First lady Melania Trump has been missing from all public events and appearances for two weeks since her prolonged hospital stay. According to a Tuesday Politico report, the absences and withholding of public information are coming at the directive of the first lady herself.
Per Politico, the first lady considers the myriad health inquiries she has received nosiness, not concern, and has no problem going dark in a media landscape she finds overwhelming to begin with.
Spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham told Politico that Melania will be involved in internal meetings this week, planning for longterm events like the Fourth of July.
“Sadly, we deal with conspiracy theories all the time, so this is nothing new, just more silly nonsense,” Grisham told Politico. “She is doing great. I wouldn’t characterize it as a long absence. She was hospitalized for almost a week and is now home and recovering.”
Melania’s husband has done little to clarify her situation, earlier this month bizarrely pointing to an empty window in the East Wing when asked where she was. “Right there,” Trump said. “She’s doing great. Just look at us, right there.”
Jeebus, this is not hard. You show her convalescing in a hospital bed or lounging in silk pajamas and say she’s recovering nicely.
I get that she’s not the publicity hound that Trump is, but she’s the First Lady and there’s going to be interest.
Here’s a question. Does Trump care enough about Melania to know what her diagnosis was, the treatment she had, what the risks were, what her recovery involves, when her follow-up visits are, her doctor’s name? Most husbands would.
Or, does he just know her physical location, and he’d pronounce “She’s doing great” whatever her condition is?
It’s almost as if the daily scandals over ever increasing number of porn stars and Playboy centerfolds and allegations of abortion hush money payments made her uncomfortable.
Personally, I think her stay at Bethesda Naval Hospital was to have the geo tracking implant removed. Sadly, the lobotomy is irreversible.
Or has Mel flipped?
I won’t be surprised if she gets indicted with the rest of the Trump progeny, kith and kin.
She should have left the SOB years ago—before she picked up his racist (birther) ideology. Because of that, I am less sympathetic to her plight.
ETTD.