How long will it be before Melania steps aside for MelanAI?
One of the 'highlights' of the disjointed ramble Trump delivered at West Point was his thoughts on trophy wives: 'I must tell ya. A lot of trophy wives, doesn't work out [sic],' he mused in the middle of an anecdote about a divorced real estate developer (not him). This has raised a few eyebrows; particularly as Michael Wolff's 2018 book about Trump claimed the president used to boast that Melania was his 'trophy wife.'
I don't know if Trump ever really thought that Melania was some sort of compliant accessory to be paraded around. If he did, I'm sure he's now seen the error of his ways. Melania has made it clear to everyone that she is unbothered, unbossed, and entirely uninterested in pretending to care about either her husband or her role as first lady. It's claimed that as of early May, Melania had spent fewer than 14 days at the White House. Trump is her useful idiot husband, she's not his trophy wife.
Melania is certainly collecting her own trophies, however. I've got to hand it to the woman: she's mastered the art of making enormous amounts of money with the minimum amount of effort. Last year, she released what columnist Pamela Paul described as a 'book-adjacent object' titled Melania, which one imagines she did not write herself. Last week, she announced that the audiobook was narrated with an AI-generated version of her voice. Now we've officially got an AI Melania voice, can it be long before we get a full-on MelanAI? A realistic AI-powered robot who does all the boring first lady things that Melania clearly hates doing – and doesn't swat Trump's hand away in public.
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