Melania Trump seems unfazed by her husband’s possible impeachment

From the looks of first lady Melania Trump’s unusually packed schedule, you’d never guess that a member of her immediate family is facing an impeachment inquiry.

Monday morning, she became the only first lady ever to visit the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration, as part of its Red Ribbon Week promoting a drug-free America. Poised in a black sleeveless dress, Trump gave a five-minute speech about her Be Best campaign and equated the dangers of the vaping epidemic to the opioid crisis.

“We need to continue encouraging teenagers and young adults that have fallen into drug addiction to be brave enough to admit it, to talk about it, and to get help,” Trump said. “This also includes addiction associated with ­e-cigarettes and vaping. It is important to me that we all work to educate children and families about the dangers associated with this habit.”

As is typical at her events, she did not answer any questions from reporters.

Meanwhile, President Trump was sending out tweets that Politico’s chief Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza declared in his own tweet to be “objectively insane.”

Early Monday morning the White House had announced it would be withdrawing U.S. troops from northern Syria, clearing the way for a presumed Turkish offensive, leaving vulnerable Kurdish fighters who’d allied with the United States in the fight against the Islamic State.

“. . . If Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done it before!) . . . ,” the president tweeted.

In response, some people circulated an April 2012 tweet from the president’s daughter Ivanka thanking the Turkish prime minister for his help in facilitating the massive two-pronged Trump Towers in Istanbul. Others circulated a 2015 radio interview in which Donald Trump admitted the towers might present “a little conflict of interest.”

By dawn, news was breaking that a judge had ruled President Trump was not immune to prosecution and had ordered him to turn over eight years of his tax returns to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office for the continued investigation into payments of hush money for his alleged affair with adult-movie star and director Stormy Daniels. The president immediately appealed the ruling.

This is not the first time in the past two weeks (yes, it’s been only two weeks) that the first lady has put herself in the spotlight while seeming to ignore any of the chaos surrounding her husband. (Or her family. Yesterday, The Washington Post broke the story that Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, had earned $82 million in 2017 while working as public servants on the administration.)

On Sept. 24, the day that news of the impeachment inquiry broke, Melania Trump had been with her husband as he addressed the U.N. General Assembly. That afternoon, her Instagram account posted a glamorous, sepia-toned photo slide show of her in a Gucci cream-colored wool coat. The night of the speech, she and her husband met with the president of Ukraine at a private assembly. That gathering appeared on none of their social accounts.

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