Melania Trump Trolled at Donald's Iowa Rally

A message seeming to troll former first lady Melania Trump flew over an Iowa campaign rally for her husband on Tuesday.

Former President Donald Trump is running for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, bidding to retake the White House. Amid the packed field of candidates, Trump has long maintained a commanding lead, with national polling averages regularly giving him 50 percent support among likely Republican voters, while his closest rivals have struggled to maintain double-digit support.

As is common for presidential candidates early in the electoral cycle, Trump has made a considerable number of campaign stops in Iowa, the state that traditionally holds the first election of the primary season in January. A strong showing in the Hawkeye State can sometimes be a bellwether for success later on in the primary, but not always.

On Tuesday, Trump held another rally in Waterloo, an Iowa city roughly 110 miles northeast of Des Moines. During the event, multiple reporters on the scene noted at one point that a plane flew overhead carrying behind it a banner with a message aimed at Melania Trump: "Melania knows."

Newsweek reached out to the Trump campaign on Tuesday via email for comment.

While the banner seemed to imply that the former first lady had some special behind-the-scenes knowledge of her husband's doings, most likely of a darker nature, there is otherwise no concrete indication of what the message was specifically referring to.

In response to the incident, The Lincoln Project, the political advocacy group founded by prominent anti-Trump conservatives, invited followers on X, formerly Twitter, to guess at the meaning of the message, asking, "Any idea what she knows?"

While most responses were uncertain or crude in nature, several made reference to Trump's purported association with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced former financier who was found guilty of sex trafficking underage women for powerful public figures and died in prison before he could name more of his clients. Trump has in recent years denied any affiliation with Epstein, though older photos have shown the two together at parties and Trump previously claimed in interviews to have had a long friendship with him. Numerous documents related to Epstein's case are set to be unsealed soon.

Elsewhere at the rally, it was reported that Trump was selling numerous Christmas-themed products featuring the mugshot taken of him after he surrendered to authorities in his Georgia election subversion case. Trump has denied all wrongdoing in the case and claimed that it is an attempt to hurt his 2024 political chances.