Melania will finally join Trump’s campaign trail - from the confines of Mar-a-Lago

Former US first lady Melania Trump, who has largely been missing-in-action throughout her husband Donald Trump’s latest presidential run, is due to make her first campaign appearance of 2024 later this month – albeit without leaving the comfort of her own home.

According to Politico, Ms Trump will host a fundraiser for the Log Cabin Republicans (LCB) group on Saturday 20 April, an event being held at the Trumps’ Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida.

LCB describes itself as “the nation’s largest Republican organisation dedicated to representing LGBT conservatives and allies”.

Ms Trump has long-running ties to the collective and was presented with an award at its 2021 gala dinner at Mar-a-Lago while Mr Trump himself addressed its 2022 gathering at the club.

According to Politico, which obtained an invitation, this year’s event’s host committee includes Republican donors Saul Fox and Amanda Schumacher and Richard Grenell – who served as the 45th president’s ambassador to Germany and acting director of national intelligence – as well as Elizabeth Ailes and Deborah Magowan, the widows of Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and San Francisco Giants owner Peter Magowan respectively.

Ms Trump has made few public appearances at all in recent months, let alone in support of her husband’s latest tilt at the White House. In fact, she has become such a figure of intrigue that spoof “Missing Melania” flyers were dropped over an Iowa football game her husband was attending last September.

In January, she was pictured attending the funeral of her mother, Amalija Knavs, at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea.

She was also seen out voting at a Florida polling station in the Republican primaries last month, where she was asked by a reporter