The real story about Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech today may not be what he says, but that Melania is showing up to attend it. Melania, left livid at reports claiming Trump paid porn star Stormy Daniels £90,000 ($130,000) in hush money on the eve of the 2016 election, skipped Davos and has stayed out of the public eye since. She tweeted a picture of herself with a Marine on her thirteenth wedding anniversary even as Daniels hosted a show at a nightclub entitled ‘Making America Horny Again’. Daniels will be interviewed tonight by talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel after Trump delivers his speech. At the same time, Melania will make her return to the spotlight, but already another flap has emerged: is Nikki Haley, the ambassador to the United Nations, ministering, as it were, to Trump on Air Force One?
This allegation was contained in the form of a wink-wink in Michael Wolff’s bestseller Fire and Fury:
‘The president had been spending a notable amount of private time with Haley on Air Force One and was seen to be grooming her for a national political future’.
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