In defence of Melania Trump

Where is Melania? This was the question on many people’s lips after the former First Lady was absent from the after-party at the Mar-a-Lago estate on Tuesday night following her husband’s quick trip to New York City. Trolls took to social media to ridicule Mrs Trump for ‘not standing by her man’ during his indictment; some even cracked jokes that she was moving on to pastures new with freshly single Rupert Murdoch.

Wherever she was, I hope she was happy. In fact, I hope she was positively beaming while horizontal at a spa getting a deep-tissue massage with martinis flowing and charging it all to her husband’s credit card. For the life of me, I can’t fathom why any woman would want to stand next to her husband when he’s confirming – or, in the Donald’s case, denying – that he sleeps with porn stars and pays them hush money. To make matters worse, Trump’s alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels (if you believe her) happened just one year into his marriage to Melania.