In about one month, Melania Trump will stand next to her husband at the US Capitol and see him be inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States. For a second time, the Slovenian-born former model will take on the role of First Lady of the United States, but according to Melania herself, this time will be very different.
While rumors about Donald and Melania Trump’s marriage have been going on for a long time, last year, she took action and renegotiated her prenup just in case. Melania was not seen during her husband’s presidential campaign except in the previous few weeks, and a body language expert claimed she didn’t seem happy when Donald Trump announced his election win.
Now, things are very different. A few days ago, in the wait to return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Donald and Melania visited the New York Stock Exchange to ring the bell. But fans noticed something strange about the former and future first lady: She seemed to have a ‘hole’ in the back of her head.
In one month, Donald Trump and Melania will move into the White House for their second term as President and First Lady of the United States. A few years ago, it was reported that Melania wasn’t interested in a White House return. Still, as the presidential campaign closed, she changed her mind and publicly supported her husband.
Still, the second term at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will differ for many reasons. One is that their son, Barron Trump, won’t live with his parents in Washington as the teenager has begun attending college at Stern Business School at New York University. Therefore, the 18-year-old is living at Trump Tower, which means Melania Trump’s four year term as first lady will this time be different. People Magazine sources have claimed it’s ‘unlikely’ that she will live there full-time.
“If Melania becomes first lady again, of course people expect her to move into the White House and perform appropriate duties,” a source close to the Trump family said, adding that Melania isn’t keen on relocating to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
“She will have her private living apartment there, and she has her home in New York and her home at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. She will spend time in all of these places,” the source added.
Donald shares update on Melania Trump
Mary Jordan, author of The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump, told ABC: “She has told people, ‘Look, I’m not the one elected.’ So if she wants to go down to Mar-a-Lago and hang out by herself for two weeks, do that. But she is going to be in the White House. She loves a lot of the pomp and circumstance.”
Kate Bennett, a former CNN White House correspondent and the author of Free, Melania, also claimed that the Slovenian-born former model will be switching between living at the White House, the Trump Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and New York, where she will continue to support her and Donald’s son, Barron.
“She has carte blanche – she can be as active in the East Wing or as inactive as she cares to be.”
The claims about the possibility that Melania Trump won’t live at the White House full-time have reached the top. Earlier this week, Time Magazine named Donald Trump Person of the Year. In his “victory interview” with Time, the former and future president stated that Melania was “very active” towards the end of the presidential campaign and would join him at the White House.
“Oh yes. She was, she was very, she actually became very active towards the end, as you saw with interviews. And she does—she does them well. People really watch. She’s very beloved by the people, Melania,” Donald Trump said.
“And they like the fact that she’s not out there in your face all the time for many reasons. Many political people have that, you know. But she’s, she’s really, they really like her. They really love her. Actually, in many ways, when I make speeches, we love our First Lady. they have signs, we love our First Lady. No, she’ll be–she’ll be active, when she needs to be, when she needs to be.”
Melania Trump makes an appearance at the New York Stock Exchange
Donald and Melania Trump’s marriage has been on the front pages since they met in the late 1990s. As she didn’t appear next to her husband in public during most of the presidential campaign, rumors surrounding their marriage spread when a body language expert analyzed Melania’s behavior on election night when Trump won, it seemed she wasn’t too overjoyed.
“When Trump looks back at Melania and gestures to her to come over for a hug, she reluctantly comes forward,” Stanton told the Mirror. “It’s very disjointed and awkward, and there’s no emotion from her. We don’t see any genuine smiles from Melania; it feels like a smile she has adopted for the occasion.”
Darren Stanton continued: “There’s not the level of emotion you’d expect given her husband has just been elected president. It’s all quite contrived, she’s just reluctant to show any emotion, there’s no real happiness or joy. There’s always an awkwardness with Melania.”
No matter what happened on election night, Melania Trump spoke with Fox about her husband’s presidential win, calling it “incredible.” Last week, Donald and Melania arrived side by side at the New York Stock Exchange to ring the opening bell, a part of the celebration of Donald being named Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.”
“For marshalling a comeback of historic proportions, driving a once-in-a-generation political realignment, for reshaping the American presidency and altering America’s role in the world, Donald Trump is Time’s 2024 Person of the Year,” the statement read.
Body language expert says Melania “embracing” First Lady role
Melania appeared in a grey pinstriped pantsuit with her husband and his daughters, Ivanka and Tiffany. Speaking to the DailyMail, body language expert Judi James stated that the former and future First Lady behaved in a way she has not done before, especially when touching her husband, as she laid her hand on Donald several times.
‘There is a hint that Melania is embracing her powerful role as FLOTUS this time around in a way she didn’t before,’ Judi James said, adding that Donald was in “Mount Rushmore mode.”
‘His peacocking, showboating body language signals were confined to a couple of smug smiles and some tie-sign pointing at individuals in the audience, but his overall demeanor was one of chiseled from stone, statesmanlike gravity, a living homage to the very flattering cover photo of TIME magazine that hung behind him on the wall at the Stock Exchange:”
Judi James explained that Donald Trump’s appearance was more solid, which allowed Melania Trump to be more active and “use body language signals of a more relaxed sociability.”
“Here she produced some very natural-looking smiles and instigated some conversations and even popped herself cheekily into a selfie that Trump was asked to pose for,” James continued. “‘Apart from the more tactile behavior and the hand clasp she performed the steepling gesture with her hands steepled forward and fingertips touching. This is a gesture that implies status and authority plus some hints of high-power distancing.”
While many were happy to see Melania in public, a video posted on social media also caused quite a fuss and controversy. Social media users noticed an unusual detail on the back of her head, and the body double conspiracy grew even larger.
New conspiracy theory about Melania Trump with ‘hole in her head’
One social media user sparked the question, “Why is there a hole in Melania Trump’s head?” and shared a photo of the First Lady.
Users were quick to respond to the images of Melania, with one joking that “the “hole in the back of her head” might be her “charging port,” suggesting that she was a robot, the Express reported. Another user claimed that the hole could be evidence that, in fact, it wasn’t Melania who appeared but a body double.
One user wrote: “I think it is deliberate so we know it’s not them but doubles. Melania is always so stylish, and our President always loves his hair done precisely the same way. They would never be untidy. The why is for us to decipher.”
Other users stated that it simply was because Melania has thin hair and used extensions.
“I’m guessing she has extensions. Her hair was not done very well, very frizzy; she probably did it herself and did not check the back well enough,” one wrote.
The conspiracy theory surrounding Melania Trump and a body double has followed her throughout the presidential campaign. It caught new fire right before the election in November when Medias Touch editor Ron Filipkowski shared a clip with her stating that she had “been wearing sunglasses inside all day today. ” The conspiracy theories began spreading.
Some claimed she had been swapped with a body double for the cameras. “This is absolutely, categorically not Melania,” one X user wrote, as per Daily Mail. “This imposter’s been wearing sunglasses indoors all day.”
“Fake Melania”?
A second said: ‘How is a man who walks around with a fake wife even a contender for president?’ Another X user claimed: “The check didn’t clear in time for the real Melania to make an appearance, so they had to bring the doppelganger off the bench.”
As reported by the Daily Beast, another user stated that several details ‘proved’ it was a “fake Melania.”
“Rings missing, wrong nail style & length, no smile lines in the jawline [or] lower cheek, bust is half the size it should be,” one stated, while another said that the woman in the video looked “20 years younger” than Melania Trump.
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