TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/MELANIA: “First lady Melania Trump is making steps toward a campaign against cyberbullying, hosting tech leaders at the White House next week, her office confirmed on Tuesday [3-13-18].
The meeting, first reported by The Washington Post — will include representatives from Amazon, Facebook, Google, Twitter and Snap. It is set for Tuesday and is part of Trump’s ongoing effort to have conversations about issues affecting children, including how they handle social media, East Wing communications director Stephanie Grisham told CNN…
While the first lady has yet to unveil a formal platform, she’s hinted that issues affecting children will be key to her efforts.
Speaking to spouses of world leaders at a luncheon at the US Mission to the United Nations last September, Trump said she was focused on the message and content children are exposed to through social media, noting that outreach to leaders in the tech realm would be part of her strategy…
More recently, Trump told the spouses of US governors at a White House luncheon that combating ‘negative social media interactions’ was a priority… However, her husband, President Donald Trump, has come under fire for the example he sets himself through his social media platforms. Asked by CNN last year if the first lady feels the need to reconcile criticism of the President’s Twitter behavior with what she’s trying to accomplish, Grisham said flatly, ‘no.’ “
–Betsy Klein and Kate Bennett, “Melania Trump to host tech leaders at White House,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Mar. 14, 2018 10:25am