How Melania and Donald Trump’s awkward air kiss got everyone speculating

How Melania and Donald Trump's awkward Kiss got everyone speculating

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00:00A hedgehog has spikes, a tortoise has a shell, and Melania Trump has a very wide-brimmed hat.

00:05When Melania attended her husband's second presidential inauguration,

00:09she must have known the drill. At some point, her husband was bound to lean in for a kiss.

00:14But when he did, this happened.

00:19Awkward.

00:20Cue mass speculation about the state of their relationship.

00:23Melania Trump must have some hell of a restraining order.

00:26Melania wearing a kiss condom is so insane.

00:29The idea that the first lady holds her husband in contempt is quite the accusation,

00:34although it isn't a new one.

00:35During Donald Trump's first inauguration, Melania also went viral when her wide

00:39smile quickly turned cold as soon as her husband's back was turned.

00:43More videos kept speculation about their marriage going when, on two occasions,

00:47the eyes of Twitter thought they spotted Melania swatting his hands away as he attempted to

00:51initiate intimacy, once on the red carpet and a few years later while boarding a plane.

00:56And then there are the Free Melania memes.

00:59Although, according to Kate Bennett, who wrote Free Melania,

01:03note that all-important comma, she isn't trapped in her marriage at all.

01:07She's fiercely independent and in some ways an unlikely feminist,

01:10because of the way she seems to be able to influence the Trump administration.

01:14Bennett also said that Melania approaches her position as first lady almost like it's part-time

01:19and instead makes her primary focus her son, Barron.

01:22The first lady is certainly an enigmatic member of the White House.

01:25This isn't the first time the public have wondered whether her bold fashion

01:29statement was in fact a calculated f*** you.

01:32When she infamously wore a jacket that read,

01:34I really don't care, do you?

01:36While visiting migrant children, which many considered bad taste,

01:40some believed this jacket was a jab at her stepdaughter, Ivanka Trump,

01:43who was a senior White House aide at the time.

01:45But watching Melania and Donald engage in their second excruciatingly wooden inauguration dance,

01:52it's difficult to decipher whether the issue is simply a lack of rhythm or something deeper.