Melania Trump: Hardest part of being first lady is 'opportunists who are using my name'
Source: CNN
Updated 11:33 PM ET, Wed December 12, 2018
(CNN)Melania Trump said the hardest thing she has to deal with as first lady is feeling like there are people in the media and in the public who trade on her name to advance their own careers.
"I would say the opportunists who are using my name or my family name to advance themselves, from comedians to journalists to performers, book writers," Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Wednesday when asked what has been the hardest thing about being first lady.
"Does it hurt?" Hannity asked.
"It doesn't hurt. The problem is they're writing the history and it's not correct," Trump responded.
"They like to focus on the gossip and I would like to ... focus on the substance, and what we do, not just about nonsense," Trump said.
Trump has spoken out in the past about feeling ridiculed by the mainstream media and her husband's political opponents. She said in an interview with ABC News in October that her feelings of being "bullied" led her to create her cyberbullying initiative "Be Best," which is her primary policy focus as first lady.
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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/12/politics/melania-trump-opportunists/index.html
Gee, Hannity sure has priorities--interviewing Melania now.
Any empathy I might have had for her was lost the day she boarded the plane to visit kids who had been separated from their parents by the Trump administration.
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What happened next? How Melania Trump’s jacket revealed her true politics to the world
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/dec/12/what-happened-next-how-melania-trumps-jacket-revealed-her-true-politics-to-the-world
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When the first lady arrived to meet children separated from their families with a coat emblazoned with the words ‘I really don’t care. Do U?’ what was she trying to tell us?
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Melania Trump departs Andrews air force base in Maryland wearing her Zara jacket. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty
From a fashion point of view, 2018 peaked – or rather, troughed – one Thursday in June, when the US first lady wore a green army jacket emblazoned with the slogan “I really don’t care. Do U?” to visit a shelter for unaccompanied children. Many of the children were in the Texas facility after being separated from their parents, an immigration policy for which President Trump was being denounced as heartless.
The jacket was 2018 in a nutshell. A story almost laugh-out-loud in its absurdity, and yet deadly serious. (The strapline for this year could surely be: “Yes, that really happened.”) An outrageous White House play that became a lightning rod for the spotlight. A Trump move that does not even pretend to appeal to voters’ highest instincts, but instead encourages their darkest, meanest side with an enabling wink.
The television cameras that documented Melania Trump walking up the steps of her plane at an airfield in Maryland that morning were afforded, as she had known they would be, a lingering back view of her outfit. Some of the 6in-high letters were obscured by the hood, but within minutes of the image landing on social media, the jacket (£39.99 from Zara in 2016) and its slogan had been identified.
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Grisham was right, of course. There was no hidden message. Quite the opposite. The message was literally spelled out in large letters. The vocabulary was brash, the rhythm jarring, there was random capitalisation and abbreviation. Exactly like one of @realDonaldTrump’s tweets. This was the moment when the world realised that Melania was not secretly signalling to be saved, but really was Donald’s partner and ally. The Save Melania movement had been a joke, but one that expressed a truth, which was that of a world not taking Trump quite seriously. It expressed a buried hope that maybe the Trump White House was somehow a hoax. The jacket was one of the moments when 2018 pointed out to us: yes, this really is happening.
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Pot meet kettle. 
i used the c word in reference to sam b quote and the du police came after me hot and heavy.
perhaps my error is i used the word feckless and not vapid
take care
I've had it with this UNAMERICAN family who cares for no one but themselves. Barron is innocent and Tiffany as well, most likely. The rest of them can go straight to hell.
to silicone. Excuse me, "saline solution". I read that silicone is no longer used to "augment" gold digger's breasts.
Not that it matters, but she doesn't do a damned thing for me. 
There's nothing real about her at all. All form and absolutely no substance.
I notice this was before she got her eyes turned into slits by a plastic surgeon. She was actually very pretty when she was a young model:
I do believe that Michelle Obama's record breaking sales of her book "Becoming" is getting under her thin, surgically altered skin
She is as much of a snowflake as her Dotard husband.
