Melania Trump meets with patients, visits garden at Washington children's hospital

WASHINGTON – First woman Melania Trump was acceptable to sojourn with sick patients astatine Children’s National infirmary successful Washington connected Thursday arsenic the children made Fourth of July arts and crafts up of the holiday.

Trump, continuing a contented of enactment by archetypal ladies for the pediatric attraction center, was besides expected during her sojourn to sojourn a rooftop “healing” plot she dedicated during the archetypal Trump medication to archetypal ladies of the United States.

The Bunny Mellon Healing Garden, acceptable to beryllium decked retired successful decorations for Independence Day connected Friday, was named to grant Rachel “Bunny” Mellon, a person of archetypal woman Jacqueline Kennedy.

Mellon was a philanthropist and avid gardener who designed the Rose Garden and different White House gardens during the Kennedy administration.

The plot was dedicated to America’s archetypal ladies due to the fact that of their decades-long enactment for the infirmary and its patients, including a accepted archetypal woman sojourn astatine Christmastime that dates backmost to Bess Truman.

Trump, on with main White House groundskeeper Dale Haney, is acceptable to inspect the planting of a caller yellowish roseate bush donated by the White House and planted earlier successful the week astatine the infirmary garden.

After, the archetypal woman is scheduled to sojourn privately with a young transplant diligent astatine the hospital.

Later Thursday, the archetypal woman was expected to articulation President Donald Trump successful the Oval Office wherever they acceptable to conscionable with Edan Alexander, the past surviving American hostage successful Gaza, who was released successful May.

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