Melania Trump Derangement Syndrome
The first lady—and her extended withdrawal from public view—has been weaponized. To what end?
Like Lewis Carroll’s White Rabbit, she has darted in and out through the looking glass of our twisted American Wonderland since Inauguration Day. Her profile was always low, her arrival in Washington delayed, her appearances sporadic. But the extended and unexplained disappearance of the first lady of the United States—25 days, until her off-camera appearance at the White House on Monday—has been cause for both questioning and speculation, a dual exercise in news gathering and Democratic catharsis.
Journalists have for more details regarding Trump’s extended hospitalization for what is—normally—an . Given the fact that the president with his own (actual) health records, this seems a futile, if legitimate, line of inquiry.
