Melania Trump Plays the Role of Medieval Queen
The first lady’s intervention to reverse the administration’s family-separation policy fits a long historical pattern.
by Sonja Drimmer
Jun 21, 2018
3 minutes
On June 17, First Lady Melania Trump issued a rare statement on current policy through her spokesperson. That statement lamented the separation of refugee children from their parents by the Department of Homeland Security and declared that America should be “a country that governs with heart.” And when, on Wednesday, her husband reversed his policy, White House aides rushed to credit her intervention. “From the start Mrs. Trump has been encouraging the president to do all he can to keep families together,” one official told The Washington Post.
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