Donald Trump’s wife Melania made a rare appearance at the Republican National Convention in support of Donald Trump’s third bid for the White House, but she broke decades of tradition by not speaking at the event.
Dressed in Republican red, Melania, 54, arrived alone 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 campaign. She has not been seen in Milwaukee since the convention began on Monday.
Last week, Melania issued a statement calling for unity following an assassination attempt on Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
“This morning, let us rise above simplistic ideas that promote hate, bitterness and violence. We all want a world where respect is paramount, family comes first and love is paramount. We can feel this world again. Each of us must demand to get it back. We must insist that respect once again becomes the cornerstone of our relationships,” he said in a statement.
It is traditional for candidates’ spouses to give speeches at party conventions and tell lengthy stories about their family life.
On Wednesday evening, Usha Vance, the wife of Trump’s new running mate JD Vance, did the same. But Melania did not give a speech.
Ever since her husband was first elected in 2016, Melania Trump has broken all the rules of normal American presidential politics.
In the White House during Trump’s first term, she was a more solitary figure than other first ladies, focusing on narrow interests.
And ever since her husband left office, she has not been seen with her husband on many occasions.
She wasn’t there when he was photographed in Atlanta. She wasn’t 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 a third time on Monday.
The former first lady delivered speeches during Trump’s presidential nomination in 2020 and 2016. She was accused of borrowing from Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech in her first appearance in 2016.
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