President Donald Trump, 78, and first woman Melania Trump, 55, made a uncommon public look collectively in Washington, D.C., this week.
He and the previous skilled mannequin attended a efficiency of “Les Misérables” on the John F. Kennedy Middle on June 11.
In response to experiences, the Trumps have been met with blended reactions. Members of the viewers cheered and allegedly booed when the Republican couple arrived within the presidential field.
Whereas attendees of the musical set in early Nineteenth-century France had totally different reactions to Donald and Melania in particular person, folks on social media took discover of a particular picture of the pair.
Trump was photographed with Melania by his facet carrying a black tuxedo. His partner was seen in a black costume and darkish glasses.
Within the snapshot, the previous “The Apprentice” actuality tv host is seen barely holding one among his spouse’s fingers. Melania’s clenched mouth appears to recommend she was not enthused concerning the bodily contact from her husband.
Quite a few X customers discover Donald and Melania’s awkward interplay. One particular person tweeted, “Melania desires to be anyplace else.”
Moreover, a second tweet acknowledged, “Brutal. She’s not holding his hand—she’s enduring it. He’s clinging like a person who is aware of she’d somewhat be anyplace else.”
One particular person wrongly proposed that the {photograph} of the Trumps was made by synthetic intelligence, writing, “The picture seems prefer it has been AI-edited or created.”
“Melania clearly didn’t wish to maintain his hand in public, so Trump determined to no less than seize her thumb for the cameras,” learn a tweet.
Equally, somebody acknowledged, “Pulling her hand away… Oh, she will’t stand him, that’s fully [obvious]. Anybody will let you know that you just don’t want a physique language professional. He’s a scum bag. He has no respect for ladies in any respect, that’s clear by his recording on that bus. She is aware of $$$$$.”
Donald wed Melania in January 2005 after his earlier marriages to Ivana Trump and Marla Maples. Melania gave beginning to the president’s youngest baby, Barron Trump, in March 2006. There have been a number of events of her presumably expressing annoyance with the POTUS in public. One incident in the course of the first Trump administration went viral.
In Might 2017, Trump tried to carry Melania’s hand after touchdown on the Ben Gurion Airport’s tarmac in Israel. She reacted by batting him away as they walked from the airplane.
Melania later insisted in her self-titled 2024 memoir that her hand swipe in opposition to Trump on the Israeli airport was a “minor, harmless gesture, nothing extra.”
Nonetheless, Trump biographer Michael Wolff’s current press run included the “Fireplace and Fury” ebook writer alleging that Melania has a deep-seated hatred for the commander in chief.
“I requested somebody very near them. I stated, ‘So what’s happening?’ And this particular person checked out me like I used to be an actual dunce, after which stated, ‘She hates his f—king guts!’” Wolff stated.
Throughout his interview with “60 Minutes Australia,” the veteran journalist additionally added, “[Trump] has an extended historical past of relationships with different girls, porn stars, and the like.”
The state of the Trumps’ sophisticated relationship was not the one effervescent scandal that made headlines from their uncommon date night time out on the Kennedy Middle.
CNN claimed that no less than 10 to 12 members of the “Les Misérables” solid deliberate to take a seat out the present to boycott Trump’s unprecedented takeover of the Kennedy Middle.
Trump was elected because the Kennedy Middle’s Chairman of the Board in February 2025, following the MAGA chief’s purge of 18 Democratic appointees and the appointment of loyalists.
“It’s a Nice Honor to be Chairman of The Kennedy Middle, particularly with this wonderful Board of Trustees. We are going to make The Kennedy Middle a really particular and thrilling place!” the president acknowledged on Fact Social.
