Mary Jordan

She first lives in New York City and she has to share one bedroom, you know, curtain down the middle.

And I said to many people in New York who knew her when she was younger and she had just married Trump, they said that she just wanted to act like she was always like this, always rich.

Can we think about the usual role of First Lady?

How does she depart from that other than the obvious ways?

Like how, you know, even going back to her first term, how has she been different in that role?

Well, there was this expectation that because the public elected you and you're in the White House that the public pays for and you have Secret Service and you have Air Force One, all that on the government dime, that you tell people where you are.

Like, there's a public agenda.

What are you doing today?

She said, well, I don't have to do that.

I'm not elected.

I'm just the spouse.

So she would hide.

Where on earth is Melania?

So she has redefined the role, and she says, and she told me, you know, I'm not the elected one, and she can do whatever she wants.

And so if she doesn't feel like it, she doesn't go.

And, you know, it kind of works because people, oh, my God, Melani hasn't been seen in two weeks.

She's coming out.

And so she does get more people to pay attention when she does speak.

Again, we have this tradition that the First Lady helps others.

uses the powerful office, the amazing reach of the microphone and platform of the First Lady.