“Daily Show” correspondent Jordan Klepper said on Wednesday that Melania Trump has finally returned to the public eye as her husband, Donald Trump, enters the home stretch of his presidential campaign.
“She’s out there because she’s a supportive wife who believes in her husband’s ‘America first,’” he said, before cutting himself off. “I’m fucking with you. She has a book to sell.”
Klepper said the former first couple clearly have at least one thing in common.
“Y’know, people make a lot of jokes about this marriage, but when I look at their shared love of exploiting our political system to sell shit for personal profit, I just see two soulmates,” he cracked.
Then he popped open his copy of the former first lady’s new memoir and read an odd passage about her husband’s unexpected victory in 2016.
“As Donald prepared to go down to his office on Wednesday morning, he and I had a private moment. ‘Congratulations,’ I said. ‘What an achievement. All those other people, and you won. You’re the president of the United States of America.’ ‘And you’re the first lady,’ he said. ‘Good luck.’”
“I gotta wipe away a tear on that one,” Klepper said. “That was a heartwarming moment that definitely wasn’t created by ChatGPT. Turns out, writing is hard when you don’t have Michelle Obama to plagiarize from.”
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