US First Lady Melania Trump is set to make history Monday as the first-ever presidential spouse to chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
Melania’s visit comes just two days after her husband, President Donald Trump, unleashed Operation Epic Fury in Iran, killing the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of top Iranian officials Saturday.
Four American service members have also been confirmed dead as a result of the operation, as the president projected in a Sunday interview with the Daily Mail that the war would take 4 weeks.
Melania is preparing to ’emphasize education’s role in advancing tolerance and world peace,’ per a media release from the First Lady’s office.
The speech, which was announced on Thursday, has not been cancelled following the joint US/Israeli attacks on Iran this weekend.
As Melania takes the gavel at the UNSC meeting Monday afternoon, it ‘will be the first time a first lady, or first gentleman for that matter, has ever presided over a Security Council meeting,’ UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters last week.
President Trump’s UN ambassador Mike Waltz, a former congressman and White House National Security Advisor, is serving as the president of the UNSC for the month of March.
Over the weekend, Waltz boldly rejected the ‘ridiculous and frankly farcical assertion that US actions’ in Iran were ‘inconsistent with international law’ during an emergency UNSC meeting held Saturday.
First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump, is set to lead a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on children, technology and education in conflict on Monday, March 2nd, 2026, at the UN Headquarters in New York City, US
A new poll paints a bleak picture of public support for Operation Epic Fury: just 27 percent of American adults approve of the US strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader.
The Reuters/Ipsos survey, which was published Sunday, found 43 percent disapprove and 29 percent are undecided.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive for the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, September 23rd 2025, at UN headquarters
The poll also found that about half of Americans believe the president is too willing to use military force to advance U.S. interests. Overall, 56 percent of those surveyed said Trump’s readiness to deploy military power is excessive.
The president and first lady visited the UN together back in September, when they were greeted by an escalator that stopped as soon as the duo got on, as well as a broken teleprompter during Trump’s speech.
A plume of smoke rises after an explosion on February 28, 2026 in Tehran, Iran
Back at the time, the president joked, ‘whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble.’
‘All I got from the United Nations was an escalator on the way up that stopped in the middle,’ Trump also said at the time, adding, ‘If the first lady wasn’t in great shape, she would’ve fallen.’
Melania has previously spoken out about the impact of war on children, notably writing a letter to a personal ‘peace letter’ to Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling him ‘it is time’ to protect the children of the world during her husband’s peace summit with the Russian leader last August.
‘Every child shares the same quiet dreams in their heart, whether born randomly into a nation’s rustic countryside or a magnificent city-center. They dream of love, possibility, and safety from danger,’ she said in the letter, also calling for Putin to ‘singlehandedly restore’ the ‘melodic laughter’ of Ukrainian children.
