Donald Trump Says Melania Trump Pulled Off 1 Thing He Never Could
The president then joked about the first lady taking his job.
President Donald Trump on Thursday made a rare admission that someone had succeeded where he often struggles.
That someone was his wife, first lady Melania Trump.
And her success? In gaining bipartisan support to help pass the Take It Down Act, which he signed into law last month.
The president, whose frequent combative rhetoric is hardly conducive to cross-party collaboration, thanked and praised his wife during remarks at the annual White House congressional picnic.
“When I saw that bill pass — bipartisan — I said, ‘You know, I think you’re gonna take my job, Melania… we don’t get so much bipartisan so…’ She didn’t know why. She said, ‘Why is that?’ I said, ‘There is no reason for it, but you did it.’ Congratulations. That’s a great job.’”
The act seeks to protect victims of digital exploitation via harsher penalties for spreading so-called “revenge porn” and nonconsensual deepfakes.
Watch from the 4:45 point here:
