Re: Melania Trump
I wouldn’t rate Melania as a great role model for young women to aspire to and she doesn’t seem to be making much impact in the role of First Lady but I get the impression it was a role she didn’t particularly aspire to or want.
I get the impression she would have been happier to continue with the rich, materially comfortable life she had secured for herself when she married him and get on with looking after her son, herself and her home, without any public scrutiny or responsibility, but she is quietly getting on with trying to make the best of the situation she is in.
I don’t imagine she’ll go down in history for leaving a great positive legacy as a First Lady, as some of her predecessors have, but I don’t think she’ll have a negative influence or rock the boat much either.
I don’t hold her responsible for what her husband does - I doubt anyone could rein him in even if they tried - and if she is happy to stand beside or behind him, that’s her choice - it does suggest to me that her values are very different to mine so, although I don’t think she deserves some of the vitriol which I’ve sometimes seen directed at her, she isn’t someone I admire.