Melania unlikely to return to DC if Trump wins election, experts say

Former first lady Melania Trump is unlikely to return to Washington, DC in the event that her husband Donald Trump wins a second term in the White House, according to the experts.

A number of “Melania-ologists” quoted by Axios all agree that the Slovenian former model has little appetite for the cut-and-thrust of contemporary politics and do not believe she will move back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue should the 45th president beat Joe Biden in November.

Although her husband is rarely out of the headlines as he campaigns for the Oval Office and promotes his business interests while fending off an array of complex legal challenges, Melania herself has only been seen in public on a few occasions this year, most recently at her son Barron’s high school graduation, and has taken no part in Trump’s rallies nor shown up to support him at his recent New York hush money trial.

“She’s distancing herself even more from her husband and from the Washington social political scene,” said Kate Andersen Brower, author of First Women (2016) and a number of other books on the White House and America’s first ladies.

“I mean, she clearly hated being in Washington.”

Mary Jordan, a Washington Post associate editor and author of the unauthorised Melania biography The Art of Her Deal (2020) pointed to her subject’s independent streak: “Melania does what Melania wants.”

For Jordan, that quality has seen her “stand out in history from any other first lady,” explaining that Melania sees the role as “unelected, not paid” and therefore not something to which she feels compelled to commit.

On how she might handle a second Trump administration coming to pass, the journalist suggested Melania would cut a more assertive figure this time around: “Now