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The Guardian reports: Donald Trump has said his administration is encouraging Americans to wear face masks in public to prevent spreading the coronavirus – but does not intend to wear one himself, despite his own wife’s advice. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new guidance for people to wear bandannas, t-shirts and other cloth-based coverings in crowded …

CNN reports: First lady Melania Trump tested negative for coronavirus, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham told CNN Monday. Mrs. Trump got tested the same night as the President was tested, out of an abundance of caution. The test was negative,” Grisham said. President Donald Trump first announced that the first lady had received a test during his remarks at …

The Associated Press reports: Melania Trump pushed back Saturday after photos she tweeted of herself overseeing a White House construction project generated an online backlash. On Thursday, the first lady tweeted a series of pics, including two of herself wearing a hard hat while reviewing blueprints for the construction of a tennis pavilion on the south grounds. Critics lashed out, …

The Hill reports: First lady Melania Trump on Wednesday received a “Woman of Distinction” award from Palm Beach Atlantic University (PBA), despite pushback from some students and alumni in Florida over the move. Melania Trump, who changed her primary residence to Palm Beach along with President Trump last year, said she was “grateful” to accept the award. According to the …

The Associated Press reports: Hillary Clinton spent the morning of her husband’s impeachment visiting Capitol Hill to rally Democrats to his side. Pat Nixon kept assuring reporters her husband wouldn’t quit — right up until he did. Eliza Johnson, frail from tuberculosis, kept watch over her husband during his impeachment while sitting in a room across from his White House …

CNN reports: The White House on Friday issued a statement in response to questions about why the first lady did not respond to her husband’s ridiculing of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg after she was named Time’s “Person of the Year.” #BeBest is the First Lady’s initiative, and she will continue to use it to do all she can to help children,” …

The Hill reports: The White House is slamming what it’s calling the media’s “annual holiday tradition” of criticizing Melania Trump. “It has become an annual holiday tradition for the media to attack all that the first lady does,” White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Tuesday, according to Fox News’ Brian Flood. “If this was a Democratic administration, I suspect …

The Guardian reports: Melania Trump suspects Roger Stone, a longtime ally and adviser to Donald Trump, of being behind the release of nude photos from her modelling past, a new book claims. In the book, Free, Melania, CNN correspondent Kate Bennett also writes that the first lady “still refuses to believe” her husband played a role in the release. At …

“This is an epidemic in this country. Not just of people not liking anyone with the last name of Trump, but just with young people being completely disrespectful. “Can you imagine if this were Michelle Obama? Or can you imagine if Melania Trump was a Democrat or married to a democratic president? “She is an immigrant and she is a …

CNBC reports: First lady Melania Trump was greeted with resounding boos at an opioid awareness event in Baltimore on Tuesday, even as her husband, President Donald Trump, donated his salary for the third quarter of the year to combat the opioid crisis. Melania Trump was loudly booed as she was introduced at the B’More Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness at …

Politico reports: House Republicans who raked in the most money for a private fundraising event at Trump Hotel on Tuesday night got a little extra reward: a roast from President Donald Trump. The president — unscripted, unfiltered and totally in his element — went on an extended riff about a wide range of topics, from his recent White House meeting …

The DC Tribune reports: Today, a viral clip on Twitter seems to be proving that not only does Melania not speak French, but that she forgot she told everyone she could. During a joint press conference between French President Emmanuel Macron and her husband Donald Trump, Macron spoke French for any long-form answers that were necessary to questions from reporters …

The Associated Press reports: The news outlet NowThis has attracted attention with videos that illustrate inconsistencies by Fox News personalities, like one posted today that contrasts the news network’s treatment of Michelle Obama with her successor as first lady, Melania Trump. Clips show Fox commentators criticizing Michelle Obama’s wardrobe, saying she needed to drop a few pounds and calling her …

Newsweek reports: First lady Melania Trump on Monday announced new Be Best ambassadors to help “improve the lives of children,” at the same time as the Trump administration continues to receive heavy criticism for the conditions that migrant children face in border detention facilities. A White House press release stated that Trump was expanding her signature Be Best initiative aimed …

Earlier this week evangelist Franklin Graham declared that Pete Buttigieg will face eternal damnation if he doesn’t repent from his “flaunting homosexuality.” That condemnation came days after Graham criticized Christian activists for “rudely” accosting Buttigieg at Iowa campaign stops. His Facebook post concluded with a citation of the bible verse that calls for executing homosexuals. Last year Graham shrugged off …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump is spending St. Patrick’s Day morning at church. The president and his wife, first lady Melania Trump, have joined parishioners for Sunday’s 11 a.m. service at St. John’s Episcopal Church. Interim rector W. Bruce McPherson greeted the Trumps as they arrived. Many presidents have worshipped at St. John’s. The yellow church is located …

From the Hollywood Reporter: Frequent Melania Trump impersonator Laura Benanti dropped in on Friday night to chat with Late Show host Stephen Colbert about the rumors that the First Lady uses a “body double” when photographed with Trump. “This is nothing more than a wild conspiracy theory. Fortunately, the Late Show has a source that could put an end to …

The Birmingham Herald reports: The White House is adamantly denying an internet conspiracy theory that a body double replaced first lady Melania Trump on her recent visit to Alabama. Stephanie Grisham, spokesperson for the first lady, responded to the theory in a tweet, singling out the talk show “The View” for discussing the supposed body double. The View’s Ana Navarro …

Heavy.com reports: The “Fake Melania” chorus of social media voices has struck again. In what seems to be the biggest irony ever, Trump who had been at the forefront of the “birther” movement against President Barack Obama, having accused the latter of not being born in the United States, now faces a “truther” movement of his own. “Fake Melania is …

The Washington Examiner reports: First lady Melania Trump is challenging journalists to cover the opioid crisis as often as they publish “idle gossip and trivial stories.” She made the request while speaking in Las Vegas Tuesday at an event with conservative commentator Eric Bolling, whose 19-year-old son died from an overdose in 2017. Trump appeared to take a jab at …