Melania Trump attended Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign announcement in November 2022 but has been missing from the presidential race ever since. Still, Melania insisted in an interview with Fox News in May 2023 that she was fully behind her husband’s POTUS bid. “He has my support, and we look forward to restoring hope for the future and leading America with love and strength,” the former FLOTUS said.
It’s not just Donald’s campaign that Melania has been absent from — she has been absent from the public spotlight, period. However, there was a rare sighting of Melania with Donald on March 9. A video surfaced on X of the couple hosting a meet-and-greet at Mar-a-Lago for the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban.
Meanwhile, Donald insisted there was no cause for concern over Melania’s nonattendance and said there was no need for her to always be by his side. “She’s a private person. It’s funny, she was a very successful model, very, very successful, and yet she was a private person,” he told Laura Ingraham at a town hall on February 22 (via Newsweek). “If I didn’t introduce Melania; she’d be very happy about it,” he added.
