A British columnist suggested that former first lady Melania Trump doesn't care if her husband gets reelected.
Jemima Kelly, a columnist at the Financial Times, described Melania as having a "trademark DGAF (don't give a f***) style" and noted she didn't appear by Donald Trump's side at the beginning of the Republican National Convention just two days after his assassination attempt.
Former President Trump, the Republican Party's 2024 nominee, walked out alone into the arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Monday with a bandage over his right ear. Two days earlier, he was wounded when a gunman opened fire at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, killing one spectator and injuring others.
Kelly said that Melania's statement following the incident seemed to have been created by AI.
"The only words Melania has so far uttered on the subject of the violent attempt on her husband's life have been via a written statement shared on social media—one that had a distinct whiff of the ChatGPT (not to mention the Google Translate) about it," Kelly wrote in her column.
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence-powered language model created by OpenAI, an AI and research company. It was first released publicly in November 2022. It can answer questions and craft short essays based on human prompts.
Newsweek reached out to Trump's representatives via email for comment.
Melania, who has kept a low public profile since leaving the White House, released a rare public statement after her husband's injury.
She urged Americans not to "forget that differing opinions, policy, and political games are inferior to love" and that "we are all humans, and fundamentally, instinctively, we want to help one another" because "love, compassion, kindness and empathy are necessities."
"And let us remember that when the time comes to look beyond the left and the right, beyond the red and the blue, we all come from families with the passion to fight for a better life together, while we are here, in this earthly realm," she wrote.
"Dawn is here again. Let us reunite... Ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence."
Kelly told Newsweek she had been "intrigued" not only by Melania's statement but Trump's relationship with women, which she believed was different from what people expected.
"I loved the statement, and I do think it was ChatGPT aided because of the odd syntax, but I respected it...and I quite like her saying about love being more important than political difference," Kelly said, adding that it was an important call for unity at a time of heightened political tensions.
As for the "dynamic" between Trump and his wife, Kelly described it as interesting because "of his [derogatory] comments about women and allegations of sexual assault, he is obviously seen as someone who doesn't respect women very much.
"You would expect him to marry someone meek, but I find it really interesting that he's chosen someone in Melania who is so independent and has her own mind," she said.
Elsewhere in the column, Kelly pointed to the fact that the couple are rarely seen together in public.
"Melania has shown up to none of Trump's recent court appearances, and virtually none of his campaign events. I've lost track of the number of times I've seen her turn her head when her husband tries to kiss her, or that her facial expression has given away her lack of interest in one of the rare appearances she has deigned to make," Kelly wrote.
But in a further explanation to Newsweek, Kelly argued: "I think Melania is a very devoted mother" to their 18-year-old son, Barron, and "that's why she doesn't turn up to a lot of stuff."
She concluded the column by describing how she had spotted Melania in person at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year.
"Melania walked by to get to the spa — the only route from her living quarters — in a full face of make-up, her hair freshly blow-dried. What a chore, I thought, to constantly have to be so aware of your appearance," Kelly wrote. "But I did not pity her. 'People think and talk about me like: Oh, Melania, oh poor Melania. Don't feel sorry for me,' she once said—rather threateningly, I fancied. I wouldn't dare."
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