Melania Trump ‘may not live in White House if Donald is elected president’
Former First Lady Melania Trump reportedly may not move back to the White House if her husband, Donald Trump, regains the presidency.
The prospect of Melania living in Washington, DC, full-time again is ‘doubtful’, according to several experts on her who spoke with Axios.
Melania would most likely fly between the couple’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, and New York City, and only go to the White House for state dinners and other official events, they predicted.
Of note is that their son, Barron Trump, reportedly had New York University at the top of his list of colleges to attend this fall.
Melania ‘clearly hated being in Washington’ and ‘she’s distancing herself even more from her husband and from the Washington social political scene’, Kate Anderson Brower, who has written multiple books on first ladies and the White House, told Axios on Monday.
Mary Jordan, author of The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump, said that what makes her ‘stand out in history from any other first lady’ is that ‘her view is unelected, not paid’.
‘Melania does what Melania wants,’ said the Washington Post associate editor.
Her dislike for residing at the US capital was apparent in her fashion evolution through the four years her husband was in office, according to Kate Bennett, author of Free, Melania: The Unauthorized Biography.
Melania first wore feminine and flowy outfits but near the end of his term, swapped them for garb with sharp shoulders that were ‘almost like an armor’, the CNN White House correspondent said.
Even if she does not reside permanently at the White House, Melania is likely to re-launch her Be Best campaign aimed at helping children.
Melania is also expected to hire ‘more qualified’ and ‘better’ staff members for herself for the Trumps’ possible second time around.
‘Now having seen how this works, she would just be wiser and she would be more vocal and more demanding about what the first lady’s office should get,’ Jordan said.
A spokesperson for Melania has not commented on the report.
With less than five months until the November election, Melania still has not joined her husband on the campaign trail.
She did not appear in Manhattan criminal court during his historic hush money trial, and was seen after his guilty conviction leaving Trump Tower with Barron and ‘piles of luggage’.
Asked by a reporter in March if she would join her husband on the campaign trail, Melania replied simply, ‘Stay tuned.’
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