While PresidentDonald Trumpspent much of the week in New York at the United Nations, First LadyMelania Trumpmet Monday at the New York Stock Exchange with a small group of students from the United Nations’ school.
But one student let slip that not everyone was happy about the event.
According to reporters in attendance, a boy from theUnited Nations International Schoolsaid before Mrs. Trump, 49, arrived at the stock exchange that “someone else was supposed to be here but their parents didn’t want them.”
A girl in the group of students quickly elbowed him.
At the stock exchange on Monday, Mrs. Trump spoke with the students about “Be Best,” her signature campaign as first lady focused on children’s well-being — including curbing online bullying and the opioid epidemic.
Earlier this year, she said she hadeven discussed it with son Barron. “I teach him,” she said at a March event in Las Vegas. “I try to explain how drugs are dangerous and it will mess up your head, it will mess up your body and nothing comes positive out of it.”
First Lady Melania Trump (left) at the NYSE on Monday.Seth Wenig/AP/Shutterstock
On Monday, Mrs. Trump encouraged the gathered students to “follow your dreams and be best at what you do.”
Mrs. Trump was presented with a plaque from UNIS with the school’s mission printed on it, and one of the students read her a letter (a bit nervously).
“Mrs. Trump, I would like to tell you our school is honored to meet you,” the student said. “UNIS stands for peace in the world and to make the world a better place. We are very opened-minded and like to listen to new ideas. We like our ideas to be heard too. We like to tell people to be kind. Please help UNIS spread the love around the world.”
The students received a “Be Best”-branded bag with a hat, mousepad and T-shirt.
The first lady has faced regular criticism for “Be Best” from critics of her husband who dismiss her work as little more than a hypocritical mask — given the president’s own attacks on Twitter and other divisive behavior seemingly antithetical to her message.
Of the controversy Mrs. Trump’s event had stirred, the school’s junior principal said Monday, “I think the big thing for us to hear today is not about political opinion, it is from to stand for our mission. And our mission is based on the diplomacy, which is the essence of the United Nation. And we believe that we need to sit with everyone at the table.”
“We have a show some example where people sometime are going to sit at the table with the people with whom they disagree,” he said.
source: people.com
