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Melania Trump’s Top Aide Just Slammed ‘The View’ for Suggesting That Melania Has a Body Double

Melania Trump’s press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, slammed ABC’s “The View” Monday after its hosts speculated that the first lady may have a “body double” who spends time with Donald Trump instead of her.

The conspiracy theory that Melania Trump has a body double has persisted since August 2017 and recurred every few months.

In the latest round, some photos of her attending a memorial in Alabama on Friday made her look, to some people, like an impostor.

The hosts on “The View” toyed with the theory on Monday morning.

“That one does not look like her. Sorry,” Joy Behar said on the show. “I wasn’t going to go along with this, but that one in that picture does not look like her.”

The conspiracy theory about Trump’s body double is driven by her secretive approach to the public, a Secret Service agent who looks a little like her, and camera angles and fashion choices that obscure part of her face. In this case, no one disputed that Melania looked like Melania once she took off her sunglasses.

Grisham has chastised media organizations before for discussing the theory.

“Once again, we find ourselves consumed with a ridiculous non-story when we could be talking about the work the first lady is doing on behalf of children, including the opioid crisis that is gripping our nation.”

“.@flotus & @potus traveled to Alabama to pay their respects & comfort victims of the tornado devastation,” Grisham tweeted. “In typical fashion, @theview chooses to laugh in the face of tragedy. Shameful.”

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