Trump, Melania's revenge: the unpopular first lady surpasses Donald in the polls
Melania Trump will leave the White House with the lowest level of approval since the beginning of her role as First Lady. But the exit from the scene of the unpopular "prima donna" will still boast an unexpected revenge in her negativity: the consensus victory of 18 percentage points over her husband Donald. While the growing rumors that talk about the end of the presidential marriage due to serious differences are certainly not helpful to the consensus. In a moment in which the paths of the two seem increasingly separate: the president is walking with difficulty and reluctance towards the exit of the Oval office, while Melania already greets, smiling, a life that she has probably never felt really belong to her.
According to a poll conducted by the Network and reported by CNN, 47% of Americans do not favor the work of the outgoing first lady, the worst percentage of her ever recorded during the Trump presidency. Melania will undoubtedly not be remembered in the future as America's most loved First Lady: the highest peak of her popularity recorded dates back to May 2018, with 57% of the opinions in favor of her, but already in December of the same year the consents they had plummeted, especially after the first lady's trip to Africa, when 43% of respondents judged her work favorably.
Perhaps her husband's controversial political instinct, or perhaps her shy and disinterested nature of her, that made them so difficult for Americans to understand. "There has never been a stubborn and rebellious first lady like Melania Trump," Kate Andersen Brower, author of "First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies," tells CNN. "I think she channeled her husband's fury and obviously she is not interested in playing the traditional role of a first lady," she adds.
And the speed with which Melania would have been preparing for days now to leave the White House, after four years of dramatic ups and downs, would signal her desire to put an end to her difficult First Lady experience. "(Melania Trump) is not sad to leave," a White House official told US media.
But despite the decline in her approval, at the time of the end of term greetings, Melania's popularity is still surprisingly greater than that of her husband Donald Trump. The tycoon will leave office on Wednesday, January 20, also with the lowest approval rating of his presidency: 29%, according to the latest Pew Research Center poll. 18% less than those of his wife. The final collapse in Trump's popularity is undoubtedly attributable to the assault by his supporters on the Congress building last January 6 and his refusal to leave the White House, events from which the First Lady would immediately distance herself.
