Melania Trump is not a 'reluctant' first lady, her spokesperson insists: 'The media consistently ignores her work'
First Lady Melania Trump's spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham has said the media were undoubtedly going to take her CNN opinion piece as an "assault on the press" and continue to push the narrative that Trump was a reluctant first lady.
Grisham, also known as "the enforcer" by White House insiders, wrote the op-ed in response to a "trivial poll" by multiple outlets claiming Melania's favorable rating among Americans was dropping as well as a scathing article by a CNN contributor who claimed Trump "doesn't understand what it means to be first lady."
While several critics on the left opined that Trump does not want and is not good at her current job, Grisham argued that all the first-lady-like things that Trump has been doing are majorly underreported.
These include: Reading Christmas stories to sick children, flying out to an aircraft carrier to visit members of the military for the holidays, hosting a successful state dinner and dozens of holiday events at the White House, and representing the administration at a state funeral.