{"id":26408,"date":"2025-09-10T00:51:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=26408"},"modified":"2025-09-10T00:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:51:03","slug":"journalist-takes-brutal-dig-at-melania-trump-over-latest-be-best-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=26408","title":{"rendered":"Journalist takes brutal dig at Melania Trump over latest \u2018Be Best\u2019 initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Melania Trump is largely keeping herself out of the spotlight during her husband\u2019s second presidential term. The First Lady doesn\u2019t appear to be doing traditional first lady work this time around, though she has a number of projects close to her heart, such as the public awareness campaign\u00a0<em>Be Best<\/em>, which focus on issues children face today.<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"rpecu69ff0909456a5\" ><div style=\"width:100%; max-width:1200px; margin:0 auto;\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/bolt-casino.com?r=0BFDBF1283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n    <img \n      src=\"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f8693ebb-2018-480f-a2f7-0096810c07f0.jpg\" \n      alt=\"200% Deposit Bonus + 10% Cashback\" \n      style=\"width:100%; height:auto; display:block; border-radius:8px; cursor:pointer;\"\n    \/>\n  <\/a>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 1201px) {\r\n.rpecu69ff0909456a5 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 993px) and (max-width: 1200px) {\r\n.rpecu69ff0909456a5 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 992px) {\r\n.rpecu69ff0909456a5 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 768px) {\r\n.rpecu69ff0909456a5 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {\r\n.rpecu69ff0909456a5 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n<\/style>\r\n\n<p>Last week,\u00a0Melania\u00a0appeared at an AI event at the White House, stating that she wants to help America\u2019s children navigate AI, discussing how it might be done responsibly. But not all were overly excited about Melania\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian\u2019s US columnist Arwa Mahdawi has taken a brutal dig at the first lady, claiming Melania only cares about herself.<\/p>\n<p>Melania chose to approach the role of first lady different when she and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.newsner.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0moved back into the White House. She has decided to stay out of the spotlight, and such was her commitment to seemingly putting distance between herself and the Oval Office that people started to speculate if everything was alright.<\/p>\n<p>Yet although Melania isn\u2019t what one might call a traditional first lady, she is still active in her role. Her\u00a0<em>Be Best<\/em>\u00a0initiative, for example, is still very much ongoing, which she launched during her first term.<\/p>\n<p>Per its website, the public awareness campaign\u2019s mission is \u201cto focus on some of the major issues facing children today, with the goal of encouraging children to BE BEST in their individual paths, while also teaching them the importance of social, emotional, and physical health. BE BEST will concentrate on three main pillars: well-being, online safety, and opioid abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-melania-makes-rare-appearance-wanting-to-help-children-use-ai\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Melania makes rare appearance wanting to help children use AI<\/h2>\n<p>Last week, Melania made a rare appearance for her\u00a0<em>Be Best<\/em>\u00a0cause. On Thursday, September 4, she hosted a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education, where she discussed how parents can work with their children to use AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe robots are here. Our future is no longer science fiction,\u201d Melania said. \u201cAs leaders and parents, we must manage AI\u2019s growth responsibly. During this primitive stage, it is our duty to treat AI as we would our own children: empowering, but with watchful guidance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are living in a moment of wonder,\u201d Melania concluded. \u201cAnd it is our responsibility to prepare the children of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While preparing children for a new generation of technology, and raising awareness about its dangers is great, not everyone was pleased with Melania\u2019s appearance at the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Just a day after Melania\u2019s appearance, The Guardian\u2019s US columnist Arwa Mahdawi wrote a long piece on the first lady, claiming that Melania possibly had other interests at stake regarding AI., which didn\u2019t include the children at all.<\/p>\n<p>Mahdawi\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/sep\/06\/melania-trump-week-in-patriarchy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0that Melania, who she claimed read \u201cfrom a script encased in a very analogue binder,\u201d may \u201cnot be the best person to help manage AI\u2019s growth responsibly and shield children from potential harm from the technology.\u201d Moreover, the journalist took a brutal dig at not only Melania, but also her husband, explaining that the entire thing was hypocritical.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-journalist-takes-brutal-dig-at-melania-and-donald-over-ai-speech\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Journalist takes brutal dig at Melania and Donald over AI speech<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cBut if she is keen on doing this work then I suggest she stop convening taskforces on how to integrate AI into childhood education, and simply ask her husband to stop\u00a0gutting public education\u00a0instead. The Trump administration is, for example, attempting to\u00a0defund Head Start, a federally funded early childhood program for low-income families, and\u00a0cancelled\u00a0a grant program that has historically funded educational children\u2019s programs like Sesame Street,\u201d Mahdawi continued.<\/p>\n<p>She concluded by quoting Geoffrey Hinton, also known as the \u201cgodfather of AI,\u201d who on Friday told the Financial Times that AI \u201cwill make a few people much richer and most people poorer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mahdawi ended: \u201cWhich, I suspect, is precisely why Melania Trump and the coterie of billionaires and tech executives gathered around her at the White House are so excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think of this? 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