Don’t expect to see First Lady Melania Trump at the White House full-time after Donald Trump is sworn in on Jan. 20.
Mrs. Trump and son Barron Trump, 18, lived full-time at the White House during Trump’s first term.
But Melania told “Fox & Friends” on Monday that she will live part-time at the White House during Trump’s 2nd term.
Melania’s time will be split between New York City, where Barron attends college, the White House, and the family’s Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
“I will be in the White House, and when I need to be in New York, I will be in New York. When I need to be in Palm Beach, I will be in Palm Beach,” she said. “But my first priority is, you know, to be a mom, to be a first lady, to be a wife, and once we are in on Jan. 20, you serve the country.”
Melania also said that Barron, who is enrolled at NYU’s prestigious Stern School of Business, will “come visit” his dad and bring friends to the White House.
She revealed that she will cut down the size of the First Lady’s office to save taxpayer money — since she won’t be there as often.
“I don’t want to hire too many people on my team, spending too much taxpayer money. I want to make sure that every position, they are talented, they have merit, they know what they’re doing.”
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Melania said her last move into the White House in 2016 didn’t go smoothly.
She complained that the “previous administration” didn’t give her and her husband the information they needed to move in last time, referring to former President Barack Obama.
“But this time I have everything. I have the plans, I could move in, I already packed, I already selected, you know, the furniture that needs to go in. So it’s a very different transition this time, second time around,” she said.
The first thing Melania will probably do on Jan. 20 is fire the FBI agents who rifled through her panty drawer during a raid at Mar-A-Lago on August 8, 2022.
Biden’s FBI agents executed search warrants at Mar-A-Lago as part of the DOJ’s investigation into the storage of classified documents.
The classified documents case was eventually dropped after Trump won the 2024 election. DOJ prosecutor Jack Smith, who led the investigation, resigned this week.
