In so many ways, the 2024 Election Season has been unprecedented and unpredictable part of the unusual nature of the campaign includes hula end up as the President Ial spouse, traditionally known as the office of the First Lady. If former president Donald Trump wins, Melania Trump will return to the east wing for the second time after exiting four years ago. Now, this has only happened once before in the countrys history. And then theres Vice President harriss husband, Doug Emhoff, potentially the first man to ever serve in this role over the next hour, Cnn Anchor Kaitlan collins, who covered the trump White Houses reporter, takes a closer look at the history of the first spouse and how it may be redefined by the next person who will hold that title. As a White House reporter. It can be easy to overlook the First Lady but that role, and those who have occupied it have long had a deep influence on the west wing. And the country. It can be part diplomat, not you coach steps america First Lady but emma, she goes, she is starting up a wealth of information to pass onto the resume fulltime campaigner their mother march the Lady Bird special Whistle Stop Tour in the south where democratic defections, threat. And sometimes even Fashion Model white eisenhower models are glittering an Ball Gowns Brash and full of enthusiasm. The First Lady has a sampling of our role for the next Oil A View that hasnt evolved much over the last 75 years more than 50 women have served in the position since that very first inauguration, and 17, 89 Martha Washington complaints sometimes feeling like a State Prisoner because she was so observed and commented on as kind of a thankless job as a kind of no wind job. The role of First Lady has typically included White House traditions like hosting World Leaders planning State Dinners and congressional balls Easter Egg roll to the annual Easter Egg roll Administrations China its a way that the First Lady can show her own preferences, tastes, exercise that soft power of Diplomacy And Politicking and being in charge of the White House, Christmas Decorations high Pressure Role filled with scrutiny. Thats unpaid, an illdefined Wilson House where Ms Wilson hosted first ladies first ladies are really known for oftentimes rising above the politics. And its a tough job. Its not clearly defined find what your role is as First Lady and you have no Position Description and no salary are not on the federal payroll. You get to pick and choose what you want to do or nothing. Americans have come to expect that the position is one that you could make a difference and you do have influence and it is partner to the presidency. Theres no closer confidant to a president , then their spouse represents a sense of Peace And Calm and can be there in times of parallel, they want someone whos maternal warm. They want someone who is beautiful and welldressed and a good representative of our country. And its impossible to be all of those things for everyone given the womens movement, given how we are trying to have more Gender Equality that we still have this role very answer equated oldfashioned role where we have women who have graduate degrees who are spending the majority of their time picking out china and what theyre going to wear and seating placements. It mirrors womens place in American Society and that there are two steps forward, one step back row this the child no room in the Gold Room and the library, which isnt finished yet in 1962, thirtytwoyearold Jacqueline Kennedy ushered in the modern era when she gave the first televised tour of the White House by a First Lady. Remember canada, showing us about the whitehouse and all the changes that youve made sara m, Jackie Kennedy understood Peoples Fascination with her opening up the White House and bringing in cameras for that first time in 1962, she transformed our expectations and more than 50 years later, another First Lady would also a upend those expectations this Jackie Kennedy, esq. , 1960s suit. We are a country that has sort of trained on what the First Lady is wearing. And that was a real sort of big moment to see her emerge in that light blue suit with the gloves hed been it is an author and former cnn White House correspondent. Who covered melanias time as First LadyMelania Trump in designing that sit with Ralph Lauren and her stylist knew what it was going to look like and photographs she wanted to think of the most iconic First Lady that americans think of and reflect that are at least plant that, say that like, oh, she going to be the next jackie but even as Millennia Harken back to a former era with her style as First Lady. She also blazed a new path for herself from the very beginning. First lady Melania Trumps surprises with her decision to delay moving into the White House is unprecedented that she wont immediately move into the White House. It could be First LadyMelania Trump. Shes going to stay in New York for the rest of the school year. So their son, baron can finish school in New York city. She established a different precedent. She took a lot of criticism and for that, but she removed that burden of precedent for anyone that came after her who might want to do the same thing. Thats melania. I do what i want. Mary jordan is a pulitzer prizewinning Journalist And Author of the art of her deal. You write in your book about why she was so delayed in part and moving to the White House, she was renegotiated her Prenuptial Agreement with Donald Trump melania, when she got married to him. He wasnt in politics. So she dug your heels in and said, hey, i didnt sign up for this. You want me on the Campaign Trail. You got to do a little more and mainly she was interested in the share for baron she wanted baron to be considered more like the children from his first marriage, Ivanka Donald Junior and eric. And it really bugged her that she felt her kid got second trip hes a tough negotiator. So it was rishi with jordan released her book in june of 2020. Melania trumps then chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham said, quote, this book belongs in the Fiction Genre in 2021 grisham had resigned and published her own scathing book about the trump White House. I have been donald for 18 years, and i have been aware of his love for this country since we first met for many americans, the first time they may have heard Melania Trumps voice was when she took Center Stage at the Republican National Convention in july 2016. We all remember the disaster when she spoke at the convention and many lines were plagiarized, lifted from Michelle Obamas speech. You work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say youre gonna do, you work hard for what you want in life that your word is your bond and you do what you say parts of Melania Speech came directly from Michelle Obamas 2008 convention remarks. There were the allegations of plagiarism of mrs. Obama said thats a tough way to start but as she faced scrutiny in public, meloni remains deeply influential in private. How much influence would you say she has on him . Its certain times a lot he brought in his Vice President ial picks the last time ran all through millennia. And melania said, i think mike pence, because some of the others are going to be gunning for your job but her most crucial political move may have been when she sat down with Anderson Cooper and october 2016. Dont feel sorry for me. Dont feel sorry for me. I can handle everything that was just ten days after the now infamous Access Hollywood Tape leaked the one in which her husband joked about grabbing women by the genitals when youre a star, they let you do it. You can do anything, but everyone that damaging Tape Service just three weeks before the election. And melania stepped in as a lifeline for the campaign. I said to my husband thats the language is an appropriate its not acceptable and i was surprised because that is not demand that i know they were kind of a Boy Talk and he was lead on like egg on from the host to say dirty and bad stuff. She went on tv and she backed him up. She minimized it. Its just Locker Room Talk she had a lot of power at that moment and if she said the wrong thing or she walked or she said it disgusts me to he couldve lost the election now, in 2024, the former First Lady is facing a new wave of scrutiny. Are you going to go with your head . Wheres Melania Trump . Melania trump still has barely appeared anywhere to support her husband this year. She didnt attend his hush Money Trial in New York. She did speak at two political fundraisers for the Log Cabin republicans. She was paid more than Events Convention and introduce her husband. What did you make of that so she does like to have the attention, but its on her terms, her music, her lighting, her clothes where she stands, what she looks like, those are all things that are really orchestrated by her herself, not by the campaign, not by the producers of the convention, not by her husband and thats what makes her very uniquely launia melania, adding to the intrigue with her forthcoming memoir, i believe it is important to my perspective the truth in the lead up to her books release, shes posted these promotional videos addressing motherhood, life in the White House, and even her Views Abortion rights, which stand in stark contrast to her husbands there is no room for compromise when it comes to this essential right . That all women possess from birth individual freedom what does my body, my choice really mean . The former First Lady also addresses the Assassination Attempt on her husband in butler, pennsylvania in her book and then the videos that shes been putting out to help promote it. She does raise questions about trumps assassination. I Cant Help but wonder why didnt Law Enforcement officials arrest the shooter before the speech . There is definitely more to this story. And we need to uncover the truth. Its a pretty conspiratorial Book Promotion but again, eyeballs. And shes a trump and its great marketing that keep her calling her the sphinx what is that face . Shes making it a Me She Angry at and what does she think every marriage is different . 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