While teasing a new behind-the-scenes look at her own return to the White House, Melania Trump flirted with how she and the president-elect “disagree.”
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After being fairly withdrawn from the public spotlight during much of President Joe Biden’s administration, the once and future first lady made a resurgence in the closing weeks of her husband’s campaign that resulted in victory for President-elect Donald Trump.
Days ahead of their return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, she sat down with “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt to discuss an upcoming documentary where she discussed how they don’t always see eye to eye.
Following questions about preparations to transition back into the White House and staffing her team, Trump was asked by Earhardt, “Do you feel like you’re in a different space now than you were eight years ago?”
“I feel I was always me the first time, as well,” explained the incoming first lady. “I just feel that people didn’t accept me, maybe. They didn’t understand me the way maybe they do now. And I didn’t have much support.”
“Maybe some people — they see me as just the wife of the president, but I’m standing on my own two feet independent. I have my own thoughts. I have my own yes and no,” she went on. “I don’t always agree with what my husband is saying or doing. And that’s okay.”
Interest piqued, the co-host pressed, “Are you able to tell him when you disagree?”
“I give him my advice, and sometimes he listens. Sometimes he doesn’t. And that’s okay,” explained Trump who went on to explain that she would be taking up residence once more at the White House while traveling to the couple’s New York City and Palm Beach, Florida homes as needed. “My first priority is to be a mom, to be First Lady, to be a wife, and once — on January 20, you serve the country.”
Prior to the election, Trump raised eyebrows with the release of her memoir “Melania” which detailed that the then-former president shared her own beliefs on abortion while the GOP leader had been vocal about leaving the matter up to the states.
At the time, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo had asked if Trump had spoken with her husband about her opinion in opposition to the pro-life movement to which she responded, “Yes, he knew my position, my beliefs since the day we met, and I believe in individual freedom I want to decide what I want to do with my body. I don’t want government in my personal business.”
“I think it’s very important and, as I said in the book, and it’s very well explained in the chapter, what does really my body, my choice mean? Because timing really matters and also the restrictions, so I encourage people to read it because we live in the world that everybody should have individual freedom,” Trump went on.
Filming has already begun on the documentary covering the first lady’s return to the White House as directed by Brett Ratner for which Amazon was said to have paid $40 million to license after its theatrical release in the fall.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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