First lady Melania Trump stood at the top of the airplane stairs in Accra, Ghana, smiled broadly and waving. Thus began the first stop of a multiday trip through the African continent that will take Trump to Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt, “four beautiful and very different countries in Africa,” she said in recent remarks. It is her first solo foreign trip as first lady.
According to the pool report from New York Times reporter Katie Rogers, Trump accepted a bouquet of flowers wrapped in kente cloth from an 8-year-old girl named Lillian Naa Adai Sai “who looked rather starstruck as she gazed up at Mrs. Trump.”
A red carpet was rolled out and the first lady of Ghana, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, greeted Trump, along with dancers, drummers and small children waving flags.
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