I read this piece today in the Guardian. Changes my view on her a bit as she’s generally portrayed as not doing much as First Lady.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/03/melania-trump-donald-immigration-jacket-slogan-book
Some snippets:
‘Melania Trump describes in her new memoir how she made her husband, then president Donald Trump, drop a signature hardline immigration policy under which migrant children were separated from their parents, stoking domestic and international uproar.
“This has to stop,” the former first lady says she told her husband, “emphasizing the trauma it was causing these families” and seeing him swiftly comply, ending the policy on 20 June 2018.
It is not the only spousal disagreement revealed in the memoir, Melania, which will be published in the US next week. The Guardian obtained a copy.
Melania Trump also delivers a passionate defence of abortion rights significantly weakened by a supreme court to which her husband appointed three hardline justices and under further attack as he runs for the White House again.
“Occasional political disagreements between me and my husband were a part of our relationship,” Melania Trump writes, “but I believed in addressing them privately rather than publicly challenging him. I found our discussions more productive when we could have a quiet dialogue at home, out of the public eye.”‘