Melania Trump to help unveil stamp honoring Barbara Bush

Melania Trump is paying homage to a fellow first lady, helping to unveil a postage stamp honoring Barbara Bush.

The first lady will host a Thursday ceremony at the White House that will feature the first look at the U.S. Postal Service stamp dedicated to the wife of late former President George H.W. Bush.

Barbara Bush, the mother of former President George W. Bush, died in 2018 at 92. 

The event in the East Room is poised to include Doro Bush Koch, the daughter of the former first couple, along with other friends and family members, acting Postmaster General Doug Tulino and George and Barbara Bush Foundation chief executive officer Alice Yates.

Former President George W. Bush is not expected to attend the event, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

The stamp-focused ode to Barbara Bush at the White House comes despite critical comments the late first lady reportedly made about President Trump. She referred to Trump as a “symbol of greed” according to a 2019 biography by journalist Susan Page. 

Trump later responded to the criticism, saying he would expect it given his treatment of one of her sons, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), during the 2016 GOP presidential primary.

“I have heard that she was nasty to me, but she should be. Look what I did to her sons,” Trump said in 2019. 

It’s not the first time that a first lady has been saluted with a stamp in a gathering at the White House.

In 2022, Jill Biden helped reveal a U.S. Postal Service forever stamp of Nancy Reagan.

Updated on May 7 at 9:05 a.m. EDT