CNN- Former first lady Melania Trump issued her first public response since her husband, former President Donald Trump, was injured in a shooting at one of his rallies on Saturday, reflecting on what the incident means for her and her family while calling for the country to “ascend above the hate.”
In a statement posted Sunday morning on X, Melania Trump thanked Secret Service agents and law enforcement officials for protecting her husband after a man fired shots toward the former president at his Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally, and said she’s thinking of her “fellow Americans” in the wake of the shooting.
Read the full text of the letter below:
Melania Trump
July 14, 2024
I am thinking of you, now, my fellow Americans.
We have always been a unique union. America, the fabric of our gentle nation is tattered, but our courage and common sense must ascend and bring us back together as one.
When I watched that violent bullet strike my husband, Donald, I realized my life, and Barron’s life, were on the brink of devastating change. I am grateful to the brave secret service agents and law enforcement officials who risked their own lives to protect my husband.
To the families of the innocent victims who are now suffering from this heinous act, I humbly offer my sincerest sympathy. Your need to summon your inner strength for such a terrible reason saddens me.
A monster who recognized my husband as an inhuman political machine attempted to ring out Donald’s passion – his laughter, ingenuity, love of music, and inspiration. The core facets of my husband’s life – his human side – were buried below the political machine. Donald, the generous and caring man who I have been with through the best of times and the worst of times.
Let us not forget that differing opinions, policy, and political games are inferior to love. Our personal, structural, and life commitment – until death – is at serious risk. Political concepts are simple when compared to us, human beings.
We are all humans, and fundamentally, instinctively, we want to help one another. American politics are only one vehicle that can uplift our communities. Love, compassion, kindness and empathy are necessities.
And let us remember that when the time comes to look beyond the left and the right, beyond the red and the blue, we all come from families with the passion to fight for a better life together, while we are here, in this earthly realm.
Dawn is here again. Let us reunite. Now.
This morning, ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence. We all want a world where respect is paramount, family is first, and love transcends. We can realize this world again. Each of us must demand to get it back. We must insist that respect fills the cornerstone of our relationships again.
I am thinking of you, my fellow Americans.
The winds of change have arrived. For those of you who cry in support, I thank you. I commend those of you who have reached out beyond the political divide – thank you for remembering that every single politician is a man or a woman with a loving family.
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Standing by her man in good and bad times and at least making a good public impression of their relationship in spite of all the known things he has done. She is one brave, courageous and faithful woman!
Resurrection was just story to me until last evening. Donald Trump might very well be CHRIST.
Condolences to everyone
@The Hand of God , so are you saying Christ would be the kind of man that would extramarital affairs, and be accused of raping a 13 year old girl at Jeffery Epstein’s house in NY?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/02/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-13-year-old-cancels-public-event
Mary was 13
Donald ‘Teflon_Don’ Trump, the #traveller from The Undergtound Adventures of Baron Von Troomp and The Last President rides again.
This will definitely affect his sentencing date for his Felony Conviction. It draws sympathy from the Public, even those who don’t support him.
The #Reichstag Phenomena and Effect, in full motion.
…nothing, as in #no #thing;
…’tis, the only #thing,
…that, happens hy mistake!
…all others are by;
…#design! #default! #destiny!
..,as, Time is left; in, its own wake!
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
De’ole Dutty Peg🦶🏿Garrat_Bastard
Vere C. Edwards
@The Hand of god – one needs to be careful with the new species of ganja.
I highly doubt that our Lord and Saviour ever spoke of grabbing a woman by the pu$$y or had extramarital affairs.
@ Ras Smood – I’m so conservative I quit listening to Rush Limbaugh bc he was a leftist IMO.
I don’t feel bad for trump, he got caught up in what america is now about.
It’s been a while, hope you’ve been well!
Scott
Sad when politics in a democratic society devolves into violence. Trump is no God, but God loves everyone including him. Hope his opponents can calm down and realize that no matter who wins it’s not the end of the world (until God says it is). So, no need to try to take matters into their own hands over a little human election. When they go that far they cause their side to lose the respect of many people.
Melania, I don’t believe you honestly mean those words. Looks like they were written and given to you to say. How do I know you are sincere?
Go back to the last couple of months and your husband’s problems, You stayed as far as you could away from him. Not even a few public words of sympathy. Now you’re concerned?
Even now, you are talking about you and Barron. What about his other children? Not interested? You are a selfish woman.
Right now everybody in America is calling for peace, unity and love. It is your husband who ramped up the hate and introduced all this violent talk at his rallies, telling security guards to knock the sh-t out of persons who were not worshipping at his orange toupee.
You were not sympathetic when Nancy Pelosi’s husband got beaten to within an inch of his life. When he was threatening to throw his opponents in jail. And lots more.
He locked up little children in cages and separated them by ripping them out of their mothers’ arms because he did not like the color of their skins and did not want them in his MAGA America. In support, you wore a jacket which said “I really don’t care. Do U?”
So, what is Donald’s beef now? He doesn’t like turnaround?
Karma, my Slovenian first lady. Karma.
@Caustic Bastard…Scott I’m doing just fine!
We just broke ground on a new Enoch Pratt Library with #Mixed_Use Apt/Condo Rental Units on the 2nd & 3rd floors!
Just about every vacant lot(formerly trash dump site or Dope Pushers Chill Spot) have been converted into some form of #green_space from bee gardens to meditation parks.
We’ll be breaking ground on the Final Stage of The Henrietta Lacks Community Garden with an Outdoor
Green Living Interactive Classroom for the Johnston Square Elementary School.
Our Community Farms have taken off and any citizen can collect FREE produce Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The kids are slowly retreating from off the corners, as peddlers and if they’re inclined to, Free Skills Programs with job placement are available; and, for those who are in High School or any age for that matter, and you are from Maryland – John Hopkins just got ONE BILLION dollar donation and has offered FREE TUITION, plus to anyone who wants to study medicine.
Just a synopsis of Our progress, from being a #LINK in the neglected communities in America.
Real Estate Values are up, violence is down.
Neither Progressives, Liberals, Conservatives, Far Left, Far Right can do for Us, what we must do for ourselves; therefore, Trump, Biden or Kennedy
Democrat, Green, Independent or Republican our day to day management of Our Communities is Us.
Ain’t no Jesus showing up with no #Bag_Ah_Money, only the preacher man in his latest digs pulling up.
Don’t get me wrong, many [churches] partner with the Community to assist in many ways but this #JESUS_IS _COMING SOON is a broken record and or system.
I listened to Rush & Hannerty during the Bush’s presidency and of course Obama! There is no separation of church and state in #This_Here_America.”
. This is the biggest lie ever told.
The oldest myth which is just that “A Myth…”
From George Washington, The Freemason to Donald Trump, The Revivalist
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
De’ole Dutty Peg🦶🏿Garrat Bastard
Vere C Edwards
Straight out of the Trump book. This will surely get him back in the White House and so he thinks. Come on people! First of all in this day and time, I don’t think the CIA is that careless as to not having that site secure, then from the BBC we heard from a frustrated gentleman who claimed from where he was standing he saw the guy crawling up the building with a gun, pointed him out to the police and nothing was done. He wanted to know why they didn’t pull Trump off the stage right there and then.
You now have a white registered republican voter as this shooter aiming at a clear huge target and could’ve only braze the ear. The CIA quickly did what they had to do, but going back for a shoe was a no-no in any instances like this and then you left him wide open once again to pump his fist to the crowd.
This to me make it as a stage hit coming out of Trumps book, yes one life lost and two injured, but in Trumps book one life is ok and will show it to be more realistic attempt.
They claimed this guy used to wear hunting gear to school, so you know he’s a hunter. How could a hunter let off that amount of rounds in a rich crowd like that and only get one?
Politics in the great America turn upside down because of one man who never been in politics all his life, but now have lifetime politician in the palm of his hands.
@Caustic Bastard…Scott I’m doing just fine! How are you doing? Hope all’s well with you and the family!
We just broke ground on a new Enoch Pratt Library with #Mixed_Use Apt/Condo Rental Units on the 2nd & 3rd floors!
Just about every vacant lot(formerly trash dump site or Dope Pushers Chill Spot) have been converted into some form of #green_space from bee gardens to meditation parks.
We’ll be breaking ground on the Final Stage of The Henrietta Lacks Community Garden with an Outdoor
Green Living Interactive Classroom for the Johnston Square Elementary School.
Our Community Farms have taken off and any citizen can collect FREE produce Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The kids are slowly retreating from off the corners, as peddlers and if they’re inclined to, Free Skills Programs with job placement are available; and, for those who are in High School or any age for that matter, and you are from Maryland – John Hopkins just got ONE BILLION dollar donation and has offered FREE TUITION, plus to anyone who wants to study medicine.
Just a synopsis of Our progress, from being a #LINK in the neglected communities in America.
Real Estate Values are up, violence is down.
Neither Progressives, Liberals, Conservatives, Far Left, Far Right can do for Us, what we must do for ourselves; therefore, Trump, Biden or Kennedy
Democrat, Green, Independent or Republican our day to day management of Our Communities is Us.
Ain’t no Jesus showing up with no #Bag_Ah_Money, only the preacher man in his latest digs pulling up.
Don’t get me wrong, many [churches] partner with the Community to assist in many ways but this #JESUS_IS _COMING SOON is a broken record and or system.
I listened to Rush & Hannerty during the Bush’s presidency and of course Obama! There is no separation of church and state in #This_Here_America.”
. This is the biggest lie ever told.
The oldest myth which is just that “A Myth…”
From George Washington, The Freemason to Donald Trump, The Revivalist
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
De’ole Dutty Peg🦶🏿Garrat Bastard
Vere C Edwards
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