Just sit for a moment and ponder this… what if Michelle Obama had flat-out refused to move to Washington after her husband won the presidency? What if she demanded to stay in Chicago through the end of the school year, which would have cost the taxpayers millions of dollars? Then imagine that when Michelle Obama did arrive at the White House, she barely did anything. She would take months to come up with some vague initiatives, and then she’d totally phone it in. Imagine that Michelle checked into the hospital and her husband didn’t visit her for hours, and that she ended up staying there for six days. Then imagine that she could just *disappear* for 20 DAYS. 20 days without being seen in public, without having any events, without even accompanying her husband to a weekend retreat.
It’s easy to imagine the Fox News meltdown, right? It’s easy to imagine the conspiracies and outrage and comments from various Republicans about the First Lady and her priorities. There would have been some kind of countdown clock. There would be op-eds. But since it was Melania Trump who did all of these things, I guess no one is going to say anything. Melania was last seen in public on May 10th. Wednesday marked the 20th day that NO ONE has seen Melania at all. Some believe she’s already left her husband and gone back to New York. Some believe that Bigly had Melania replaced with a fem-bot he calls Melanie. But according to Melania’s official Twitter account, there’s no reason to be alarmed:
I see the media is working overtime speculating where I am & what I'm doing. Rest assured, I'm here at the @WhiteHouse w my family, feeling great, & working hard on behalf of children & the American people!
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) May 30, 2018
“Working hard on behalf of children & the American people!” WHERE? In the closet of Trump Tower, hiding from the Secret Service agents who were sent to collect her and bring her back to the White House? THIS IS INSANE. Of course Mel didn’t write that tweet. But obviously, Bigly’s staff didn’t write it either – the Bigly staff wouldn’t have been able to resist using “fake news” instead of “media.” This was written and tweeted by Melania’s staff, obviously. But why? And where the f–k is she??
These are the last photos we have of poor Mel, from May 10th. She was last seen in houndstooth gauchos, applying antibacterial soap to her right hand to get off the orange stain.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
There is speculation that EZ wrote or at least was behind that tweet – someone on another site pointed out that she does not normally use that language. We all know who uses language and grammar like that.
I think she finally left him and they are trying to persuade her to return as it won’t look good for him to have his wife leave him while in office.
Of course he wrote it, or dictated it. It’s pure Trump-ese.
That’s what I thought when I read it: it sounds exactly like him when he is trying to sound “presidential”.
Yup. Out of all the fun and wacky theories about where she is, this is the most believable to me. This also makes me think that she knows his goose is cooked because that’s the only thing that would drive her away at this point.
Melania finally realized that she invested in a real stinker, just like America.
It’s a glimmer of hope, isn’t it? Walls closing in, plus we have Avenatti saying that more women have come forward. Such Bigly embarassments when things go public.
Absolutely. I’m all sorry your marriage failed but I’m pumped right now. Maybe in poor taste but meh.
I don’t mean to be crass, either, but this was a case of knowing what you were getting. His business and personal history were well known by the time she met him (same goes for Marla). It’s probably never been a cake walk, but what did she expect?
I wonder just how much she knows bout his shenanigans? It would so sweet if she had something on him and shopped him to Mueller, with the guarantee of immunity from prosecution and/or witness protection.
I think she has left, but I can’t imagine she would leave Baron alone with Trump. Don’t her parents live near her son’s school? Maybe she and Baron are camped out there.
I’m thinking Melania always knew trump was horrible. In so many bios on her she struggled. Her life was with a goal to be easier. Wealthy. Taken care of and lunch. She was aging and out of what the men she had access to wanted. Younger, prettier and with more personality. She settled on trump because he was low hanging fruit. And to the same degree she was also. Mutually beneficial.
Now she’s got less to gain from him. She can leave. And as a former flotus she’ll be very well off.
If I were her at this point I’d be drunk or heavily sedated. Maybe on anti-emetics too.
She probably enjoyed her alone time in the hospital.
I agree with your entire post.
I don’t think so. She met Trump in the late 1990s and has been with him ever since. She has to know at this point that someone in her family will have an “unhappy accident” if she steps out of line. My vote is plastic surgery or a cover for witness protection.
Or she is vacationing at the same resort as Shelly Miscavige.
I second the plastic surgery theory. She got some maintainence work done and she is waiting for it to settle. I imagine the next time we see her, the lines along her nasolabial fold won’t be as noticeable. I doubt she will ever leave him.
I hope it’s just that. I’m wondering, though.
The first thing I thought of when I heard she was in the hospital was, “I wonder if anyone took pictures of the bruises.”
Definitely plastic surgery. She has to keep up youthful appearances until he’s old and senile enough to not be able to trade up to a newer model.
She’ll never leave him, she loves her life and is looking forward to leaving the White House in a couple o years or whenever he’s impeached, so she can go back to her gaudy golden tower and be left in peace again. I don’t think she’s bothered by all his side-pieces, she probably served out her time on planet Orange years ago and is beyond happy to not have to get her hands orange…I mean, dirty anymore.
It really sounds as though it was written by Donald and just proofread by someone. It’s his style all the way. Rest assured, working overtime etc. — that’s pure Donald. I hope she’s ok.
I’m tired of the comparisons with Michelle Obama. Michelle consciously decided to be a twofer and to take on projects, but we have absolutely no right to expect that of any spouse of a POTUS. The whole idea is sexist. No husband of a POTUS would have such expectations. Melania has the right to live her own life on her own terms, and we have no right to expect anything else for her. I don’t care if she spends all day eating bon-bons on the couch while watching tv. It’s her life to live. She did not run for President and she wasn’t elected. She was a very reluctant participant in the whole mess, no matter what you all think who have never lived with a pathological bully.
We certainly have no right to expect the estranged spouse/ready for divorce spouse to pick up and move to the White House to live with her demented husband/should be ex-husband.
Complain to the Secret Service if their protection protocols are too bizarre, that’s actually a more recent problem. But we have to commit to allowing family of a POTUS to live as normal a life as possible. That means the kids don’t have to be home-schooled at the White House and the parents don’t have to live in the same city. The costs are minor compared to other federal expenses. Buy a few less bombs and it’s covered.
If the First Lady is going to sit on her ass and eat bonbons then she has no need to have a staff and a separate office assigned to her. From Eleanor Roosevelt on, all First Ladies did something with the platform they were given as spouse of the president. They all approached it differently, but they still did something. Melania is acting like a queen and that’s too bad. Divorce him if you didn’t want to be First Lady. It’s her decision to stay with this despicable human. She could even do stuff based from New York if she doesn’t want to live with him. She is just lazy. I can’t feel bad for someone who has sold their soul for money and US citizenship.
And really, the comparison is less to Michelle Obama than to the way the press treats the two First Ladies. It is the hypocrisy (again) that’s being called out
The idea may be sexist, but is is traditionally the bailiwick of the FLOTUS to do something, anything, for the greater good of the country. And the fact is that she isn’t doing even one fourth of what ANY of her predecessors-rethug or dem-have. That’s a problem.
Totally agree, especially about the ‘buy less bombs’ part. I wish the outrage and pearl clutching could be also aimed at the fact that America’s tax payers also finance costly wars, which yet have to prove their merit.
@Nic919: Rumor has it that Eleanor Roosevelt actually ran the country for a very brief stint.
Donald – or someone posing as Donald – wrote that tweet.
I am getting concerned about her. That tweet was as angry sounding as any of Dotard’s tweets.
Dotard. The man who raped and strangled his first wife. The man who punched his son for not wearing a suit to a basketball game. The man huffed and puffed and trailed Hillary around the debate stage. The man of whom there is a video alleged to exist of him and Melania in an elevator and he does something to her.
What video about him and Melania?
There’s a long standing rumour that there is a surveillance tape of them in an elevator and he is beating the crap out of her. Talks of huge payoffs to keep it hidden.
I wonder of that is what’s on Avenatti’s disc. No proof but it’s been all over Twitter. Even talk of Harvey Levin being involved in the payoff.
I didn’t know what was on the elevator tape, that’s horrifying if true. Supposedly TMZ has it and they covered it up. I wonder what’s true here.
I wondered what was on the video, too. It does makes sense on why Harvey Levin was able to get an interview with Trump right after the election. I always thought that was weird.
From what I gather, the assault in an elevator tape story came from Tom Arnold in late 2017. He has a show coming out soon called The Trump Tapes. This could be hype for the show, or it could be legit.
https://movieweb.com/trump-elevator-assault-tape-video-tom-arnold/
This scenario is starting to remind me of the whole David Miscavige and “where’s Shelly?” story, although I’m truly hoping and assuming that Melania simply finally dumped the Dumpster’s sorry azz.
On second thought, she’s a smart cookie, unlike her husband. So maybe she got some sound legal advice and now she’s bailing out and lying low to avoid being questioned by Mueller. She’s not going to let her low life husband drag her off to prison with him.
I just commented the same above. Sorry.
If she is a smart cookie, she would have been very careful to steer clear of any of Trump’s business dealings. She certainly steered clear of the campaign.
Me too. I’m actually a bit concerned for her. My first thought was, “uh, is she dead?” It could easily be explained by “complications” from her surgery and spun into a tragic accident with lots of blustering about medical malpractice and so forth while the truth is…………. a lot worse. I’m hoping she’s just letting her latest plastic surgery settle or she really is going to leave her husband. But, man, this is just strange.
Stephanie Grisham probably wrote it. She’s Melania’s spokesperson and yes, she has an angry streak. She got into a fight with April Ryan last weekend. She also wrote all the tweets that the Dotard wrote about Melania’s hospitalization. It was obvious because they were word for word the same exact statements that she issued from the First Lady’s Office.
Now THAT’S an Ambien tweet.
I would bet my left arm she didn’t tweet that.
Lol @ ambien tweet
Totally.
That tweet reads like Ivanka rewriting something Donald dictated to her.
I think she is pregnant by one of her security staff and planning an exit strategy.
I am basing this on NOTHING more than ‘wouldn’t that be amazing’
LOL! If it is what you say it is, I love it! 😉
Especially in the summer.
I think about that with almost any story that comes out of this WH – imagine if Obama had done X?? Fox News would just have a field day. Remember that time he wore a tan suit????
Anyway. The Melania thing is strange. I didn’t think it was *that* strange – she went back to NY, she’s avoiding the public, whatever – until that tweet. If you want to prove that you are working hard on behalf of the American people……just do a photo op. Just go to an event. Hell just walk across the front lawn of the WH. That tweet makes this whole thing so much stranger.
I agree. The tweet just turned the volume up. I can’t believe any reasonable person thinks that she wrote that tweet. Where is she? Why doesn’t she show her face. So creepy.
Exactly. Throw a few interns into an office and get her smiling in front of them. Mission accomplished.
Does anyone else think she may be the victim of domestic abuse?
I’m going with plastic surgery, but that’s out of naïve hope. As much as Melania sucks I don’t want her to experience any kind of DV.
That was my first guess when this all began, too.
I’m sure she already has experienced domestic violence at some point. Donald is a vicious man and was a violent child. He tries to keep the physical viciousness behind closed doors. Under stress, it all comes out. That’s when he attacked Ivana, he was stressed by a medical procedure, something about dealing with his hair loss. He much more easily lost it with his sons over nothing.
Imagine how dangerous Donald is now with Mueller coming closer and closer.
I’m thinking plastic surgery too. As leaky as that West Wing is, word would quickly hit the street if POTUS was being abusive to FLOTUS.
I also think it is plastic surgery.
I think that.
With the way he behaves, I believe that she might be the victim of verbal and emotional abuse. He doesn’t care about anyone but himself
+1 to the verbal and emotional abuse, also financial abuse as well as holding her love of their son against her, I would guess he has threatened to take Barron away from her if she leaves him. I would not be her for all the money in Russia.
I’m quite sure he’s verbally abused her from day one, just as he does others. I’m also sure he insists she always looks like an airbrushed centerfold, never aging or gaining an inch, so her surgical procedures are just an ongoing thing for her..she’ll show up when any swelling/bruising subsides..he wouldn’t permit her to be seen less than 100% plastic perfect…that would reflect badly on him and his fragile ego.
Usually the most logical and simple explanation is the truth. Trophy wife claims to get a small surgery that every doctor interviewed says is outpatient or 1 day admission at most. Trophy wife stays 6 days “recovering” in the hospital. Goes home but does not show her face for the next week. Trophy wife’s people take to tweeter andwr a write a defensive post that she busy “working”.
Simplest explanation: cosmetic surgery and waiting for swelling to go down before does a photo op.
It’s like when you hear hooves in Central Park, it could be a Zebra from a foreign country but simplest and most likely explanation is: a horse.
My question is: would they do plastic surgery that is superficial (No injury involved where plastic surgery is required)? Walter Reed is a military hospital – that is why the question.
I’m on board with the plastic surgery and she’s waiting for the bruising and swelling to disappear.
@Swack – Walter Reed could grant operating privileges (or whatever it’s called) to a plastic surgeon from New York to come and operate on Melania.
At the rate that the members of this administration are abusing power through private jets and office furniture purchases, elective surgery at Walter Reed is par for the course.
Busy at work diggong herself a tunel out of the WH?
Sink hole is filled in now….that it’s done it’s work 😆
Who has Stephanie Grisham as their next White House meltdown candidate on the White House Departure Bingo Card? After last weekend’s “feud” with April Ryan, this attempt at pretending to be Melania, and her earlier attempts to ghost write tweets for the Orange Dotard about his missing wife, Stephanie is having a rough month.
I highly doubt that Melania wrote that. It was probably her worker who was bullying April Ryan
Stephanie Grisham. It’s Stephanie’s style.
Honestly, my assumption all along has been that she probably had “some work” done and doesn’t want anyone seeing her right now.
I tend to think the same thing, even though some of the other theories are more salacious. The only thing is you’d think she’d plan a better cover for plastic surgery, or even just wait to have it done until after Bigly’s term.
She has no need for plastic surgery right now. She looked fine the last I saw her in photos.
More likely she had a legitimate medical issue that may have been more of a problem than expected. In any case, it’s not unreasonable for her to need more recovery time and not to be feeling up to photo ops. It’s very odd to try to pretend she’s busy working “for the American people”, though. Just saying she needs to rest would be enough.
nah, not buying it.
if she truly had medical issues, the WH would shout that from the rooftops and be all “Why can’t you just let her recover in peace? you horrible main stream media, you!”
this admin needs all of the sympathy they can get and if they had to use the FLOTUS’ medical issues to get it, they would.
As you said ” It’s very odd to try to pretend she’s busy working “for the American people”, though.” that’s the official story because the REAL story is not something they want out there.
I have said it before and I will say it again. Hollywood and authors have years of material from this administration.
After this ship of fools sails off the edge of the earth and we install a functioning administration again, it will be their inept PR that we’ll have to thank for their demise. I’m terrified at the thought that even one of the Trumpkins would have had a team of professionals ready to spin their dross into gold.
Plastic surgery?
STD testing?
Separation?
Divorce proceedings?
Overdose?
Suicide attempt?
Physical abuse recovery?
Not being callous. I’ve read that all these items above could be reasons why Melania is MIA. Speculation has run rampant, of course and much of this is fake.
But where the hell is she and why the cloak of secrecy?
Don’t forget exorcism. 😉
No way she wrote that.
Here she is: Dancing in NYC 💃🏻🕺🏻.
Looking at her in the above pics I cannot imagine for the life of me as to what what kind of cosmetic surgery Melania Trump would need. I don’t think she has much in the way of character or integrity, certainly no ambition but she is physically stunning. I think she always looks great and her beauty and style are uniquely her own. I truly hope that she is ok because her husband is not a nice person and I don’t think he treats her well. Their dynamics on inaugeration day were troubling to say the least.
I also think she’s a beautiful woman. Can’t stand her and her bullshit but yes, she is very pretty.
Where is Melanie?!
She’s looking at you. Right now, from right up there.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
I’m assuming that it’s plastic surgery just because.. well it’s her. Looking at pics of her I have no idea what else she could possibly be doing to her face and I have no idea if a “nip/tuck” takes this long to recover from, but this is still the most plausible explanation.
God I miss Michelle.
I’m betting she had some kind of laser resurfacing procedure on her face, and she can’t be seen in public until every bit of redness is gone. If it was more serious, I hope she’s okay.
I think people give her a pass because no one expected her to be a real First Lady, just like no one expected Bigly to be a real president. She’s always been a contract trophy wife. I assume that initial time in NY after the inauguration was a renegotiation period, because they never expected the idiot would actually win. It’s like we’re living through some kind of weird, alternate reality where the most important office in the world has been taken over by reality TV. The best we can hope for is that the show doesn’t last the entire four years and that we’re still alive when it’s over.
But the redness doesn’t take that long to become coverable with makeup, even the old school really deep resurfacing.
She reminds me of Jocelyn Wildenstein.
Of course, Melania did not write that Tweet and as some have said, the Tweet raises the mystery more. Who wrote that Tweet and why did they feel the need to write it. I originally thought that her hiding was because of plastic surgery, but I’m now thinking domestic violence. If Melania was alright, why would he point to a window that she isn’t standing by.? He’s too vested in making us believe that Melania is ok.
On a superficial note: I hate that hand in the slacks posing she does. It’s staged and not natural. Every time she wears slacks, she does this. I’m over it.
He pointed to a window to show where she was? OMG. He really is less adept than a carnival barker. Shades of Truman Capote’s Southern Gothic “The Other Room.”
Is her son missing too? Wherever he is, she is.
Came down to say exactly that. Has the kid been pictured anywhere in DC? No way she would go anywhere without him.
It was funny at first but now it’s starting to get alarming. Where is She? Does she hate her husband that much or is she in serious trouble? I know there is generally not a lot of love for her on this site but I have always defended her and given her the benefit of the doubt. I have been in a relationship with a raging narcissist and I know the emotional and mental toll it can take. For those of you who say she knew what she was getting into or she knew who she was marrying I don’t think you really understand. I don’t think she had any idea how truly evil and selfish he is until recently. I think she and her family are potentially in great danger.
#whereismelania
I am really starting to believe She might actually be leaving him. Or really did have a suicide attempt.
That being said, wouldn’t be funny if pictures of her New York suddenly came out today? Right after they said she was in the WH?
Also someone fill me in on this feud between April Ryan and Stephanie G? What happened?
I doubt a suicide attempt because of her son, who is still in danger from his father.
She may be having trouble relating to her kidney or other health issues, since I’m not sure Donald had time to beat her up after the hospital. If he did it before, too much evidence viewable by too many people at the hospital. Or maybe the situation has just become intolerable with continuing revelations about affairs he’s had while married to her. She may not have minded as long as he was discreet. Or he’s become too dangerous as the stress mounts. Maybe he lashed out at her son and that was the last straw.
I doubt that she’s entangled with the Mueller investigation, unless she decides to testify. I would expect Donald did not let her be a witness, though. He knows wives don’t stay wives forever. But maybe he got careless and finally realized she was not obligated to testify but could decide to testify. He seems to be ignorant of legal details in general.
I do think she’s been at great risk for physical and emotional abuse by Donald and the risk has increased rapidly. Would Secret Service intervene for physical abuse? I hope she’s in NYC, and that her son is with her or safely with his grandparents who live near his school if it’s still in session.
I asked someone who has been in the Secret Service and his honest answer was that they would intervene on her behalf, but they would not arrest or out the president. Their job isn’t to police him, but to protect him.
I think she had some minor “nip-and-tuck” stuff done then skedaddled back to NY with Barron…possibly permanently, i.e. separation. When The Dotard gets into his manic tweeting phase he must be impossible to be around and she would be his convenient punching bag, emotionally and physically. I don’t like her but no woman deserves that kind of treatment, especially if she thought Barron would be under fire as well. She’s very protective of him.
I think she decided to get the F out of there before things really start getting messy. She’s absolutely in NY and will stay there.
Wouldn’t we know she was in NY just by the Secret Service presence, etc.? It was well documented how much security was encamped at Trump Tower while she was there.
And Barron is still in school now, I’m assuming. But school will be over soon and then she can hopefully get out of Dodge!
Barron goes to an Independent school and I summer break starts next week. She’ll pop up in NY for by the June 12. Mark my words.
I’m surprised anyone would doubt the authorship of this twit. It makes me feel better about people that they give Melania the benefit of the doubt.
She wrote it herself. In the past she has stated many times that she is not a “yes or no person” and she and Trump are two independent adults. We shouldn’t hold her accountable for her husband’s actions and we shouldn’t assume that if she says or does something sh!tt!, that’s actually him.
She has been married to this man for many years and you know what happens when you are married? You start to talk very similar. Keep in mind, English IS her second language and she isn’t very good at it either, so she has definitely picked up an expression or two from her partner.
So, please, people, stop with the “Melania not like that, she didn’t write that!” That’s her account, that’s her twit, okay? It says everything we need to know about her. “When people show you who they are – believe them.”
There’s rumor she had something to do with Jeffery Epstein, could it be that she knew too much?
I love how “children” are separate from “American people”. Obviously children aren’t people or Americans. Children are animals that belong in special prisons. Children are just a product to be sold to child trafficking rings…oops! I meant “lost”. BTW has anyone seen Barron?
I might actually break my sense of sarcasm making fun of how oblivious and inhuman these goons are.
I don’t believe she wrote that tweet. She wouldn’t use an idiom like “rest assured.” She’s either sicker than she wants to publicize or she ain’t coming back to the orange lump. If she simply doesn’t want her medical condition to be publicly discussed, that’s entirely her right.
It’s definitely getting stranger considering she didn’t show up for Memorial Day commemorations or for the children’s sports day.
Working hard for the American People my a$$. The only hard work she truly does is attempt to hold it together for that ogre she married.
OT but he’s pardoning D’Souza. I seriously want to scream. How is this real? HOW IS THIS REAL????
Dude PLED GUILTY. Additionally, in case you forgot how racist this piece of sh*t is, I’m here to remind you.
He said of Obama “you can take the boy out of the ghetto”, mocked and derided Michelle Obama as “affirmative action” Princeton student and SAID SLAVERY WASN’T RACIST and that slaves were treated “pretty well” (!!!!) and mocked Rosa Parks.
He suggested the Charlottesville white-supremacist rally (which led to the murder of an anti-racism protester) was a “staged event” designed to make the right look bad; shared a meme calling former President Barack Obama a “gay Muslim” and suggesting Michelle Obama is a man; started a conspiracy theory that the media covered up Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock’s background as an anti-Trump activist (he wasn’t); used a photo of a grieving military widow—despite her protests—to attack football players kneeling during the national anthem; and defended Adolf Hitler, who sent thousands of gay people to death camps, as being “NOT anti-gay.”
I’m going to lose it, guys. The media should be drilling down on this!!! This is insane. How can I still be surprised anymore? Yet somehow I am….Of course these terrible people are celebrating his pardon. I’m literally shaking with anger.
I know. I had to get right off FB when I saw that because my head almost exploded. The man is repugnant and in no way deserves a pardon. Is Trump sending signals to others that he will pardon them?
YES. He’s sending signals but I also think he will pardon anyone who kisses his fat ass.
45 is subhuman. He is the most disgusting piece of sh*t the world has ever seen. Oh and his supporters can go f*ck themselves. They’re all over Twitter CELEBRATING because they’re all racist sh*tbags.
PS-Kaiser, C/B and crew–thank you for letting me rant about this. Phew.
I have a friend who is a dog walker in NYC. She claims there is a ton of secret service personnel all in and around Trump tower now. The New Yorkers say she’s back.
I’ve heard this, too. Several times from several sources.
If it was plastic surgery she could have kept up tweeting updates on her official twitter feed. The tweets sound nothing like her. It is the end of the school year. Perhaps she is bringing Barron back to NY for the summer?
They could have even taken a pic of her in the residence with him and photoshopped her if she is healing. Something is way off.
Yea that tweet is obviously sounding desperate.
I think she’s fine and simply recovering from plastic surgery in NY. Also there are no photo ops because hey maybe she can’t be bothered to do any. The whole family has gotten away with so many things, why would she bother getting out of bed to placate the public.
You know if Hillary was missing from public view for three weeks the dotard would have said Bill killed her. However, her husbands followers does not see anything wrong with not seeing her for nearly a month. If she’s working so hard with her staff I sure there is a date stamp photo available. Never mind, knowing her husband the photo would be doctored. I really don’t care what she is doing or where but the silence from his base is deafening.
Trump frequently uses the phrase “working overtime” in his insane tweets.
FTFY: *American-born people!
I hate her so much.
Lest you all forget, Trump does NOT write his own tweets. Dan Scavino does and he may well have written the one from Melania.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/magazine/dan-scavino-the-secretary-of-offense.html
She is at the Scientology compound they ship the malfunctioning stepford wives to, right? Did I win?
Sigh, quotations are also wrong later in the title: shouldn’t be around ‘proving’, but around “she’s hard at work”.