Overview
- At the Bethesda nonprofit that houses families in NIH clinical trials, the first lady joined children for arts-and-crafts to make handmade valentines.
- She handed out gift bags, spoke with patients and parents, signed an oversized Valentine’s card, and gathered everyone for a group photo.
- The stop was her fourth visit to The Children’s Inn and her first since the start of the second Trump administration.
- Coverage highlighted light exchanges, including her comment that she doesn’t eat many sweets and her smiling reply of “Melania” when a teen asked if she is a queen.
- A Fox News video of her telling the quiet room, “Don’t be so quiet,” spread on social media as reports also noted prior NIH funding cuts under President Trump and Congress’s new $47 billion NIH budget.