The normalization of divorce, even among political figures, may have removed much of its antiquated moral stigmas, but it hasn't made it any less expensive. The first divorced person to be elected U.S. president was Ronald Reagan, who had divorced actor Jane Wyman decades before becoming president. Ironically, this conservative hero was also the one to sign the country's very first no-fault divorce law, back when he was the governor of California in 1969. Since then, and the subsequent passage of similar laws throughout other states, divorce has become much more common and politically normal. Current President Donald Trump is twice divorced (so far), and it's even more common internationally, with current presidents Xi Jinping of China, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo

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