MELANIA TRUMP’S | Sof Power
Another Melania Trump priority is reducing
sexual abuse among Native American children and caring for babies born within the Indian Health Service system with opioid dependencies. She’s also hosted a White House roundtable to
raise awareness and find a cure for sickle cell dis- ease among American children in general, and vis- ited technology companies to promote programs that teach children online safety and support peo- ple with disabilities. At the Internation-
al Women of Courage Awards, she honored recipients who “fear- lessly enter facilities designated as ‘care centers’ to rescue peo- ple with disabilities.” Melania is also a
powerful voice behind the scenes on interna- tional issues. During his first year
GRATITUDE Olena Zelenska, wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, met Melania Trump at the U.N. in September and thanked the first lady for her behind-the-scenes support for the war-torn country, as well as for her efforts to reunite children who had been forcibly separated from their families and relocated to Russia.
Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump said: “I go
home, I tell the first lady, ‘You know I spoke to Vladi- mir today. We had a wonderful conversation.’ “She said, ‘Oh really. That’s strange, because they just bombed a nursing home.’”
back in office, the pres- ident credited her with persuading him to resupply Ukraine with weap- ons, reversing his earlier stance. Melania’s position on the war seemed at odds
The first lady agrees she does her most important work behind the scenes. In 2016, Melania told US Weekly, “I’m very political. I’m not political in public, I’m political at home.”
with her husband’s when Russia invaded in 2022, and Trump described Putin as “savvy” and a “genius.” Melania said it was “heartbreaking and horrific”
to see “innocent people suffering” and urged her social media followers to donate to the Red Cross. More recently, the president credited her with
his decision last summer to send more weapons to help Kyiv.
Melania’s support
for Ukraine is “not sur- prising at all,” given that the country where she grew up has “no love for Russia,” said Mary Jordan, author of The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Me- lania Trump. She suggested the
first lady also has “more experience” than members of the Cabinet in “trying to
get her point across” to the president, so she might have influenced his change of heart. Either way, Ukrainians are “celebrating” Mela-
nia on social media with memes, The Guardian re- ported, including an image of her wearing a blazer with the Ukrainian trident insignia, captioned: “Agent Melania Trumpenko.” Since the U.S. announced it would send Patriot
air defense systems to Ukraine, there’s been “a lot of love on social media” for her, said Business in Ukraine magazine. The first lady agrees she does her most impor-
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