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The inscrutable Melania Trump is redefining America’s weirdest job

Melania Trump listens as President Trump meets with King Felipe VI of Spain on June 19

IT WAS ALL MELANIA’S IDEA. THE STATEMENT REBUKING her husband’s immigration policy. The hastily arranged trip to the southern border. Even the jacket—oh, God, the jacket. From the beginning of her husband’s term, First Lady Melania Trump has been mysterious, private to the point of secretive, seldom seen and even less often heard. As outrage over the Administration’s policy of separating children from their parents peaked, the First Lady—herself an immigrant who came to America seeking a

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