"Focus on taking care of each other and healing our great nation," she tweeted.
The first lady's office did not respond to CNN's requests for comment.
"First Lady Melania Trump cares deeply about the American people and her messages of comfort, encouragement, healing and peace are an important part of the President's commitment to end the violence and restore security to our lives. neighborhoods, "said Judd Deere, assistant White House press secretary. secretary, told CNN.
While Melania Trump hasn't done much to actively ease racial pain and disparity in America, she does have the ability in a strategically synchronized tweet to contradict the West Wing directive.
Last week, as the country woke up from a night of protests, Twitter slapped a violation warning on a President's tweet published late the previous night, calling the protesters "THINKERS", and included the phrase " beginning of looting ". shooting begins. "
Within hours, Trump had turned his wrath on Twitter for reprimanding him. But at 10 a.m.ET, Melania Trump appeared to align with the social media company, posting, "Our country allows peaceful protests, but there is no reason for violence."
"As a nation, let us focus on peace, prayer and healing," she added.
The contradiction did not go well in the west wing, a White House official told CNN, who noted Trump's antithetical tweet, "does not help. It frustrates the west wing."
Part of the animus is the timing of her tweets, which are often lobbed after her husband has published something controversial.
"There is a sense of deliberation in its timing that makes it even more disjointed," said a person familiar with the actions of the first lady.
This juxtaposition led the west wing to keep the east wing away from strategic conversations.
Earlier this week, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Hope Hicks formulated the plan for the president to go to St. John's Church and hold a bible for a photo op. Melania Trump's name never came, says someone who knows the meetings.
"To be honest, I don't think it was even part of the discussion," a White House official told CNN.
The first lady's actions fall considerably short of a range of possible options available to her to join the country's conversation about race; she has had no thoughtful discussion with African American leaders, nor a targeted public appearance to strengthen support for a nation under duress, as many of her predecessors did before her.
Instead, Trump, like her husband, has so far chosen to tweet.
It is not the first time that the First Lady, or a member of her staff, has published opposition messages within hours of the President's statement.
She supported the work of LeBron James after Trump questioned his intellect, broke up with the President on the separation of children from their parents at the US border, calling it "unacceptable" and made a message of public interest in the importance of masks after the President refused to wear one in public.
Trump's east wing autonomy strikes a noticeable difference from previous administrations, where the work and messages of the first ladies were often designed to match the directives of the west wing. There are also tensions over the chaotic nature of the president's unsupervised tweets, which keeps staff members on constant alert and the disciplined schedule of first lady posts, said the official, which are minimal, but can be radically different when compared side by side with those of Trump.
Often there is no speech on the news of the day between the two sides of the building and this should continue, said a White House official.
"I will not comment on internal procedures, but the west wing and the east wing are in regular communication," Deere told CNN.
Yet Melania Trump has never fallen out of favor with the President, unlike so many of his assistants and advisers, many of whom have had their reputation sacked and their previous work jeopardized by the publication of angry tweets from the Commander-in-Chief. chief.