Unlike her husband, Melania Trump hasn’t been much of a tweeter recently. In fact, in her personal verified account, the all-capped @MELANIATRUMP (not to be confused with her official @FLOTUS one), her last message was to vote for her husband on November 8, and we all know how that turned out. As of this morning, she’s only ever liked one tweet, and that was the one she herself wrote, saying hello to Twitter in 2012. But yesterday that “like” total mysteriously stood at two.
As New York and others have pointed out, it appears that, briefly, @MELANIATRUMP liked a tweet that highlighted the huge gulf between herself and her husband:
Forty-five minutes later, someone realized the effect that “like” was having, and it was subsequently removed. New York continues, “When asked by Ringer [and former A.V. Club] writer Kate Knibbs if he had any connection to Ms. Trump, Andy Ostroy, the ‘marketer, producer, pundit’ who authored the original tweet, responded, ‘Hmmm… I guess I do now…’” Twitter, of course, had a field day, like it does when there’s any sort of Twitter scandal: