6/6/2018

FEMA/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Melania Trump’s disappearing act is over. The first lady showed herself in public Wednesday [6-6-18] for the first time in nearly a month, seated alongside her husband, President Donald Trump, for a briefing on the federal government’s preparedness for the hurricane season that began June 1. The routine meeting at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters took on outsized significance after the White House revealed that Mrs. Trump would accompany her husband. Prior to Wednesday, she had not been seen off the White House grounds since May 10. The first sighting of the first lady came as she and the president strolled down the walkway from the Oval Office and climbed into ‘the Beast,’ his idling limousine. She was wearing a belted trench coat and her customary high heels. Minutes later, Mrs. Trump took her seat alongside the president at one end of a long conference table as the FEMA briefing began, appearing to be her usual self.”

-Darlene Superville, “First lady returns to public eye after ‘little rough patch,’” The Associated Press, June 6, 2018 2:45 pm