PoliticsThe woman married to Donald Trump is not a secret #resistance sympathizer. Melania Trump addresses the Republican National Convention on Aug. 25. Alex Wong/Getty Images“Who gives a fuck about Christmas stuff and decorations, but I need to do it,” Melania Trump told her friend in a recorded phone conversation released by CNN Thursday night. “And then I do it, and I say that I’m working on Christmas planning for the Christmas, and they said, ‘Oh, what about the children, that they were separated?’ Give me a fucking break.”In the tape, recorded in July 2018 by Melania’s former aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who recently published a tell-all about her friendship with the first lady, Melania claimed that she “was trying to get the kid reunited with the mom” but “didn’t have a chance” because it “needs to go through the process and through the law.”She then complained that she wasn’t getting credit from the press for allegedly trying to stop the Trump administration’s systematized child abuse. “They would not do the story,” she said. “You would not believe it. They would not do the story because … they are against us because they are liberal media.”The language was very familiar. The public is just used to hearing it come from a different, more active mouth. Since Donald’s 2016 presidential campaign heated up, fixing Melania’s place in the spotlight, there has been a persistent liberal fantasy that not even his own spouse can really accept the things he says—that she is an unwilling participant in the president’s cruel, wannabe-authoritarian hijinks. Some people who attended the Women’s March carried “FREE MELANIA” signs. Some pored over the Inauguration Day video that showed Melania’s smile at Donald melting into a frown as soon as he looked away. We (I did it too!) chuckled at video clips that showed her rebuffing Donald’s touches, as if she were as disgusted by the president as any of his many detractors. So in case there remained any doubt about whether Melania Trump is supportive of her husband’s racist views, buys into all the Donald-elevating falsehoods promoted by the president’s employees and Fox News, and shares with him a governing philosophy that revolves around taunting his political opponents, let these recordings make it absolutely clear: She is, and she does. Her own private musings were every bit as vicious and self-centered as his public performances. According to CNN, the recording also features Melania suggesting that asylum-seekers are lying about the dangers they face in their countries of origin. And another tape has her claiming that migrant children are amazed by the excellent treatment they receive in ICE jails, where they are “taken care of nicely.” “The kids, they say, ‘Wow I will have my own bed? I will sleep on the bed? I will have a cabinet for my clothes?’ ” Melania said on the tape.