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LZ Granderson: What is Melania Trump thinking? The job of a first lady is to soften the jagged, ugly edge of power

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Former first lady Melania Trump has been releasing a series of short videos on social media about her new memoir.

Laura Poirier : Unlike her husband, Melania Trump undershares social media, she doesn’t typically have much to say.

She appears to have turned not caring into its own superpower, focusing rigidly on who or what pleases her, she says.

Trumpian embellishment of Melania 's life prior to her husband’s election can feel deadening to read.

Her childhood in Slovenia is idyllic, with two loving parents, a private nanny who bakes cakes frosted with “handmade sugar flowers,” and “cherished” family holidays on Dalmatian coast.

Melania Trump's memoir, " The First Lady of the First Lady," is out of touch with reality.

She says she's appalled that the FBI raided her home at Mar-a-Lago , even though she says she had no confidential documents in her possession.

But fact-checking her memoir is, in some ways, beside the point, given how impervious her husband seems to be to the concept of “truth.

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