Laura Benanti’s Melania Trump Returns to Wish You a Very Grim Christmas

In order to get into the holiday spirit, Melania Trump has decorated the White House in a style that can only be described as “the nightmare you had after seeing The Nightmare Before Christmas when you were too young to have seen The Nightmare Before Christmas.� But Stephen Colbert’s a fair guy, and so he brought on Melania herself (as played by Laura Benanti) to defend her choices. As it turns out, Melania wasn’t caught in a horror movie when she was watching those ballerinas, she was just “admiring their freedom of movement.� And her main Christmas inspiration is really Santa Claus himself, because “if you can go down a chimney to get into a house, you can climb a chimney to get out of a house.�