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Political Cornflakes: First Lady Melania Trump remains a Rorschach test for public perceptions of her husband’s White House

More than a year after moving to the White House last June, Melania Trump remains an intensely private first lady still adjusting to the demands of a new life. Allies describe her as warm, engaging and witty. “She is a woman of grit,” a friend told The New York Times. But because people tend to see in her what they already believe about him, she remains somewhat of a Rorschach test for public perceptions of her husband’s White House. To conservative supporters of Donald Trump, she is a quietly loyal helpmate. To his critics, she is an enabler trapped in a gilded cage.