--- title: Melania Trump Spox: Rudy Giuliani Can't Speak for First Lady description: He claimed to know the first lady's thoughts on the Stormy Daniels controversy canonical: https://time.com/5305631/melania-trump-rudy-giuliani/ author: Casey Quackenbush article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-06-08T07:01:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T20:30:43.462Z article:section: Politics og:title: Melania Trump Spokeswoman Discounts Rudy Giuliani's Comments og:description: He claimed to know the first lady's thoughts on the Stormy Daniels controversy og:url: https://time.com/5305631/melania-trump-rudy-giuliani/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt159be319acc93e64/698932a10a4a2218079d2ec5/gettyimages-955716752.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: First Lady Melania Trump Speaks On The Launch Of Her Initiatives In The Rose Garden Of White House og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Melania Trump Spokeswoman Discounts Rudy Giuliani's Comments twitter:description: He claimed to know the first lady's thoughts on the Stormy Daniels controversy twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt159be319acc93e64/698932a10a4a2218079d2ec5/gettyimages-955716752.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Melania Trump's Spokeswoman Says Rudy Giuliani Doesn't Speak for the First Lady > Sponsored content. 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U.S. first lady Melania Trump arrives in the Rose Garden to speak at the White House in Washington, D.C. on May 7, 2018. Win McNamee—Getty Images by [Casey Quackenbush](https://time.com/author/casey-quackenbush/) ## Casey Quackenbush Jun 8, 2018 7:01 AM UTC Melania Trump’s spokeswoman [took a firm stand](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/07/politics/melania-trump-rudy-giuliani/index.html) after President Donald Trump’s attorney and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani claimed that the first lady sided with her husband on the Stormy Daniels controversy. “She believes her husband,” Giuliani said at a conference in Tel Aviv. “And she knows it’s untrue.” The first lady’s spokeswoman reproached Giuliani for his comments on Thursday, CNN reports. “I don’t believe Mrs. Trump has ever discussed her thoughts on anything with Mr. Giuliani,” East Wing communications director Stephanie Grisham told CNN in a statement. The first lady has never publicly addressed President Trump’s alleged affair with porn actress [Daniels](http://time.com/5220087/donald-trump-underestimated-stormy-daniels/), whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. According to Grisham’s statement, the first lady has also never spoken to Giuliani about it. When CNN asked the former mayor of New York for a comment on the response from the East Wing, Giuliani admitted he had never spoken to her about the affair, but that he stands by his initial comments. “I don’t regret saying it because I believe it,” he told CNN. “I’ve never interviewed Melania, there is no reason to,” Giuliani said. “I took it \[Melania Trump’s statement\] as she didn’t want to get involved and get called as a witness or anything like that.” Giuliani is also [facing criticism](http://time.com/5305554/rudy-giuliani-stormy-daniels-dehumanizing/) for comments he made about Daniels during the same encounter, claiming that she lacks credibility because of her chosen profession as an adult film star. 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