{"id":96168,"date":"2025-01-21T08:14:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T01:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/levanews.com\/?p=50785"},"modified":"2025-01-21T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T01:15:00","slug":"melania-trump-claims-obama-administration-withheld-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/melania-trump-claims-obama-administration-withheld-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump claims Obama administration withheld information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melania Trump has accused the Obamas of trying to interfere with her husband Donald Trump\u2019s first term in office.\n</p><p>The soon-to-be first lady threw some shade while expressing her confidence about her husband\u2019s upcoming second term, now that former President Barack Obama is no longer around to complicate things.\n</p><p>\u201cThe first time was challenging, we didn\u2019t have much of the information,\u201d she said during an appearance on <em>Fox &amp; Friends, reflecting on the time when her husband first took office in 2017.\n<figure id='\"attachment_50786\"' aria-describedby='\"caption-attachment-50786\"' style='\"width:' class='\"wp-caption' alignnone><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"wp-image-50786' size-large src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/echowoven.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2025%5C/01%5C/we-lot-put-country-back-96635492-1024x575-1.webp%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"1024\"' height='\"575\"' title='\"\"'><figcaption id='\"caption-attachment-50786\"' class='\"wp-caption-text\"'>Melania Trump, 54, sat down with \u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d to promote her upcoming documentary set to be released on Amazon Prime later this year.\n<p>\u201cThe information was withheld from us by the previous administration,\u201d she said, referring to Obama. Notably, his wife, Michelle Obama, has drawn attention for announcing she will skip Trump\u2019s second inauguration on Monday.\n</p><p>She added, \u201cBut this time I have everything\u2026 it\u2019s a very different transition this time, second time around.\u201d\n</p><p>Reflecting on her upcoming return to the White House, she commented, \u201cBut this time I have everything,\u201d as she prepares to replace President Biden, who had served as Obama\u2019s vice president during their previous tenure.\n<figure id='\"attachment_50787\"' aria-describedby='\"caption-attachment-50787\"' style='\"width:' class='\"wp-caption' alignnone><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"wp-image-50787' size-large src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/echowoven.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2025%5C/01%5C/PCTFX74QSBX33EYWSKJHZYHTPU-1024x576-1.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"1024\"' height='\"576\"' title='\"\"'><figcaption id='\"caption-attachment-50787\"' class='\"wp-caption-text\"'>Melania has accused the Obamas of trying to hijack her husband\u2019s first term in the White House.\n<p>Despite the ongoing tension due to the apparent lack of communication between the administrations, the 54-year-old shared that she now has a better understanding of \u201cthe rules\u201d and \u201cprocess\u201d involved in life at the White House.\n</p><p>\u201cI have the plans, I already packed, I have selected the furniture. So it\u2019s a very different transition this time, the second time around,\u201d she said confidently.\n</p><p>\u201cI think it will be an exciting four years. We have a lot to do to put the country back in shape,\u201d she added, expressing optimism about the upcoming term.\n</p><p>She also addressed how she\u2019s not letting people underestimating her abilities hold her back, especially since she feels they did during her husband\u2019s first term.\n</p><p>\u201cI just feel that people didn\u2019t accept me. Maybe they didn\u2019t understand me the way maybe they do now. And I didn\u2019t have much support,\u201d she admitted.\n</p><p>\u201cMaybe some people see me as just a wife of the president, but I\u2019m standing on my own two feet, independent. I have my own thoughts, I have my own, \u2018yes\u2019 and \u2018no,\u2019\u201d she continued, emphasizing her individuality.\n</p><p>Her remarks came as news surfaced that former first lady Michelle Obama won\u2019t be attending Trump\u2019s second inauguration on Monday. This follows her decision to also skip former President Jimmy Carter\u2019s funeral.\n</p><p>While no official reason was given for Michelle Obama\u2019s absence at the inauguration, her past criticisms of Trump are well-documented. Over the past eight years, she has been outspoken about her disapproval of his behavior, addressing everything from his wealth and treatment of women to his stance on minorities.\n</p><p>She\u2019s even urged men to step up and support Vice President Kamala Harris, staying true to her advocacy despite coining the phrase \u201cWhen they go low, we go high.\u201d\n<figure id='\"attachment_50788\"' aria-describedby='\"caption-attachment-50788\"' style='\"width:' class='\"wp-caption' alignnone><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"wp-image-50788' size-large src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/echowoven.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2025%5C/01%5C/2025-faction-trumps-allies-harboring-96796947_1c2ef6-1024x683-1.webp%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"1024\"' height='\"683\"' title='\"\"'><figcaption id='\"caption-attachment-50788\"' class='\"wp-caption-text\"'>President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump arriving at the US Capitol building for a meeting with Republican senators, January 8, 2025.\n<p>\u201cI am asking y\u2019all, from the core of my being, to take our lives seriously,\u201d she passionately declared during a rally for Harris last fall.\n</p><p>Even so, her husband made headlines when he was seen sitting next to Trump at Carter\u2019s highly-publicized funeral, where cameras caught him laughing and chatting with his successor, sparking reactions worldwide.\n</p><p>Meanwhile, all other former presidents and their spouses are set to attend the Jan. 20 inauguration, including George W. and Laura Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Joe and Jill Biden.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>Melania Trump has accused the Obamas of trying to interfere with her husband Donald Trump\u2019s first term in office. The soon-to-be first lady threw some shade while expressing her confidence about her husband\u2019s upcoming second term, now that former President Barack Obama is no longer around to complicate things. \u201cThe first time was challenging, we &hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":96169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96173,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96168\/revisions\/96173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></figcaption></figure></p></figcaption></figure></p></figcaption></figure></em></p>