SPILLING THE TEA

Jill Biden Reveals She Sent Private Note to Melania Trump

Melania Trump snubbed the traditional meeting with the first lady, prompting Jill Biden to reach out.

First lady Jill Biden extended a gesture of kindness to incoming first lady Melania Trump after she did not accept her traditional invitation for tea at the White House in November. As a substitute, Jill Biden passed a note to President-elect Donald Trump for his wife. “I congratulated her and I offered help,” Biden said in an interview with the Washington Post. “What would be the point of nastiness?” Melania Trump’s absence from the event may be the first time an incoming first lady has not attended the occasion. Her office released a statement saying, “...the media continue to provide false, misleading and inaccurate information” about her absence from the event. Melania Trump eventually thanked Jill Biden for the note when they attended former President Jimmy Carter’s state funeral last Thursday.