US First Lady Melania Trump visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington on Thursday after canceling her trip to the Davos forum in Switzerland with her husband, President Donald Trump.
After having argued "agenda and logistical issues" not to go with the president to the meeting between international leaders, visited the center today in memory of the victims of the Nazi genocide on the occasion of the International Day of Holocaust Remembrance, which is commemorated this Saturday, January 27th.
The first lady toured the museum, participated in a minute of silence and lit a candle in tribute to those who lost their lives.
"My thoughts and prayers are with those whose lives and families were broken by the horror of the Holocaust," he said in a statement.
In reference to the genocide in World War II, in which around six million Jews were killed, he stressed that "through shared humanity" people unite "for commemoration, strength and love."
Melania Trump's decision not to attend the meeting in Europe came shortly after The Wall Street Journal published a few days ago that a lawyer of the president of the United States paid $ 130,000 to a porn star a month before the elections of 2016 as part of a pact that prevented him from speaking in public about a sexual encounter that they had maintained years before.
The magnate's encounter with adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, known in the porn industry as "Stormy Daniels," came after the two met at a golf tournament in California in the summer of 2006, when Trump was already married to the current first lady Melania.
The president is in Switzerland, at the international economic forum, where he held a meeting today with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu, and tomorrow he plans to offer a speech to the select global audience.