President Donald Trump slammed media speculation as to his wife’s whereabouts during her nearly three-week public absence while recovering from kidney surgery.
The Fake News Media has been so unfair, and vicious, to my wife and our great First Lady, Melania. During her recovery from surgery they reported everything from near death, to facelift, to left the W.H. (and me) for N.Y. or Virginia, to abuse. All Fake, she is doing really well!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2018
…Four reporters spotted Melania in the White House last week walking merrily along to a meeting. They never reported the sighting because it would hurt the sick narrative that she was living in a different part of the world, was really ill, or whatever. Fake News is really bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2018
Theories abounded in the weeks Melania did not appear publicly with several media outlets running stories questioning the White House’s silence on the matter.
Melania appeared in her official capacity for the first time at a Gold Star families reception Monday evening and will make her public debut Wednesday.
The first lady is scheduled to attend a FEMA briefing with the president Wednesday afternoon, which will mark her first truly public appearance.