Perhaps leaving the wife out of it entirely would create a more winnable discussion. Trump focusing on the wife was a mistake. Makes it too easy for his enemies to discredit him.
After 20+ years of watching the GOP avoiding saying the wrong thing about the wrong people, some of us find it very refreshing to ‘call it as we see it’. Again, his comment was completely an attack on the illegal alien loving fraud that is the front man for the GOPe.