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.