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Unlike her husband, First Lady Melania Trump isn\u2019t one for Twitter. In fact, in the three weeks since just after inauguration day, there wasn\u2019t a single tweet sent from the @FLOTUS account\u2014until this past weekend, when Mrs. Trump\u2019s handle shared photo highlights of her sunny Floridian visit with Japanese First Lady Akie Abe. Now that she\u2019s getting warmed up, though, it appears Mrs. Trump has embraced a go-to social media motto: #PoweroftheFirstLady. Mrs. Trump first used the hashtag on a photo of herself and Mrs. Abe, then employed it again yesterday, tagging none other than Emily Ratajkowski, after the model\/actress blasted a New York Times<\/em> reporter in a series of tweets for \u201cslut shaming\u201d the First Lady. (The reporter, who attended the same Fashion Week event as Ratajkowski, was apparently overheard referring to the First Lady as \u201ca hooker.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cApplause to all women around the world who speak up, stand up and support other women! @emrata,\u201d the First Lady tweeted. “#PowerOfEveryWoman #PowerOfTheFirstLady.\u201d<\/p>\n

This type of female support is a nice sentiment, of course, but it reads as more than a bit ironic coming from Mrs. Trump, a long-distance First Lady who spends her weeks(as well as some weekends) at the family penthouse in New York, and whose East Wing office has been described as \u201cthe loneliest place in the White House\u201d: If she really believes in the #PoweroftheFirstLady, why isn\u2019t she using it? While the Trump administration may be in its early stages (although not too early to enact sweeping policy edicts and alienate allies, or for National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to have already resigned from his job), Mrs. Trump has hardly been quick to assume the responsibilities of her role.<\/p>\n

In a departure from Michelle Obama and Laura Bush, she had yet to appoint a chief of staff or social secretary by the time President Trump was inaugurated. Earlier this month, she began establishing her office, naming Lindsay Reynolds her chief of staff, Anna Cristina Niceta Lloyd as social secretary and Tham Kannalikham White House decorator, but she has yet to hire other vital staffers, including her communications director. After attending a prayer service the day after the inauguration, Mrs. Trump didn\u2019t make a public appearance for almost two weeks, when she joined the President on a \u201cworking weekend\u201d to Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n

In the First Lady\u2019s absence, Ivanka Trump (despite her assertions that she is just \u201ca daughter\u201d with no formal political role) was the one who accompanied her father to Dover Air Force Base to honor the remains of fallen Navy SEAL William \u201cRyan\u201d Owens, who was killed in the Trump-approved Yemen raid, and Ivanka again who joined her father and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau at a White House forum on working women yesterday (leading to a plum photo op of her seated at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.)<\/p>\n

Reports have noted that White House tours have been paused for a longer than usual time but will begin again in early March, and it\u2019s unclear if the First Lady\u2019s office is on top of major event planning in which thousands of families visit the White House, including state dinners and the upcoming annual Easter Egg Roll. \u201cShe is far behind the curve compared to where modern first ladies have been by the time their husbands are inaugurated, in a quite unprecedented way,\u201d Myra Gutin, a professor at Rider University who specializes in first ladies, told The New York Times<\/em>. \u201cWe are in uncharted territory here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, there\u2019s more to the #PoweroftheFirstLady than china patterns and parties\u2014as a recent lawsuit could well attest\u2014but with a skeleton staff and limited time in Washington, D.C., it remains to be seen what sort of progress the First Lady is making when it comes to where her power may truly lie: in her causes of choice, which she has said will include cyberbullying. Upending that dark, trollish culture of abuse is an ambitious, noble goal\u2014and it\u2019s going to take a lot more than a hashtag to fight it.<\/p>\n\n

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