Melania Trump Has the Perfect Comeback to the Media’s Latest Goofball Obsession

The media’s obsession with her whereabouts is revealing in a way they don’t intend. They can’t quite process a First Lady who simply doesn’t perform for them on demand. Who doesn’t need their validation. Who steps into public view when she has something to accomplish and steps back out when she doesn’t. The concept of a prominent woman who isn’t seeking constant media attention seems to baffle an entire industry built around it.

The Natalie Harp circus — the grotesque speculation about the aide’s relationship with the president, the Atlantic’s extended profile treating an executive assistant’s loyalty to her employer as a national scandal — is the same impulse applied to anyone in Trump’s orbit who refuses to behave according to media expectations. They invent stories about the people they can’t control and try to manufacture scandals about the president from the relationships around him.
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Melania has seen this playbook for years. She has never taken the bait. She never will.

“I heard you missed me.” Four words. A smile. Then two million dollars in scholarships for foster children and a Rose Garden event that ran exactly as long as it needed to. That’s the First Lady of the United States. The press corps will probably spend tomorrow covering the dress she was wearing.