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Two days before her husband Donald Trump was elected to become the 45th President of the United States of America, Melania Trump made an announcement that as first lady, she would tackle Cyberbullying as one of her issues.
First Ladies have a history of working towards issues that are close to their hearts. Former First Lady Laura Bush fought to improve literacy and Michelle Obama helped to make families healthy.
Melania Trump is already being criticized for picking cyberbullying as an issue to combat because her husband Donald Trump has been known to post mean tweets on his twitter account. Maybe this could be the reason why she has chosen to combat bullying. We do know that Melania used to be a fashion model and I’m sure she has stories about being bullied as a young girl.
In her speech before the election, Melania addressed the crowd by saying, “It is never OK when a 12-year-old girl or boy is mocked, bullied or attacked. It is terrible when it happens on the playground, and it is absolutely unacceptable when it is done by someone with no name hiding on the internet. We have to find a better way to talk to each other,” Melania Trump said.
Yes, this may seem like an uphill battle but as an anti bullying speaker in this country, I’ve seen some improvement over the years. Bullying is an internal issue. Too many people are walking around wounded with psychological scars that have never been dealt with. My message is simple, hurt people, hurt people, but healed people, heal people. I feel so strongly about this message that I give free anti bullying posters to schools. I hope that Melania will focus on ways to help young people deal with the emotional and psychological scars that they have so they can stop transferring their hurts onto others.
I’m excited that the First Lady will tackle bullying on playgrounds and social media because our children deserve to be safe offline and online.
