Because Melania was a great first lady
I believe that the time has come, after Alan Friedman's hasty televised statements, but not only for this (petty words that alone qualify those who use them), to praise Melania Trump, the forty-fifth first lady of America. To do it above all for the dignity and decorum, composure and style, with which he faced his role, which was not at all easy and obvious considering the excesses and often borderline exits of the consort president and considered the non-edifying example that it had in its predecessor, namely Michelle Obama.
Let me be clear, here we do not want to make a speech that binds the woman in a corner of her, as the false left feminism would immediately say. It simply means understanding that, as the solons of the other camp pretend to teach us only when it suits them, democracy, and the American one most of all, is made up of forms, liturgies, even rites.
And that of the first lady is a symbolic role as much as ever because she recalls her tradition and values, which for a "people without history" is a not indifferent social cement. You have to respect your role, regardless of gender, just as they respected it, to give just two examples in the other sense, Margareth Thatcher's husband, in her time, and Angela Merkel's, still today. Respecting one's role also means having respect for one's fellow citizens who have not voted for the spouse of a president and who therefore must not see such a person doing politics or preparing, using his spouse, his own political career (as did the Clinton and how, of course a thousand miles, Obama did and continues to do).
It was not easy also because one had the eyes of a media system oriented on one side only, ready to seize every small and human flaw in order to strike the president through intermediaries. And, not hesitating in order to reach the goal, to field the most extreme "sexism", as Friedman did roughly but as all those who have done in the past four years behind a hand denied to Trump or a more frowned face of they usually imagined who knows what marital disagreements or disagreements.
Already forgetting that theirs is a consolidated and long-standing marriage (not counting the equally long engagement) and with a son, Barron, who, in spite of all respect for minors, was even made fun of for some of his widespread Behavioral "disorders" as a teenager.
Melania was able to save him from the prying eyes of these hungry adversaries and she avoided interviews or political positions. However, she was always present and next to her husband, as her role requires. Her intelligence showed her not by talking too much, but simply by her behavior. If, as it seems, Jill Biden will be very present next to her husband but to engage in politics and support the democratic ideology, which is increasingly closed and arrogant, we will truly regret this woman and her wisdom.
