Melania Trump returns to the UN and Wall Street amid banned media and new projects

About a month after her last appearance on the public scene, Melania Trump chose the week of the UN General Assembly to make herself talked about again. Wearing a black suit, white shirt with a bow tie, the First Lady appeared yesterday with the US delegation in the hall of the General Assembly in New York to receive her husband's compliments: "He chaired a Security Council meeting very well", said the American president, Donald Trump. But Melania, at the same time, perhaps wanted to "challenge" her husband by going against his decision to ban CNN and other media from the White House. Perhaps, instead, her thoughts went to her husband's faithful assistant, Natalie Harp.

Melania Trump's week

The First Lady's office, in fact, had decided to accredit, a few hours before the UN Assembly, Betsy Klein, one of the CNN reporters whose "pass" to the White House had been revoked last Friday, at the event at the St. Regis for Melania's own initiative, called "Fostering the Future Together". A challenge to the American leader? Or Harp herself? In fact, the tycoon's assistant reported some articles that were later deemed "hostile" and which contributed to the decision to stop some media. Meanwhile, Melania once again became the protagonist in what she defined as "a week of American excellence". For her debut in New York, the First Lady returned to the role of international hostess by bringing together representatives of the 57 countries that have joined "Fostering the Future Together", the coalition she launched during the 2025 General Assembly to put technology and education at the service of children: today she can count on seven new technological partners - Adobe, Amazon, Google, Intel, N50, Starlink and Zoom - and agreements with over 15 countries. After the UN, the scene moves to Wall Street, where in these hours Melania will ring the opening bell of the stock exchange for the launch of Imperia, a new network reserved for women at the top of economics and finance renamed by her office "a Davos for women". Then the return to Washington. On Thursday Melania will be with Donald again to welcome Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan to the White House.

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Trump's attack

"All those enablers, like the cheap fake news CNN 'journalist' Kaitlan Collins, a really miserable person, said they wouldn't talk about me. So why were they ranting and raving like crazy in the UN press area? Why was she there? She's addicted to 'Trump,' just like CNN and MSNBC. They're all sick and traitors and demented! The 'good news' is they have a great judge for them, and totally disloyal. Let's make America great again!" Donald Trump himself wrote it on Thruth, returning to attack some of the TV channels excluded from the White House who have sued in court asking for the ban imposed by the US president to be lifted. The same tycoon just yesterday attacked CNN upon his arrival at the UN General Assembly in New York, saying he was surprised to find the broadcaster among the media present. The president has decided to ban, as mentioned, CNN, Ms Now and Politico access to the White House, accusing them of spreading fake news. The three newspapers sued the administration, claiming that the measure violates the freedom of the press guaranteed by the First Amendment.

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