Melania, the worst first lady of the 21st century
Donald Trump's mysterious partner leaves the White House with a failure in approval (42%), although she surpasses her husband's popularity
Melania Trump (50) leaves the White House being a character as hermetic as she when she entered. She also leaves with a fail as first lady, a 42% approval rating, the lowest of her immediate predecessors. Which makes her the worst first lady of the 21st century. Michelle Obama left with 69% popular support, while Hillary Clinton left the White House with 56%. Even Laura Bush was fired with an approval rating of 67% despite her husband, George W. Bush, failing with 35%. Of course, Donald Trump's wife has managed to surpass her husband, who according to a CNN poll leaves office with a measly 33% approval.
Four years ago, the former Slovenian model held up the Bible and the United States Constitution on which her husband was sworn in. Melania wore an elegant sky blue coat-dress, with a funnel-neck jacket and matching long gloves, reminiscent of Jacqueline Kennedy's impeccable style. Everyone thought then that that first lady would be her model. And she was in terms of elegance, but not in terms of charisma. Even her most brilliant speech of hers, at the Republican convention that nominated her husband as a candidate for the US presidency for that party, she plagiarized it from Michelle Obama.
Melania has never abandoned her permanent frown, she has rarely been seen to smile naturally and leaves behind no noteworthy legacy.
Melania has never let go of her permanent frown, she has rarely been seen to smile naturally, and she leaves behind no noteworthy legacy. The woman they say she gave Donald Trump the final push to run for president may have regretted ever doing so. At least she seems like that because of her rudeness towards the president, to whom she has repeatedly denied her hand in public and has even slapped her hands or has remained serious as when he asked her for a smile. The Republican has paid for it by sheltering from the rain under an umbrella and exposing her by walking behind him in the rain.
It is not known if Melania has ever wanted to have a relevant role and could not. She maybe she has been constrained into her role. On October 2, a conversation that she and her former assistant Stephanie Winston Wolkoff had during the summer of 2018 was released. The former model complained about the efforts she was making to decorate the White House for Christmas, as is tradition among the first ladies. , while the journalists only asked him about the separation of the children on the border with Mexico. "Who gives a damn about these things and the Christmas decorations?" She hurt then.
Faced with such a quiet first lady, many have wanted to see a message in her looks
Faced with such a quiet first lady, many have wanted to see a message in her looks. As when in one of the most notorious debates of the Trump era, precisely about "zero tolerance" with immigration that separated thousands of minors from their parents, he decided to wear, during a visit to a migrant children's center in Texas, a Zara jacket that read: "I really don't care, do you?" Her husband, to clear up doubts about whether the message was addressed to him, tweeted that it was a response to the media due to the negative information generated about her.
Since she came to power, the tension between the marriage and the fact that Melania was a loose verse was noted. "They say that I am his accomplice, that I am just like him (...) that I do not speak enough, that I do not do enough", she has been published that she lamented in private. And in the face of the rudeness of her husband, a president who will not attend Joe Biden's inauguration and will not leave him a welcome letter in the White House, as is tradition, she has wanted to be more elegant in the farewell to her. Melania has recorded a message to the American people in which she has been sober and restrained - some media say that she is bland. In seven minutes of speech, the outgoing first lady urges "to choose love over hate and peace over violence" and she mentions Donald Trump only once.
Almost a dozen books have been written about what the woman born in the former Yugoslavia who immigrated to the United States and made it to the White House really is like, but the information has never been first-hand. The wife of the outgoing US president and mother of her young son, Barron, has given few interviews, supported few initiatives, and fled as much of the public eye as possible. Now, according to the news portal Page Six, the about to be former first lady wants to write her memoirs of what she lived these four years in the White House. If she does, she is sure to earn a fortune. She remains to be seen if they will serve, at last, to discover what she is like and what Melania Trump really thinks.
