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The first lady, Melania Trump, visits the Giza Pyramids and the Sphinx on October 6, 2018, during the last leg of her weeklong trip to four African countries.(Photo: Saul Loeb, AFP / Getty Images)
While the great Gaza sphinx is looming on the horizon, the first lady, Melania Trump, addressed several topics on Saturday, including the media obsession for her wardrobe, Brett Kavanaugh's qualifications for the Supreme Court and his views on the testimony of his main accuser, as well as as his confession, she sometimes presses the chief tweeter for that he puts down his phone.
Trump spoke to reporters in Egypt at the end of a four-country trip to Africa.
While the journalists were bombarding her with questions, the first lady said that the Supreme Court's candidate, Brett Kavanaugh, was "highly qualified", but she also had a positive view of her main accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford , stating: Ford has been heard. "
When asked if she believed Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her as a teenager, the first lady replied, "I'm going to move on … I think we need to help all victims .. I am against any form of abuse or violence. "
About her husband's sometimes sharp or derogatory comments, especially on Twitter, she said: "I do not always agree on what he tweets, and I give him my honest advice .. It's very important that I express what I feel. "
When asked if she had ever asked the president to put down her phone, she replied with a smile: "Yes".
On other topics, Trump said that she wanted people to "focus on what I'm doing and not on what I'm wearing."
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In the past, her choice of clothing has elicited many comments, especially when she wore a coat adorned with the slogan "I'm really, really?" while he boarded an Air Force aircraft to visit migrant children on the Texas-Mexico border in June
This week, some eyebrows were raised when she was wearing a protective helmet – symbol of British colonial rule across Africa – during a brief safari to Kenya.
Melania Trump's solo trip to Ghana, Malawi, Kenya, and Egypt appealed to advocates of international aid and global health, who were frustrated by the fact that the Trump government decided to to defeat US programs aimed at strengthening Africa and strengthening the interests of the United States in the developing world. .
The message of the trip, she said, is: "We care – and we want to show the world that we care."
The stay in Africa also follows strong criticism against the president who was quoted at a meeting of the Oval Office held in January with several legislators, describing Haiti, El Salvador and African "full country" when discussing immigration.
When asked if the report on Trump's comments had been mentioned during her trip, she replied, "No one has discussed this with me and I've never had it." heard these words, it was an anonymous source and I will leave it with that. "
Trump's Cairo visit included a planned visit with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and his wife, First Lady Entissar Mohameed Amer, and a visit to the Pyramids to highlight the US-backed preservation efforts.
The US Agency for International Development has been working with the Egyptian government for several years on a project to lower groundwater levels to avoid further damage to landmarks. Saline content in the water can erode their foundations.
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