President Trump Weighs In on the Stormy Daniels Sketch

For someone who hardly ever misses an opportunity to get in a spat with celebrities and journalists, President Trump's show of self-restraint when it comes to talking about his alleged affair with Stormy Daniels has been curiously uncharacteristic at the least, if not almost impressive. But earlier today, after nearly 100 days of silence on the ongoing scandal, Trump finally took his presidential glove off to speak out on Twitter.

It all began yesterday when Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, recounted a hostile encounter with a mysterious assailant back in 2011, suggesting that Trump's associates threatened to keep her lips sealed about their past. Telling the story during her guest appearance on ABC's The View, Daniels also disclosed a police sketch of her assailant, inevitably starting a flurry of jokes, speculations and theories on social media.

So Trump fired back. Trump retweeted a post from a supporter, alleging that the man in the sketch looks an awful lot like Daniels's husband Glendon Carter. The comparison must have caught Trump's eye because it was enough for him to bring the controversy up to his millions of followers.

A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)! https://t.co/9Is7mHBFda

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 18, 2018

Some Trump supporters on Twitter have equated the pictures as proof of evidence that the story is fake. However, there are many other theories about the man's identity with people suggesting everyone from Trump Organization Director of Security Matthew Calamari Jr. to Academy Award-nominee Willem Dafoe to Super Bowl-winner quarterback Tom Brady.

Matthew Calamari Jr, trump Organization Director of Security? 🧐 pic.twitter.com/8MK9MTIf1m

— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) April 17, 2018

Young Willem Dafoe #idthethug pic.twitter.com/xZWkevqMlk

— Evan Siegel (@evansiegel_) April 17, 2018

Stormy Daniels sketch of man who threatened her in 2011…and Tom Brady in 2011. pic.twitter.com/oRCyDLVSSr

— Matt Viser (@mviser) April 17, 2018

Comedian and video editor Vic Berger tweeted a video alleging that the sketch resembles an unidentified man who appeared on stage with the president and “small-time mobster” Joey “No Socks” Cinque at the 2017 Mar-a-Lago New Years Eve party.

.StormyDaniels</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">MichaelAvenatti Might wanna investigate this guy… pic.twitter.com/EkVwNN8y1M

— Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) April 17, 2018

Daniels’s attorney Michael Avenatti has offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the positive identification of the man in the sketch.

Stormy Daniels claims that in 2011, five years after her alleged affair with Trump, a man approached her in a parking lot in Las Vegas.

“A guy walked up on me and said to me: 'Leave Trump alone. Forget the story,” said Daniels in her March 2018 60 Minutes interview. "Then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said, 'That's a beautiful little girl -- it'd be a shame if something happened to her mom.' And then he was gone.”

Crane, who married Daniels in 2010, has not commented on the incident.