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Melania Trump
Melania Knauss Trump is a Slovenian and American former model serving as the first lady of the United States since 2025, a role she previously held from 2017 to 2021 as the third wife of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States. She is the first naturalized citizen and the first non-native English speaker to become first lady; the second foreign-born first lady, after Louisa Adams; the second Roman Catholic first lady, after Jacqueline Kennedy; and the second to hold the position nonconsecutively, after Frances Cleveland.
business · First Lady of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025) · model · jewelry designer · celebrity · businessperson · writer · also Melania Trump, Melania Knauss, Melania Knauss-Trump, Melania, Trump
Born 26 April 1970 · Q432473
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A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life, I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox, I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does.
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The Guardian: Trump threatens to declare strait of Hormuz ‘territory of the United States’
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Lead Stories rated the claim “This is a real photo of Trump, Melania, Karoline Leavitt, Usha Vance, and Katie Miller with the last three holding babies” Digital Babies.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Donald Trump posted a meme of Barack Obama and Melania Trump in the O.J. Simpson Bronco.” No Such Post.
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Public attention spiked: 27,818 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.7× the usual 5,904, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 31,649 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.4× the usual 5,904, with 0 article edits.
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The head of the presidential initiative Bring Kids Back UA, Maksym Maksymov, reported that Melania Trump helped return more than 30 children deported by Russia to Ukraine
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Michael Wolff's lawsuit against Melania was dismissed
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Real article reported that Melania Trump was a "poppers girl at an East Village gay bar".” No Record.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Jimmy Kimmel made an expectant widow joke about Melania Trump after the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner” Before Event.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A photo authentically shows U.S. first lady Melania Trump kissing the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on the lips.” Fake.
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Snopes rated the claim “An image authentically shows Jeffrey Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell in a wig, grabbing one of U.S. first lady Melania Trump’s breasts.” Fake.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Rachel Maddow air a segment claiming that a federal judge has ruled that Melania Trump must testify against her husband.” Never Said.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “An image authentically shows U.S. first lady Melania Trump holding a clear plastic cup at a party, standing between the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and a woman.” Fake.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A collage of images spreading online in April 2026 authentically shows U.S. first lady Melania Trump with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.” Fake.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Photo shows Melania Trump smiling standing next to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell” Digitally Made.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “French President Emmanuel Macron posted an image of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein kissing U.S. first lady Melania Trump on the cheek.” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “An image authentically shows an October 2002 email from future U.S. first lady Melania Trump, then Melania Knauss, to Jeffrey Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell.” True.
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Melania made a statement from the White House where she denied that she had ties to Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell
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Through Zoom, discussing how students can use artificial intelligence for creativity, while also issuing a warning about how it could also hijack their thinking if they become too dependent on it
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CNN revealed that Melania was now "eschewing the nation's capital for New York and Palm Beach", and had been using the Office of the First Lady of the United States far less than she had during her husband's first term a
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Melania and President Trump attended a banquet hosted by King Charles III and Queen Camilla
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Melania hosted the White House Easter Egg Roll with her husband, which drew crowds of around 40,000
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Melania made her first solo appearance as first lady for the term by attending a roundtable discussion at Capitol Hill on the Take It Down Act, a bill that could speed the removal of intimate imagery posted online withou
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Career landmark: First Lady of the United States (2025).
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Her husband's former personal counsel Michael Cohen testified during The People of the State of New York v
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Largely stayed out of the public view before assuming the role of first lady again in 2025
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As the least popular first lady since polling began with a rating of 42%
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Melania's former advisor Stephanie Winston Wolkoff released audiotapes that featured Melania making profane statements about her image and role as first lady
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Leaked tapes in 2020 featured Trump making statements defending some of the practices, expressing grief about family separation but questioning the validity of asylum claims and dismissing concerns that children were kept in substandard conditions.
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Featured Trump making statements defending some of the practices, expressing grief about family separation but questioning the validity of asylum claims and dismissing concerns that children were kept in substandard cond
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When the president made Twitter posts critical of Greta Thunberg, a teenage environmental activist diagnosed on the autism spectrum
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Melania's parents were granted American citizenship
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Melania held a press conference in the White House Rose Garden to announce her official public initiative as first lady, the Be Best awareness campaign
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Where children were being separated from their parents
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Trump was openly critical of her husband's "zero tolerance" policy of denying asylum at the Mexico–United States border in 2018, where children were being separated from their parents.
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Including allegations of extramarital affairs committed by her husband, surgery for kidney disease, and a tour of Africa that was overshadowed by scrutiny of her wardrobe and personal conduct
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Melania hosted her first White House event, a luncheon for International Women's Day
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Melania announced that she would not move to Washington, D
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Though other estimates put it at over $10,000,000
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Career landmark: First Lady of the United States (2017–2021).
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Were in Manhattan and Washington, and she typically spoke about women's and children's issues
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Melania gave a speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention
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That she had worked for an escort agency
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“A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life, I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox, I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does.”
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“I could say that I'm the most bullied person on the world”
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“Sometimes I say I have two boys at home — I have my young son and I have my husband.”
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“Total honesty is what we as citizens deserve from our president”
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“You judge a society by how it treats its citizens. We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security, with the best possible education.”
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As a jewelry brand, which she used to sell less expensive jewelry pieces on QVC
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“with as little help as possible”
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Melania and Donald had a son, Barron William Trump
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“On July 28th 2006, I was very proud to become a citizen of the United States — the greatest privilege on planet Earth.”
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With the model Karen McDougal was made public
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At the Bethesda-by-the-Sea church in Palm Beach, Florida
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And the following year had a son, Barron Trump
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Shortly after their marriage, and it featured audio of Donald making lewd remarks about his treatment of women
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On her birthday as they were leaving to attend the Met Gala
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And the other on January 1, 2003, from someone who identified as "Melania
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Granting her permanent residency in the United States
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Applied for an EB-1 visa, colloquially known as an "Einstein visa", which was approved in 2001
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The couple gained attention after an interview with shock jock Howard Stern on his show, in which he asked them lewd sexual questions
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While Trump was married to Marla Maples
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Met Metropolitan Models co-owner Paolo Zampolli, who was on a scouting trip in Europe
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Was named runner-up in the Jana Magazine Look of the Year contest, which promised its top three contestants an international modeling contract
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To have a disapproval rating greater than their approval rating
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In Novo Mesto, a city in the Lower Carniola region of the SR Slovenia of the SFR Yugoslavia
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Born 1970-04-26.
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Studied at Secondary School for Design and Photography, Ljubljana.
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