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While First Lady Melania Trump has profited from her office \u2014 whether by releasing a documentary about her life or dumping a self-named memecoin onto the crypto market \u2014 she has been conspicuous in her absence from President Donald Trump’s White House. Now a journalist who specializes in covering the Trumps explains why.<\/p>\n

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“It took six months, in Trump\u2019s first term, for his wife to relocate from New York to Washington D.C. \u2014 and then, even with separate bedrooms in the White House, she was hardly there,” journalist Michael Wolff wrote on his Substack on Monday. “Their son, Barron, was virtually never there. Rather, they \u201coften stayed with,\u201d in White House parlance, her parents in a house in Maryland. Likewise, at Mar-a-Lago, Melania and Barron\u2019s move was actually into a Palm Beach house with her parents \u2014 rather than into the country club quarters.”<\/p>\n

Wolff added, “During the two active years of the 2024 campaign, her only appearances included the Republican Convention, during the days after the attempt on her husband\u2019s life, when she refused to sit next to him, and one event during the final week of the campaign. She refused to attend any of the myriad courtroom appearances related to his four criminal indictments. She published a best-selling book shortly before the election, in which her husband was, at best, a peripheral character \u2014 a book neither Trump nor his campaign team saw much before publication.”<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Wolff wrote that “by the end of the campaign, aides, when queried, were actively seeking new language for the situation: ‘She\u2019ll be more like a part-time First Lady.””<\/p>\n

The writer continued that Melania Trump has appeared to have never spent a single night at the White House during Trump’s second term, even though she has profited off of being First Lady during that same period to the reported tune of $17 million. When Wolff asked one close Trump aide why she behaved like this, the aide responded that \u201cshe hates his f\u2014\u2014 guts.”<\/p>\n

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Wolff elaborated on the odd nature of the arrangement between the President and First Lady.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a new kind of pretend, a particular Trump-style pretend,” Wolff wrote. “You pretend so little, and make such a limited effort at it, that everybody knows you\u2019re pretending. Therefore you\u2019re not really pretending. This is a sham marriage, a cynical arrangement, a business deal, or, even an extortive situation, and the American people have a right to know. The only problem with that is they do know.”<\/p>\n

In fact, Trump’s mysterious interactions with staffer Natalie Harp \u2014 who reportedly leaves him adoring letters, is invited into his private spaces and rarely leaves his side \u2014 can be attributed to his distant relationship with the actual First Lady.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump doesn\u2019t have a wife around him,\u201d The Daily Beast journalist David Rothkopf said on Sunday. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t have kids around him. I don\u2019t think he likes his kids \u2014 he certainly didn\u2019t go to Don Jr.\u2019s wedding. People beyond, like, one degree of separation can\u2019t be trusted. He\u2019s paranoid.\u201d<\/p>\n

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