Melania Trump says 'violence is never the answer' in farewell video touting her 'Be Best' campaign

Melania Trump denounced violence and called on Americans to 'be best' to one another in a farewell video posted to her social media accounts on Monday, two days before she vacates the White House.

CNN reported that it will be left to the White House usher to greet the Bidens on Wednesday, after Joe is sworn in. .

Hers is entitled 'A Farewell Message from First Lady Melania Trump' and appears to have been recorded in the cross hallway outside the state rooms on the first floor of the White House. .

Melania Trump denounced violence and called on Americans to 'be best' to one another in a farewell video posted to her social media accounts.

Melania Trump has not reached out to her successor Jill Biden to offer the tradition tour of the family quarters in the White House; Joe and Jill Biden move into the White House on Wednesday.

And then she acknowledged that she and President Donald Trump have a short time left as the first family.

As Donald and I conclude our time in the White House, I think of all of the people that I have taken for me in my heart and their incredible stories of love, patriotism and determination,' she said.    .

President Trump falsely claimed the election was stolen and Melania stoked those fears, saying 'every legal - not illegal - vote should be counted' even as officials in the administration said the contest was valid.

'Melania Trump will become the first modern first lady not to invite the woman who will replace her to the White House for a walk-through of the private living quarters on the second and third floors,' author Kate Andersen Brower noted in an op-ed for CNN.com. .

Michelle Obama gave Melania the tour shortly after Donald Trump won the presidency.

Laura Bush had Michelle Obama over twice - once solo and once with her daughters so the girls could pick out their bedrooms in the residence.

Melania Trump and Jill Biden are believed to have last seen each other at the final presidential debate in October 2020 although they didn't interact at that event. .

Melania Trump posted a video message entitled 'A Farewell Message from First Lady Melania Trump' on her social media channels:.

As Donald and I conclude our time in the White House, I think of all of the people that have I taken for me in my heart and their incredible stories of love, patriotism and determination.

before Melania hired him at the White House.

The schedule for inauguration day also means Melania Trump will be visibly absent when Jill Biden, Michelle Obama, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton join their husbands at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday afternoon to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider. .

And while Melania Trump has not reached out to Jill Biden, staff in the East Wing are preparing transition binders, a source with knowledge of the situation told DailyMail.com last week, as part of a greater White House transition effort for the incoming Biden administration. .

Barack and Michelle Obama hosted Donald and Melania Trump on November 10, 2016 - just two days after Trump won the White House.

Malia Obama was 10 and Sasha Obama was 7 when their father won the White House.

Michelle Obama meets with Melania Trump in the White House residence shortly after the November 2008 election to give her a tour.

Laura Bush meets with incoming first lady Michelle Obama in the White House residence in November 2008 to give her a tour of where the first family lives .

Melania Trump and Jill Biden are not known to have interacted when their husbands held their presidential debates; the two are seen at the October 22, 2020 debate in Nashville.

It's unclear what's next for Melania Trump, who is leaving the White House with a lower approval rating than that of the three first ladies who proceeded her.

Melania Trump is leaving the White House with a lower approval rating that the three first ladies who proceeded her.

She will depart on Wednesday with 47 per cent approval of her tenure, 12 points less than Michelle Obama who left a 69 per cent approval rating of her job as first lady, according to a CNN/ORC poll.

Laura Bush exited the White House with a 67 per cent approval rating and Hillary Clinton was at 56 per cent upon her departure as first lady.

Only 33 per cent approve of the job President Donald Trump has doneW

But Melania Trump, 50, has taken a low-key approach to the job compared to her predecessors.

On Monday morning she posted a message marking Martin Luther King Day and last week she posted a video celebrating her Be Best initiative, a kindness project that never caught fire like Michelle Obama's Let's Move or Laura Bush's National Book Festival. .

Also on Monday, she also posted a final message, defending the renovation work she oversaw during her four years in the White House

In the 850-word essay posted to the White House website, the first lady wrote she undertook the work to preserve the house's heritage. 

Melania Trump posted a final message defending the renovation work she oversaw in the White House, including controversial projects like the Tennis Pavilion

Ivanka Trump posted a photo of her three children leaving their hand prints in the White House Children's Garden - a tradition of presidential grand children

Melania was criticized for her work in the White House Rose Garden, where she returned the layout closer to the original design in the time of John F

Laura Bush and Michelle Obama, seen together at the African First Ladies Summit in Tanzania, on July 2, 2013, left the White House with higher approval ratings than Melania

But in her four years in the national spotlight, Melania Trump made more news for what she has worn - the infamous 'I really don't care' jacket on a Texas trip and her pith helmet on her Africa trip - that for what she's done. 

Melania Trump hasn't been seen in public since December 31, when the Trumps returned from their Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida where they had spent the holidays

She is scheduled to leave the White House with the president Wednesday morning, where there will be a departure ceremony at Joint Base Andrews before the couple flies to Florida, where they intend to live

Melania Trump has made no indication she plans to keep up her 'Be Best' campaign or her work with the military once her husband leaves office

Melania Trump made more news for what she has worn - such as the infamous 'I really don't care' jacket on a Texas trip in June 2018 - that for what she's done

Additionally, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who worked in the East Wing in the early days of the administration and then wrote a memoir of her time there that painted Melania in an unflattering light, wrote in The Daily Beast that she is 'ashamed' to have ever worked for the first lady

She added that 'our nation must heal in a civil manner', after President Trump initially praised the mob as 'very special' but later condemned the violence. 

Michelle Obama, Melania Trump, President Donald Trump and President Barack Obama on January 20th, 2017 - the day Trump was inaugurated

It's unclear if the Trumps will join  other presidents and first ladies at occasions such as state funerals - above President Trump, Melania Trump, President Obama, Michelle Obama, President Clinton and Hillary Clinton at President George H.W

Bush, President Bill Clinton, Hilary Clinton, President Barack Obama, President George H

Bush, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump pose for a group photo at the funeral ceremony for the late first lady Barbara Bush in April 2018

In November, she had drawn ire by writing on Twitter that 'every legal - not illegal - vote should be counted', implying that the result hinged on illegal votes as President Trump was falsely claiming.