Where is former US President Donald Trump’s wife Melania?

Former US First Lady Melania Trump isn’t too hard to find, so why does it seem like she’s hiding these days?

According to a report by The Washington Post, for several months the former first lady has been living in one of Mar Lago’s many bedrooms, secluded and almost completely hidden from public view.

As the big stories of 2024 revolve around whether or not Donald Trump will return to the White House and whether or not he will be convicted by the courts, Melania Trump is more notable for where and when she hasn’t appeared. .

She was not with her husband at a New York court appearance when the former president pleaded not guilty to 34 charges related to secret payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

But she was also not seen in court in Miami, where her husband pleaded not guilty to 37 charges related to possession of classified documents.

He was also not seen in a D.C. courthouse when he pleaded not guilty to charges related to alleged efforts to nullify the 2020 presidential election. She did not appear in a Georgia court after Trump pleaded guilty to 13 charges.

Melania has been absent since attending Donald Trump’s campaign in Mar Lago in November last year.

Disappearances are about more than court appearances and trials. According to an informal survey by the newspaper, Melania has not been seen at all outside the walls of the Trump family residence in Florida.

They haven’t been spotted at any of the expensive shops on Worth Avenue, just two miles from Palm Beach.

“She used to come but no one has seen her for years,” said a salesperson at Salvatore Ferragamo, a store.

‘It’s a quiet, safe oasis. This is why you see celebrities around here. But for some reason they are not visible.’

A bartender at the nearby Cafe La Europe said, ‘They haven’t been seen even in fancy restaurants.

‘I haven’t seen Melania. This is incredible. It seems she lives in another country and not further down the road.’

Trump’s campaign has not yet made him available for an interview.

Trump’s spokesman, Steven Cheung, said in a statement: ‘Mrs Trump has always focused on her family and always will as it is her first priority. Any report claiming to know about his life should be read with caution.’

Melania’s absence has brought joy to Trump’s critics, who say Trump has lost the support of his most loyal supporter.

In September, flyers headlined ‘Missing Melania’ appeared in Iowa, while a plane flew a banner above a football match that read ‘Where’s Melania?’

What is known about Melania is that she has spent some time at Trump Tower in New York, being paid to attend several events, including, according to the New York Times, people from Cabin Republicans and a conservative group called Fix California. Including receiving five hundred thousand dollars from the electoral organization.

Mostly, however, she is living in Mar-a-Lago.

New Jersey funeral home owner Dan Leiber has visited Trump’s funeral home a handful of times over the years.

As far as he’s concerned, he says any rumor about Trump’s marriage is a kind of make-believe. Labor says he doesn’t believe the stories that say they have a bad relationship.

Melania’s husband’s penchant for saying whatever comes to mind, compared to Melania’s tendency to say nothing at all, has long been a source of speculation among America’s amateur body language analysts. .

When she didn’t stand up to Trump, it must mean that maybe she couldn’t stand him, but no, that’s not the case.

Melania’s former friend and adviser, Stephanie Winston-Volkoff, said: ‘She always said she would do what she wanted to do.’

Melania’s former chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham, told the newspaper that Melania always hated stories in which she needed to be saved.

According to the newspaper, Melania may be angry with her husband.

Grisham recalled that she was so angry with Stormy Daniels after the news broke that she deliberately skipped the State of the Union address and boarded Air Force One separately for a visit.

According to Grisham, she was less angry at trying to silence Daniels (Anne Stephanie Clifford), the protagonist of the New York criminal case, and more angry at the fraud allegations that had publicly embarrassed her.

Melania’s absences, however, were for much smaller reasons: she didn’t really like doing certain things and she didn’t feel like her husband needed her.

It seems that just as Jill Biden always seems to be hanging around Joe, she once told Grisham that she doesn’t need to hold onto her husband like that.

Winston Volkoff said silence is Melania’s weapon. “We discussed how his deliberate lack of communication with the media would lead everyone to speculate and ultimately perpetuate the narrative of mystery and mystery,” he said. will She uses these weapons where effective.

July 29, 2023, Former US President Donald Trump during a political rally in the state of Pennsylvania (AFP/Javed Vera).

In a recent interview with Megyn Kelly, when Trump was asked about Melania, he stuck to the script, saying: ‘I think one of the reasons for beauty is that privacy.’

She could be annoying to those who worked with her.

Winston Volkoff, who eventually left Trump and wrote a memoir, recalls being surprised when the first lady took months to move into the White House.

He said there were several reasons, including Melania’s refusal to stay there until the new toilet was installed.

‘She was not afraid to speak her mind and make demands, even in front of her powerful husband.’

A former employee said Melania never liked politics and didn’t enjoy being stuck at events when they talked and she sat there and was expected to smile.

Winston Volkoff made a grim prediction for those who thought Donald Trump would lose key support during his re-election campaign: Melania will continue to support her husband. The former confidant added that she has stood by him and will continue to stand by him because he is like her.

‘It is a purely transactional marriage for both. She knew exactly what she was doing. They accepted it and they continue to accept it. People will be surprised how much they agree about things.’

Grisham stated that she refused to attend small events, and seemed to ‘think that something like a ribbon cutting would make people happy and get them in the news.’

Former US President Donald Trump and Melania Trump during Thanksgiving in the Rose Garden of the White House on November 24, 2020 (AFP/Mendelgen).

Grisham said even his top advisers don’t know how he spent his days in the White House.

“It was a mystery and often they thought she was shopping online or reading a magazine,” he said. Grisham wrote in her memoir that during the January 6 riots, Melania was engaged in a photo shoot for carpets in her residence and did not want to issue a statement.

(The former first lady told Fox News that she would have condemned the violence if she had been ‘fully informed of all the details’ and that the photo shoot was a very important job.)

Grisham said it was often difficult to convince Melania to attend one event a week, and she still complained about how long it took to travel with her husband and that she often had no real role in the events. It used to be.

Campaign advisers say she expects her to attend a few events next year, big events where her presence is expected or where a special occasion is being celebrated.

It’s not even like her husband needs her help right now. None of his Republican rivals are even close. In Iowa, ‘Where’s Melania?’ The banner was perhaps more a sign of desperation among their rivals than anything else.

According to the newspaper reporter, the answer to anyone asking this question is: Melania Trump is where she’s always been.