Melania Trump taken aback by an allusion to her 50 years: tribute or perfidy?
This Sunday, April 26, Melania Trump will celebrate her 50th birthday. A date on which she does not intend to specifically communicate, especially since the management of Covid-19 by Donald Trump is cringe on the other side of the Atlantic. This April 22, the wife of Vice President Mike Pence could not help but allude to her change of decade in front of the media at the White House. A small cow farm disguised as a tribute?
No need to convince them to maintain social distancing this April 22. In the gardens of the White House, where they celebrated Earth Day with their husbands in front of a handful of journalists and photographers, these two had no trouble retaining gestures of sympathy. Worse, Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Mike Pence, may well have fired a small murderous arrow aimed at Melania Trump, who, despite testing negative for Covid-19, had not appeared alongside her husband Donald since March 10.
Reunited to plant a tree, the two women had to exchange a shovel. As noted by the Daily Mail, when entering the tool, Karen Pence saw fit to slip a "happy birthday in passing" to the First Lady, who will celebrate her 50th birthday this Sunday, April 26. Taken aback and devoid of a mask, an accessory which she nevertheless promotes a contrario of the more libertarian positions of her husband, Melania Trump had no other choice but to respond with a brief "thank you". While one of her recent messages on Twitter sparked controversy, there was no question of reviving the rumor of a quarrel between her and the "Second Lady"
A cold and distant relationship "
Between Karen Pence and Melania Trump, few affinities, however. According to Kate Benett, CNN correspondent and author of Free, Melania: the unauthorized biography, the two women have "an icy and distant relationship." In her astonishing survey released at the beginning of the year, the journalist recalls in particular the tensions that appeared during a trip to Texas, after the passage of Hurricane Harvey, at the end of summer 2017. In full flight , Kate Benett notices that Karen Pence does not travel to the same space as Melania Trump. The "Second Lady" sits with the aides-camps and reporters, while the First Lady is shielded from view.
Did she refuse to join Donald Trump's wife or was she not invited? Kate Benett notices that when they arrive, Melania Trump also takes pleasure in eyeing Mike Pence's wife, much smaller and wearing flat heels, when she usually makes the effort not to put on dizzying heels alongside a guest less spoiled by nature. This kind of "comedic" incident will happen again in April 2019, when they appear in North Carolina.
Very discreet and reluctant to get involved politically, Melania Trump would taste little Karen Pence's appetite for the media, her way of getting involved in the next presidential campaign under the admiring gaze of Donald Trump ... or to justify this involvement. "I just feel like I'm doing my part of the job," said Mike Pence's wife, last January, while traveling in the state of Indiana. Follow his gaze ... Donald Trump's wife prefers to stay behind the gates and walls of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. She has her own room there, and she rubs shoulders with a very different Donald than the one who belches and threatens.
