Like her stepdaughter Ivanka, Melania Trump appears to be accepting the fact that she’s still not welcome in New York City and will probably never be able to live there again. At least, not without feeling like a total pariah.
Multiple media outlets are reporting that the ex-FLOTUS and her son, Barron, will continue residing at Mar-a-Lago in Florida for at least another year, possibly longer.
The news comes amid reports that 15-year-old Barron will be attending Oxbridge Academy in Palm Beach next school year, after a note that was sent to parents earlier this week leaked to the press.
“We look forward to welcoming him into our school and community,” the prep school’s Director of Advancement, Scott Siegfried, said in a statement after the story broke.
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Earlier in the summer, Melania was seen (without her husband) looking happy and zipping around Manhattan for the first time since leaving Washington, D.C. in January.
She called the city home for most of her adult life, first moving there in 1996 and then stubbornly refusing to leave after her husband became President of the United States.
It wasn’t until six months into his first and only term that she begrudgingly agreed to give up her stylish New York City lifestyle and accept her fate as a D.C. political spouse and, now, a Florida housewife who lives at a retirement community golf club.
Last month, a source told People that Melania is “not dumb” and “knows how to handle her life to make it as fulfilling for her as possible.”
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Riley
I met Melania and chatted with her for 5 minutes at an Oscar party she attended with her sugar daddy – now current husband – many years ago. Either she didn’t understand English at the time or is in fact “dumb” because she was unable to complete a cohesive sentence… I’ll be polite and go with the former.
Cam
Melania has lived in America for over 2 decades and still seems to be barely able to speak English. Exchange students go to other countries for a semester or two and come back practically fluent.
mcflyer54
It is quite possible that Melania’s limited use, and often assumed poor understanding, of English is more of “convenience” then actual deficiency or inability. By publicly limiting her fluency she can often avoid answering questions or making comments that could possibly be used negatively against her. I had a foreign neighbor who had total command of the English language yet she spoke in broken sentences and used incorrect words to her advantage when she wanted to try an benefit from being thought as just another dumb foreigner. She confessed that people often felt sorry for her allowing her to take advantage of a situation.
Fname Optional Lname
Mcflyer54 makes a good point. Margaret Cho had a bit in one of her stand up routines where she said sometimes being Asian has it’s advantages, when someone you don’t want to talk to asks you a question you can just pretend you don’t understand.
When you listen to the recording of Melania speaking to her “friend” on the phone about how she doesn’t give a crap about Christmas or being on a magazine cover she clearly understands the English language and does not seem to struggle as much as she may have in conversations where she could not be as candid.
frank fuhrman
Was she pole dancing at the Oscar party ?
Cam
@mcflyer54
The phony line the right is pushing now.
Too bad that her “fluency” also failed when she tried to greet a child over in Europe.
GayEGO
I call her Melaria! She does not seem to be very smart…..she must have caught the Trumpavirus!
G-Man
LOL
Caddy4J
There are literally hundreds of thousands of people that come to this country, live here for many years and are not fluent. Some do better than others. They just prefer to speak in their native tongues… People need to know just a little of any language to get by. The recipient on the other end will most likely understand and know what the individual needs. By no means is this woman dumb.
barryaksarben
BULLSHIT! The others who come here and don tlearn english probably live in minority enclaves while she has mingled with nothing but english speakers in NYC and the only people who speaks too that speak her native language are her chain migration parents. You know Donald doesnt speak it as he hasnt mastered english as yet. And to PROVE just how stupid this bitch is – she married Donald trump thinking he was a billionaire. CASE CLOSED so take your republican ass elsewhere as you are just Hi Lar IOUS
Mack
But didn’t she come here on an Einstein Visa? She’s supposedly fluent in many languages but obviously not English. I guess it would be important to know how to ask for money, sex, and pole dancing in many languages.
Fname Optional Lname
The reality of the situation is her PR team tried to promote her as being worldly and educated. However I think they fluffed her resume a bit too far.
Learning how to bargain call girl rates in NYC with men from all over the world does not make one “fluent in 5 different languages”.
Cam
The right wing troll account breaks out a well known screename to back up it’s other screenames trying to excuse Melania not being able to speak well after 25 years in America.
radiooutmike
She has to suffer a little bit of social shaming? That’s a great deal for what she *should* get as the Former First Lady in Trump.
man5996853
Yes. And even if you forgive her decision to marry that psycho, she’s said and done numerous, heinous things that would warrant a greater penalty than merely social ostracization.
Fahd
I suppose the shopping and restaurants are better and more abundant in NYC than in Palm Beach, but I´ve read that she spends most of her time hanging out with her Slovenian speaking parents and her son. She can make shopping trips to NYC, and I doubt she´s a foodie.
Under the circumstances, I´d say most of the world´s population would accept the agony of a life of luxury in Palm Beach versus a life of luxury in NYC. She´ll never be ¨rehabilitated¨ even if she divorced him today.
I´d say, nothing to see here, nothing to feel sorry for, just part of the slide down the downward spiral.
barryaksarben
She came out of the east bring the darkness with her, destroyed Jackie Kennedy’s rose garden and then disappeared in the swamp that is south Florida. She can get great plastic surgery and when her pig dies she can be a widow with all the other overstretched useless widows of south florida who exist only to their nail salons, hair salons, massage parlors, and all the other places useless entitled rich women go to fill their lives
daddytop
Um, no. most people would prefer to live a life of luxury in NYC surrounded by an educated, artistic, cultured, liberal population. I know NO ONE who would prefer the sheer boredom of Palm Beach not to mention a guarantee of skin cancer and of nouveau riche dilettantes.
Mr. Stadnick
I was concerned for her revenue stream when Only Fans decided to shut down porn; with the news they aren’t I am no longer concerned.
How welcome was she really in Manhattan? The trumps were put up with by the NYC elite. They were like ants at a picnic.
Openminded
Totally cracked up by your OnlyFans comment.
dhmonarch89
staying in Florida… all the more reason to hope for a big hurricane season!
Mack
Queerty doesn’t want me to post “Right though the middle of Mar-a-lago”. Says it’s duplicate, but it’s not showing.
Sotzume
She can just install some more lampposts to stand under plying her trade so she feels more at home in Florida.
yendor808
Oh, I don’t know. Times Square can always use another aging skank hooker.
Tombear
She must not be to bright if she married Donald Trump. She would be much more intelligent if she divorced Trump and took as much money in the divorce settlement as she can.
Tombear
If I was straight I would get turned on by her lesbian photo spreads but I’m gay. The pics are in extremely bad taste. I don’t think Melania tastes good.
bsg1967
Her and her mutant spawn belong in Florida
OhPlease
Gonna agree with McFLyer here-everything about her reeks of KGB recruitment and grooming. Right down to the “escort” gig.
IAmUp4It
And Melania is featured in Queerty because…?