Trump just let slip a mortifying truth about his marriage to Melania. Many won't dare admit it... but countless women silently suffer the same problem: LIZ JONES

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'My wife hates when I do this!'

That was the President of the United States on Tuesday night, speaking to an assembled group of Republican lawmakers in Washington, while performing his habitual dance to the Village People's 'YMCA.'

'She's a very classy person, right?' he bellowed happily. 'She said, "It's so unpresidential." I said, "But I did become president."'

Trump then divulged that First Lady Melania has also asked him to stop mimicking struggling female weightlifters – part of his efforts to dramatize the injustice of transgender athletes competing against biological women.

'The weightlifting is terrible,' he quoted Melania as saying.

But still, the President was undeterred.

'I want to be more effusive,' he told the audience. So, garnishing his embarrassing pantomime, he stuck his tongue out like a demented spaniel with a great deal of red-faced gurning and straining.

Gals, we've all been there, haven't we?

Except, mercifully, not on a world stage.

'My wife hates when I do this!' That was the President of the United States on Tuesday night (pictured) 

Our husband-induced humiliations happen in supermarkets, restaurants, while parking the car or even putting out the trash.

Triggers for when you know you will be rolling your eyes, apologizing profusely to anyone within range, include barbeque season. We are talking about a six-month sentence of him wielding tongs while wearing shorts.

Weddings. Despite you marching him to the tailor, he emerges in patterned socks, a shirt that isn't white and a hideous tie, thinking it makes him interesting. It doesn't. Worse, as best man, at the crucial moment he delves for a much-used grey hanky and starts excavating.

Watching sports. He tells anyone who will listen, he could have 'gone pro' if only he hadn't been injured/married/unlucky.

At supermarket check-out. He engages the cashier in conversation, trying to prove he's a man of the people.

Funerals. He hums Monty Python's, 'Always look on the bright side of life.'

All of the above prompt us to elaborately eye roll and, just like Melania, wail 'Darling, please. It's terrible' resignedly, knowing he won't take offense or indeed one blind bit of notice.

And did you clock Donald's childish riposte: 'But I did become president.'

It's the sort of skewed, toddler logic that drives women nuts. Much like when my (now former) husband parried my allegation that he 'doesn't have a leg to stand on,' firing back: 'Yes, I do, I'm a millipede.'

Yes, it's enough to make you want to tear your hair out, but in the end has you falling down laughing.

At a party, you know he's revving up for your mortification when you see his arms moving! You cover your eyes but can't fail to glimpse the shocked faces and hear the laughter as he breaks out his Chandler Bing dance moves.

Trump then divulged that First Lady Melania has also asked him to stop mimicking struggling female weightlifters (pictured) 

'She's a very classy person, right?' he bellowed happily about First Lady Melania Trump. 'She said, "It's so unpresidential." I said, "But I did become president"' 

Gals, we've all been there, haven't we? Except, mercifully, not on a world stage (Pictured: Columnist Liz Jones)

You try to become a human straitjacket, shut him down, but in return he hugs you back. 'My wife hates it when I do this!' he tells the assembled group of horrified friends and you both end up dancing.

Of course, the President's 'My wife hates this' remark has once again triggered the 'Free Melania' folks, who are convinced that the First Lady is trapped in a loveless marriage and wants out. But, believe me, she's not. What the good-natured joshing proves is the opposite: that Donald and Melania appear to have a loving marriage.

Unconventional? Indeed.

Tumultuous? Surely.

It's no stretch to imagine that they have had their troubles (cheating claims and abhorrent remarks caught on camera). But for the President to tell the world that Melania finds him embarrassing is a sign of a healthy union.

There is a level of intimate tenderness in being able to tolerate each other with good humor and, let's face it, acceptance and resignation that defies onlookers, who wonder how on earth you put up with him.

The fact that a man finds a woman's barely muted intolerance funny also shows deep affection, while if she finds the big lump merely embarrassing and not repugnant, abusive, coercive, mean and lazy serves only to prove a marriage works.

Moreover, that Trump shows a surprising lack of ego and a good dollop of humanity – both essential qualities in the most powerful man in the world – is encouraging.

Of course, I eventually divorced my husband not because he danced like a sitcom clown, but due to his serial infidelity.

I first knew something was up when the light-hearted banter turned nasty, such as him to me, 15 years his senior, 'Don't break a hip!' And, arriving at a hotel, 'Shall I ask if they have a stair lift?'

Conversely, the Trumps are demonstrating a vital, healthy part of being married… the wife thinking the husband is a buffoon. And him accepting that he most definitely is one.

We can safely surmise that Melania is most definitely not a trophy wife. She did not marry him for his money and status. If she had, what you would see instead is deference, a hint of fear, silence, not gentle teasing and telling him off.

She is his equal, tells him he's ridiculous when he's surrounded by 'yes' men. In short, she keeps him grounded.