New footage fuels First Lady Melania Trump body double conspiracy

  • 29/08/2018

A new video of Melania Trump has fuelled the conspiracy theory that the US First Lady has a body double. 

The footage was taken in Columbus, Ohio, showing Ms Trump, 48, and her husband US President Donald Trump boarding Air Force One on Friday. 

Conspiracy theorists claim the woman in the video has darker hair than Ms Trump and also appears to have different body language to the First Lady.  

A Twitter account by the name of The Resistance posted the footage asking followers: "Does this look like Melania?"

"I'm guessing they hoped we wouldn't notice. I normally don't get caught up in this stuff, but this is kind of obvious," one woman commented, claiming the woman's confidence and assertiveness in the video doesn't match Ms Trump's demeanour. 

"This woman is confident and assertive. The facial structure is off. I hate to say it, but this person is almost masculine."

Others cruelly slated Ms Trump's (or the body double if you believe the theory) seemingly larger frame, with one person saying, "She also seems to be a little heavier."

The body double claims are nothing new for the First Lady. In July she appeared in Brussels for the NATO summit, sparking fresh rumours of a body double when she stepped off Air Force One with her husband. 

Those claims came just months after Ms Trump disappeared from the public eye after an announcement made by her staff revealed on May 14 she had undergone an embolization procedure to treat a benign kidney condition. 

But the rumour mill first began last year when a photo of Ms Trump wearing large black sunglasses during an appearance sent Twitter into a storm, convincing some people she was using a body double for public events. 

However, the theory was later shot down with photos emerging from the same engagement showing the person pictured in the video was definitely Melania Trump.

During the election campaign Donald Trump supporters reportedly accused his presidential running mate Hillary Clinton of using a body double.

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