening to all the falsehoods being offered over the months by the president, George eventually joined the small fraternity of anti-Trump conservatives.

George is now a man without a party.  Last March, George changed his affiliation from Republican to “unaffiliated.” He has offered unsolicited advice to journalists who have written articles critical of the president.  And recently, he was spotted at a semi-secret group of Trump skeptics known as the Meeting of the Concerned, who scorn his wife’s boss. George is now among fellow conservatives who would like to see Trump, and by extension Kellyanne, out of a job.

When George now looks at that picture from election night, he is still reminded of the sheer elation he felt for his wife that night.

But now he just says, “I’m just saddened by how things have turned out.”

That’s a statement that’s also coming from many US citizens.

Copyright G.Ater  2018