Melania Trump said a school refused to accept her charitable donation, calling it a 'politically-motivated decision'

The former first lady said in a statement on Friday that a computer-science school rejected her offer of a charitable donation for scholarship funds.

Trump said the school was founded in Silicon Valley and has a campus in Oklahoma. She said the school initially agreed to work with her new initiative, Fostering the Future, which is focused on education and scholarships for kids, but then told her it was backing out.

They wouldn't accept scholarship dollars for deserving students even if they were anonymous. It was clear to me that the Board of Directors organized a politically-motivated decision.

She said she was disappointed but not surprised, and that politics had gotten in the way of her mission to support children before.

The New York Times reported that the school was similar to Holberton School, a computer-science school in San Francisco.

The school confirmed to The Times that Trump tried to make a donation.

The school's chief executive said that they were approached about a scholarship by her team but never reached an agreement on the logistics of the scholarship.

Trump criticized the media in her statement and said it was working against her charitable efforts.