Melania Trump to carry first main occasion of the 2024 marketing campaign: Former first girl to lift cash for LGBT conservatives at glitzy Mar-a-Lago fundraiser

Melania Trump will make her return to the marketing campaign path this month when she hosts a glitzy fundraiser for LGBT conservatives at Mar-a-Lago.

The previous first girl be the host for Log Cabin Republicans on the April twentieth occasion happening at her Palm Seashore residence, in response to an invite obtained by Politico.

It is going to be a uncommon political look by Melania Trump, who has stayed away from Donald Trump’s re-election bid. 

She’s additionally set to seem behind-closed-doors with him this Saturday night at a large fundraiser for his marketing campaign that’s anticipated to herald as much as $43 million. That occasion, which is happening at Mar-a-Lago, is supposed to be a counter to President Joe Biden’s huge New York Metropolis fundraiser with Barack Obama and Invoice Clinton.

It is unclear what position Melania Trump will play in her husband’s marketing campaign for a second time period within the White Home.  

She has made solely two formal public appearances for his marketing campaign: his kickoff in November 2022 and final month when she appeared with him to vote within the Florida presidential major.

Afterwards, she was requested when she goes to return to the marketing campaign path.

‘Keep tuned,’ she replied. 

The April occasion is the launch for the Log Cabin Republicans’ ‘Highway to Victory’ program, which plans to focus on voters in swing states. 

Melania Trump has lengthy ties to the group. In 2021, she was the particular visitor at a dinner the Log Cabin Republicans hosted at Mar-a-Lago, the place she was given an award. 

Whereas accepting the honour, she stated: ‘As I look across the room, the phrase ‘braveness’ involves thoughts. It’s the brave spirit inside every of you that has introduced us collectively this night and it’s the brave spirit of Abraham Lincoln, which provides us our guiding mild right this moment.’ 

In a monetary disclosure final 12 months, she reported receiving a $250,000 fee from the group in December 2022. That 12 months the group hosted an occasion a Mar-a-Lago that she attended and Donald Trump addressed.

Richard Grenell, who had served as Trump’s ambassador to Germany and is overtly homosexual, may also seem on the April twentieth occasion.

The previous first girl stays common amongst Trump’s MAGA supporters however one thing of an enigma.

Within the seven months of Donald Trump’s marketing campaign she has barely been seen.

Her most notable absence was on Tremendous Tuesday, which was one in every of Donald Trump’s greatest nights of the election season. It marked the competition the place he basically received the Republican nomination.

She did not seem at his victory occasion at Mar-a-Lago at the same time as most of his grownup kids have been there. 

She has been at some Mar-a-Lago occasions. 

She and their son Barron have been at Mar-a-Lago’s conventional Easter brunch. And final month, she joined the previous president when he hosted Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary.

She’s additionally participated in some solo occasions of her personal.

She gave a speech final December at a naturalization ceremony in Washington, the place she mentioned her personal expertise in changing into an American citizen.

‘My private expertise of traversing the challenges of the immigration course of opened my eyes to the cruel realities folks face, together with you who attempt to turn into US residents,’ she stated. 

She didn’t point out that husband supported hardline immigration insurance policies as president, together with blasting the identical provisions that allowed Melania to turn into a citizen.

She attended a memorial service for Rosalynn Carter with different first women from each events in November. It was the primary event that the entire dwelling first women had been in a single place since George H.W. Bush’s funeral in 2018. 

Melania Trump had a tricky 12 months in 2023. 

She spent a lot of the latter a part of it caring for her ailing mom, Amalija Knavs. In January, she delivered the eulogy at her mom’s funeral.