Melania forced Donald Trump to drop hardline immigration policy, memoir claims

The First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump, has said she forced her husband, the President, to abandon his immigration policy that saw children separated from their parents.

The former first lady shares how Donald Trump ceased his shocking policy in 2018 when she confronted him saying staring shall have to stop.

In her forthcoming book, she also details how, unlike her broad critiques of Trump in private, she discussed her political grievances with him off camera.

“Occasional political disagreements between me and my husband were a part of our relationship,” she writes, adding: “but I believed it was better to confront them in confidence instead of confronting him publicly. Another participant opined that, “I realized we got more tangible results when we got an opportunity to have a one-on-one conversation in the house away from the public.”

According to The Guardian, which obtained a copy of the book ahead of next week’s release, Mrs Trump said that she didn’t like relying on news reports, adding: “Before the border crisis had a chance to be brought up in conversation with him, I made sure I knew all there was to know about it.”

Ms Anderson said that reading that children being held in overcrowded detention centers and in absolute squalor had made her doubt whether children in the centers are safe and well cared for. Ms Trump, 54, claimed that there is still no programming for getting peoples’ families back, saying that there is no definite Police to that effect which is fuelling people’s anger. “I was extremely certain that change was needed,” she wrote.

When Melania confronted Trump

The former model 54, says she confronted her husband about his attitude to the strike which is known to be unbending.

Describing her own experience as a Slovenian immigrant, she writes: I understand all those that want a better life in this country. I am an immigrant myself, so I am very familiar with the process, as often long and complicated, that is needed to become a legal resident of America.

Mrs Trump left New York in 1996 for modelling and began the naturalization process to become a US citizen in 2006. In 2005, she bore a son to both her and Trump in the name of Barron.

She said that while she believes in secure borders, the situation there was “completely intolerable”. 

“When I first spoke to Donald, I expressed my serious concerns to him about the separations particularly to these families. 

“As a mother myself, I stressed: ‘The government should not be taking children away from their parents’,” she wrote.

Ms Trump said that her husband promised her he will look into the policy by June 20, he was able to cancels it.

Mrs Trump’s behind-the-scenes advocacy activities were revealed in the news at the time. Her spokeswoman issued a statement in which she claimed that she does not like that children are separated from their families and that she wants both sides of the split political aisle to realize that it is possible to achieve successful immigration reform.

The border visit

In the said book, the mother of one counts how a visit to the southern border made her realize that the root cause of family separations was not the United States government, but criminals and cartels in home countries.

During her second visit she caused an uproar when she wore her now famous  jacket which read: “I really don’t care, do U?”.

In response to the furore, Mrs Trump says that the ‘subtle but powerful’ message was to challenge ‘anonymous briefings’ by media.

“I was determined … not to allow the media’s lies get in the way of what I wanted to do: assist the children and families at the border,” she accounts. Instead, I made up my mind to inform them it would never inhibit me from performing what I consider the right thing to do. To illustrate the idea, I took a specific jacket when I was getting onboard the plane, a jacket that became quite popular.

“As the door on the plane closed, my press secretary reacted with emails from main media concerned with the jacket … ‘It’s a message for the media,’ I said, ‘to let them know I was unconcerned with their opinions of me’ [but] She disciplined me telling me that I could not use that. ‘Why not? It is the truth.’ I did not appreciate that she said that I could not say that. She dismissed all my comments, told a CNN reporter that she is friendly with that, it’s just a jacket for no message.

Mrs Trump writes that the reaction had superceded the emphasis on her border statement and that it was ‘inevitable another case of mediocrity.’

Press secretary Stephanie Grisham recently disclosed in her book that she and Mrs Trump were reprimanded by the then-president over jacket-gate.

Ms Grisham said Trump came up with the idea, shouting: “You only have to say that you were talking to the fucking press.”