After he had finished his incredibly tedious 92-minute acceptance speech at the 2024 Republican convention on Thursday evening, disgraced former president Donald Trump was joined onstage by his third wife, Melania.
But as Newsweek notes, what caught most people’s attention is the fact that the convicted felon leaned in to kiss his wife and was rebuked as she dodged away from him.
Immediately after the speech, he leant in for a kiss on the lips with his wife, which she appeared to “dodge,” former White House bureau chief Steve Herman wrote on social media platform Mastodon.
The moment was also shared to X, formerly Twitter, by journalist Aaron Rupar, who also accused the former first lady of “dodging Trump’s kiss.” The post has been viewed over 216,000 times.
In the clip, Melania Trump was seen turning her cheek to her husband on stage as he tried to kiss her before the couple walked off stage together, hand in hand.
That was all it took to send Twitter users into fits of laughter, followed by mockery.
