“Where’s Melania?” is a question that has been asked so frequently over the past several years—particularly in the weeks following Donald Trump’s indictment and arrest—that the former First Lady might as well be wearing a red-and-white striped sweater and bobble hat. All of which gave Laura Benanti’s Melania Trump a great excuse to make a triumphant return to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday night.
It’s been a while since “Melania” has paid a visit to The Late Show, but she assured Colbert that she has “never be best better,” which does sound like Melania. She also admitted that she’s relieved to no longer be living in the White House, as it has given her back the free time she was missing to do the things she enjoys most: “Spending time with my family, enjoying roped-off brunches at my live-in golf prison, and disposing of top secret documents.”
Her preferred method for handling that last task? Eating said classified documents. “You can really taste the national security,” Benanti says.