“I heard you missed me,” Melania Trump teased last night at her first public outing in a month since the World Cup final. “Here I am.”
Timing is everything. After days of speculation about President Donald Trump’s dependence on Natalie Harp, 35, his devoted, round-the-clock “special assistant” and “executive assistant” at the White House, the First Lady was on show surrounded by virile racing car champs.
Melania rations her causes as well as her appearances. They usually have to do with supporting children. On this occasion she was at the White House Rose Garden promoting a $2m higher education scholarship for foster children, sponsored by the racing organisation IndyCar and Fox Corporation.
Trump gripped his wife’s hand tightly on entering the Rose Garden but after the speech they soon drifted apart. The queenly Melania had made her point. She was the First Lady, Harp the mere helpmate. She did not feel threatened by her in the least.
This needed stating because Jon Ossoff, the Democratic Senator for Georgia, had caused heads to explode in Magaworld after claiming that Trump had lost interest in being President. “He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie,” he quipped, earning instant notoriety.
