Melania Trump honors Barbara Bush's “Future -oriented vision” at White House Event

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First Lady Melania Trump honored one of her predecessors, the late first Lady Barbara Bush, with the unveiling of a new US letter mark in the White House on Thursday, the Bush's “future-oriented vision” and the call of a president from 1990 from 1990 announced.

Bush, the matriarch of a Republican political dynasty and a first lady, which increased the matter of literacy, died in 2018. Her recognition in the eastern space and some remarkable absence-based Trump's different approach to the role as well as long-term long-term voltages between the Bush family and President Donald Trump.

These tensions were unspoken on Thursday. But neither Jeb Bush nor George W. Bush took part in the event and honor her mother. Her sister, Doro Bush Koch and Brother Neil Bush, were there with other family members, friends and former employees.

Melania Trump celebrated Barbara Bush for her “unshakable conviction, dignity and deep loyalty towards her loved ones” and quoted from what she described as Bush's “iconic opening speech” at the Wellesley of the Women's College.

“Who knows – somewhere in this audience is even someone who will enter my footsteps one day and lead over the white house, and I wish him all the best,” said Trump, reading an unforgettable line from the 1990 comments.

“Over 35 years have passed since Barbara Bush asked an American president, a reflection of her future-oriented vision,” said Trump, whose husband defeated the only two female candidates for major party presidency in American history. She called Bush's speech “an important moment in the conversation about the roles of women in society”.

Trump also emphasized Bush's efforts to master the strengthening of women, to change the national conversation about AIDS and to support the rights of the gays.

“I welcome Ms. Bush's Marks brand, which defends the important need for our society for women in all ways, whether CEO or housewife,” she said.

Trump's second public appearance of the day marked the unveiling of stamps, but a rare one for a first lady who was largely absent in the white house during her husband's second term in the office.

Since January 20, she has spent most of her time outside of Washington, mainly in Palm Beach and New York, and has only done a handful of public appearances to go to North Carolina and California with her husband.

Their approach to the role emphasizes the independent strip of the first lady – and in contrast to how Bush is concerned with the task and is stuck in the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

“She converted the white house into a real home. She organized hundreds of guests,” daughter Doro Bush Koch said about her late mother. “Mama told her employees that she wanted to do something every day to help others. So she did – she planned many events and visits that highlighted the need to promote volunteering or to concentrate on literacy.”

Barbara Bush had not kept her contempt for Donald Trump secret, who frequently criticized her son Jeb Bush as “low energy” during the 2016 campaign and personally attacked his brother George W. Bush for Invaded Iraq. In 2021, Trump Lambated George W. Bush's “failed and uninspiring presidency”.

In an interview from 2018, Barbara Bush – a mother of a GOP president and another wife of another – shared the author and journalist Susan Page that she no longer considered herself as a Republican.

Page also reported in her book “The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the creation of an American dynasty” that Bush was so horrified that Trump's victory had a countdown watch in 2016 that was given by a friend at her bedside table, who showed that she remained in Trump's term.

Trump did not visit Bush's funeral service, with the white house quoting his wish, “disorders due to additional security and out of respect for the Bush and friends family who took part in the service.” Melania Trump took part in his place.

George W. Bush and the former first Lady Laura Bush visited Donald Trump's inauguration in 2025, but did not take part in lunch after the person.