No, Melania Trump won't be your typical first lady. She's already tried once to put a good face on a bad situation, plaster a smile on her face and attend her husband's institutional events. She didn't like living in the White House, she didn't like having to interact with the staff or follow traditions (she made it quite clear with those blood-red Christmas trees in 2018) and much less dedicate herself to the charitable activities typical of first ladies. When she left the residence to give up her place to Jill Biden, she did it with a smile, accidentally forgetting to write the traditional thank-you note to the staff. Now she has no intention of returning, she even declined the invitation to the usual tea with the outgoing first lady for the handover.
Melania Trump won't live in the White House?
Melania Trump could be the first first lady in American history to choose to live in a Manhattan apartment rather than in Washington with her husband. It seems that the future FLOTUS will split her time between Palm Beach, Florida, and New York City, where her son Barron will attend college, and the decision is not entirely unexpected. Melania Trump has been little present during this year's election campaign, apart from publishing a memoir in which she claims to be pro-choice and showing up on Election Day with oversized sunglasses and her tight smile (there are already some who speak of a stunt double, of course). It seems that she was even paid a six-figure sum to make a rare appearance at one of Trump's fundraisers in September.
Apparently the marital arrangements at the Trump house have been revised again and Melania has made it clear that she will do the bare minimum in following her husband's political activity, so much so that there are those who claim that the real first lady of this term will be Lara Trump, wife of Eric Trump, son of the future president. This fuels the long-standing rumors about the union between the model and the entrepreneur and there are even those who say that we could witness the first divorce of a sitting president. But Melania Trump knows what she's doing and has always made it clear that, in the face of her husband's excesses, there is only one priority for her: the stability of herself and her son Barron. Everything else is expendable.
