She didn't appear to be a reporter, despite what the "media" tag clipped to her top indicated. During a news conference on Monday afternoon, Trump cut off a journalist who had begun to ask a question and called on this mystery woman, who identified herself as a 9/11 survivor and a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She asked whether Trump has plans for a veterans hiring program at the new Trump International Hotel, slated to open in September.

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She didn't say she was looking for a job, but Trump somehow sensed it.

"What are you looking for? What kind of a position?" he asked. "Come up here. Come here."

As the woman made her way toward Trump, the billionaire real estate developer remarked that "she looks so smart" and asked the rest of the room, "Do you mind if I do a job interview right now?"

He asked about her experience ("I design") and whether she likes the new building ("Yes"), and that seemed to be good enough for Trump.

"If we can make a good deal on the salary, she's gonna probably have a job," he declared.

When a reporter asked what the heck had just happened, Trump said he simply had a "gut instinct" about the woman.

Call us overly skeptical. But we are talking about the guy who served as his own spokesman under a fake name for a whole decade, after all.