MEDIA/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is not amused by the #FakeMelania conspiracy theories circulating on social media. He spun off a new theory on Wednesday [3-13-19] to debunk the idea that there’s a body double of his wife who steps in for her at times. The ‘fake news’ did it, he claimed without evidence. Trump alleged on Wednesday in a tweet that photos of his wife had been altered to make them appear as though a look-alike accompanied him to Alabama last week to survey tornado damage. His favorite morning TV program, ‘Fox & Friends,’ reported on the body-double theory Wednesday as the show’s hosts weighed in on a discussion that aired Monday [3-11-19] on ABC’s ‘The View.’ Hosts of the ABC program debated whether an impostor had traveled with Trump.”
–Associated Press, “No Body Double: Trump Blasts #FakeMelania Theories,” The New York Times online, March 13, 2019