Melania Trump
First Lady of the United States from 2017 to 2021
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| April 21 2025 | Hosted the White House Easter Egg Roll with her husband, which attracted approximately 40,000 attendees. |
| April 2025 | Honored recipients at the annual International Women of Courage Awards. |
| March 3 2025 | Made her first solo appearance as first lady by attending a roundtable discussion at Capitol Hill on the 'Take It Down Act', a bill addressing non-consensual intimate imagery online. |
| February 25 2025 | Announced the resumption of public tours of the White House on this date. |
| 2025 | Becomes First Lady again as Donald Trump returns to the presidency, becoming the second first lady in history to serve two non-consecutive terms. |
| 2025 | Launched her own cryptocurrency, the $Melania coin, coinciding with Donald's presidential inauguration. |
| 2025 | Becomes First Lady of the United States for a second, non-consecutive term. |
| January 20 2025 | Melania Trump became the second first lady to serve two non-consecutive terms during the 60th United States presidential inauguration. |
| January 2025 | Amazon confirmed that its Prime Video has licensed an upcoming documentary film on Melania Trump, directed by Brett Ratner, with Melania serving as an executive producer. |
| January 2025 | Traveled with President Trump to North Carolina to assess Hurricane Helene damage and to Southern California to monitor fire rescue services for the January Southern California wildfires. |
| January 2025 | Less than two weeks before becoming First Lady again, Melania attended the funeral for former President Jimmy Carter. |
| January 2025 | Launched her own cryptocurrency, the $Melania coin, coinciding with her husband's presidential inauguration. |
| January 20 2025 | Melania Trump became the second First Lady in U.S. history to serve two non-consecutive terms during the 60th Presidential Inauguration, following Frances Cleveland's historical precedent. |
| 2024 | Melania Trump caused controversy among Republicans by announcing her support for the right to abortion ahead of her memoir's publication. |
| 2024 | Melania launched her own cryptocurrency, the $Melania coin, coinciding with Donald Trump's presidential term. |
| December 2024 | Filming for the documentary on Melania Trump began one month after her husband, Donald Trump, won the presidential elections. |
| December 2024 | Began filming of a documentary about her life, directed by Brett Ratner, with Amazon MGM Studios licensing the project for US$40 million. |
| November 5 2024 | Donald Trump was elected to the presidency for a second, non-consecutive term, which will result in Melania Trump returning to her role as First Lady in January 2025. |
| November 5 2024 | Donald Trump won the presidential election. |
| July 2024 | Melania became more visible during her husband's presidential campaign, putting out a statement after an attempted assassination and appearing at the Republican National Convention, notably declining to speak at the event. |
| July 2024 | Melania Trump appeared at the 2024 Republican National Convention, marking the first time a candidate's spouse did not speak at the convention since Barbara Bush. |
| July 2024 | Melania Trump announced her intention to publish a memoir titled 'Melania.' |
| July 2024 | Melania Trump became more visible by issuing a statement following the attempted assassination of her husband. |
| November 2023 | Melania Trump attended the memorial service for former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. |
| 2022 | Melania launched her first NFT project, selling digital artwork on the Solana blockchain and exploring cryptocurrency-based ventures. |
| September 2022 | Melania gave an interview to Breitbart News claiming the previous year's audiotapes were strategically edited to misrepresent her White House duties. |
| 2021 | Left the White House and largely stayed out of public view. |
| 2021 | Melania Trump finished her tenure as First Lady with a disapproval rating of 42%, making her the least popular first lady since polling began. |
| 2021 | Leaves the White House after her husband's first term as president. |
| 2021 | Melania returned to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House, choosing to live away from public attention. |
| February 2021 | The Justice Department dropped a civil suit against Stephanie Winston Wolkoff that had been filed in October 2019 for alleged breach of a nondisclosure agreement. |
| January 18 2021 | Melania Trump released a farewell video encouraging Americans to uphold the principles of her Be Best campaign as her tenure as First Lady concluded. |
| 2020 | Leaked tapes featured Melania Trump expressing grief over family separation at the border while also questioning the validity of asylum claims. |
| 2020 | In the final months of her tenure as first lady, Melania Trump endorsed her husband's false claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election. |
| 2020 | As the COVID-19 pandemic began, Melania Trump faced criticism for promoting a White House renovation project but later used her Twitter account to encourage social distancing and promote official medical advice during the pandemic. |
| 2020 | In August 2020, Melania Trump delivered a speech during the Republican National Convention, supporting her husband’s reelection campaign. |
| December 2020 | The Siena College Research Institute released a study in which Melania Trump was assessed as the worst of 40 evaluated American first ladies. |
| November 2020 | Unveiled the abstract sculpture Floor Frame by Isamu Noguchi in the White House Rose Garden, describing it as 'embodying themes of resilience and renewal' in her memoir. |
| October 1 2020 | Melania Trump's former advisor, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, released audiotapes featuring Melania making critical remarks about her role as first lady, her media representation, and her Christmas responsibilities. |
| April 2020 | Melania Trump reorganized her staff in preparation for her husband's reelection campaign, appointing Marcia Lee Kelly as her senior advisor and Emma Doyle as her policy advisor, while removing her chief of staff, Lindsay Reynolds. |
| March 2020 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, supported medical workers and first responders by hosting virtual events and promoting awareness of their critical work. |
| March 2020 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, continued to promote her 'Be Best' initiative virtually and supported healthcare workers and pandemic response efforts. |
| 2019 | Melania Trump made her first appearances as the honorary chair of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. |
| 2019 | Melania Trump received increased attention for her Be Best campaign after her husband, President Donald Trump, made critical Twitter posts about Greta Thunberg, shortly after Melania had criticized Pamela Karlan for mentioning her son Barron in a speech. |
| June 2019 | Became the first sitting First Lady to attend a presidential campaign rally with her husband, Donald Trump, in Orlando, Florida. |
| 2018 | Melania Trump opposed her husband's family separation policy and successfully convinced him to end the practice. |
| 2018 | A dispute arose between Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump regarding a similar trip to Africa that Ivanka planned, leading Melania to feel that Ivanka was intruding on her role as first lady. |
| 2018 | Melania Trump planned the White House Christmas decorations, filling the East Colonnade with red cranberry-laden trees set atop a green carpet. The design received widespread criticism. |
| 2018 | Faces multiple challenges including allegations of her husband's extramarital affairs, undergoes kidney surgery, and conducts a controversial tour of Africa. |
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