MELANIA: “It’s been almost one year since first lady Melania Trump launched her official ‘Be Best’ platform, a three-pillared program set to tackle the relatively vast topics of children’s well-being, online behavior and how the opioid crisis affects kids and families. Not only is it a comparatively large and complex set of issues for a presidential spouse to undertake, Trump is doing so with a skeleton crew of East Wing staff members. Yet Trump, who this week embarked on her first solo domestic overnight trip to promote her initiative, has gone about building on her initiatives as she has with most other things during her tenure — at her own pace, when she so chooses. She’s carried on without concern for its compatibility (or not) with President Donald Trump’s agenda, or concern for how those who came before her accomplished their tasks. And for much of her efforts, she’s struggled to win headlines or command the media attention that followed her predecessors. It’s something that frustrates Trump, as she stated Tuesday 3-5-29] in Las Vegas, where the first lady spoke and took questions at a town hall about opioids hosted by Eric Bolling.”
–“Melania Trump pushes ‘Be Best’ even without the spotlight,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, March 6, 2019 7:50 pm