Melania Trump closes 2018 with fewer personal woes, but a difficult public perception

(CNN)As the second year of Melania Trump’s tenure as first lady comes to a close, and she turns the corner to the latter half of her husband’s term, one thing is certain, Trump has come into her own. She began her first year as a glimmer of a first lady, living in New York City, hours from the White House, rarely appearing in public, and cobbling together a nascent staff, but by the start of 2018, she had moved in, built her team to a dozen members and set her sights on a series of firsts: first State Dinner, first formal policy initiative, first solo trip abroad. As the year began to take shape, it felt finally as though the first lady was going to actually be a first lady. And then the rug came out from under her. Twelve days into the new year, the story of Stormy Daniels broke, and Trump was thrust into a scandalous, salacious and tabloid-style drama, and where before she could close out the world and retreat, now she was the most well-known woman in the world; hiding was not an option. As such, 2018 would become the year Melania Trump had to figure… Read full this story

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