Melania Trump puts an end to rumors after public appearance
After nearly a month of absence, the first lady of the United States, Melania Trump, reappeared to end speculation about her health and her relationship with President Trump.
Never before has Melania Trump been talked about as much as now. She has gone from disappearing from public life and becoming the target of the national and international press. On Wednesday, June 8, she and her husband attended a ceremony on the beginning of the hurricane season. Last year, her clothing and footwear while she visited the areas affected by the hurricanes in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico made her the main protagonist; And this year, it has been precisely the absence of it that has put it back in the focus of all the objectives.
She was seen on Wednesday but she was not heard throughout the event. Donald Trump was grateful and happy that his wife is back by his side and recovered from him. "She went through a little slump, but she's doing great," Trump said at the start of the meeting. The president then turned to Melania and ended by saying that "the people of this country love you. Thank you, darling." To which Melania responded with a discreet smile.
Everything changed as a result of the publications at the beginning of May in which Donald Trump admitted that he was aware of the payments made to the porn actress "Stormy Daniels" in exchange for her silence. That day, several tabloid media reported that the first lady apparently suffered an anxiety attack as a result of reading the information about the alleged "affair" of her husband. In fact, the first lady she promptly canceled plans to travel to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
On May 10, she and her husband received the three Americans freed by North Korea and this was the last that she was seen. Four days later, Melania had to be hospitalized and the news caught everyone by surprise. There is no formal statement as to why; which led to speculation. The first lady was admitted to Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, to be operated on for a benign kidney condition. Many experts confirm that it is a simple operation that does not require hospitalization, even so, Melania was hospitalized for 5 days.
Shortly after, her communication team confirmed to the media that Melania was home. But she is not seen, no one gets any image of her. The rumors begin to grow and the pressure is such that the first lady is forced to communicate with the world, following the customs of her husband; through her Twitter. “I see that the media are working overtime speculating about where I am, what I am doing. Resting in the White House with my family, feeling perfect and working hard for children and Americans, ”she said.
Shortly after, Melania's spokeswoman announced that the first lady will not accompany her husband to the G7 celebration that will take place in Quebec, Canada. In fact, on the morning of June 8, in a meeting with journalists, Donald Trump said that his wife wanted to have attended the meeting in Canada, but after a 4-hour operation the doctors had advised her not to travel. Soon after, the same spokeswoman announced that Melania will not attend the meeting in Singapore with the North Korean president on June 12.
This time the presidential couple had to make a greater effort to justify the absence of the first lady. To do this, the Slovenian attended a private event without journalists in honor of the families of the fallen. It is important to convey a return to normalcy. Many wonder why journalists were not allowed into the event. So Melania finally shows up, just last Wednesday. This time she sees him, but she doesn't say a word. She remains silent, smiling.
The one who spoke on her behalf that day was the former mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, now part of the president's legal team. In a conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, the lawyer assured that "she (Melania) believes in her husband and knows that it is not true." Few hours later, Melania Trump discredits Giuliani through her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, who assures that "I do not believe that Mrs. Trump has discussed her thoughts on anything with Mr. Giuliani." She is still not hearing a word from her own mouth.
Melania Trump, a different first lady
The figure of her inspires mystery. Either because of her evasion when it comes to grabbing her husband's hand in public, or because of her absence in meetings where she should be, the truth is that Melania Trump has unleashed the interest of many within and outside the United States. The first lady never liked the idea of leaving New York, which became clear after it took her 5 months to settle in the White House after Donald Trump's presidential victory.
She also did not expect that this moment could come, many media have assured that the first lady cried when she learned that her husband had been chosen, and that they were not tears of joy.
Possibly that has to do with the expression of sadness that many media have attributed to him. It did not help either that in an interview with RTL radio and Le Monde newspaper, the French first lady said that “Melania cannot do anything, she cannot even open a window in the White House. She can't go out. " A house where she sometimes doesn't even see her husband for several days. The Washington Post newspaper recently explained in an article that the Slovenian lives in a different wing of the house than her husband's and that their schedules are completely incompatible.
And it is that her role in the White House has undoubtedly been very different from that of her predecessor, Michelle Obama, who arrived with a fairly tight schedule. Unlike her, Melania took her time. Nor does her lack of transparency and spontaneity come close to that of the former first lady. And it is still not known exactly what has happened in these 26 days, nor has the exact health problem that Melania Trump had been known, nor what her recovery has consisted of. Only, it has been confirmed that she is fine, something, that after having seen her, it is clear.
She will have to wait now to see what her appearances in public are like before confirming that everything returns to "normal". But what is clear is that, despite everything, Melania has managed to win the affection of the Americans. The people, as Donald Trump said, want it.
