What happens if Melania and Donald Trump get divorced?

“There is nothing more vicious than a man or woman going through a divorce. It is pure hell, like nothing else I have ever seen,” Donald Trump wrote in his 2007 book Think Big and Kick Ass.

With two divorces in his past, the former president has had some practice — and speculation regarding whether the former president and his wife of 19 years, Melania Trump, may be headed for Splitsville, particularly if he wins in November, has been ongoing.

Melania was a reluctant First Lady — focused primarily on their young son Barron Trump. But this week Barron, now 18, made his first appearance at a Trump rally. He was greeted by cheers as he sat in the front row at the campaign event at Trump’s Doral resort in Miami — his mother nowhere to be found.

Melania has been seen less and less at Trump’s public appearances since he left the White House. She wasn’t present when the verdict was handed down in his hush money trial in New York (which, to be fair, did involve paying off a woman so she couldn’t tell the story of having sex with Trump while Melania was pregnant) and Melania was missing in action during the fateful debate with Joe Biden in Atlanta on 27 June.

As Trump travels across the country holding rallies, the furthest Melania has ventured is to fundraisers hosted at her own homes — one at Mar-a-Lago and another at Trump Tower.

When questioned about Melania’s absence on Meet The Press last fall, Trump said: “At the appropriate time, she’ll be out there.”

But Barron is there. The former president introduced his youngest son, and only child with Melania, to the crowd on Tuesday, saying “That’s the first time he’s done it,” as Barron pumped his fists and waved to the audience.

“He might be more popular than Don and Eric,”