Trump calls ‘Fake Melania’ conspiracy theory ‘deranged’ by stableford
But the president may have unintentionally fueled the conspiracy theory by claiming that media outlets manipulated photos of the first lady, when video footage was the source of the wild speculation.
Conspiracy theories that a stand-in is occasionally used for the first lady date back to at least 2017, when Melania Trump appeared in sunglasses and a raincoat as the president defended his response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. “That one does not look like her, sorry,” Behar said. “I wasn’t going to go along with this, but that one in that picture doesn’t look like her.”
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