Chelsea Handler and others in the entertainment industry speculated on Friday that the anonymous person behind the anti-President Donald Trump New York Times op-ed was Melania Trump.
“So, come forward girl,” the 43-year-old comedian tweeted to her millions of followers, along with a picture of the first lady next to a quote from Trump blasting the person’s “cowardly actions.”
“If a person is bold enough to accuse people of negative actions, they have a responsibility to publicly stand by their words and people have the right to be able to defend themselves,” FLOTUS statement read. ” To the writer of the op-ed — you are not protecting this country, you are sabotaging it with your cowardly actions.”
![US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walk to Marine One prior to departing from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, August 24, 2018, as they travel to Ohio. (Photo credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)](https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Melania_Trump_white_suit.jpg)
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walk to Marine One prior to departing from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, August 24, 2018, as they travel to Ohio. (Photo credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
So, come forward girl. pic.twitter.com/eiekG4xoRx
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) September 7, 2018
And she was not alone. One person had a theory that if “you take the first letters of the 6th, 12th, 25th+27th Pps in that anonymous NYT op-ed they spell out B BST–BE BEST. I see you Melania.”
Even Melania had to deny that she wrote the NYT op-ed. Sad.
— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) September 6, 2018
Come on, was Melania REALLY a contender for the anonymous NYT op-ed? Of course she didn’t write it because Michelle Obama hadn’t written it first.
— Travon Free (@Travon) September 6, 2018
If you dip Melania Trump’s statement in water, invisible ink appears & reads: “I stand by every word of the op-ed Michelle Obama’s speech writers help me publish in yesterday’s NYT. Just to restate: my husband is unhinged, unaccountable & reeks of McDonald’s various delicacies.”
— Wiley Cash (@WileyCash) September 6, 2018
If you take the first letters of the 6th, 12th, 25th+27th Pps in that anonymous NYT op-ed they spell out
B BSTBE BEST
I see you Melania.
— Prof. Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) September 6, 2018