French First Lady Brigitte Macron has praised her “fun” and “intelligent” American counterpart Melania Trump after her three-day visit to Washington.
Speaking to Le Monde newspaper and RTL radio, Brigitte said that she and “kind, charming, intelligent” Melania had bonded further this week after their first meeting in Paris last July.
In Brigitte’s telling, Melania is very different in private to in public, where the 48-year-old former model from Slovenia displays little emotion during appearances with her husband.
“On the contrary she is really fun,” Brigitte said, Le Monde reported yesterday. “We have the same sense of humour, we laugh a lot together. Everything is interpreted, over-interpreted. She’s someone who has a strong personality but she makes an effort to hide it.”
“She laughs very easily at everything, but she shows it less than I do,” said Brigitte, who recently celebrated her 65th birthday.
She said she is still adjusting to the constraints of life as France’s first lady, but she was still able to find moments of freedom.
“Melania can’t do anything, she can’t even open a window at the White House. She can’t go outside. Every day, I go out in Paris,” she said during the interview on Wednesday, the final day of the Macrons’ US trip.