CNN Kept Attacking Melania So Her Spokeswoman Came Back With This Harsh Response
Melania Trump’s spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, wrote on Saturday that “absurdity abounds in the media’s coverage of our first lady. Reports focus on the trivial and superficial, rather than the deeper issues facing our country that she has tirelessly worked to address.”
Grisham was responding to a recent CNN opinion criticizing First Lady Melania Trump’s job performance. Grisham disapproved of the “unfair coverage” by Kate Andersen Brower’s opinion piece on a FLOTUS interview with Sean Hannity. In the piece, Brower asserted that Trump “doesn’t understand what it means to be first lady.”
In the Sean Hannity interview, Melania Trump slammed “opportunists” including comedians, performers, and journalists who use “my name or my family name to advance themselves.”
The first lady added: “The problem is they’re writing the history and it’s not correct.”
In her own piece, Grisham cited the first lady’s community outreach including visits with military personnel, and Trump’s “Be Best” campaign which has made stops at children’s hospitals.
“She has and will continue to demonstrate her commitment to helping children and advancing the causes she is passionate about. But there is nothing wrong with staying true to herself along the way. In fact, her strength, individuality, and integrity should be celebrated,” Grisham wrote.
She added: “When Brower claims Mrs. Trump has no understanding of what it means to be first lady, she intentionally ignores all the effort the first lady has put into fulfilling the traditional responsibilities of the role. The simple fact is that Mrs. Trump deserves honest reporting and media coverage that focuses on the substance of her message: the importance of helping children grow up to be happy, healthy and socially responsible adults.”
Grisham said that journalists have “the opportunity and responsibility to report fairly, accurately and without bias. They are, in fact, writing the first draft of our nation’s history. In many ways, they are failing to measure up to this responsibility. This failure must be addressed.”