By james art Donald Trump’s October surprise arrived at Madison Square Garden Sunday night in the flesh: his wife, the notoriously reclusive former first lady, Melania Trump, who seemed pretty determined to return to the White House after months of avoiding the campaign trail.
“You are the heart of this great metropolis. You are the pulse of this America,” she told MAGA rally attendees who had begun gathering at MSG at noon Sunday. “Yet New York is unforgiving. In fact, our lives are complicated even in the best of times.”
The former and seemingly ambitious future first lady could be her husband’s secret weapon in winning another term in the Oval Office, thanks to revelations in her New York Times bestselling memoir, Melania.
“New York and America need their magic back,” Melania told cheering fans in the packed 20,000-seat arena, after noting that Manhattan had “produced America’s most fearless leaders whose mark changed the course of the world.” .
In her book, published this month, she revealed she is as much in denial about the election as her husband and that her son Barron Trump — a freshman at New York University — is “not autistic.”
More importantly, she revealed that she believes “it is imperative” that women have the right to choose whether to have an abortion.
The 54-year-old Yugoslavian-born former model’s signature accent has remained unchanged since her husband’s one-time reign. Melania Trump avoided attending her husband’s campaign events until Sunday night in New York.
In her brief appearance before introducing her husband to speak at the rally he has been promoting for weeks, she mentioned rising crime and economic instability. At one point, someone in the crowd shouted their love for Melania.
“I love you too,” replied the amazing bestselling author.
It was, as a sympathetic conservative journalist posted on social media, the second coming of the euphoria Republicans felt at their national party convention in Milwaukee last July, just two days after the former president’s ear was injured in his first attempt to murder in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“And now, please,” she said, pausing amid thunderous applause and cheers, “welcome our next commander in chief, my husband, President Donald J. Trump”.
She hugged and kissed her 78-year-old husband at each check as he took the stage before whispering something in her ear.
Of course, supporters of Kamala Harris, who is locked in a deadlock with Trump just eight days before Election Day, had their own take on Trump’s interaction on stage at historic Madison Square Garden — calling it “awkward” and questioning the power of the couple’s relationship.