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CAIRO (Reuters) – Melania Trump concluded her trip to Africa on Saturday, expressing her support for her husband's controversial choice and urging people to pay less attention to what she is wearing.
The First Lady of the United States said the message of her tour to Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt was to show the world that "we are interested".
The former model, very stylish, also said that she did not always agree with the tweets of her husband and that she shared his opinions directly with him, even if he had not always followed his advice.
This trip to four countries marked the departure of the first lady of the United States on the world stage. It was her first major solo trip abroad and a rare example of her time when she answered reporters' questions on various topics.
In Cairo, during the final leg of the tour, Trump hailed the choice of the Supreme Court of her husband, Brett Kavanaugh.
"I'm glad Dr. Ford has been heard. I'm glad Judge Kavanaugh was heard, "said Trump, referring to psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her.
Trump refused to say if she believed Ford.
"We must help all victims, no matter what kind of violence they have suffered," she said. "I am against any form of abuse."
The first lady rarely speaks to reporters and she chose a historic site to do so near the Grand Sphinx.
When asked about her wardrobe choices, the first lady lamented that her clothes attract more attention than her work on children's issues.
"I would like people to focus on what I do, not what I wear," she said, before posing for photos in front of some of Egypt's greatest landmarks. .
Trump has criticized the wearing of the white marrow helmet during a safari in Kenya because of his association with the exploitation of Africans. This type of hat was favored by European colonialists of the 19th century.
It was not the first time that her clothing choices were controversial.
The first lady aroused outrage earlier this year by wearing a jacket with the words "I do not really care about everything, do I?" On a trip to a Texas shelter that housed migrant children separated from their parents.
CONTROVERSY REJECTED
Trump arrived in Cairo from Nairobi earlier Saturday for the final leg of his visit to Africa. President Trump is reported to have said that immigrants from Africa came from "shitty country", although he denied making that remark.
"Nobody talked about it with me (during the trip), and I've never heard those comments. And it was an anonymous source and I would stay there, she said.
The first lady said that she did not always agree with her husband's tweets and shared her opinions with him. He sometimes listened, and sometimes not, she said.
"I give him my opinion and my honest advice," she said. "I have my own voice and my opinions, and it is very important to me that I express what I feel."
Trump received a warm welcome from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his wife Entissar at the presidential palace in Cairo before visiting the pyramids and the Great Sphinx.
In Cairo, she was wearing trousers and a tie while she was coming down from the plane, where she went to the Presidential Palace, a building decorated with cream stones adorned with arabesques.
Trump stopped briefly in front of the fortified US Embassy in downtown Cairo, crossing almost deserted streets because of a national holiday marking the 45th anniversary of the 1973 war between the US and the US. Egypt and Israel.
Trump has focused on his campaign problem for children with stops in a hospital, a primary school and an orphanage.
Speaking near the Sphinx, Trump said the message of his trip was to show "we care about everything." And we want to show the world that we care about ourselves. "
Report by Jeff Mason; other reports by Ahmed Tolba, written by Sami Aboudi and Jeff Mason; Edited by Dan Grebler
