Melania Makes First Public Appearance in Weeks With Incredible Statement Today At White House
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So much for all the conspiracies on Melania Trump. The First Lady is evidently up and around, alive and more beautiful than ever. And no, she didn’t run off to New York. First lady Melania Trump co-hosted a reception for Gold Star families with President Trump at the White House Monday evening, marking her first public appearance since mid-May. The event, a private East Room reception for more than 40 Gold Star military families, was not an unusual one for Melania to attend. Incidentally, one reporter did see her up and about last week as well. It takes time to recover from surgery.
In a statement, Melania said it was a privilege to welcome the military families to the White House and she thanked them and military members more broadly for their service. “To all those who have lost loved ones in service to our country, our nation grieves with you,” her statement read. “It is a solemn reminder that we, the American people, are able to live as freely as we do because of the selfless sacrifices of our men and women in uniform. We remain indebted to each of them and we honor them today, together, with their families.”
A person at the event told CNN’s Jeff Zeleny that the President made a lighthearted joke about the First Lady’s extended absence from public view, saying the media was asking: “Where’s Melania?” He went on for a minute or so, saying the media was speculating where she has been. “Did she leave him?” the President asked at one point, before pointing out that Melania Trump was, in fact, sitting in the front row.
Melania was last seen in public on May 10th with President Trump as they welcomed back three American hostages released from captivity in North Korea. On May 14th, she underwent minor kidney surgery to remove a fibrous growth at Walter Reed National Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. She was released from the hospital on May 19th and has been recovering at home in the White House since then. The media went into overdrive with rumors and conspiracy theories, just salivating at the thought that either Melania was d**d or had finally left her husband. It was disgusting. President Trump did not even go to Israel to open the historic American embassy in Jerusalem so he could be with his wife during all this. But do you see that in the media? Nope.
The media walk of shame over all this includes Politico, The Washington Post, and CNN, who have all speculated endlessly about the First Lady’s absence from the public eye. One Politico story actually had the headline, “White House Silence on Melania Stokes Conspiracy Theories.” Their rumors spanned from d***h to plastic surgery, to moving back to New York, to an affair to cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller. She’s holed up with the Obamas or working on a tell-all book about her husband has also been making the rounds. It was the fodder of gossip mongers. Instead of focusing on historic events that the President is immersed in such as North Korea, they wagged their tongues over the First Lady.
Melania was not brooking those rumors and shot them down last week, “I see the media is working overtime speculating where I am & what I’m doing. Rest assured, I’m here at the @White House w my family, feeling great, & working hard on behalf of children & the American people!” Of course, that wasn’t good enough for the left. CNN’s Brian Stelter lied to his Reliable Sources audience over the weekend by repeating the false claim that First Lady Melania Trump has disappeared — that she has been “invisible.”
Here’s how Melania’s spokeswoman addressed all this per the Western Journal:
“Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s spokeswoman, addressed Mrs. Trump’s absence last week, saying she is “doing great.”
““Sadly, we deal with conspiracy theories all the time, so this is nothing new, just more silly nonsense,” Grisham said. “She is doing great. I wouldn’t characterize it as a long absence. She was hospitalized for almost a week and is now home and recovering.”
“Grisham said the first lady “has been involved in several internal meetings with staff all last week, and that continues this week. We’ve been going over initiatives and other long-term planning for events such as the Congressional Picnic and 4th of July.”