Melania Trump carves solo path in Africa visit
Melania Trump leaves Washington -- and her husband's shadow -- Monday for a four-country tour of Africa that will give the glamorous and at times enigmatic first lady a chance to carve her own diplomatic path. require(["medianetNativeAdOnArticle"], function (medianetNativeAdOnArticle) { medianetNativeAdOnArticle.getMedianetNativeAds(true); }); The trip to Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt will be her first big solo international trip.
And like the First Ladies before her , Melania Trump will make her mark on history. At age 16, she began what would soon become a highly successful modeling career, appearing in many high profile ad campaigns and working with some of the best photographers in the fashion industry.
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U.S. First Lady Melania Trump has embarked on a solo trip of four African countries -- Ghana, Kenya, Malawi and Egypt -- to promote the health care and education programs for United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
(Pictured) U.S. first lady Melania Trump waves as she prepares to depart Cairo, Egypt on Oct. 6.
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Performers take part in a pharaonic show in front of the Great Pyramids during the visit.
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Trump visits the Pyramids in Cairo, Egypt on Oct. 6.

Melania Trump visits the ancient statue of Sphinx at the historic site of Giza Pyramids on Oct. 6 near Cairo, Egypt.
Melania Trump in Egypt to tour pyramids, Sphinx
Melania Trump is in Egypt to wrap up a four-country tour of Africa by visiting the pyramids and the Sphinx. The U.S. first lady arrived in Cairo on Saturday after a flight from Kenya. She planned to meet with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and his wife, first lady Entissar Mohameed Amer, before heading to the nearby city of Giza to see the pyramids and Sphinx to highlight U.S.-backed preservation efforts there.
Melania Trump will attend a congressional picnic in the final days of June. She will start filling out her roster of aides. She will get her son settled into his new But Mrs. Trump ’ s immediate focus is likely to be inside the White House , where her husband has become increasingly isolated from his party and
Until November 8, Melania Trump ’ s marriage provided her with a golden Fifth Avenue fortress, at a Eventually Trump brought her family over to New York (where her parents now live for most of the True, Melania ’ s first hire was her old friend Stephanie Wolkoff. Her next hires included people who
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Security officials sweep the area before Melania Trump's visit to the Pyramids, on Oct. 6 in Cairo, Egypt.
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Melania Trump is welcomed by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his wife, Intissar Amer, upon her arrival at the Presidential Palace in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Oct. 6.
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Melania Trump meets with her Egyptian counterpart Intissar Amer at Cairo International Airport on Oct. 6.
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Children look on as Melania Trump arrives in Cairo, Egypt, on Oct. 6.
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Melania Trump shakes hands with First Lady of Kenya Margaret Kenyatta as she boards her military airplane prior to departing from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, on Oct. 6, as she heads to Cairo, the final stop on her week-long trip through four countries in Africa.

Melania Trump pets a baby elephant the at David Sheldrick Elephant & Rhino Orphanage at Nairobi National Park on Oct. 5.
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First lady Melania Trump on Saturday closed out her first ever solo international trip to Africa in a face-to-face with Egypt' s Great Sphinx of Giza, one of the most mysterious statues in the world , which was built in homage to a mythical creature with the head of a king and the body of a lion.
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Melania Trump feeds a baby elephant at The David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi on Oct. 5.
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Melania Trump looks at zebras as she travels in a vehicle while on a safari.
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Melania Trump visits the Nest Orphanage in Limuru, Kenya, Friday, Oct. 5.
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Melania Trump walks and sings with children as she visits the Nest Childrens Home Orphanage in Nairobi, on Oct. 5, which primarily cares for children whose parents have been incarcerated.
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A combination photo shows people cheering and waving at the motorcade of U.S. first lady Melania Trump as she drives though Lilongwe, Malawi, Oct. 4.

Melania Trump is greeted by a girl as she disembarks from her military airplane upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Oct. 4 in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Many labeled the speech as hollow, considering the number of people her husband has attacked on Twitter. Related Video: Melania Trump Insists Donald and Billy During an interview with PEOPLE in October of last year, Melania hesitated to envision a life in the White House : “It’ s a long road.
He has written more than fourteen bestsellers. His first book, The Art of the Deal, is considered a business classic. Millions of new Republicans trusted Mr. Trump with their vote because of his commitment to delivering President Trump has been married to his wife, Melania , for twelve years
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U.S. First Lady Melania Trump and the First Lady of Malawi Gertrude Maseko pose for a photograph at the State House on Oct. 4 in Lilongwe, Malawi.
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U.S. First Lady Melania Trump speaks to the children as head teacher Maureen Masi listens on during her visit to the Chipala Primary School in Lilongwe on Oct. 4.
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Melania Trump looks on as she visits a school in Lilongwe on Oct. 4.
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Melania Trump visits the Chipala Primary School in Lilongwe on Oct. 4.
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Melania Trump and head teacher Maureen Masi watch children play with soccer balls at Chipala Primary School, in Lilongwe on Oct. 4.
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Melania Trump receives flowers from a young girl alongside the First Lady of Malawi, Gertrude Mutharika (L), as she arrives at Lilongwe International Airport on Oct 4.

Melania Trump poses with Osabarimba Kwesi Atta II, the chieftan of the regional Fante tribe on Oct.3 at the Emintsimadze palace in Cape Coast, Ghana.
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NOW WHAT First Lady Melania Trump observing her husband on the South Lawn of the White House Melania ’ s parents spend time in the area where Barron attends private school, according According to Donald, Melania wrote that speech herself . She seems to have since elected to use a
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Trump hugs a young girl as she arrives at the Emintsimadze Palace on Oct. 3 in Cape Coast.
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Trump greets a receiving line at the Emintsimadze palace on Oct. 3 in Cape Coast.
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Trump sits as she meets with Fante chiefs to gain permission to visit Cape Coast castle on Oct. 3 in Ghana.
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A sign welcomes Melania Trump to the Emintsimadze Palace on Oct. 3 in Cape Coast.
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Trump with Kwesi Essel-Blankson, Museum Educator, at the Cape Coast Castle, a former slave trading fort, in Ghana on Oct. 3.
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Trump signs a visitors book during a visit to the castle on Oct. 3.
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Trump lays a wreath during a visit to Cape Coast castle on Oct. 3.
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Trump at the castle on Oct. 3.
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Trump is greeted by Ghana's first lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, at Jubilee House, or the Presidential Palace, in Accra on Oct. 2.
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Trump holds a baby during a visit to the Greater Accra Regional Hospital on Oct. 2.
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Trump poses with Ghana first lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo (third from left) and hospital staff on Oct. 2.
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Trump donates teddy bears to patients during the hospital visit on Oct. 2.
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Children wave flags of the U.S. and Ghana for US First Lady Melania Trump during an arrival ceremony after landing at Kotoka International Airport on Oct. 2.

Trump walks with Rebecca Akufo-Addo, the First Lady of Ghana, after landing on Oct. 2.
Experts to Melania Trump: You Are Not the ‘Most Bullied Person in the World’
On her recent swing through Africa, between visits with dignitaries and photo-ops in front of the Great Sphinx, First Lady Melania Trump declared that she could be “the most bullied person in the world.” To experts who study bullying and work to prevent it, the suggestion was absurd.
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Trump receives flowers during an arrival ceremony on Oct. 2.
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Akufo-Addo greets Trump upon her arrival on Oct. 2.
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Trump watches traditional dancers perform during the ceremony on Oct. 2.
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Trump hugs the young girl who offered her flowers on arrival on Oct. 2.
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Trump boards a plane at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland as she leaves the U.S. on Oct. 1.
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First lady Melania Trump said in an interview broadcast Thursday that there have been people in her husband’s White House whom she doesn’t trust, including some who still work there, and that she considers herself one of the most bullied people in the world.
During the interview with ABC News, conducted during her recent solo trip to Africa, Trump was asked by interviewer Tom Llamas whether the president has had people working for him she didn’t trust.
“Yes,” she replied, adding that she has let her husband know.
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“Some people, they don’t work there anymore,” Trump said.
Asked whether there are still people in the administration she can’t trust, Trump said yes.
“It’s harder to govern,” the first lady said. “You always need to watch your back.”
Her comments come in the wake of an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times last month claiming that there is a “resistance” within the Trump administration. The Times said the piece was written by a senior administration official, whose identity still has not become public.
During the interview, Llamas also asked Trump whether she has the most control over her husband’s decisions of those in the White House.
“Oh, I wish,” she said, laughing.
“I give him my honest advice and honest opinions, and then he does what he wants to do,” Trump said.
During the interview, Trump also discussed her child-welfare initiative, Be Best, which includes a focus on combating cyberbullying.
“I could say I’m the most bullied person on the world,” the first lady said.
Pressed on that assertion, she added: “One of them, if you really see what people are saying about me.”
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First lady Melania Trump said she was "blindsided" by the administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy that led to family separations at the southern border and it prompted her unannounced visit there in June. require(["medianetNativeAdOnArticle"], function (medianetNativeAdOnArticle) { medianetNativeAdOnArticle.getMedianetNativeAds(true); }); "I saw it on the news, and I reacted right away," Trump said in an interview for ABC News' special "Being Melania," which aired Friday night. "It was unacceptable for me to see children and parents separated. It was heartbreaking.