Jen Psaki

And I was thinking.

Am I hallucinating?

What the hell is going on?

Whose idea was this?

I had lots of questions.

I mean, I guess one possibility is that it's a sign the war really is going that badly.

Certainly going to talk to John Kerry about that.

Another is that they are trying to get ahead of a story that a reporter is working on.

I guess we'll learn if that's the case soon enough.

Who knows?

Now, during her remarks, the First Lady went on to denounce what she described as false smears against her, citing numerous fake images and statements on social media, and saying she said that she wanted to clear her good name.

From what exactly?

Because, again, the unavoidable question on everyone's mind was, why now?

Why at all?

Why ever?

I mean, most people hearing her remarks probably had never even heard any of the so-called lies she was responding to.

According to MSNOW, lots of White House staffers were caught off guard.

And Trump himself claimed, claimed he knew nothing about her statement.

Though that seems a little hard to believe.

Especially when you consider that Melania's own spokesperson told the New York Times that the president knew beforehand that she was going to make a statement.