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Former First Lady Melania Trump, along with other first ladies, will promote a monument to women’s suffrage.
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She tweeted that she is “honoured” to help secure a monument “of enduring inspiration” for women.
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There are currently no women in American history commemorated on the National Mall.
Melania Trump will join First Lady Jill Biden and every other living former first lady to promote efforts to build a monument in Washington, DC, dedicated to the early American women’s equality movement.
In a tweet Received with gratitude and criticism, Trump wrote on Wednesday that she is “honoured” to join the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation as its honorary chairman to help secure a National Mall monument “of enduring inspiration for women and future women leaders.” “.
Trump joins former first ladies for a cause, it’s notable after her husband, former president Donald Trump, avoided working with every living former president in public service announcements for COVID vaccinations.
Her tweet came the same day her husband was to be impeached in a 2019 defamation lawsuit by magazine writer E. Jean Carroll, who said the former president raped her in a locker room nearly three decades ago.
The Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation announced Monday that Biden, Trump, Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton and Rosalynn Carter will serve as honorary presidents.
The foundation must implement a bill signed by Trump to build the monument. There are currently no women in American history commemorated on the National Mall and less than 5% of statues in the capital depict women.
The National Monument to Women’s Suffrage will be unveiled in the summer of 2027, according to the foundation.
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