Melania Trump, who has rarely been seen in public while her husband Donald J. Trump is campaigning for president this year, attends the Log Cabin Republican Party at Mar-a-Lago on April 20. He is scheduled to appear at a member organization's fundraising event. said the president.
The incident, first reported by Politico, marks a return to politics for Mrs. Trump, who has consistently stayed away from campaigning.
Mr. Trump has insisted for months that Mrs. Trump would accompany him. Even though she is not traveling with him, he frequently calls her out during her rallies, earning her cheers from the crowd. And she did not attend the Super Tuesday party at the couple's Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Mrs. Trump made a rare public appearance last month when she accompanied Mr. Trump to vote in the Florida primary. Asked if she would appear more regularly this year, Mrs. Trump said, “I hope she looks forward to it.”
Mrs. Trump remains a popular candidate to replace the former president, but has shown little interest in participating in the campaign.
Her fundraising efforts for the LGBT conservative group Log Cabin Republicans will keep her largely out of the public eye. Charles T. Moran, the group's president, said Richard Grenell, Trump's former ambassador to Germany, also plans to attend.
Mrs. Trump has maintained ties to the Log Cabin Republicans over the years. In her financial disclosure last year, she reported receiving a $250,000 payment from the group in December 2022. That same month, the group said on Twitter: The photo has been posted She said she was a special guest at a “private dinner” and thanked him for “continuing the projects I've been working on while in the White House.”
Trump's few public appearances over the past year have been largely unrelated to his campaign. Last month, she accompanied Trump when he hosted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at Mar-a-Lago.
In January, she delivered a eulogy at the funeral of her mother, Amalia Knabs. And she gave a speech at her naturalization ceremony in Washington last December, telling new Americans that citizenship means “to actively participate in the democratic process and protect our freedoms.”
In November, he attended the funeral of Trump's sister. And she attended Rosalynn Carter's memorial service along with other first ladies from both parties. It was the first time all living first ladies met together since George H.W. Bush's funeral in 2018.