The spokeswoman for Melania Trump, Stephanie Grisham defended the first lady against consistent negative media coverage during an appearance on Monday’s Fox & Friends. The CNN journalist Kate Brower penned an op-ed critical of Trump on Saturday. Grisham fought back against yet another unnecessary attack on the first lady with her own rebuttal op-ed, which CNN published Sunday. Grisham appeared on Monday in morning show of Fox News and once again pushed back against the media’s coverage of the first lady.
She referred to Brower’s article and said that they are missing an opportunity to cover the great work she’s doing by choosing to focus on negative news. She just got her facts wrong so it was very important to set those facts straight. She said, “Another thing that really bothered me was, just hours before that op-ed was posted, she was at a hospital in D.C. visiting children and reading them Christmas stories. A day before that she had gone to two military bases. The timing of the op-ed was particularly offensive”.
Grisham cited general statements when asked by hosts to list some facts that Brower got wrong in the piece. She said that she disagreed with rather than inaccurate facts. She said, “That she doesn’t know what it’s like to be the first lady or understand the role”. She added, “Melania Trump has successfully pulled off a state dinner here at the White House, she has successfully planned and executed every holiday event”. Brower went on to complain about how the media tends to stray from coverage on the substance of Trump’s work.