WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump beamed Monday as she accepted the annual White House Christmas tree, telling reporters, “It will be beautiful! We are going to plan.”
Trump, 55, seemed at ease as she greeted a horse-drawn wagon with the enormous evergreen grown in the central Michigan town of Sidney.
“It will be beautiful! We are going to plan, and it’s starting today,” said the first lady on the north driveway of the White House, wearing a long white coat, red gloves and plaid Manolo Blahnik heels.
First lady Melania Trump stands beside a horse-drawn carriage delivering the White House Christmas tree. Getty Images
Melania Trump, wearing a white coat and red gloves, looks over a large Christmas tree being delivered. Gripas Yuri/ABACA/ShutterstockPresident Trump did not join the event after spending his morning on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping as his foreign policy team sought to seal a Russia-Ukraine peace deal by a self-imposed Thanksgiving deadline.
Melania Trump’s Manolo Blahnik plaid heels. Gripas Yuri/ABACA/Shutterstock
Melania Trump beams as she welcomes the White House Christmas tree on Monday, Nov. 24. AFP via Getty ImagesThe Trumps are expected to spend the Thanksgiving holiday at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., after hosting the annual meat industry-sponsored turkey pardon Tuesday at the White House.
This year’s official tree came from Michigan’s Korson’s Tree Farms.
