Former first lady Melania Trump claims she forced her husband Donald to abandon his hardline immigration policy of separating children from their parents in the latest bombshell revelation from her new book.
The politician caused an international stir in 2018 while her husband was president, but the former first lady wrote that she forced him to stop her.
“This has to stop,” the former first lady said she immediately told her husband. She wrote that she was “emphasizing the trauma it was causing these families” and he “assured her” he would investigate before announcing the end of the policy on June 20, 2018.
His account of the events is included in his new memoir to be published next week, but on Thursday he published excerpts of his views on immigration and his intervention. Guardian.
He described family separations as “unacceptable.”
Former first lady Melania Trump wrote in her new memoir that she forced her husband Donald to stop the strict immigration policy that separated migrant children from their parents at the border when he was president. He called it “unacceptable.”
In the book, Trump wrote that children “held in overcrowded detention centers and in utter squalor…raised serious questions about their health and well-being.”
He continued: ‘The lack of a clear plan to reunite families and the absence of a definitive policy on these separations only increased public outrage. I felt strongly that the situation demanded urgent attention and action.’
Trump herself is an immigrant who came to the United States from Slovenia and became a U.S. citizen in 2006.
‘I am sympathetic to everyone who wants to find a better life in this country. As an immigrant, I intimately understand the necessary yet arduous process of legally becoming an American,” she wrote of her approach to her husband.
On immigration, he wrote: ‘Given my past experiences with unfair narratives in the media, I always approach the news with some skepticism. Before speaking to him about the border crisis, I educated myself thoroughly about the situation.’
When Trump made a surprise visit to meet with migrant children separated from their parents in June 2018, he caused a stir while wearing a jacket with the message “I really don’t care.” And you?
It caused an avalanche of criticism while leaving the world guessing what he meant by it. She addresses the controversial outfit in her book.
Former first lady Melania Trump sparked controversy when she wore a jacket with the message “I really don’t care.” And you? when he went to visit migrant children at the US-Mexico border in June 2018. He now claims the message was directed at the media.
Trump describes the message as “discreet but impactful” and claims it was intended to protest against reports of anonymous origin.
“I was determined … to not let false media narratives affect my mission to help children and families at the border,” she wrote.
‘In fact, I decided to let them know that their criticism would never stop me from doing what I believe is right. “To be clear, I wore a special jacket when I boarded the plane, a jacket that quickly became famous,” he added.
Trump recounts how when the plane door closed, his press secretary’s inbox was ‘“You’re inundated with urgent emails from top-tier media outlets about the jacket.”
‘”It’s a message to the media,” I said, “to let them know that I didn’t care about their opinions of me” (but) she told me I couldn’t say that. “Why not? It’s the truth,” Trump wrote of their exchange.
“I disagreed with his insistence that he couldn’t say that,” Trump wrote. “Ignoring my comments, she told a CNN journalist she was friends with that it was simply a jacket, a fashion choice with no underlying message.”
Trump wrote that the frenzy over the jacket “overshadowed the importance of children, the border and policy change.” She called him ‘Just another example of the media’s irresponsible behavior.
His press secretary at the time, Stephanie Grisham, disputed Trump’s account that the jacket was aimed at the media in her own book.
The now-Trump critic claimed that when they returned to Washington, DC after the trip, Trump was the one who came up with the idea and told them to say they were “talking to the damn press.”
Former first lady Melania Trump also revealed in her upcoming memoir that she is pro-choice. The admission comes as her husband, former President Donald Trump (R), is widely credited with eroding abortion rights in the United States.
The latest revelations are just the latest in a series of explosive claims to come to light in Trump’s book, which addresses areas where the former first lady disagrees with her husband.
Trump wrote in his abortion memoir that he supports a woman’s right to choose and has “carried this belief” throughout his “adult life.”