--- title: Here's Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll Contribution description: For this year's White House Easter Egg Roll, Melania Trump added a new event to the lineup of activities: lawn bowling. canonical: https://time.com/5224694/melania-trump-lawn-bowling/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-02T15:37:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T09:04:50.146Z og:title: Here's Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll Contribution og:description: This year, she introduced lawn bowling to the annual event og:url: https://time.com/5224694/melania-trump-lawn-bowling/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96eb7f25e6c6a766/69892c9a096a940a8c6a201c/melania-donald-trump-easter-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5203 og:image:height: 2927 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-TRUMP-EASTER og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll Contribution twitter:description: This year, she introduced lawn bowling to the annual event twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96eb7f25e6c6a766/69892c9a096a940a8c6a201c/melania-donald-trump-easter-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's Melania Trump's Contribution to the White House Easter Egg Roll > Sponsored content. 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In keeping with tradition, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump host the 140th Easter Egg Roll on the White House’s South Lawn Monday._  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 2, 2018 3:37 PM UTC In keeping with tradition, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump host the 140th Easter Egg Roll on the White House’s South Lawn Monday.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 2, 2018 3:37 PM UTC First Lady Melania Trump made her mark on the 2018 [White House Easter Egg Roll](http://time.com/5221306/white-house-easter-egg-roll-2018-trump-watch-online/) by choosing to add a new activity to [this year’s lineup](http://time.com/3766170/white-house-easter-egg-roll-history/) of events: lawn bowling. The Easter Egg Roll — this year is the 140th annual celebration of the event held by the President at the White House grounds — traditionally includes a number of festivities, most geared towards children. There is, of course, the titular egg roll across the White House’s South Lawn, in which children roll Easter eggs across the lawn with wooden spoons. Government officials, like Press Secretary [Sarah Huckabee Sanders](http://time.com/5065093/sarah-huckabee-sanders-piegate-twitter/), also read children’s books to the attending kids. And a large [costumed bunny](http://time.com/4742784/trump-easter-memes/) parades about for that seasonally-appropriate photo op. This year, about 30,000 guests are expected by the White House to come by, according [to ABC](http://abc7.com/society/trump-family-hosts-white-house-egg-roll/3292277/). And they were in for a new treat with the addition of lawn bowling. The weather is a bit overcast and damp for Monday’s event, but it looks like attendees gave a valiant go at the bowling, which featured oversized, inflated bowling pins and balls set up on the lawns. (More traditional lawn bowling uses a hard ball and wooden pins.) > [](https://twitter.com/swdoody/status/980786123034181632) ## Transcript [00:00] Welcome to the 2018 White House Easter [00:04] Egg Roll. So many people, you know it's supposed to [00:08] be pouring, the weather, it was supposed to be very [00:11] rainy and nasty and cold and windy, and look [00:15] what we have, perfect weather. Perfect weather, [00:18] beautiful weather. Thank you all for being here folks. [00:21] Thank you all. I want to really thank the first lady, [00:25] Melania, who has done an incredible job. She worked [00:28] so hard on this event and so I want to thank you. Also, [00:35] I want to thank the white house historical association [00:39] and all of the people that worked so hard with [00:41] Melania, with. Everybody to keep this incredible [00:46] house or building, or whatever you wanna call it, [00:49] because there really is no name for it, it is special. And [00:54] we keep it in tip top shape, we call it sometimes [00:58] tippy top shape, and it's a great, great place. It's an [01:02] honor To have everybody. On behalf of the Trump [01:06] family, many of whom are with right here in the [01:10] audience, I just wanna thank you. This is a special [01:13] year. Our country is doing great. Look at the economy, [01:17] you look at what's happening. Nothing's every easy, [01:20] but we have never had an economy like we have right [01:23] now. And we're gonna make it bigger and better and [01:25] stronger. Our military Is now a level, will soon be at [01:29] a level that's it's never been before. You see what's [01:33] happening, and you see what's happening with [01:35] funding. The funding of our military is so important. [01:40] And so many military people are with us today. So just [01:44] think of $ 700 billion, because that's all going into our [01:48] military this year. So I wanna thank you all for being [01:51] here. The band, unbelievable. I love you people. I hear [01:55] them a lot. They're as talented as anybody and any [01:58] players anywhere. So thank you very much, and now [02:02] I'm gonna come down, and we're gonna watch this roll. [02:05] Thank you all and have a great time. Thank you. [02:08] Happy Easter. Thank you very much. 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