Media Outlets Note Reaction, or Lack Thereof, of Some First Ladies to Trump Conviction
Plus, First Lady Jill Biden continues campaign tours and believes voters will choose ‘good over evil’ in upcoming election.
Weekly Wrap
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Page Six
Melania Trump and Son Barron at Trump Tower in Wake of Guilty Verdict, Mood in Trumpworld After Trial Was 'Gloomy'
May 31, 2024 — Melania Trump and son Barron were at Trump Tower, sources tell Page Six, in the wake of the guilty verdict against former president Donald Trump. But the former first lady was keeping a low profile, after having not appeared at court in his case. Read more
Salon
Ivanka Trump Had Little to Say After Her Father Was Convicted, While Melania Remained Totally Silent
May 31, 2024 — Ivanka Trump was a no-show during the former president’s weeks-long hush money trial. When her father was convicted on 34 felony charges Thursday, the former White House aide had little to say, offering just four words of support: "I love you dad," shared alongside a photo on Instagram of her and her dad when she was a child. Read more
USA Today
Hillary Clinton After Trump's Conviction: 'Anything going on today?'
May 31, 2024 — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared to make an indirect reference to former President Donald Trump’s conviction Thursday night at the 23rd annual Global Leadership Awards, hosted by the nonprofit Vital Voices Global Partnership. Clinton, who lost to Trump in the 2016 election, thanked the audience as she arrived on stage at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., before asking, “Anything going on today?” Read more
East Wing Magazine
Jill Biden’s Campaigning Continues with Stops in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania
May 31, 2024 — First Lady Dr. Jill Biden will travel to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania this weekend. This will be the first lady’s third trip to Wisconsin, where she is scheduled to arrive in Milwaukee tonight and is expected to speak at Festa Italiana, an Italian heritage festival, according to the Office of the First Lady media advisory.
Biden visited the state earlier this year with stops in Waukesha in March about abortion access and in February, she spoke about President Joe Biden’s education policy in Green Bay.
Later in the evening, Biden will travel to Erie Pennsylvania where she is scheduled to speak Saturday morning at Erie County Community College’s 2024 Commencement Ceremony.
After the commencement, Biden will travel to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she is scheduled to speak at a political event in the afternoon.
Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are considered swing states in this year’s presidential election.
Washington Examiner
Jill Biden Ramps Up Campaigning in Contrast to Melania Trump
May 30, 2024 — First Lady Jill Biden is ramping up her campaigning for President Joe Biden‘s reelection bid, shining a light on Melania Trump‘s relative absence from the campaign trail. Read more
East Wing Magazine
These Press Conferences Were for ‘The Girls’
May 30, 2024 — On a sunny Mother’s Day in 1997, Elissa Free sits in a rocking chair on the back porch of her old farmhouse in rural Virginia at the center of Shenandoah County and readies a cassette tape recorder.
Her 80-year-old mother, Ann Cottrell Free, seated in the opposite rocking chair, waits as her daughter sets the scene.
“We’re starting again,” Elissa Free says into the recorder and notes the time. “It’s in the morning, about 8:30 or so. …She was in the middle of talking about ‘the girls.’”
There had already been hours of recordings.
“Mrs. Roosevelt’s press conferences continued,” Ann Cottrell Free interjects, and before they get started, her mother trails off about the beauty of the Lantz Mills area as Elissa’s then-5-year-old daughter darts in and out of the house.
It’s in this hamlet about two hours west of Washington, D.C., where Elissa continued the personal oral history she’d been gathering of her mother and her remarkable career that began as a trailblazing woman journalist in the early 1940s. She had a front row seat to history, even though, at age 24, she was the youngest of Eleanor Roosevelt’s all-women’s White House press conferences, which often relegated her to covering the first lady from the second row. Read more
NBC
Jenna Bush Hager Reveals Mom Laura Bush's Advice for Bored Kids
May 30, 2024 — The TODAY host revealed the wise words the former FLOTUS imparted to her as a mother. Read more
CNN
Former Adviser to Melania Predicts How She’s Reacting to Husband’s Guilty Verdict
May 30, 2024 — Former long-time adviser to Melania Trump Stephanie Winston Wolkoff weighs in on what she thinks is happening behind closed doors now that Donald Trump has been convicted in his hush money trial. View here
The Free Press
TGIF: The Trial of the Century of the Week
May 30, 2024 — Nellie Bowles: My War Queen Hillary took to Instagram to post a new mug for sale that has her outline and the words: “Turns out she was right about everything.” In the game of Lock Her Up, Hillary Clinton waited things out. And it might be dirty; it is a little reminiscent of a banana republic to imprison the opposition, yes. But in the end, there may well be a lock, and Hilz will be holding the key. View here
The Root
Peek Inside Barack and Michelle Obama's Martha's Vineyard Home
May 28, 2024 — When your previous homes are the White House and Camp David, there’s a lot of pressure on your next address. For their post-presidential vacation getaway, Barack and Michelle Obama chose a private, yet beautiful estate that would offer them all the luxury and security they’ve become accustomed to. Read more
Deadline
First Lady Jill Biden Tells 'The View' Biden Vs. Trump Is Battle Against “Chaos” & “Evil”: Polls “Are Going To Turn”
May 24, 2024 — First Lady Jill Biden swatted away suggestions that President Joe Biden is too old for the job, saying on ABC’s The View today that her husband, at 81, is “about the same age” as the assumed challenger Donald Trump, who turns 78 in two weeks. “This election is not about age,” she said, adding, “This is about character.” Read more
The Washington Post
Hats off to Melania Trump!
May 24, 2024 — Readers love the former first lady's style and sun protection. But they're not such big fans of Harrison Butker's marriage advice. This story is behind a paywall.