Donald Trump has a new Melania Trump problem

| 7:07 pm EDT August 14, 2018
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Donald Trump is already having a pretty awful week, and it’s only Tuesday. His campaign chairman Paul Manafort is on the verge of being convicted. His oldest friend Roger Stone is close to being indicted and arrested. His lawyer Rudy Giuliani is more senile than ever. And of course Omarosa is now releasing recordings she secretly made of Trump and his staff. But now Trump has a Melania problem to deal with as well.

Back when Melania Trump departed for a child immigration camp while wearing an “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” jacket, we thought it was pretty clear that she was trying to stick it to Donald Trump. However, because her delivery method was muddled at best, not everyone ended up agreeing with our assessment of what she was trying to get across that day. Now it turns Omarosa is confirming as much.

That is, of course, to the very limited extent that Omarosa can be believed. She has no credibility beyond whatever she has on tape, but then again, none of these people have any credibility, because they’re all known liars. In any case, Omarosa claims in her book that Melania Trump did indeed wear that jacket that jacket just to stick it to Donald, and that she “gladly, spitefully, wrecked her husband’s directives to make him look foolish.”

With everything else playing out in the Trump-Omarosa feud, few even noticed or cared about Omarosa’s claim about Melania Trump. That is, of course, until Melania’s spokesperson pushed the matter further into the spotlight by issuing this statement: “Mrs. Trump rarely, if ever, interacted with Omarosa. It’s disappointing to her that she is lashing out and retaliating in such a self-serving way, especially after all the opportunities given to her by the president.” That’s not even really a denial.

So now Donald Trump is stuck dealing with the Melania Trump jacket incident being back in the spotlight, after Melania’s own camp pushed it into the spotlight by providing an answer to a question that no one was asking. We’re almost left to wonder if Melania did this on purpose, in order to make sure Donald has to face new controversy over the jacket. This only matters in the sense that Trump can’t afford to deal with yet another controversy right now, and yet here comes one.