A facial expression made by the US first lady, Melania Trump, as her step-daughter Ivanka Trump passed by following the delivery of a speech on the final night of the Republican National Convention on Thursday went viral, described as “so weird”.
By the end of Ivanka’s speech, US President Donald Trump and FLOTUS had walked on stage as the daughter walked past them. Melania met Ivanka at the beginning with a broad smile, but soon, her facial expression changed one hundred and eighty degrees.
Netizen claimed they were shocked by the incident, which took place at the same place where Trump accepted the nomination by the Republican Party for the 3 November US presidential election.
While Trump was delivering his nomination acceptance speech, Melania and her son Barron, the president’s youngest child and his only child with FLOTUS, were at the time away from the rest of his children, who sat on the another side of the stage.
Earlier in the day, a report by Just Jared citing an upcoming book about the relationship between Melania and Ivanka, written by former FLOTUS senior adviser Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, revealed that the first lady has been referring to the president’s eldest daughter as “Princess”.
Wolkoff detailed in her book incidents of disagreement between the two members of Trump's family, including a conflict that happened at the 2016 inauguration.