Melania Trump snubs Jill Biden and refuses to take her on the White House tour
For Melania Trump there are only a few hours left before she leaves Washington. If the first lady said goodbye to Americans on social networks, she refused to offer Jill Biden a guided tour of the White House. A breach of tradition that made people cringe ...
Donald Trump is clearly not the only one who has difficulty digesting his defeat in the last American elections. This January 19, the CNN channel tells us that Melania Trump deliberately dodged a tradition set up under Truman in 1952: the guided tour of the White House to the one who succeeded her in place of First Lady. It was already in November that the meeting between the two women should have taken place, but Melania would have at the time purely and simply refused to open its doors to Jill Biden. Donald Trump's wife has since had the opportunity to reverse her position several times, but she preferred to remain in solidarity with her husband. The latter will have meanwhile, until the last minute, exhausted every recourse to contest the election of Joe Biden. Only the tragic invasion of the Capitol by his supporters - which cost the lives of five people - ended up pushing him to acknowledge, with lip service, his defeat.
From Washington to Florida for the Trump couple
The nomination of Joe Biden will take place this Wednesday, January 20 and Melania Trump will have held her position until the end. A state of affairs that struck the United States. "Melania Trump will become the first First lady in modern history not to invite the woman who will replace her to the White House for a tour of the private quarters of the second and third floors," CNN reported. Kate Andersen Brower, contributor to the journal specializing in first ladies, explained that all First Ladies without exception had complied with the exercise of Bess Truman who had the first invited Mamie Eisenhower, to Laura Bush. Michelle Obama had received Melania even though "Donald Trump had questioned the citizenship of her husband".
“This tradition has long been one of the first lady's unwritten obligations. And Melania Trump got rid of it,” she laments. However, we cannot accuse the Trumps of inconsistency. The couple declined to attend Joe Biden's nomination and will be leaving Washington before the ceremony begins. By the time the 46th President is sworn in, the Trumps will be on their way to their luxurious residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, which has 58 bedrooms, 33 bathrooms, 2 swimming pools, 5 tennis courts and a golf course. With such an area, the couple might well need ... a guided tour.
