Melania Trump has reportedly spent fewer than two weeks within the White Home since President Trump started serving his second time period in workplace on Jan. 20.
Whereas she’s been photographed at extremely publicized occasions like April’s White Home Easter Egg Roll, sightings of the enigmatic first woman in Washington, D.C. have been uncommon within the 109 days her husband has been in workplace, in keeping with the New York Occasions.
The nook residence lengthy designated for the wives of the nation’s presidents reportedly stays empty and darkish more often than not. Melania is believed to separate her time between Trump Tower in Manhattan and the President’s Mar-a-Lago property in south Florida.
The couple’s son, Barron Trump, attends lessons at NYU. The president typically spends weekend at Mar-a-Lago, although it’s unclear how typically he and Melania are collectively there.
The 55-year-old former mannequin from Slovenia has staffers within the White Home’s East Wing, the place she’s reportedly hardly ever seen.
The primary woman’s absence is “among the most sensitive of subjects” within the White Home, in keeping with the Occasions. Some officers reportedly stated she’s current greater than the general public is aware of, whereas others stated that claims she’s spent even two weeks within the West Wing are “generous.”
It’s common for the Trumps to dwell separate lives. Melania attended none of her husband’s legal or civil courtroom continuing in between his two presidencies, and barely joined him on the marketing campaign path. When Trump first got here to workplace in 2017, she took a full six months to hitch him within the nation’s capital.
President Donald Trump and First Woman Melania Trump depart from the South Garden of the White Home. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Ivana Trump, the primary of the president’s three wives, instructed The Hill in 2020 that she isn’t certain if Melania is doing an excellent job as the primary woman.
“She’s very quiet, and she really doesn’t go to too many places,” Ivana stated. “She goes to stuff when she has to go.”
Ivana appeared to keep up a cordial relationship with the president, with whom she shares three kids, earlier than her loss of life in 2022.
