Trump and her husband left the White House for the last time. They boarded Marine One and headed to Joint Base Andrews, where family, staff, and supporters gathered for a short ceremony.
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Topics range Growing up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, she Search WHHA - start typing and then listen for common searches like yours. Explore the Initiative. The Sessions Podcast. Ines Knauss, pictured above left, is the First Lady's very under-the-radar older sister.
The year-old lives in a Trump-owned apartment—in a building on the Upper East Side in which Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump also resided before they moved into their new house in Washington.
Just a few short blocks away, four to be exact, is Trump Tower, where the first lady and Barron lived in a triplex penthouse.
But the siblings didn't just live by one another, it's been widely reported that they share a very close bond as well. Indeed, the lesser-known Knauss seems to be an artist; and the First Lady has tweeted illustrations by her sister in the past.
But Ines has also posted flashback photographs of her famous sister, like these two from the early s:. And this photo of Melania as a toddler, which she posted while wishing her sister a happy birthday:. A spokesperson said the new hire would help prepare and roll out the first lady's official platform in the coming months. The move came shortly after the publication of the explosive book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House , which described Melania as an unwilling participant in her husband's campaign who broke down in tears the night he was elected.
The first lady was reportedly angered by that account and instructed her staff to push back against the book's claims. More controversy soon surfaced with a report that Donald had been involved with an adult film star a decade earlier, with the starlet allegedly paid to keep quiet just before the election. The first lady subsequently canceled a trip to attend the World Economic Forum in Switzerland with her husband and kept a low profile for several days, prompting speculation of a rift between the two.
On May 7, , Melania unveiled her platform, "Be Best," with a focus on three key objectives: well-being, fighting opioid abuse and positivity on social media. While Be Best's progress was slowed by the departure of the East Wing's policy director in July, Melania circled back to the initiative and spoke at an August 20 conference about preventing cyberbullying. When critics asked how she could address the matter with a straight face on the same morning her husband lashed out at special counsel Robert Mueller and former CIA Director John Brennan on Twitter, a spokesperson said the first lady was "aware of the criticism, but it will not deter her from doing what she feels is right.
In June , the first lady weighed in on the controversial issue of children being separated from their parents after illegally crossing the Mexican border. Although her husband had blamed Democrats for a law that supposedly mandated such actions, it was part of Attorney General Jeff Sessions ' zero-tolerance policy toward preventing illegal entry into the country. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform," she said in a statement through her spokesperson, Stephanie Grisham.
Her spokesperson downplayed the significance of the jacket, insisting there was no hidden message, but the president said it was directed at the "fake news media," tweeting, "Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares! Although she was out of the hospital after five days, the first lady continued to lie low in the following weeks, sparking more concern about her well-being. In early June, her spokesperson said that Melania would not be joining her husband at the G7 summit in Quebec that week and there were "no plans" for her to travel to Singapore to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un later in the month.
Son Barron was also tested and initially tested negative, but it was revealed weeks later that a second test came back positive. In early , with the administration aiming to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, Melania's earlier actions as a foreigner seeking to live and work in the United States came under scrutiny.
She had been granted a green card for permanent residency in March through the EB-1 program, nicknamed the "Einstein visa" due to its allocation to top academics, business leaders, Oscar-winning actors and others who demonstrate "extraordinary ability. It was also revealed that the first lady had sponsored them for their green cards, a process at odds with the president's proposal of a "merit-based" system that sought to curb sponsorship for family members.
The book delved into the first lady's relationships with her husband and step-daughter Ivanka , and provided insight into some of her headline-grabbing moments, like her Obama-inspired speech at the Republican National Convention. In early , as the president tried to steer the country through the major health crisis of the coronavirus outbreak, the first lady offered her two cents by urging the use of face masks and presenting suggestions for family activities via Twitter. In April, she welcomed Grisham back to her staff following the latter's nine-month tenure as White House press secretary.
While Donald's presidency came to a tumultuous close with the deadly U. Capitol riot of January 6, , Melania sought to wind down her days as first lady on a positive note. In , Melania launched a jewelry line, as well as a skincare line. She has appeared in an Aflac commercial, co-hosted on The View and appeared on her husband's reality show, Celebrity Apprentice. Melania is said to be fluent in the Slovenian, English, French, Serbian and German languages, with other outlets reporting that she speaks Italian, as well.
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