LIBBY EMMONS: First Lady Melania Trump starts second White House term in beast mode

Already in her second term, she's taking a more national role, bringing class back to the role, yes, but also demanding accountability from the American people.

Already in her second term, she's taking a more national role, bringing class back to the role, yes, but also demanding accountability from the American people.

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Something changed in Melania's heart the day the FBI raided her underwear drawer. In August 2021, Joe Biden's Department of Justice under AG Merrick Garland authorized the raid and it was carried out while President Trump and wife Melania were not at home. Federal agents went through her closet looking for classified documents and they went through her drawers of intimates, as well. She said she felt violated and that her things were contaminated. So much so that she bought all new underthings. Now what woman wouldn't want to go on a spree to buy brand new undergarments, you might say, but under these conditions, it must have felt like quite a burden.

The impact of that raid was so calamitous that when Melania was summoned to the White House after her husband won it back, to meet with Biden's First Lady Dr. Jill (doctor of education, and proud of it), she declined. Why would she want to meet with the wife of a man who had done her the discourtesy of allowing federal agents to go through her intimates? That energy, that anger, has carried over into Trump's second term. She arrived at the inauguration looking all Wyatt Earp, ready to shoot first and let God sort them out. At the balls, she looked particularly severe—while maintaining her feminine glam, of course—in a white floor length number with black sash and a thick black choker. And her new official portrait shows she means buisiness.

Since then, she's accompanied Trump on domestic trips. She went to North Carolina while he gave voice to hurricane victims still suffering and homeless months after twin storms ravaged their homes. She attended victims of wildfires in LA, even speaking in her own language to a woman who'd lost her home.

At each of these appearances, she stands with her head high, ready to serve the nation with grace while throwing shade to any who dare speak out of turn against her family. As the only First Lady to become a naturalized citizen, she is also able to speak on legal pathways to citizenship and gives Trump a deeper understanding of the will to become an American.

Melania was a bit of a non-entity during the first Trump term. She was elegant, she was gorgeous, and she set the tone for class at the White House, but with a son to raise as much out of the spotlight as possible and with a first family—Ivanka and Jared, Don Jr. and Eric—so engaged in politics and policy, she was able to take a backseat. This time, she is front and center. The change in the public face of Melania began when Trump was on the campaign trail.

She spoke out after he was almost killed by an assassin's bullet in Butler, PA, making America remember that the man they love to hate is a husband, a father, a patriarch of a prominent family. "When I watched that violent bullet strike my husband, Donald, I realized my life, and Barron's life, were on the brink of devastating change." Her letter to America went on to say "A monster who recognized my husband as an inhuman political machine attempted to wring out Donald's passion... The core facets of my husband's life—his human side—were buried below the political machine." 

She called out those who viewed him that way, the Democrats who paint him as some immobile force to whom a sledgehammer, or worse, must be taken to clear him out of the way. "Is it really shocking that all this egregious violence goes against my husband, especially that we hear the leaders from the opposition party and mainstream media branding him as 'threat to democracy,' calling him vile names. They are only fueling a toxic atmosphere and giving power to all of these people that want to do harm to him. This needs to stop. This needs to stop. The country needs to unite," she said.

This term, she won't let Americans suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome see him as an "inhuman political machine." There was a first term meme that portrayed Melania as some kind of Stockholm victim who was told to "blink twice" if she's being held against her will. Vanity Fair even posited that she'd been "replaced by a body double." This term, she's facing forward, to the right of her husband, ready to address priorities and scorn critics. In interviews leading up to the election, she called Trump's survival of not one but two assassination attempts "miracles" and she raised questions about the way the first attempt, in Butler, PA, when Trump was shot on live television, was covered in the days and weeks afterwards by media outlets that believed their mission during his first term was not to report the news but to participate in the "resistance."

As the election neared, she released an eponymous memoir that revealed some of what she'd been percolating on since her first stint as First Lady. She found that legacy and corporate media were entirely biased against Trump to the point where they wouldn't even give him a chance. The memoir reveals that as she watched the election night results in 2020, seeing the early results for Trump morph into a late win for Biden, "everything was called into question" for her.

During her first term as First Lady, she focused on cyberbullying, renovating the Rose Garden, and raising her son. Already in her second term, she's taking a more national role, bringing class back to the role, yes, but also demanding accountability from the American people. To all those who still believe Trump is less a man and more an "inhuman political machine," Melania is there to stand by her man, and in so doing, America.


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