Melania Trump could be set to make a major break with tradition by not moving into the White House and o instead take a more backseat approach to life as First Lady.
After sitting out nearly all of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign Melania was once again drawn out of her luxurious residences and placed her in the Washington spotlight after her husband’s electoral victory.
And as she gears up for her second time as First Lady of the United States, Melania is set to make a quiet return and is “unlikely to move to Washington full-time”.
A Vanity Fair Report from 2024 claims the First Lady is “expected to spend a majority of her time over the next four years not at the White House, but between New York City and Palm Beach, Florida.”
The First Lady will show up for key events but is reportedly wanting to spend as little time as possible at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
This may come as no surprise as when Trump was first inaugurated as President on January 20 2017 Melania and the couple’s son Barron didn’t move into the White House until June. At the time it was said this was to allow Barron to finish his school year without interruption.
The 54-year-old reportedly struggled the first time around with the realities of being First Lady and living a life that wasn’t her dream.
“Melania is unhappy with how her life ended up,” alleged a family source in 2017, adding: “She is miserable.”
Melania has since admitted that when she first came to D.C. eight years ago, “people didn’t accept” her and “didn’t understand” her the way they do now, adding that she “didn’t have much support.”
This is not the first time there have been claims that Melenia did not enjoy being First Lady. In 2018, a report from New York Magazine cited an excerpt from a book written by Michael Wolff which claimed that Melania was in tears when Mr Trump secured victory in the 2016 election.
He wrote that Donald Jr. said his father “looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania was in tears – and not of joy.”
The book sparked an angry response from Melania as she disputed the claims, saying: “This book is clearly going to be sold in the bargain fiction section.
This time around Melania denied the claims. She said: “Maybe people see me as just a wife of the president,” she said, in an interview with Fox News. “But I’m standing on my own two feet, independent. I have my own thoughts.”
“I give him my advice, and sometimes he listens,” she stated. “Sometimes he doesn’t. And that’s OK.”
