Melania Trump’s Mother’s Day Messages

First Lady’s op-ed draws reader ire and a Q&A pays tribute to Mrs. Trump’s late mother.

First Lady Melania Trump makes a statement alongside President Donald Trump during a military mothers celebration in the East Room of the White House on May 6, 2026 in Washington, D.C. President Trump and the first lady honored America’s military mothers at the event ahead of Mother’s Day. (Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Ahead of Mother’s Day weekend on Friday, First Lady Melania Trump acknowledged the “balancing act” many working mothers face when in an op-ed for The Washington Post she urged “modern” mothers to revisit American family traditions by preserving elements of the past “that have proven their worth.”

“In doing so,” the first lady wrote, “America can restore the honor of motherhood after years in which feminism often placed career above family, with consequences to our nation.”

The exact consequences Mrs. Trump referred to were unclear in the op-ed. Her remedy offered included mothers making themselves available to their children “not just when it is convenient, but wh…