Donald and Melania made a brief appearance today at an event to honor military mothers ahead of Mother’s Day and Melania introduced her hubby. She cracked the room up doing it. How? Because she made reference to Donald’s *empathy* do you positively love it? There’s a possibility that she doesn’t know what the word means, she’s just trying to get through the script.
MELANIA: Most know my husband as the strong commander in chief, but his empathy transcends the role–
CROWD: *laughs* pic.twitter.com/S36OT51Q5q
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 6, 2026
Oh yes, that empathetic guy, Donald. Social media went on full tilt.
“Empathy ~ the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. Obviously. Melania has gotten into her husband’s Adderall stash,” Canadian liberal commentator Marlene Robertson wrote on X.
“Listening to her botch the English language and describing the human s— machine as empathetic is just a bit much today,” medical coder and former nurse Anastasia Beaverhausen, wrote on X.
“Empathy my a–,” Peter Hopey, former Bleacher Report columnist, wrote on X.
“Melania calling Trump empathetic is peak comedy. Even she knows it’s a joke—the audience just said it out loud,” user Anas, who self-describes as a global strategist, wrote on X.
“Y’all give her a break she doesn’t know English very well,” political commentator Shelby wrote on X.
No, she’s only been in the country 30 years. Give her another thirty.
