Melania Trump Opening Up to the Media About Her Husband.
CUOMO: Well, you certainly heard plenty about Donald Trump, but what about the woman by his side. Our Anderson Cooper spoke with Melania Trump to find out what she thinks about the tone of her husband's campaign and why he is resonating with voters and the KKK controversy. Here it is.</s>ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST OF "AC 360" SHOW: When you first came down that escalator, when your husband first announced, what was going through your mind? Were you excited?</s>MELANIA TRUMP, DONALD TRUMP'S WIFE: Yes, we were excited. I was excited. I was just looking forward to it. I did not know what he would say. I did not know the speech, but we were all excited. And, you know, it is an exciting time actually. And, it is a lot of on guts to have -- to do that kind of stuff.</s>COOPER: Has your opinion -- I read an interview you did, I think, back in -- with Talk Magazine, like 2000 or 1999. You said politics is a business. Has your opinion in politics changed in the last couple of months watching it so closely?</s>MELANIA TRUMP: Oh, yes, of course. I follow it from A to Z. I know exactly what is going on. And, of course, it changes. You know, it is many, many years ago. Like what? Twenty years ago almost. So, yes, it changed a lot.</s>COOPER: What do you think of the campaign so far? I mean, in the last couple of days, there has been all these fights between Rubio saying all of these things about your husband. What do you think is the tone of it?</s>MELANIA TRUMP: I think it is a more desperate tone because my husband is leading in the polls. So, he wants to attack in very low manner way. And, it is kind of -- We expected that.</s>COOPER: You expected that?</s>MELANIA TRUMP: Yes. I have a thick skin.</s>COOPER: It does not bother me.</s>MELANIA TRUMP: It does not bother me. And, It is very nasty, but I have a thick skin. I can handle it.</s>COOPER: Your husband has been criticized for -- sometimes for his tone on the campaign trail. One of the things he said to me is as president, the campaigning is one thing. As president, he would have a different tone if he was actually in the White House. Do you think he can have a different tone?</s>MELANIA TRUMP: Yes. Yes. Yes, he can have a different tone. He really can have a different tone. To build an empire and the business that he built, you cannot always use that kind of a tone, and he can really change. I know him. And, he could really change the words and the tone, but you know he is who he is. And, we could see his following and people agree with him because they are tired of Washington and politicians in Washington. They do not do much. And, he is a doer. He does things. He is not just talking it. He will have things done for the states, for the America, for the American people.</s>COOPER: You watch a lot of news.</s>MELANIA TRUMP: Yes.</s>COOPER: He watches a lot of news too.</s>MELANIA TRUMP: Yes.</s>COOPER: And, he is tweeting. Do you ever get bothered how much -- He must be up late at night tweeting and watching television. Do you get bothered by that?</s>MELANIA TRUMP: I do not get bothered by that. We are both independent. I let him be who he is and he let me be who I am. And --</s>COOPER: You do not try to change him.</s>MELANIA TRUMP: I do not try to change him. He is an adult. He knows the consequences. So, I let him be who he is. I give him my opinions many, many times.</s>COOPER: You do?</s>MELANIA TRUMP: Yes. And, I do not agree with everything that he says. But, you know, that is normal. I am my own person. I tell him what I think. I am standing very strong on the ground, on my two feet, and I am my own person. And, I think that is very important in the relationship.</s>COOPER: Can you say something where you disagreed with him on?</s>MELANIA TRUMP: Oh, many things. Some language of course.</s>COOPER: Language?</s>MELANIA TRUMP: Yes. Some language, I did not approve.</s>COOPER: Language you hear him using on the campaign trail?</s>MELANIA TRUMP: Especially, I was in New Hampshire when the woman was shouting out the inappropriate word.</s>COOPER: Right.</s>MERLANIA TRUMP: And, I was there. And, I am thinking like, "Do not repeat it" in my head, just -- for him. Do not repeat it. Just do not say it. The next day, media, all they were talking is about that. But, he repeat it. He goes with the momentum. He goes with the flow. He goes with the people. They are having fun. Everybody were cheering. And, you know, he said it. And, the next day, but he repeated the word. That was not his words.</s>COOPER: Right.</s>MELANIA TRUMP: So --</s>COOPER: So, he heard from you about that?</s>MELANIA TRUMP: Yes. I told him that, yes. And, you know, he did it. Otherwise, he is an adult and he can do what he wants to --</s>COOPER: "The Wall Street Journal" has a piece about how he makes decisions and the reporter kind of followed him around. And, I thought it was really interesting. I talked about him. He seems to make a lot of decisions from his gut, from his instincts.</s>MELANIA TRUMP: He does. He does. And, he is who he is. He speaks from the heart. And, I think it is very important. He does not lie. He is who he is. He does not hide anything. And people, they are connecting to that. They really connect with him. And, they know what he will do for the country. He is self- founding. He is his own person. He will not listen people, donors, lobbyists. Nobody can buy him. And, American people, I guess they got smart and they know that he will work for him.</s>COOPER: When you see him on television, you watch interviews he does. Even if you are not with him, I assume you watch interviews he does. Do you give him comments about what you think of the interviews? How it went?</s>MELANIA TRUMP: Yes. After, we always talk. We talk many, many times a day. Yes, I do. I do.</s>COOPER: There was an interview he gave where Jake Tapper was asking him about David Duke disavowing him and the KKK. And, he did not disavow. He had done it previously, several days ago --</s>MELANIA TRUMP: But, he disavowed many times. He disavowed press conference on Friday. So, I do not know why media needs to ask him so many times because he disavowed.</s>COOPER: When you saw that interview, did you think that was going to be a problem?</s>MELANIA TRUMP: I do not think so, because they were asking him about the groups. And, he said I do not know about the groups, what you are talking about the groups. So, he disavowed many, many times. So, the media just bringing up, bringing up all the time.</s>CUOMO: You know, tough spot for her to be in. It is always tough for any spouse to defend the candidate.</s>CAMEROTA: Yes. She is cool and collected.</s>CUOMO: She is.</s>CAMEROTA: She seems to know him and be comfortable talking about him. It is interesting to get to know her. There are new polls that shows how few people think that they know anything about the possible future first lady. She has a 27 percent favorable at the moment, Melania Trump. Unfavorable, 30 percent. Unsure, which is much bigger, 43 percent.