Melania Trump formally introduced the Be Best campaign in 2018. While it started slowly at first, which caused a lot of people to further criticize the First Lady, recent data suggests that the initiative has been producing good results today. As it happens, it is now deemed to be a great factor in decreasing drug abuse deaths and increasing life expectancy in the United States.
According to the Washington Examiner, President Donald Trump's wife "touted" the success of her campaign on social media earlier this week. She stated that in the last 29 years, it is only today that the death toll due to drug abuse, especially opioid, "dropped" by 4.1 percent. It was also added that the current life expectancy increased to four years.
Melania Trump praised today's administration after sharing the figures. She claimed that she is "proud" for its efforts in "ensuring" a "safer and healthier future" for the country's young generations.
The data was reportedly obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after the institution released the official mortality statistics of 2018. The White House then released the details in an official statement later last month.
Based on the statistics, it shows that life expectancy in the United States has been continually decreasing due to opioid abuse. But, in between 2017 and 2018, it became a shock to everyone that the trend showed a different path.
The reports, however, as well as the official statistics from the institution, did not give merits to the administration and to Melania Trump's Be Best campaign for the improvements in these areas. Even so, the First Lady, along with the White House, is seemingly glad to link the East Wing's initiative for the success.
As per Daily Mail, White House Counselor, Kellyanne Conway shared that these improvements on the country's life expectancy and drug abuse problems have "not happened through coincidence." This all happened through "causation," she explained.
She further credited Donald Trump and Melania Trump by stating that the exceptional figures "owed in large part to a whole government approach" that is led by the First Couple, alongside the entirety of the current administration. She also emphasized that the efforts of the administration are "responsible for the promising" data.
Several fans and followers shared their praise and compliments toward Melania Trump and Donald Trump on various social media platforms. However, many individuals contended that Trumps, as well as the current government, are not the ones behind the good results. It's "laughable" to say that they are "responsible," one netizen commented.