An interesting bit on former First Lady Melania Trump has emerged via Mercury News. There have been speculation this week over whether Melania Trump would become a more visible presence in the 2024 presidential campaign of her husband Donald Trump, after she was seen alongside him to cast her ballot in Florida’s GOP primary.
It’s been pretty well established by multiple books and news articles that Melania never enjoyed the messy work of politics, Now, a new book about first ladies also suggests that she may not have been the most industrious person to ever hold that job.
While one of the most popular people in Trump’s orbit, Melania did not enjoy receiving requests to make appearances on behalf of his political agenda when he was president, according to “American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden,” by Katie Rogers, a New York Times White House correspondent.
Melania also “avoided being overscheduled, and at times avoided being scheduled at all,” Rogers also said. Her staff could sometimes convince her to do multiple events on days when they knew she could be “camera ready, with a full designer ensemble, dewy makeup, and a pristine blowout.” But they only were successful about “half the time,” Rogers said.
So what did Melania Trump do with her time while serving as America’s first lady?
According to Rogers’ book, and her interview this week with Puck political reporter Tara Palmeri for the “Somebody’s Gotta Win” podcast, Melania Trump sometimes spent “all day” in her bathrobe in the White House residence.
Rogers said in her book that Melania especially took “to wearing elegant robes” in the residence “at all hours” in 2020, when the pandemic set in.
In the interview, Rogers also added that she heard from Stephanie Grisham, the former White House press secretary and the first lady’s former aide, that she got her “love of robes from Melania because she was constantly wearing them, more and more.”
