First lady Melania Trump read stories to children in the pediatrics unit at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan on Thursday.
The first lady — decked in black stilettos, a cobalt blue sweater and a long, black coat — arrived at the hospital shortly before noon with a white box filled with Dr. Seuss books. The visit fell on World Book Day.
“So do you know what is today?” Trump asked the kids. “It’s a reading day … So I came to encourage you to read and to think about what you want to achieve in life.”
Trump brought a copy of “Oh, the Places You’ll Go,” a “favorite” book of hers that she brought from her home library. She sat down on a wooden chair on one side of the small room and a handful of patients as their parents sat and listened.
Honoring children #worldbookday @NYPhospital pic.twitter.com/SsUNPPj7fH
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) March 2, 2017
At one point in the story, Trump read about hitting a “slump.”
“So sometimes you don’t feel good, right? But then – what do you do?” she asked the kids. “You go places where you feel better.”
After reading the book, she offered to leave it behind for one of the children.
“Do you like the book? I will leave it here,” Trump said, before passing it to a girl who had raised her hand for the book. “I encourage you all to read a lot – to get educated.”
Trump visited a children’s hospital in Washington a day earlier.
In a New York hospital paediatrics unit, First Lady Melania Trump sat in a wooden chair and read from “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” pic.twitter.com/LlE44iOOXd
— Tara McKelvey (@Tara_Mckelvey) March 2, 2017
