Melania Trump says she doesn’t agree with everything Donald Trump says — especially his language — but doesn’t try to change her husband.
In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper set to air at 8 p.m. ET Monday, Trump said she disagrees with her Republican front-runner husband on “many things — some language, of course.”
She cited an incident in New Hampshire three weeks ago in which Trump repeated a vulgar word aimed his rival, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
“She said, ‘He’s a pussy,'” Trump told the audience at the time.
Melania Trump, who was there, said she hoped he wouldn’t repeat it after the woman shouted it.
“I was in New Hampshire when the woman was shouting out the inappropriate word, and I was there,” she said.
“And I’m thinking like, ‘Don’t repeat it,’ in my head, for him, ‘Don’t repeat it. Just don’t say it because the next day, media, all they will talk about is that.’ But he repeated it,” she said. “He’s with the momentum, he goes with the flow, he goes with the people. They’re having fun, everybody was cheering. And he said it and the next day — but he repeated the word. That was not his word.”
She said she spoke to her husband about it afterward.
“Yeah, I told him that, yes,” she said.
Largely, though, Melania Trump said she doesn’t press her husband to change his policies or tactics on the campaign trail.
“We are both very independent — I let him be who he is and he let me be who I am,” she said. “I don’t try to change him. He’s an adult. He knows the consequences and so I let him be who he is. I give him my opinions, many, many times.”
She added: “I don’t agree with everything that he says, but you know, that is normal. I’m my own person, I tell him what I think, I’m standing very strong on the ground on my two feet and I’m my own person, and I think that’s very important in the relationship.”
