Melania Trump is spending relatively little time in the White House with her husband as she works on her Amazon documentary, according to People magazine.
She has stayed at both Mar-a-Lago and the White House since the president took power, but she has spent limited time in Washington, according to People’s sources.
When she is in Miami or Washington she is reportedly busy working on her Amazon Prime documentary, directed by Brett Ratner, which is due to be released in the second half of 2025.
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“Melania has been busy shooting her documentary and that has taken place in several locations, including the White House,” a source said.
The first lady took an almost month-long break from the public eye after the inauguration in January.
Her appearance at the Governor’s Ball in Washington on Feb. 22 was the first time she had been seen in public since her visit to Los Angeles and North Carolina on Jan. 24, when she accompanied her husband President Donald Trump on a visit to areas devastated by wildfires and flooding.
None of this should come as a surprise, according to one of People’s sources, “because this is how she lives,” they said.
In Palm Beach, Melania reportedly “keeps to herself,” but does join her husband for dinner, “on occasion,” according to sources.
“She leads her own life and joins [the president] when appropriate in either place,” a source said.
“She will never be a traditional first lady. That isn’t who she is,” the source added, and who said that Melania has “her own ideas on what she wants to do.”
Author Michael Wolff’s book reported that Melania Trump and her husband are not on the best of terms.
“She f---ing hates him,” a source told Wolff, who writes that “the most public marriage in the nation was breaking down” during the election campaign.
Melania didn’t make a single campaign appearance in the 18 months before the Republican National Convention, the book reveals.
Things also appear to be quiet around Melania’s “Be Best” initiative which launched in May 2018 to try and help children fight online bullying, which she said she hoped to “expand” in a Fox & Friends interview in January.
In the flurry of over 250 announcements on the White House’s official website since the inauguration, aside from her public profile page, only two mention Melania.
One is an announcement about public tours, the other a single sentence about her official portrait, and neither mention the “Be Best” initiative.
The official website for Be Best remains archived, with the most recent message entitled, “A Farewell Message from First Lady Melania Trump,” posted on Jan. 18, 2021.
