Melania Trump: I don’t always Agree with Donald, but I don’t Try to Change Him

Melania Trump says she doesn’t agree with everything Donald Trump says – especially his language – but doesn’t try to change her husband. Trump told in an interview aired Monday she disagrees with her Republican front-runner husband on “many things – some language, of course.”

Largely, though, Melania Trump said she doesn’t press her husband to change his policies or tactics on the campaign trail. “We are both very independent — I let him be who he is and he let me be who I am,” she said.

“I don’t try to change him.

He’s an adult. He knows the consequences and so I let him be who he is. I give him my opinions, many, many times.” She added: “I don’t agree with everything that he says, but you know, that is normal. I’m my own person, I tell him what I think, I’m standing very strong on the ground on my two feet and I’m my own person, and I think that’s very important in the relationship.” Melania Trump nevertheless maintained confidence that her husband’s rhetoric would change once elected. “To build the empire and the business that he did, you can’t always use that kind of tone,” she said. “He could really change the words and the tone.” Asked what she would focus on as first lady, Melania Trump said she would be “different” than those who have already served in the role. “We are in the 21st century. I will be me.

I will be different than any other first ladies,” she said. “I will help women. I will help children. They are the future.” But Melania Trump also said she’d be making time for her nine-year-old son with Donald Trump, Barron.