A California Superior Court judge has ordered Republican President Donald Trump to pay $44,100 to former porn actress Stormy Daniels (birth name Stephanie Clifford) to cover her legal fees incurred by the legal battles around her nondisclosure agreement to keep quiet about her alleged 2006 affair with Trump.
In January 2018, the Wall Street Journal broke the story of Trump paying $130,000 to Clifford as hush money. Their alleged affair is said to have occurred just after Trump’s wife, Melania, had given birth to their son, Barron. Clifford called their sexual encounter “generic.”
Clifford and other Twitter commentators took the occasion of this legal decision to laugh at Trump’s expense.