Left-wing podcaster Jennifer Welch launched a profanity-laced attack on first lady Melania Trump during a recent episode of her show, criticizing both the first lady personally and the Trump family more broadly.
Welch, co-host of the popular “I’ve Had It” podcast with Angie “Pumps” Sullivan, said she had little sympathy for Melania Trump and called her an “absolutely horrific person.”
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“I don’t like anything for Melania,” Welch said in a clip posted to social media.
“And I wish I could be the bigger person and say that I do, but I don’t,” she continued. “I don’t like anything possible for her. She is, I think, just an absolutely horrific person.”
Welch then turned her criticism toward Melania’s marriage to President Donald Trump and the multimillion-dollar documentary deal surrounding the first lady’s film, “Melania.”
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Amazon MGM Studios paid approximately $40 million for rights to the documentary and an accompanying series and spent an additional $35 million on marketing and distribution.
The film followed Melania during the 20 days leading up to Trump’s second inauguration in January 2025.
Welch referred to the $40 million agreement as a “payoff” and used the deal as the basis for making crude assertions about the Trumps’ private relationship.
She broadened the criticism to the entire Trump family, calling them “the most dysfunctional family in the United States” and objecting to what she characterized as efforts to associate the family with traditional Christian values.
Joe and Hunter Biden, however – the kings of grift – get a pass from the likes of lefties like Welch.
Meanwhile, the first lady’s office did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment about Welch’s remarks.
Welch has become an increasingly prominent voice in left-wing political media through “I’ve Had It,” a podcast that mixes politics, cultural commentary and comedy.
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GQ recently profiled Welch as an influential figure in what has sometimes been called the “dirtbag left,” a loosely defined segment of progressive media that favors deliberately provocative, profane and confrontational political commentary rather than traditional messaging.
Welch describes herself as an atheist from the Bible Belt and has frequently criticized conservative politics, organized religion and Republican politicians.
Her podcast has also generated controversy over comments unrelated to the Trump family.
Jennifer Welch: “I don’t like anything for Melania. She is I think just an absolutely horrific person. She cared enough in the bogus $40M payoff she got to make sure everybody in the world knows she does not screw her husband. We are elevating the bad guy right here. We are… pic.twitter.com/Me4FjfRAAi
— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) September 7, 2026
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Comments like this from Welch have undoubtedly motivated others to follow suit against the entire Trump family.
Investigators say the man arrested at Trump’s California golf club possessed extensive information connected to the president’s security operation, including material involving first lady Melania Trump.
Jeanine John Taele, 38, allegedly possessed copies of Melania Trump’s schedule along with information about Secret Service personnel assigned to protect the president, prosecutors revealed during a Los Angeles County court hearing Wednesday.
Authorities said Taele had seven notebooks containing 208 pages of writings, drawings, and sketches connected to Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes.
The notebooks allegedly included Secret Service schedules, information about individual security personnel, and detailed lists concerning how to survive “off the grid,” according to reports.
Los Angeles County Judge John Lonergan Jr. described the allegations as “alarming.”
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“This case itself is alarming in this day and age with the violence that is creeping into our everyday lives, especially with our partisanship in the political environment” ahead of the midterms, Lonergan said, according to The Associated Press.
The new details emerged weeks after plainclothes federal agents allegedly encountered Taele at the golf club on Aug. 2.
Authorities said Taele was walking around the property while taking photographs and videos and appeared to be observing security-planning activities ahead of an expected Trump visit.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies subsequently detained him.
Deputies allegedly discovered a 16-round magazine loaded with hollow-point ammunition inside Taele’s pants pocket.
Investigators then searched his vehicle and allegedly discovered a loaded handgun with a round in the chamber along with another magazine containing hollow-point ammunition.
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