Melania Trump

Donald Trump certainly enjoyed the support of some of his family during his big speech Tuesday night following his historic criminal arraignment -- but ...

[dinner](https://www.tmz.com/2023/03/31/donald-trump-melania-mar-a-lago-indicted-stormy-daniels-case/) last Thursday after a Manhattan grand jury had indicted him on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. According to the NY Post, Ivanka and her husband, [Jared Kushner](https://www.tmz.com/people/jared-kushner/), were celebrating Passover in Wyoming. Alvin Bragg who charged him with [34 felonies](https://www.tmz.com/2023/04/04/donald-trump-indictment-unsealed-stormy-daniels-hush-money-manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-michael-cohen/) and attacked Judge Juan Merchan who presided over his arraignment. But, as in true Trump fashion, the words went in one ear and out the other. [Ivanka](https://www.tmz.com/people/ivanka-trump/) and [Barron](https://www.tmz.com/people/barron-trump/) -- were no-shows. [Eric](https://www.tmz.com/people/eric-trump/), [Don Jr.](https://www.tmz.com/people/donald-trump-jr/) and [Tiffany](https://www.tmz.com/people/tiffany-trump/) -- showed up for Trump's defiant speech in which he [blasted](https://www.tmz.com/2023/04/04/donald-trump-rips-judge-prosecutor-hush-money-case-reacts-indictment-arrest-criminal-charges/) Manhattan D.A.

PALM BEACH (The Borowitz Report)—As Donald J. Trump became the first former President in U.S. history to be arraigned, his wife, Melania, ...

“ ‘When they go low, we go high.’ ” “I have a saying,” she said. Trump said that she would have “no comment” on the Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg.

Donald Trump thanked his family for their support in a speech just hours after he was criminally charged in New York – but failed to mention his absent wife ...

He is tall, he is tall and he’s smart. They have gone through hell.” and Tiffany, and Ivanka.

Neither Melania Trump nor Ivanka Trump stood by former President Donald Trump's side during his post-arraignment speech at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday.

[the New York Post reported](https://nypost.com/2023/04/04/melania-trump-skips-donalds-post-arrest-mar-a-lago-speech/), citing a source familiar with the situation. [according to Page Six](https://pagesix.com/2023/04/04/ivanka-trump-visited-dad-donald-trump-at-mar-a-lago-sunday/). [the New York Post reported](https://nypost.com/2023/03/31/shocked-trump-goes-to-dinner-then-rages-online/). [said last November](https://www.businessinsider.com/how-ivanka-trump-was-shunned-after-joining-trump-administration-2022-11) that she was prioritizing family and does not "plan to be involved in politics," having [skipped her father's 2024 presidential-campaign launch event](https://www.businessinsider.com/family-members-attend-donald-trump-2024-presidential-campaign-launch-florida-2022-11). [tweeted the names](https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1642926530069245952) of a number of Trumpworld figures said to be joining the former president for the trip, including Eric — but not Melania. [a transcript of the speech shows](https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/trump-makes-statement-from-mar-a-lago-following-ny-arraignment-transcript).

Not seen, or mentioned, at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago speech after his arrest in New York was his wife, former first lady Melania.

Shortly before the news broke last week that Donald Trump would, in fact, be indicted, we learned that Melania Trump was reportedly still angry about her ...

'Melania Trump's absence says everything,' a political observer said about the former first lady not being by her husband's side at his speech Tuesday at ...

When Donald Trump was photographed entering his Trump Tower skyscraper on Monday evening in New York and then emerging again on Tuesday to face criminal charges ...

Nevertheless, the source said Melania “remains angry” about her husband’s extramarital affairs, adding that she “doesn’t want to hear [the alleged hush money payment] mentioned … Trump denies having affairs with either woman. No verification or confirmation was ever forthcoming and no further evidence of anyone seeing Melania in New York or Palm Beach in public emerged. He is tall, he is tall and he’s smart. But all the offspring got a mention. But Melania was neither mentioned nor anywhere to be seen.

As former President Donald Trump was arraigned Tuesday in a Manhattan courtroom, his wife Melania did not appear to be in attendance.

They are a family." "That's what she does. [Donald Trump](https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/) was arraigned in New York City Tuesday afternoon to answer to unprecedented criminal charges, his wife, [Melania Trump](https://people.com/tag/melania-trump/), was notably absent.

Melania Trump was among a few family members noticeably absent from former president Donald Trump's post-arrest speech in Florida — read more.

[Insider](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-going-jail-time-ny-indictment-slim-odds-2023-3?r=US&IR=T) on Tuesday that the chances of him being put behind bars are unlikely. [following his arraignment in New York City](https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/donald-trump-arrested-on-stormy-daniels-related-charges/). president](https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/stars-who-played-the-president-20122510/) to be indicted on criminal charges. [pleaded guilty](https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/donald-trumps-former-lawyer-michael-cohen-reaches-plea-deal-report/) to concealing income from the IRS, making false statements and “causing $280,000 in payments to be made to silence two women who otherwise planned to speak publicly about their alleged affairs with a presidential candidate,” according to the Justice Department at the time. Donald and Melania tied the knot in 2005 and welcomed their son one year later. “I relied on counsel in order to resolve this extortion of me.” [Us Weekly](https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/melania-trump-is-very-very-unhappy-with-her-life/) in March 2018. “She is very, very unhappy with her life,” a family insider exclusively told Donald claimed that his legal experts instructed him to pay Daniels and that he was being extorted. Declared as “legal expenses,” the reimbursement payments falsely stated that Cohen was on retainer. [She’s suing me](https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/stormy-daniels-sues-donald-trump-5-revelations/) over banks that weren’t a fraud when she should be focused on violent crime that’s driving people out of the state. It’s cost hundreds of millions of dollars to defend, but our heads are held very, very high.”

Melania Trump "lives in an ivory tower of denial," says her former best friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff after the former first lady was absent when Donald ...

“And Barron will be great someday,” the former president went on, mentioning his teenage son with third wife Melania. “There would have been so much power in that picture.” Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner were in Wyoming to celebrate Passover. Wolkoff, a former senior Vogue staffer who was Melania’s advisor until 2018, said of the former first lady’s absence at Mar-a-Lago’s ballroom, “I never expected to see her there. Melania and Donald, a perfect match, could tolerate any amount of ridicule and flick it aside. They’ve gone through a lot. Her way of coping is to never let her feelings show or affect her. “Privately, Melania says people are just jealous, and she hoped the Stormy Daniels scandal would be swept under the carpet. and Eric Trump, plus daughter Tiffany Trump. “Still she isn’t leaving him,” Wolkoff added. But her silence is her dignity. [made his first public comments](https://nypost.com/2023/04/04/trump-rips-manhattan-da-in-primetime-speech-after-arrest/) after becoming the first commander-in-chief in US history to [be arraigned on criminal charges](https://nypost.com/2023/04/04/donald-trump-arrives-for-nyc-arraignment/).