Few marriages are the subject of more speculation than that of US President Donald Trump and Melania, but the first lady has now decided to go on the offensive with an interview
Public opinion is seeking to know how accusations of infidelity have affected the marriage between Donald Trump and Melania. The First Lady says that she “believes in her husband”
Few marriages are the subject of more speculation than that of US President Donald Trump and Melania, but the first lady has now decided to go on the offensive with an interview.
In a conversation with the ABC channel, the former model answers about her husband's alleged infidelities and whether she still loves him.
The station's reporter Tom Llamas accompanied Melania, of Slovenian origin, during her solo tour of several African countries and had the opportunity to speak with her in depth.
According to Llamas, there were no forbidden questions from the First Lady, born Melanija Knavs, who is 24 years younger than her husband. Regarding the alleged infidelities of Donald Trump, 72 years old (and which he denies), Melania Trump's diplomatic response was that she has other things to think about than such speculation.
“I am a mother and a first lady, and I have more important things to do,” she said. But she did not clearly deny that there were infidelities.
“You said that you have a good marriage. Do you love your husband?” the reporter asks her. “Yes, we are doing well,” the First Lady answers briefly. The media speculates and that is nothing more than “gossip.” “It is not always true,” she assures. Of course, speculation is not always pleasant, she concedes, but she is blunt: “I know what is right and what is not and what is true and what is not.”
The marriage, Trump's third, is really the subject of many questions. Images of the president trying to take Melania by the hand and how she seems to do everything possible to deny him have gone around the world. The image of the inauguration in January 2017, when Trump smiles at her and she returns the gesture widely, but when he turns away her face sinks into a look of displeasure, also sparked countless rumors.
The media assures that Donald and Melania have separate rooms in the White House. To dispel the rumors, Melania now claims that she “loves” living in Washington in the White House and that if her husband runs for reelection in 2020, as is speculated, she will support him. “I think my husband does an incredible job for this nation,” she says.
Being First Lady is a glamorous job if you think about Melania's predecessor, Michelle Obama. But the current president's wife barely appeared in public at the beginning of her term and there were even times when she seemed to disappear from the map. Since then, she has regained ground and sometimes focuses on issues that seem to contradict her husband, although she of course denies it.
In May, she created the initiative ‘Be Best’, which deals with children and especially with harassment on social networks, ‘cyber-bullying’. Some analysts believe that the greatest “cyber-bully” of our times is Trump, with Twitter as his main weapon.
Melania did openly confront her husband regarding the “zero tolerance” policy with illegal immigration, which involved the separation of parents and children at the border with Mexico and the confinement of minors alone in camps.
The First Lady traveled there during the summer (northern northern Spain) to get first-hand information. “It was heartbreaking. And I reacted with my own voice,” says Melania in the interview. Llamas reminds her that it was something provoked by her husband’s policy. “Yes, and I let him know that,” she answers. “I told him that it was not acceptable.” Trump then stopped separating families, a sign that Melania may have more influence than is generally believed.
Trump divides America between his supporters, who adore him for his unconventional style of governing, and those who detest him for that very reason. To some extent, this same reaction has been carried over to Melania, notes ABC correspondent Terry Moran: she is a “magnificent First Lady” to those who support Trump and to those who criticize him she is “either the Beauty who lives with the Beast, or the princess trapped in the castle by the dragon.”
