Mrs. Trump spent five days at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in May to treat what her aides called a benign kidney condition, and had not appeared in public since before entering the hospital. On Twitter Wednesday morning, Mr. Trump bitterly complained about the speculation by the public and some journalists about her absence. “The Fake News Media has been so unfair, and vicious, to my wife and our great first lady, Melania,” wrote the president, who has long reveled in conspiracy theories. “During her recovery from surgery they reported everything from near death, to facelift, to left the W.H. (and me) for N.Y. or Virginia, to abuse.

Source: New York Times June 06, 2018 16:28 UTC