Melania Trump has a whole new problem

| 10:55 pm EST January 18, 2019
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In the time since the Democrats took control of the House, and Robert Mueller made clear that he’s gearing up for his big move, Melania Trump has tried a new strategy: lay low and hope everyone forgets she exists. Sure, she tried this last year, and it only led to controversy, because at the time her disappearance was a comparatively big scandal. This time around her husband has so many scandals going on, no one noticed or cared that Melania had largely vanished again – until now.

After Donald Trump shut down the government and effectively took America hostage, Speaker Nancy Pelosi rightly told him that he wasn’t welcome to show up and give the State of the Union address. This prompted Trump to expose the secret details of an international diplomatic trip that Pelosi and members of Congress from both parties were scheduled to take, thus killing the trip. In turn, this resulted in so much public backlash, the White House had to cancel Steve Mnuchin’s upcoming trip to Davos. Then came Melania.

Just as the public was trying to grapple with precisely which felonies Donald Trump committed by sabotaging Pelosi’s trip and trying to put her safety in danger, and just as the Davos scandal was playing out, Melania Trump climbed aboard a government airplane and flew to Mar-a-Lago. Given the timing, this became a huge scandal. Trump’s shutdown means the Speaker of the House can’t travel to conduct government business, but the fake president’s wife can take a vacation joyride?

Melania Trump’s time of being able to lay low is now over. If she had any sense, she wouldn’t have gotten on the plane yesterday. She seemed to be trying to stay out of her husband’s rapidly accelerating demise, perhaps in the hope of ending up with whichever of his assets aren’t seized, and simply disappearing. But now she’s right back in the thick of his scandals.