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- Melania Trump has rarely been seen in public since Donald Trump left office.
- She has missed the entirety of President Trump’s hush money trial and will not attend the debates.
- Melania Trump is reportedly planning to attend the trial as a special guest while on her husband’s campaign trail.
Former First Lady Melania Trump did not attend the first debate of the 2024 presidential election, according to multiple reports.
CNN reported that Melania Trump did not travel to Atlanta. ABC News She announced she would not attend the debate. In contrast, First Lady Jill Biden will be attending.
Melania Trump has largely avoided attending the 2024 campaign trial, other than holding a few fundraisers at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. While most of Trump’s children attended the criminal trial, the former first lady did not appear in Manhattan to be questioned by prosecutors about allegedly falsifying business records to hide hush payments to porn stars.
Melania Trump has never been particularly interested in politics — she lived in New York during the early days of Trump’s presidency before moving to the White House — and her relationship with Trump has long been a topic of intrigue.
Axios recently reported that she may not live in Washington full-time if Trump wins the White House this November.
A Trump campaign spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The former first lady’s lack of public appearances since President Trump left office in 2021 has not gone unnoticed.
In September, a banner reading “Where’s Melania?” was displayed at a stadium in Ames, Iowa.
Former President Trump has offered various explanations for his wife’s absence.
With Melania Trump conspicuously absent from the Trump family Christmas cards, the former president said she was having family problems.
He has also defended his wife’s decision to avoid public appearances, once telling Megyn Kelly: “I don’t need you to be doing interviews to be criticised for no reason.”
“She doesn’t need to be up there,” he said. “She’s confident, she’s very sure of herself.”
The former first lady made her first campaign appearance and attended a fundraiser for her husband in April, Politico reported, and the outlet reported she plans to host a second fundraiser in July.
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