Melania Trump prepares historic first as First Lady in a move shaking up the UN as her husband bombs Iran

First Lady Melania Trump made history Monday as the first-ever presidential spouse to chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

Melania’s visit to the UN comes just two days after her husband unleashed Operation Epic Fury in Iran, killing 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 and the president projected in a Sunday interview with the Daily Mail that the war would last four 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.

She has yet to comment on President Trump’s strikes on the Islamic Republic 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. 

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.

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 teleprompter that stopped working during Trump’s speech.

‘All I got from the United Nations was an escalator on the way up that stopped in the middle,’ Trump joked 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 ‘single handedly restore’ the ‘melodic laughter’ of Ukrainian children.