ملانيا ترمپ

(تم التحويل من ميلانيا ترامب)
ملانيا ترمپ
Melania Trump
Melania Trump official portrait.jpg
السيدة الولايات المتحدة الأولى
فترة رئاسته
20 يناير 2017
الحالية
تولى المنصب
20 يناير 2025
الرئيسدونالد ترمپ
سبقهميشيل أوباما
تفاصيل شخصية
وُلِد
ملانيا ناڤس

26 أبريل 1970 (العمر 55 سنة)
نوڤو مستو، جمهورية سلوڤنيا الاشتراكية اليوغسلاڤية
الجنسيةأمريكية
الحزبالحزب الجمهوري[1]
الزوج
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(m. 2022)​
الأنجالبارون ترمپ
الإقامة
التوقيع
صوت ملانيا ترمپ.
ملانيا عند مغادرة عائلتها البيت الأبيض.
سُجل 18 يناير 2021


ملانيا ترمپ ( []məˈlɑːniə[]؛ وُلد باسم ملانيا ناڤس؛ []؛ بالألمانية Melania Knauss؛ و. 25 أبريل 1970)، هي عارضة أزياء سلوڤينية أمريكية سابقة، وقرينة الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترمپ. وهي السيدة الأولى للولايات المتحدة من 2017 حتى 2021، ومرة أخرى منذ عام 2025. وهي أول مواطنة أمريكية مجنسة تصبح سيدة أولى، وثاني سيدة أولى تُولد في الخارج، بعد لويزا آدمز، وثاني سيدة أولى كاثوليكية، بعد جاكلين كندي، وثاني سيدة أولى تحمل هذا اللقب لفترتين غير متتاليتين، بعد فرانسيس كلڤلاند.

وُلدت ملانيا ناڤس (Melanija Knavs) في ي يوغوسلاڤيا، حيث بدأت العمل كعارضة أزياء وهي في السادسة عشرة من عمرها أثناء دراستها. غيّرت اسمها إلى ملانيا ناڤس (Melania Knauss)، وسافرت إلى پاريس وميلانو بحثاً عن فرصة للعمل في عرض الأزياء قبل أن تلتقي پاولو تسامپولي؛ الذي وظّفها وتكفل بمصاريف هجرتها إلى الولايات المتحدة عام 1996. عملت كعارضة أزياء في منهاتن، حيث عرّفها تسامپولي على دونالد ترمپ عام 1998، الذي بدأت بمواعدته بعد ذلك بوقت قصير. سعى ترمپ جاهداً لتوفير المزيد من فرص العمل لملانيا في مجال عروض الأزياء، ودعمته خلال حملته الرئاسية عام 2000. تزوجت ملانيا ودونالد ترمپ عام 2005، ورُزقا بابنهما بارون في العام التالي. وفي 2009 أطلقت ملانيا علامتها التجارية الخاصة للمجوهرات التي تحمل اسم ملانيا.

بعد تشجيع ترمپ على الترشح للرئاسة في انتخابات 2016 لم تظهر ملانيا أثناء الحملة إلا نادراً، واختارت مساعدة ترمپ في وضع الاستراتيجية الانتخابية. أثناء الحملة، حظيت ملانيا بتغطية إعلامية واسعة عندما كُشف عن صور إباحية لها عندما كانت تعمل كعارضة أزياء، ومرة أخرى عندما وُجد أن نص الخطاب الذي ألقته في المؤتمر الوطني الجمهوري 2016 مسروقاً من خطاب مماثل ألقته ميشيل أوباما. في الشهر السابق للانتخابات، دافعت عن زوجها بعد نشر شريط أكسس هوليوود الذي كان بمثابة فضيحة مدوية لحملة ترمپ الانتخابية.

أقامت ميلانيا ترامب في منهاتن خلال الأشهر الأولى من توليها منصب السيدة الأولى، وذلك ليتمكن نجلها بارون من إتمام دراسته هناك، بالإضافة إلى إعادة التفاوض بشأن اتفاق ما قبل الزواج. وبعد انتقالها إلى البيت الأبيض، قلّلت من أنشطتها العامة مقارن بسابقاتها من السيدات الأوائل. شهد عام 2018 جملة من التحديات بالنسبة لها، شملت فضيحة ستورمي دانيلز المرتبطة بزوجها دونالد ترمپ، ومزاعم بعلاقات خارج إطار الزواج، إلى جانب خضوعها لجراحة بسبب مرض كلوي، فضلاً عن جولة لها في أفريقيا جذبت اهتماماً واسعاً بسبب اختياراتها في الأزياء وتصرفاتها الشخصية. خلال منصبها كسيدة أولى، أولت ميلانيا اهتماماً خاصاً بقضايا الأطفال، وأطلقت حملة "كن الأفضل" (Be Best) التي ركّزت على رعاية الأطفال، وزارت العديد من مستشفيات الأطفال. كما لعبت دوراً استشارياً لزوجها، وأسهمت في التأثير على بعض قراراته، مثل إنهاء سياسة فصل العائلات، وحظر خراطيش السجائر الإلكترونية بنكهة الفاكهة. وفي الأشهر الأخيرة من فترة وجودها في البيت الأبيض، دعمت مزاعم زوجها غير المثبتة بشأن تزوير الانتخابات الرئاسية الأمريكية 2020. وبعد مغادرتها البيت الأبيض عام 2021، ابتعدت إلى حدّ كبير عن الحياة العامة، قبل أن تعود إلى منصب السيدة الأولى مجدداً عام 2025.

حياتها المبكرة

وُلدت ملانيا في نوڤو مستو، سلوڤنيا (التي كانت جزءاً من يوغسلاڤيا، في 26 أبريل 1970.[2][3] والدها، ڤكتور ناڤس، كان من بلدة راديچى المجاورة، وكان يدير وكالة للسيارات والدراجات النارية لشركة تصنيع السيارات socially-owned.[4][5] والدتها أمليا (اسمها قبل الزواج أولچنيك) من قرية راكا وكانت تعمل رسامة نماذج تفصيل في مصنع يوترانيكا لملابس الأطفال في سڤنيكا.[6][7] كطفلة، كانت ملانيا وأطفال آخرين من العاملين في المصنع يشاركون في عروض الأزياء لملابس الأطفال.[8] كان لها أخت أكبر، إنس، والتي كانت تعمل فنانة و"المقربة منها منذ فترة طويلة"،[9][10][11] ولديها أخ غير شقيق يقال أنها لم تلتق به أبداً- من علاقة سابقة لوالدها، [12][13] يُدعى دنيس شيگلنيا.[14] أنكر والدها أبوته لدنيس حتى بعد أن تأكد ذلك من خلال اختبار الأبوة.[15]

نشأت ملانيا في شقة متوسطة في كتلة سكنية بمدينة سڤنيكا، في وادي ساڤا السفلي.[16][17] كان والدها عضو في رابطة الشيوعيين السلوڤينية، التي تتبنى سياسة إلحاد الدولة.[18] إلا أنه يشاع أنه قام [[تعميد (كاثوليكة)|بتعميدي] ابنتيه سراً ككاثوليك. عندما التقى آل ترمپ بالپاپا فرنسيس في الڤاتيكان عام 2017، اشترت ملانيا مسبحة وردية وطلبت من الپاپا أن يباركها.[19][20]

عندما كانت ملانيا في فترة المراهقة، انتقلت برفقة عائلها إلى منزل من طابقين في سڤنيكا.[21] كطالبة ثانوية، عاشت ملانيا في شقة بمدينة ليوبليانا. التحق بمدرسة التصميم والتصوير الثانوية في ليوبليانا،[22] ودرست العمارة والتصميم في جامعة ليوبليانا لسنة واحدة قبل أن تترك الجامعة.[23][24][25]

عارضة الأزياء

ملانيا في حفل كيو ڤي سي رد كارپ، 2011.

العمل في أوروپا

Melania was discovered by Slovenian fashion photographer Stane Jerko when she was sixteen, after modeling in a school-sponsored show.[26][27] At the time, she had wanted to be a fashion designer rather than a model.[15] Melania won a modeling contest with the Italian studio Cinecittà that entitled her to a movie role, but she rejected the prize after a producer sexually propositioned her.[28] As her modeling career progressed, Melania took on an alternate spelling of her name, Melania Knauss. She traveled Europe to find modeling work.[29][30] Except for a few close relatives, she did not maintain contact with anyone she knew in Slovenia.[31] In 1992, Melania was named runner-up in the Jana Magazine Look of the Year contest, which promised its top three contestants an international modeling contract.[2][29][15] She signed with RVR Reclame in Milan, but she left the organization a few months later.[32]

Melania spent the following years traveling Europe for modeling jobs, including one in which she portrayed the first female president of the United States in 1993.[33] Around age 23 or 24, she made Paris her primary residence, where she lived with her roommate Victoria Silvstedt.[34] Melania modeled for fashion houses in Paris and Milan, where in 1995 she met Metropolitan Models co-owner Paolo Zampolli, who was on a scouting trip in Europe. Zampolli, a friend of her future husband Donald Trump,[8] became one of the few people who was involved in Melania's life for a long time.[35]

الانتقال إلى نيويورك

Zampolli urged Melania to travel to the United States, where he said he would like to represent her.[8] In 1996, Melania moved to Manhattan.[8][15] By this time, she was already 26 years old, much older than most aspiring models.[36] Zampolli encouraged Melania to live near and socialize with people in the fashion industry,[37] and he arranged for her to share an apartment with photographer Matthew Atanian in Zeckendorf Towers in Union Square.[38][8] Her rent was taken from her pay with Zampolli's agency.[39] Once she resided in the United States, she returned to her home country only sparingly and only for short periods of time.[40] She lived a healthy lifestyle, managing her diet carefully,[41] and she avoided the drinking and partying that often consumed the lives of the models around her.[42] She did not lead an active social life and only went out on rare occasions.[42][41] Melania was featured in a sexually explicit photo shoot for a 1997 issue of Max, a French men's magazine, with another female model. The photos were shot by the photographer Alexandre Ale de Basseville, and the work was unpaid, instead promising Melania exposure in a prominent magazine. The photos were largely forgotten until they were published by the New York Post in 2016.[43]

For her first weeks in the United States, her travel visa did not allow her to work in the country. Despite this, she accepted ten modeling jobs that earned her approximately $20,000 (equivalent to $30٬000 in 2022). She then received an H-1B visa that allowed her to work.[37] She received her first major job when she posed for a Camel cigarette ad shot by Ellen von Unwerth, which was displayed as a Times Square billboard and ran in Rolling Stone. The opportunity came about from a law that required cigarette ads to only feature individuals above the age of 25, which excluded most aspiring models.[44] When her roommate Atanian left New York, Melania moved to an apartment off of Park Avenue.[45]

الزواج والعائلة

لقائها بدونالد ترمپ

دونالد ترمپ وملانيا عام 1999.

في سبتمبر 1998، قام پاولو تسامبولي بتقديم ملانيا إلى رجل الأعمال العقاري دونالد ترمپ خلال إحدى الحفلات.[46] كان لدى ترمپ موعد مع سلينا ميدلفارت لحضور الحفل. وعندما طلب رقم هاتف ميانيا، امتنعت عن إعطائه رقمها وأصرت أن يزوّدها هو برقم هاتفه. وقد اجتاز اختبارها حين قدم لها عدة أرقام شخصية بدلاً من الاكتفاء برقم مكتبه.[47][48] وقد أوضحت ملانيا] لاحقاً أن سبب رفضها إعطاء رقمها الشخصي في ذلك اللقاء كان خشيتها أن تُصبح "واحدة فقط من بين النساء اللواتي يتصل بهن" ترمپ.[47] تظل التفاصيل الدقيقة حول زمان ومكان اللقاء غير مؤكدة، غير أن بعض الروايات تشير إلى أن نادي كيت كات كان الموقع المرجّح لحدوثه.[49]

بعد أسبوع من ذلك، اتصلت ملنيا بترمپ وخرجا في موعد.[50] تعمدت ملانيا التحفظ تجاه محاولات ترمپ، مدركة أن ذلك قد يثير اهتمامه بشكل أكبر.[51] لم يُشبه ترمپ والد ملانيا في شخصيته فحسب،[52][53][54] بل كان الاثنان في العمر نفسه تقريباً، كما وُجد بينهما شبه في المظهر الجسدي.[15][53][55] مع بداية علاقتهما، اطلعت ملانيا على كتاب ترمپ ترمپ: فن العودة، حيث أوضح فيه بالتفصيل ما يتطلع إليه من العلاقة.[56][57]

ملانيا ودونالد ترمپ يلتقيان بالرئيس بيل كلينتون عام 2000.

في 8 سبتمبر، عقدت ملانيا مؤتمراً صحفياً استعرضت خلاله مسيرتها المهنية، وصرّحت بأنها ذات "شهرة عالمية" و"من بين أعلى خمسين عارضة أزياء أجراً في العالم"، كما أعلنت أنها ستشارك في فيلم إلى جانب الممثل ميكي رورك.[58] كان الهدف من المؤتمر تعزيز صورتها الإعلامية تمهيداً لحملة إعلانية جديدة للسجائر، غير أن هذه الحملة لم ترَ النور في نهاية المطاف.[59] اعتُبر هذا التصرف غير معتاد بالنسبة لملانيا، التي عُرفت عادةً بالحفاظ على هدوئها واحترافيتها،[60] كما لم يتمكن المراسلون من التحقق من صحة الادعاءات التي طرحتها.[61]

صرح دونالد وملانيا أنهم التقوا خلال أسبوع الموضة في نيويورك بعد فترة وجيزة من ذلك المؤتمر، غير أن كاتبة السيرة ماري جوردان تشير إلى أن الشائعات المتداولة في الوسط كانت تفيد بأن علاقتهما كانت قد تطورت بالفعل قبل ذلك الموعد.[60] في بداياتها، لم تستمر العلاقة بين ملانيا ودونالد سوى بضعة أسابيع. فقد أنهتها ملانيا بعدما شاهدت صديقته السابقة كارا ينگ تغادر برج ترمپ، لكنها عادت والتقت به مجدداً في الأسبوع التالي.[62]

علاقتها مع دونالد ترمپ

وفّرت شهرة دونالد ترمپ واتصالاته لملانيا فرصًا مهنية جديدة عززت من حضورها في عالم الأزياء والإعلام.[63] بعد فترة وجيزة من وفاة جاكلين كندي، التي كانت ملانيا ووالدتها من أشد المعجبات بها، التقت ملانيا بعض أفراد عائلة كنيدي خلال إحدى الحفلات.[64] واصلت ميلانيا لقاء المشاهير من مختلف المجالات خلال مشاركتها في الفعاليات برفقة دونالد.[65]

استمرت ملانيا في ممارسة عملها كعارضة أزياء بعد ارتباطها بدونالد،[8] غير أن نشاطها في هذا المجال أخذ يتراجع تدريجياً مع مرور الوقت، فيما خصصت جزءاً أكبر من وقتها له.[66] عام 1999، أثار الزوجان الاهتمام بعد ظهورهما في برنامج مقدم البرامج الصادمة هوارد سترن، حيث وُجهت إليهما أسئلة شخصية ذات طابع جنسي.[67] كان دونالد يُظهر ملانيا في الاجتماعات العامة، مُشيداً بجمالها، لكنه لم يُشركها في شؤون العمل، مُعللاً ذلك بخلافاته السابقة مع زوجته الأولى عندما شغلت منصباً تنفيذياً.[68]

ملانيا بصحبة كيلي باكس، دونالد ترمپ، والرئيس الأمريكي في ذلك الوقت بيل كلنتون عام 2000.

في 7 أكتوبر 1999 أعلن دونالد ترشحه للانتخابات التمهيدية الرئاسية لحزب الإصلاح، وقد دعمت ملانيا هذه الخطوة بشدة.[69] عندما سألتها صحيفة نيويورك تايمز عن الدور الذي ستؤديه في حال أصبح دونالد رئيساً، صرحت ملانيا بأنها ستتخذ دوراً تقليدياً للغاية، على غرار بتي فورد أو جاكي كندي.[70] حظيت ميلانيا باهتمام إعلامي واسع، إذ تناولت صحف المشاهير فكرة احتمال أن تصبح عارضة أزياء في موقع السيدة الأولى، وهو ما أثار فضولاً وتساؤلات حول صورتها العامة والدور الذي قد تضطلع به في هذا الموقع.[71]

كانت ملانيا من أوائل العارضات اللواتي التحقن بوكالة ترمپ لإدارة عارضات الأزياء عقب تأسيسها في فبراير 1999. وخلال الأشهر اللاحقة، ظهرت في عدد من المجلات والحملات الإعلانية التي أُنجزت بترتيب من شخصيات مقربة من دونالد، مما أسهم في تعزيز حضورها المهني والإعلامي.[72] بينما كان دونالد منشغلاً بتنظيم حملته الانتخابية، ظهرت ملانيا في عدد فبراير من مجلة سپورتس إلوستريتد لملابس السباحة. وقد ارتدت في جلسة التصوير بيكيني، وظهرت إلى جانب حوت كبير قابل للنفخ، تحت إشراف المصور أنطوان ڤرگلاس، الذي كان أحد مساعدي تسامبولي.[73] بعد فترة وجيزة من جلسة التصوير تلك، تواصل المصور أنطوان ڤرگلاس مع ملانيا مجدداً من أجل مشروع آخر، ظهرت فيه عارية في وضعية جمالية مستوحاة من شخصية فتاة بوند.[74] صرّحت ميلانيا لاحقًا، في منشور على منصة إكس في سبتمبر 2024، بأنها تقف "بفخر وراء عملها في عرض الأزياء العاري".[75] كان دونالد قد مارس ضغوطًا من أجل إدراج ميلانيا في أحد أعداد مجلة جي كيو،[76] وقد أتاحت علاقتها بدونالد استخدام طائرته الخاصة من طراز بوينگ 727 كموقع للتصوير، ونُشرت الصور في عدد يناير 2000 من مجلة جي كيو.[74] ولم يُكشف في ذلك الوقت عن وساطات ترمپ.[37] ثم شاركت ملانيا في جلسة تصوير مثيرة، نُشرت صورها في نموذج مُصمم على هيئة المكتب البيضاوي.[77]

في يناير 2000، ترددت أنباء عن انفصال ملانيا ودونالد، وسط تضارب في الروايات بشأن الطرف الذي أنهى العلاقة. ولمواكبة هذا التطور، أُجريت تعديلات سريعة على العديد من الصور والمقاطع الدعائية التي كانا قد شاركا فيها معاً قبل نشرها.[78] ظلا على تواصل، ثم استأنفا علاقتهما مرة أخرى بعد بضعة أشهر.[79] حصلت ميلانيا عام 2001 على البطاقة الخضراء، التي منحتها حق الإقامة الدائمة في الولايات المتحدة، وذلك عبر برنامج "التأشيرة الخاصة بالعمال ذوي القدرات الاستثنائية" المخصص للأشخاص البارزين في مجالات مثل الفنون والعلوم والتعليم والأعمال والرياضة.[37][2] وعام 2002 انتقلت ملانيا وترمپ للعيش معاً في برج ترمپ.[80] ظهرت ملانيا لأول مرة في برنامج المبتدئ، الذي يقدمه ترمپ، في أبريل 2004، عندما زار المتسابقون شقتيهما في إحدى الحلقات.[81]

الارتباط والزفاف

Donald proposed to Melania on April 26, 2004, on her birthday as they were leaving to attend the Met Gala.[82] He reasoned that he was more willing to wed as she had not insisted on marriage, and he felt she was an influence in the success he had seen over the previous years.[83] She also signed his prenuptial agreement without issue.[84] A few months before the wedding, Melania traveled to Paris with Anna Wintour and André Leon Talley to find a wedding dress, and Melania decided on a dress by John Galliano.[85] In the days leading up to the wedding, she appeared on the front cover of Vogue in her dress.[86][87]

Donald and Melania married on January 22, 2005, at the Bethesda-by-the-Sea church in Palm Beach, Florida.[88] The ceremony was followed by a reception in the ballroom at Donald's Mar-a-Lago estate, which Melania planned with Preston Bailey.[89] Numerous celebrities were present, including musicians, athletes, media executives, and television personalities.[90] She had one bridesmaid, her sister Ines, who had moved to New York so they could be closer together.[40] Melania arranged all of the details of the wedding with her planner. She let Donald make decisions about the event, but she refused his suggestion that the wedding be broadcast on NBC.[91]

الزواج

ملانيا ودونالد ترمپ يحضرون عرض أوسكار دى لا رنتا للموضة في 2006.

The Trumps had three residences that they traveled between: Trump Tower in New York, Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey, and Mar-a-Lago in Florida.[40][92] To have her own private abode, Melania had a private spa constructed on the top floor of Trump Tower.[92] As a couple, the two did not spend much direct time together, preferring to live adjacently with one another.[93] According to Donald, their passive relationship suited him because he worked for a living and did not "want to go home and work at a relationship".[15][94] Melania accepted a transaction element in their relationship, though she cared about Donald and did not believe that she was a gold digger.[95] When she attended events with her husband at Trump facilities, she often stayed for only a few minutes to make an appearance before returning to the private residence.[96] Donald did not learn to speak Melania's native language, which she said she accepted because she is "not a nagging wife".[2]

Upon marrying Donald, Melania became stepmother to his four children: Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump from his first marriage to Ivana Zelníčková, and Tiffany Trump from his second marriage to Marla Maples.[97] Melania had especially bonded with Tiffany, who was six when Melania began dating Tiffany's father, and made sure she felt included among her half-siblings.[98] When Melania herself became pregnant, it was widely covered in the media.[99] This included her second appearance on the cover of Vogue, featuring her pregnant body in a bikini and an open coat.[100] Melania spent the months with her sister and her parents, who visited throughout the pregnancy. She also oversaw the construction of a nursery in Trump Tower.[101] She had a baby shower at the FAO Schwarz toy store, but she insisted that the toys and gifts she received be donated to a children's hospital.[102]

Melania Trump in 2011

On March 20, 2006, Melania and Donald had a son, Barron William Trump.[103] Melania chose her son's middle name, while Donald chose his first name.[104] Donald had previously used the name Barron as a pseudonym for when he posed as his own public relations agent.[105] After Barron was born, Melania was active in his life and accordingly spent less time attending events with her husband.[106][107] Donald had made it clear to her that if they had a child, he would not be actively involved in the child's life.[107] Melania later said she approved of this, stating that she "didn't want him changing diapers or putting Barron to bed".[15] She avoided the use of nannies, with a few exceptions in Barron's earliest years, insisting on raising him herself.[108] This decreased social activity meant that Donald began courting supermodels again, which made Melania uncomfortable. According to biographer Mary Jordan, Melania did not know about the women who later alleged that they had extramarital affairs with him.[92]

Melania stayed out of the public spotlight after she settled into her life as a Trump, excepting occasional charity work and an appearance in an Aflac commercial.[109] She became a citizen of the United States on July 28, 2006.[110] She then sponsored her parents using the "chain migration" immigration process that her husband later repeatedly criticized.[111][112] Melania and Barron maintain dual citizenship, both in the United States and Slovenia.[113] Spending most of her time at Trump residences, she rarely kept companions besides her parents and her son.[96]

As her son reached childhood, Melania found herself with more time for other pursuits.[114] She trademarked her name, Melania, in 2009 as a jewelry brand, which she used to sell less expensive jewelry pieces on QVC.[115] She was intentional about not using the Trump name in her branding, correcting reporters who called it Melania Trump.[116] She drew the designs herself,[15] which were based on three places where she had lived: New York, Palm Beach, and Paris. Over the following years, she released additional Melania collections, and they sold out each time.[116] Melania then developed a line of caviar-infused skincare products under the brand Melania Marks Skincare in 2011.[117] The brand never launched. It brought about a legal case when the company selling the products, New Sunshine, underwent management changes and voided the contract. The company alleged that one executive had given a sweetheart deal to the Trumps because he was a family friend. The case was decided in Melania's favor, and the amount to be paid to her was settled out of court.[118] She had initially sued the company for $50 million in lost revenue.[119]


الحملة الرئاسية 2016

المقالة الرئيسية: حملة الانتخابات الرئاسية لدونالد ترمپ 2016

Personal life during the campaign

Melania was the one who finally convinced Donald to campaign for president in the 2016 presidential election, telling him that he either needed to do it or stop talking about it.[120][121] When the campaign began, Melania made it clear to her husband that she would not be pressured into campaigning or attending events, and that she would only make appearances when she wanted to. She subsequently played a relatively small role in the campaign, which had been atypical of spouses of presidential candidates since the early 20th century.[122] Explaining her absence, she cited the need to stay home with her son Barron.[123][124] Her daily routine was nonetheless altered by the campaign, as she had to take security arrangements into account when she traveled, and she could not post about her activities online in real time.[125] Once a prolific user of Instagram and Twitter, she became less active on her social media accounts when the campaign began.[15]

While many people doubted Donald's chances at the presidency, including his own inner circle, Melania believed he would win.[126][127] Unlike Donald's advisors, Melania encouraged him to follow his instincts and say what he felt he should say, with the exception that she does not like his use of profane language.[128] She analyzed the campaign closely from home, following polling and watching how her husband interacted with his opponents.[129] She spoke to him on the phone regularly throughout the campaign, including a conversation after each rally in which she gave a candid evaluation of how he did.[130]

المشاركة في الحملة

ملانيا ترفع أصبعها بإشارة الإبهام في فعاليات الحملة الانتخابية برفقة زوجها دونالد وابنها بارون، نوفمبر 2015.

Melania's career as a model was an advantage during the campaign, as she was prepared for photographers and did not need to hire a fashion consultant.[29] As a model, she was required to be deliberate in all of her movement, including how she stood and walked.[131] She resented being called shy during the campaign, saying that this was an impression spread by people who only briefly met her and wanted their "15 minutes of fame".[132] Melania's earliest speaking appearances in November 2015 and February 2016 were prompted by Donald calling on her to speak to the crowd. Both times, she only said a few sentences.[133] Her first scheduled speech during the campaign did not take place until April 2016.[124]

The campaign reportedly wanted to get Melania more active, as she was in a unique position to humanize Donald and to appeal to the American Dream from an immigrant's perspective.[134] Hope Hicks was the campaign's main liaison with Melania, facilitating any appearances that she wished to make. Melania trusted Hicks's judgement and allowed her to weigh the importance of a given appearance.[135] Her rare appearances brought her to swing states where her husband needed extra support, and her speeches celebrated his personal traits instead of policy.[123]

Melania was involved in the vice presidential selection process, meeting with the top contenders, and her approval of Mike Pence contributed to his selection. The deciding factor, in her mind, was that Pence was not as ambitious as the other contenders and would not seek to undermine Donald.[136]


Media coverage

Melania Trump in 2016

An attack ad against the Trumps was produced by a super PAC that supported Donald's opponent Ted Cruz featuring Melania's nude GQ photo with the caption "Meet Melania Trump. Your next first lady. Or you could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday", intensifying the rivalry between the two candidates in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries.[123][137][15] More nude images of Melania were published on the front page of the New York Post in July 2016 in a story titled "The Ogle Office". The images did not have a major effect on the campaign, as Melania was seen as the victim, but they were humiliating and she spent the following two months away from the public.[138]

On July 18, 2016, Melania gave a speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention. A controversy emerged after it became apparent that a paragraph of the speech had been plagiarized from Michelle Obama's speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.[139][140] When asked about it, Melania said she wrote the speech herself "with as little help as possible".[141] Despite political campaigns typically having several people to scrutinize such speeches, no one in the Trump campaign had reviewed the speech.[142] Donald was furious with his staff and felt he had failed Melania, while Melania felt she herself had failed the campaign through the scandal.[143] It was the only major speech she delivered during the campaign.[144] Two days later, Trump staff writer Meredith McIver took responsibility, saying there was a misunderstanding when Melania read passages of Obama's speech as examples.[139][145] The speech also included a rare statement on her past, describing her family in Slovenia and her early modeling career.[142] After giving the speech, Melania stayed out of public view until Election Day approached.[146]

Access Hollywood tape

On October 7, a month before the election, the Access Hollywood tape was leaked. The tape had been recorded in 2005, shortly after their marriage, and it featured audio of Donald making lewd remarks about his treatment of women.[147] Immediately after its release, the campaign's primary concern was Melania's reaction. It took Donald two hours before he went to see Melania. Upon their meeting, Melania reportedly told him "Now you could lose, you could have blown this for us", and then left the room after he apologized.[148] In 2024, her husband's former personal counsel Michael Cohen testified during The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump trial that Donald had privately credited her as having suggested that the campaign's response strategy should best characterize the conversation on the tape as "locker room talk".[149]

Melania kept her distance from him, angry that he may have ended his candidacy with his comments, and she waited a day before making a comment.[150] When asked by the campaign to make a scripted appearance alongside Donald as damage control, she refused, deciding that she was going to respond her own way.[151] She also refused to sit beside him during his recorded apology as politicians' spouses often did in these situations.[152] Melania released a statement saying that the tape did not show "the man I know" and said those who accused him of sexual misconduct are liars.[139] Melania received significantly more attention from the press following the incident,[153] and she was frustrated by the pity she received.[151] A few days later, she attended a presidential debate wearing a pussy bow, causing widespread speculation about her intention (as her husband's comments on the Access Hollywood tape had included, "grab them by the pussy"–with pussy being slang for vagina).[154][153] After she voted, Melania spent most of Election Day with her parents in Trump Tower while the rest of the family did last-minute campaigning.[155]

السيدة الأولى للولايات المتحدة، الرئاسة الأولى

السيدة الأولى في منهاتن

دونالد وملانيا في ليبرتي بول يوم التنصيب، 20 يناير 2017.


After Donald's inauguration as president on January 20, 2017,[156] Melania announced that she would not move to Washington, D.C. with him, instead staying in Manhattan so Barron could finish the school year there.[157] Remaining in New York also allowed her to introduce her son to the White House gradually so as not to overwhelm him.[158] According to biographer Mary Jordan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist, "Melania also used this time to negotiate new terms for her prenuptial agreement with Donald to reflect the changes in their lives since it was signed and to ensure that Barron would receive a suitable inheritance."[159] (Mrs. Trump's spokesperson dismissed Jordan's book as "belonging in the fiction genre.")[160]

Melania was the second foreign-born woman to hold the title of first lady after Louisa Adams, who was born in England,[156] and Melania was the first naturalized citizen to hold the title.[161] She has said that she can speak English, Italian, French, and German in addition to her native Slovene, but in public she has only spoken English and Slovene.[162] She was also the second Roman Catholic first lady of the United States, after Jacqueline Kennedy.[163][164]

Melania's absence from the White House caused speculation that her stepdaughter Ivanka would serve as an acting first lady.[157][165][166] As time went by, members of the administration's staff like her assistant, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, grew unhappy with Melania's absence, as it gave the impression of marital issues and prevented her from exercising a calming influence over the president.[167][168] She also stoked resentment among many of the people in New York, who predominantly opposed the Trumps, because of the costs and traffic issues caused by the Secret Service presence.[169][170] The Secret Service itself also faced logistical issues from the repeated travel to New York. Having a Secret Service detail was not a major adjustment for Melania though, as she had spent years around her husband's security team.[171] She was given the Secret Service code name "Muse" to go along with the president's name "Mogul".[172] Being first lady came with another drawback for Melania, as she was expected to speak on serious topics such as immigration policy and had little control over how her media appearances were handled, which was a different experience than she had as a model.[173]

Melania Trump with Pope Francis, the Vatican, May 2017

When the Trump administration's White House website was posted, Melania's biographical information caused controversy because it listed her jewelry business. Though it had already ceased operation, critics alleged that it was an attempt to promote her business with government resources.[174] Another allegation of attempting to profit from her role as first lady came up in February, when she sued the Daily Mail for libel after it alleged in 2016 that she had worked for an escort agency.[175] The suit was initially for lost career opportunities, but this was changed to emotional distress when she received questions about why she expected to have career opportunities as first lady.[176]

On March 8, 2017, Melania hosted her first White House event, a luncheon for International Women's Day. She spoke to an audience of women about her life as a female immigrant and about working towards gender equality both domestically and abroad, noting the role of education as a tool against gender inequality.[177][178] The Trumps visited Vatican City in May 2017. As Melania was visiting as a Roman Catholic, Pope Francis blessed her rosary beads, and she placed flowers at the feet of a statue of the Madonna at the Vatican's Bambino Gesù children's hospital.[179]

The first major public attention Melania received was after an incident in May 2017 while the Trumps were visiting Israel. Donald had forgotten that Melania was by his side when he was walking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and she fell behind from the group. Humiliated, she slapped away his hand when he reached out behind him to grab hers. This was the first time press coverage of Melania took notice of an independent streak.[180][181]

East Wing staff

Official White House portrait, 2017

The lack of staff appointments in the East Wing during the first months of the Trump administration—typically the domain of the first lady—caused a backlog of tour requests to develop. In February several hires were made for the Office of the First Lady: Anna Cristina Niceta Lloyd as social secretary, Lindsay Reynolds as the first lady's chief of staff, Tham Kannalikham as her decorator, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff as the first lady's assistant, and Stephanie Grisham as communications director.[182] Melania retained the head florist appointed by Michelle Obama, Hedieh Ghaffarian.[183] The chief usher appointed under the Obama administration, Angella Reid, was replaced by Trump International Hotel employee Timothy Harleth, breaking the norm of the chief usher serving under multiple presidencies.[182] Reid had been broadly unpopular with the staff, and the firing earned Melania their goodwill.[184]

The first lady's staff remained small relative to those of her predecessors.[182] This was in part because she did not want to have any employees speaking on her behalf. Instead, she answered her correspondences herself.[185] Melania had a reputation in the White House for being "drama-free",[186] and for treating the staff well.[187] According to her husband's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, her staff had "100 percent loyalty to her".[188] Melania had a close, trusting relationship with her staff, and she was protective of them when conflict arose.[189] Before moving in, Melania worked with Kannalikham to redecorate the White House, as first ladies typically do. She had most of the Obama-era decor replaced, and like the Obamas, the Trumps paid for it out of pocket instead of using the allotted funding.[190]


Life in the White House

Melania Trump with Argentine first lady Juliana Awada in 2017

Melania and her son, Barron, moved into the White House on June 11, 2017.[191] Like they had throughout their marriage, Melania and Donald chose to sleep in separate bedrooms.[192] In her first year, Melania gave only eight speeches, compared to 74 by Michelle Obama and 42 by Laura Bush.[193] Instead of frequent public appearances, she communicated her activities through video.[188] Most of Melania's appearances as first lady in 2017 were in Manhattan and Washington, and she typically spoke about women's and children's issues.[194]

ملانيا ودونالد في مطار الملك خالد الدولي، مايو 2017.

After moving to the White House, Melania opted to spend most of her time in the private quarters, running the White House staff from there instead of the first lady's East Wing offices. She oversaw restorations of several rooms in the building, including the bowling alley in the White House basement and the first lady's hairdresser's room.[195] She kept one office, called the "swag room" by aides, in which she kept trinkets she collected while she was first lady.[196] To accommodate Barron's soccer practice, she had a net installed on the White House grounds and had a coach practice with him.[197] Barron remained Melania's top priority when she was first lady, and she worked to keep him free from politics to the point that staffers referred to her as "The Protector".[198] Even after arriving at the White House, Melania spent extensive time away each year, visiting Mar-a-Lago on major holidays and over many weekends.[199]

Melania Trump examining the 2018 White House Christmas decorations

Melania personally involved herself in decorations and planning within the White House.[200] She was particular about how things were designed and arranged whenever events were planned, but she would take on a calm and relaxed demeanor once the event began.[201] Whenever a foreign dignitary arrived at the White House, Melania had the Blue Room set aside where she ate lunch or drank tea with the dignitary's spouse.[202] When choosing which presidential china set to use, Melania often chose the Clinton administration china with its gold embroidery.[203] She held events less frequently than her predecessors, with a typical week featuring three or fewer events, all under one hour long.[204] Among her most ambitious projects was planning the White House Christmas decorations in 2018. Moving away from traditional designs, she filled the East Collonnade with red cranberry-laden trees set atop a green carpet. The design was widely derided, which Melania ascribed to personal taste.[205]

To protect use of her image and maintain an income, Melania licensed photos from her photoshoots through Getty Images. This allowed her to choose how they were used by reporters, and she received royalties for each use. The Office of Government Ethics reported that she made $100,000 to $1,000,000 in royalties in 2017, though other estimates put it at over $10,000,000.[206]

As one of her official duties, Melania was the honorary chair of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Because of political tension with the arts communities, she was not initially active in the role. She made her first appearances at the Kennedy Center in 2019.[207] Trump unveiled the abstract sculpture Floor Frame by Isamu Noguchi in the White House Rose Garden in November 2020.[208] She described it as "embodying themes of resilience and renewal" in her eponymous memoir.[209]


Tribulations in early 2018

A scandal broke in January 2018 when it was alleged that Donald had had an extramarital affair with the pornographic actress Stormy Daniels. The affair was said to have taken place in July 2006, after the Trumps' marriage and the birth of their son. Melania's public appearances became more infrequent after the news emerged, and she canceled several events that she was to attend with her husband.[210] This included the 2018 State of the Union Address, where Melania made the unprecedented decision to ride separately from him on the way there.[211] Michael Cohen, who had arranged the silencing of the alleged affair, stated that his greatest regret was lying to Melania, saying that she didn't deserve it.[212] The next month, the story of a second affair in 2006 with the model Karen McDougal was made public.[210][213] To Melania, the worst part was that she felt Donald had publicly humiliated her.[214][168]

Left to right: Brigitte Macron, Melania Trump, Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump

Melania learned in April 2018 that she was afflicted with kidney disease, but she only told her parents, her husband, and her sister.[215] On May 14, she began treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.[216] While her husband had wished to join her, his presence would have risked the press discovering her condition.[217] The official statement said that she underwent an embolization, a minimally invasive procedure that deliberately blocks a blood vessel.[218][218] A statement was released after the procedure was finished without complication,[216] and she recovered in the hospital over the following five days.[219] The extended stay led to false rumors and conspiracy theories that she had gotten plastic surgery.[220][221] After leaving the hospital, she continued to stay out of the public eye until the beginning of June.[222] At this point, the president let slip that the surgery had been more serious than initially suggested.[223]

الرئيس الفرنسي إمانوِل ماكرون في زيارة رسمية للولايات التحدة، أبريل 2018.

Those around Melania noticed that she was generally happier by mid-2018. By this time, she had reached a more advantageous marital agreement that ensured Barron would be given a fair inheritance.[224] Her public position, and the corresponding influence she had over her husband's political career, had given her the advantage in negotiations.[225] After several months of problems, Melania received positive coverage for a large custom-made white hat that she wore during a visit by French president Emmanuel Macron.[226] On August 9, 2018, Melania's parents were granted American citizenship. This revitalized accusations of hypocrisy by the Trumps regarding Melania's parents, as Donald had spoken out against the chain migration process that allowed them to enter the United States.[227]


2018 Africa tour

Melania Trump wearing a pith helmet in Kenya

In October 2018, Melania took a tour of Africa without Donald, visiting Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt. She spent much of her time with children in schools, orphanages, and hospitals. She used the trip to tout relief work being carried out by the United States Agency for International Development, which raised questions about her husband's intention to cut its funding. Melania also received criticism for her fashion choices, where a photo opportunity in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza was seen as exploitive and a pith helmet she wore in Kenya was criticized for its association with colonialism in Africa. To these criticisms, she responded that people should pay more attention to her actions instead of her outfits.[228] Perception of the trip grew worse when she responded to criticisms by saying that she was "the most bullied person in the world".[229]

Throughout Melania's tour of Africa, personality conflicts took place between her team and Mira Ricardel, the deputy national security advisor.[230] Ricardel's staffer had been bumped from the first lady's plane on the flight to Africa to make room for a journalist, and Ricardel subsequently became less cooperative with providing logistical information needed for the tour.[231] Upon returning, Ricardel gave a thoroughly negative report on Melania's staff, describing them as embarrassing the White House with their partying.[232] Melania twice complained to the president, but no immediate action was taken.[232] So the following month, the Office of the First Lady issued an official statement calling for Ricardel to be removed from her position. Publicly commenting on such a thing was unprecedented for a first lady.[233] No one in the administration had been told in advance about the statement, including the president.[232] Ricardel was fired the following day.[234] A dispute over the trip arose between Melania and Ivanka a few months later when the latter made her own trip to the continent. Melania felt that in taking such a similar trip, Ivanka was intruding on the first lady's role.[235]

Political influence

Melania Trump working with children at a 2017 Christmas event; children's welfare was among the most important issues to Melania.

Melania was the one person exempt from the criticism and distrust that Donald leveled against those around him in the White House. He held her opinion in high regard, often agreeing with her when she made it known, and he valued her loyalty as she did not seek public attention of her own.[236] Melania believed that it was not her duty as first lady to take policy positions in her own right, but simply to advise Donald regarding his.[15] She was the only person among those around him who could critique him directly without repercussion.[237] Donald frequently asked for her opinion about issues he was considering or people who he interacted with, calling her over the phone when she was not in the same room.[238]

Melania paid close attention to media coverage throughout Donald's presidency, providing her input on what would make good optics and maintain his image.[239][240] She also provided advice on how to pose for pictures and has given him suggestions on how to appear when moving.[241] The nature of their relationship allowed Melania to overlook erratic behavior from Donald, as she had long believed that there was no use in trying to change someone's personality, especially her husband's.[185]

Melania plants a tree on the South Lawn during a summit hosted by the White House Historical Association.

Melania had influence over her husband's staff, and Donald sometimes fired individuals on her advice.[191][242] The welfare of children is a subject of interest for her, and she routinely made visits to children's hospitals throughout her tenure as first lady.[243] According to her biographer Kate Bennett, interacting with children is one of the rare things that causes Melania to shift away from her usual stoic demeanor.[244] Her advocacy was a major factor in her husband's decision to ban fruit-flavored electronic cigarette cartridges.[245] About one year into her tenure, Melania hired Reagan Thompson as a policy advisor, though she had yet to adopt any official initiatives at the time.[246]


Family separation policy

Melania was openly critical of her husband's "zero tolerance" policy of denying asylum at the Mexico–United States border in 2018, where children were being separated from their parents. Her official position was that she hated to see families separated and hoped for successful immigration reform.[247][248] Out of public view, she made her opposition clear to the president and influenced his decision to end it.[249] Leaked tapes in 2020 featured Melania making statements defending some of the practices, expressing grief about family separation but questioning the validity of asylum claims and dismissing concerns that children were kept in substandard conditions.[250]

Melania was upset when her stepdaughter Ivanka began receiving the credit for changing the president's mind on the issue.[251] Melania decided to visit the border herself, ignoring her husband's worries about keeping media attention on the border and the Secret Service's need of advance notice to plan her trip.[252] She arrived at the border on June 21, where she visited the family separation facilities in Texas and attended a roundtable with doctors, medical staff, social workers, and other experts at Upbring New Hope Children's Shelter.[253] On the way to the border facility, she caused controversy by wearing a jacket that read, "I really don't care, do u?" After much speculation about the jacket's message, including criticism that she may have been expressing indifference toward the families separated at the border, Melania stated that the jacket was aimed at people and media who were criticizing her.[254] The jacket dominated media coverage of her visit.[255]


حملة كن الأفضل

الرئيس دونالد ترمپ والسيدة الأولى ملانيا ترمپ عن إعلان مبادرة السيدة الأولى، كن الأفضل.

On May 7, 2018, Melania held a press conference in the White House Rose Garden to announce her official public initiative as first lady, the Be Best awareness campaign. The initiative was created to support the welfare of children, advocate against cyberbullying, and prevent opioid abuse.[219][256] The initiative's name drew ridicule in the press for its grammatical structure.[257] Instead of creating new programs like previous first ladies' projects, Be Best promoted existing initiatives and organizations that worked toward the cause. Public awareness of the initiative remained low, and it was often regarded solely as an anti-cyberbullying campaign.[258]

The Be Best campaign drew criticism for its perceived hypocrisy, challenging cyberbullying when her husband was well known for attacking people online.[259][258] Even Donald had warned her before the campaign's launch that the contrast may provoke criticism.[258] She acknowledged the discrepancy but insisted that she would continue because she felt it was a good cause.[259] This received more attention in 2019 when the president made Twitter posts critical of Greta Thunberg, a teenage environmental activist diagnosed on the autism spectrum. This came days after Melania had criticized Pamela Karlan for invoking Barron in a speech against the president. The first lady's office responded that spouses can have different communication styles, and said that Barron was not "an activist who travels the globe giving speeches".[260]


COVID-19 and 2020 presidential campaign

Melania Trump with first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic

Melania carried out a major reorganization of her staff in April 2020 in anticipation of her husband's reelection campaign. She appointed Marcia Lee Kelly as her senior advisor and Emma Doyle as her policy advisor. Melania's chief of staff, Lindsay Reynolds, was removed; her responsibilities went to Melania's communications director, Stephanie Grisham.[188] Melania became an active campaigner for her husband during the 2020 presidential election, which was a strong contrast to her 2016 activity.[261]

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, Melania was criticized for promoting a White House renovation project. She took the topic more seriously after the COVID-19 lockdowns began, using her Twitter account to encourage social distancing during the pandemic and promote official medical advice. Much of what she posted directly contradicted what her husband posted, as he discouraged many of the recommended practices.[262][263]

On October 1, 2020, Melania's former advisor Stephanie Winston Wolkoff released audiotapes that featured Melania making profane statements about her image and role as first lady. In the tapes, she condemned the media for not giving her positive coverage, questioned why people wanted her to speak out against her husband when she supported his policies, and expressed frustration with her responsibility to oversee Christmas decorations in the White House. She also mentioned her "I really don't care, do u" jacket in the tapes, admitting that she wore it to irritate liberals. Winston Wolkoff had released the tapes alongside a tell-all book, Melania and Me.[250][264] The Justice Department filed a civil suit against Winston Wolkoff in October 2019, alleging breach of a nondisclosure agreement, but it was dropped in February 2021 under the Biden administration.[265] In September 2022, Melania said in an interview with Breitbart News that the audiotapes had been strategically edited to make people believe that her duties in the White House had been unimportant to her.[266]

Despite Donald's loss of the 2020 election,[267] Melania ended her tenure by endorsing his false statement that he had been the legitimate election winner.[196][229] For her final months in the White House, she stopped visiting her office in the East Wing and remained in the White House residence. Her focus at this time was on compiling photo albums of the decorations and renovations she had overseen through her tenure.[196] Melania was managing photography at the White House when the January 6 United States Capitol attack took place and gave no comment at the time. She later said that she would have commented if she had been "fully informed of all the details".[168] Her communications director Stephanie Grisham later stated she had sent Melania a text message asking her to make a statement condemning the violence and resigned when that did not happen.[196] On January 18, Melania released a farewell video asking the American people to uphold the principles of her Be Best campaign.[229] She did not contact incoming first lady Jill Biden to make transition arrangements or provide her the traditional tour of the White House.[229] She did, however, follow the tradition of leaving a letter for the incoming first lady.[196]

Between first lady tenures (2021–2025)

After the Trumps left the White House, Melania returned to Mar-a-Lago, where she could live while avoiding public attention.[168] She retained one White House advisor, Marcia Lee Kelly, to help her during the post-presidency.[229] Melania kept in contact with her successor Jill Biden, and the two have exchanged birthday cards.[196] Since her first tenure as first lady ended, Melania made occasional paid speaking appearances, she founded a scholarship program for foster children, and she minted a line of Apollo 11–themed non-fungible tokens that were not in compliance with NASA's image use policy.[168] In November 2023, Melania attended the memorial service for former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.[268]

Melania remained out of public view during her husband's court appearances and his candidacy in the 2024 presidential election, limiting her campaign events to two fundraisers for the Log Cabin Republicans. She became more visible in July 2024 by putting out a statement following the attempted assassination of her husband and appearing at the 2024 Republican National Convention, though she declined an invitation to speak at the event, making her the first candidate's spouse not to speak at the convention since Barbara Bush began the tradition.[269] In the same month, Melania announced her intention to publish a memoir, titled Melania.[270] She caused controversy among Republicans in the lead up to the book's publication when she announced her support for the right to abortion.[271] Donald won the election on November 5, 2024.

In January 2025, Amazon MGM Studios announced that it had licensed an upcoming documentary film on Melania directed by Brett Ratner for distribution in theatres and on Amazon Prime Video. She will also be an executive producer.[272][273] Filming started in December 2024.[274] Amazon reportedly paid US$40 million to license the documentary.[275] Less than two weeks before assuming the role of first lady again, Melania attended the funeral for former President Jimmy Carter.[276] On the eve of Donald's inauguration as U.S. president, Melania launched her own cryptocurrency, the $Melania coin, following the debut of the $Trump coin.[277] In May 2025, it was reported by the Financial Times that two dozen wallets purchased $2.6 million worth of the tokens minutes before the launch was announced by Melania on her Truth Social account and then sold them off in the upcoming days for $100 million.[278]

Second tenure as First Lady of the United States (2025–present)

Melania's husband, Donald Trump, is sworn in on January 20, 2025, as Melania looks on.

On January 20, 2025, during the 60th United States presidential inauguration, Melania became the second first lady to hold the position two times non-consecutively, after Frances Cleveland.[279][280] During the first few days of her second tenure as first lady, Melania traveled with President Trump to parts of North Carolina that were hit by Hurricane Helene in September 2024 and to Southern California to monitor the progress of fire rescue services for the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.[281][282][283] In February 2025, Melania announced that public tours of the White House would resume on the 25th day of the month.[284][285]

On March 3, 2025, Melania made her first solo appearance as first lady for the term by attending a roundtable discussion at Capitol Hill on the Take It Down Act, a bill that could speed the removal of intimate imagery posted online without an individual's consent, or revenge porn.[286][287][288] Soon after, the Take it Down Act was passed unanimously in the United States Senate and almost unanimously in the United States House of Representatives.[289][290] Melania was at the President's side when it was signed into law two months later; she was invited by her husband to sign the bill as well and did, a first in U.S. history.[291][292][293] In April 2025, Melania honored recipients at the annual International Women of Courage Awards and reopened tours of the White House gardens in early bloom.[294]

Melania Trump (left) with President Donald Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott on July 11, 2025
Melania Trump (left) with President Donald Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott on July 11, 2025

On April 21, 2025, Melania hosted the White House Easter Egg Roll with her husband, which drew crowds of around 40,000.[295] Later that week, she attended the funeral for Pope Francis.[296] In May 2025, Melania hosted a celebration honoring military mothers and an event where a postage stamp dedicated to former first lady Barbara Bush was unveiled.[297][298] Later that month, she welcomed the children of White House employees for "White House Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day" where she assisted kids in decorating American flags.[299]

In June 2025, Melania attended the 2025 Congressional Picnic and the U.S. Army 250th Anniversary Parade.[300][301] The following month, Melania visited patients at Children's National Hospital by bringing gifts and taking part in Independence Day activities with the children.[302][303] Then she traveled with President Trump to survey damage following the July 2025 Central Texas floods.[304][305] On July 22, House Republicans proposed renaming the opera house at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after Melania.[306][307]

Melania reportedly influenced President Trump's policy shift on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. President Trump was quoted saying "I go home, I tell the first lady: 'I spoke with Vladimir today. We had a wonderful conversation,'" Trump said. "She said: 'Oh really? Another city was just hit.'" President Trump said this before laying out a 50 day deadline for a ceasefire in July of 2025, marking a notably antagonistic tone in regards to Vladimir Putin.[308] The following month, Melania authored a letter to President Putin, which President Trump hand-delivered during the August 2025 Alaska summit. The letter, published on social media, urged compassion for children affected by war and called for peace. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly thanked her for the gesture.[309]


Public image

المقالة الرئيسية: Public image of Melania Trump
A 2017 Women's March protester with a Free Melania sign

Melania limits her interactions with the public, creating a public image heavily influenced by speculation.[310] Trump has been seen by the American public as the first foreigner first lady. The only other first lady to be born outside of the United States, Louisa Adams, had an American father.[311]

First tenure as first lady

In her first tenure as first lady, Trump worked to protect her privacy as first lady,[312] and her staff was instructed not to answer any questions about her whereabouts at a given time.[186] With limited information, commentators have portrayed her as being a reluctant companion to her husband or as a woman who has no independence of her own. Several incidents during her husband's presidency led to rumors that she had a secret animosity toward her husband, such as her delay in moving to the White House and allegations that he had committed adultery.[220][312][313] The rumors led to popular use of the hashtag #FreeMelania by those who believed them.[314] Though she disliked the idea that people saw her as helpless, Melania found the campaign amusing.[315] This became less common by 2020 as she had become more publicly associated with the role of first lady.[316] She is often seen as cold by the public, though people who interact with her describe her as a warm presence.[2][317]

As with previous first ladies, Trump's fashion was heavily scrutinized, and particularly expensive pieces were criticized.[194] More than other first ladies, her fashion was scrutinized in the context of her past as a fashion model and her marriage to a billionaire.[318] She did her own clothes shopping,[319][320] but she was assisted by designer Hervé Pierre,[321] hair stylist Mordechai Alvow, and make up artist Nicole Byrl.[322] When preparing for speeches, she dedicated more attention to her physical appearance than content or delivery, which her staff felt affected her ability to promote her causes.[323] Despite her experience in fashion, she disliked that it was such a major aspect of news coverage about her as first lady.[324]

Having a Slovenian-born woman as the American first lady became a point of national pride in Slovenia, and it gave the nation a sense of recognition on the world stage.[325][326] Trump's hometown Sevnica has developed a small tourist industry around her, and Melania-themed merchandise was common during her tenure as first lady. These items never used Melania's full name, substituting it with "first lady" or "M", as she is protective of her personality rights.[327]

During the 2016 presidential election, Trump became the only candidate's spouse since polling began in 1988 to have a disapproval rating greater than their approval rating.[328] Her approval rating stood at 36 or 37% in the months leading up to becoming first lady in January 2017,[329][157] but it increased to 57% in a CNN poll in April 2018 after she received public sympathy amid allegations that her husband had committed adultery.[246][330] Trump finished her tenure in 2021 as the least popular first lady since polling began with a rating of 42%.[331] Multiple polls during her tenure as first lady showed her as the most popular member of the Trump family.[329][332][333]

ملانيا ترمپ تزور مستشفى سينسيناتي للأطفال في فبراير 2018.

In December 2020, the Siena College Research Institute released a study surveying scholars and historians on their assessments of American first ladies. It was the fifth such first ladies study that the Institute had conducted since 1982, and the first in which Trump appeared. She was ranked as being the worst of 40 assessed American first ladies,[334] receiving the lowest assessments in all of the metrics that were weighed.[335] In supplementary question asked of respondents (beyond the weighed criteria), Trump was ranked as the first lady who historians and scholars most-believed "could have done more" while first lady, with 34% of respondents selecting Melania as their top-choice for that descriptor. In another supplementary question, Trump's "Be Best" was ranked the least-effective signature initiative among the ten most-recent first ladies.[334]


حياتها الشخصية

اللغات

تتحدث ملانيا بلغتها الأصلية السلوڤينية. كما تتحدث الإنگليزية والكرواتية-الصربية.[336] يقال أن ملانيا تتحدث الفرنسية، الإيطالية والألمانية.[337]

الديانة

عند زيارة الرئيس والسيدة الأولى لمدينة الڤاتيكان في مايو 201&، قالت أنها كاثوليكية. وهي أول كاثوليكية تعيش في البيت الأيبض منذ رئاسة جون كنيدي وزوجته جاكلين وثاني سيدة أولى كاثوليكية للولايات المتحدة.[163][164]

مرئيات

مقابلة مع ملانيا ترمپ عام 2005 بعد زواجهما.


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سبقه
ميشيل أوباما 		سيدة الولايات المتحدة الأولى
2017–الحاضر 		الحالي
الرئيس الفخري
للجنة الرئيس للفنون والإنسانيات
2017–الحاصر
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آن رومني 		زوجة مرشح الحزب الجمهوري لرئاسة الولايات المتحدة
2016 		آخر شاغل للمنصب
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