Melania Just Made First Appearance In 2 Weeks And Got Attacked For What She Said To Her Haters
so with this our president Trump making his way back to Washington after
visiting with survivors of the Santa Fe Texas school shooting tough duty today
in a place that is still mourning noticeably absent today was his wife
Melania Trump who as we know has been recuperating at the White House but when
she's been out of the public eye it has sparked some rumors and this is the
response that she gave this week I see the media's working overtime speculating
where I am and what I'm doing rest assured I'm here at the White House with
my family feeling great and working hard on behalf of children and the American
people my next guest argues that we should be
rallying behind the first lady to support her anti-bullying initiatives
writing this it would not only be a shame but it would also be hurtful to
students everywhere if partisanship thoughts the first lady's admirable
effort to encourage students to reject bullying and to choose their best
behavior here now is Elaine Bennett founder and president of bestfriends
foundation and nonprofit focused on providing programs dedicated to the
physical and emotional well-being of adolescents which as we all know is at
the core of so many of these issues Elaine thank you so much for being here
tonight it's good to have you with us you know she gets a hard time from some
corners Melania Trump and she came out and gave a lovely speech starting this
organization that she's doing called be best why do you think it's so important
that people listen to her well it's important because this is an
issue that is affecting our children a nationwide we at the best friends
foundation see this issue of bullying as a serious one and one that is leading
into increased youth violence in our schools and we think the current school
shootings also have a basis in early on bullying and the fact that peers are
treating each other badly yeah I mean when you look across these cases and you
think about the shooter in Parkland who you know as the story started to come
out apparently he had been spurned by this girl that he liked and you you
think about how all of this and I know this as a parent as well and that
it's so magnified in the age of social media where it looks like everybody else
on your phone is just happier than Harry having a great time they've got a
perfect boyfriend and we all know that's not true you know and that puts so much
pressure on these situations doesn't it that's right
adolescence is a tough time and an adolescence typically get their sense of
self who they are from how they're treated at school what they're thought
of at school how others look at them they could have supportive families even
and go to school and be treated badly or be told they're dumb or they're a jerk
or they're a nerd and that goes to their heart that goes to their psyche and in
some cases it can create intense rage that can even lead we can lead to
destruction we can lead to violence I know that you run a lot of programs that
you hope will or that are getting into the schools and that you want to see
these kind of programs across the board and I think that would be extremely
helpful what do you say to the critics of the president and of the first lady
who say that bullying and social media bullying when they look at what the
president is tweeting that they think there's some irony in that and that that
diminishes her message well it doesn't diminish her message her message is her
message and she is courageous she's taking on a tough topic in the past
other first ladies have had initiatives which have been embraced from both sides
of the aisle and we in the education community know this is a tough topic and
we salute Melania Trump for the fact that she has a courage to take it on
she's a mother and she's been cyber bullied her son's
been cyber bullied she knows how painful that can be and
she's trying to start a program which I think has a great mission which is to
encourage children to be the best we have the best friends program that we've
been working on we have a program called stop the silence prevent the violence
we've seen it work we've seen changes and our students are telling us that and
their evaluations hopefully talk more about this
and it's really important and I thank you thank you Mike good to see you
thanks you good to see you thank you god bless you and God bless america
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