Melania Trump has kept a low profile during her husband's 2024 White House campaign
Donald Trump’s elusive wife Melania made a rare appearance at the Republican National Convention to endorse Donald Trump’s third run for the White House. However, she broke with decades of tradition by not speaking at the event.
Melania, 54, wore Republican red and walked solo to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Thursday, accompanied by classical music.
She has kept a low profile during her husband's 2024 White House bid, not having been seen in Milwaukee since the convention began on Monday.
Last week, Melania released a statement calling for unity following the attempted assassination of Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
“This morning, rise above the hate, the vitriol, and the simplistic ideas that fuel violence. We all want a world where respect comes first, where family comes first, and where love transcends all else. We can make that world a reality. We must all demand to get it back. We must insist that respect be the cornerstone of our relationships again,” she said in a statement.
At party congresses it is customary for the spouses of the candidates to give a speech and tell detailed anecdotes about family life.
On Wednesday night, Usha Vance, the wife of Trump's new running mate JD Vance, did just that. But Melania skipped giving a speech.
Since her husband was first elected in 2016, Melania Trump has broken all the rules of a normal US presidential election.
During Trump's first term, she was a reclusive figure in the White House compared to other first ladies, focusing on just one area of interest.
And since her husband stepped down, he hasn't seen her for several times.
She wasn’t there when he had his mugshot taken in Atlanta. She wasn’t there in New York when he became the first former president to be convicted of a crime. And she wasn’t there when he officially won his party’s presidential nomination for the third time on Monday.
The former first lady spoke at Trump's presidential nomination in both 2020 and 2016. She was accused of borrowing from Michelle Obama's 2008 speech in her first appearance in 2016.
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