Melania Trump makes a return to her husband’s campaign. What role will she play?

(24 Apr 2024)
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Palm Beach, Florida - 15 November 2022
1. STILL of Former First Lady Melania Trump
2. STILL of Former First Lady Melania Trump and former President Donald Trump on stage

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Athens, Ohio - 22 April 2024
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Katherine Jellison, Ohio University History Professor:
“Melania Trump is, I think, even less visible this time around than she was in the two previous Trump presidential campaigns.”

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Palm Beach, Florida - 19 March 2024
4. STILL of former First Lady Melania Trump wearing sunglasses
5. STILL of former First Lady Melania Trump and former President Donald Trump arriving to vote
6. STILL of former First Lady Melania Trump’s shoes
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Athens, Ohio - 22 April 2024
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Katherine Jellison, Ohio University History Professor:
“She hasn't made many public appearances. She did go vote in the Florida primary, and there were pictures taken of her at the time. And she apparently, when reporters asked questions asking what role she was going to have in the upcoming campaign, she said something like, stay tuned. And that high roller donors meeting a few weeks ago there at Mar-a-Lago, she posed for a picture that was released to the public. But for the most part, it looks like she may be taking, and as I said, an even lower profile position this time in the campaign.”

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Palm Beach, Florida - 6 April 2024
8. Former President Donald Trump and former First Lady Melania Trump arriving at event
9. Former President Donald Trump and former First Lady Melania Trump walking in to event
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Athens, Ohio - 22 April 2024
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Katherine Jellison, Ohio University History Professor:
“Melania Trump most reminds me of Bess Truman in terms of first ladies in living human memory. I think she's the person I would most compare her to. Although, you know, they're very different kind of women, but the wanting to maintain my private life and stay out of the limelight whenever possible attitude was something that both women shared.”

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Washington - 11 October 1950
11. STILL of former President Harry Truman and former First Lady Bess Truman
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Athens, Ohio - 22 April 2024
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Katherine Jellison, Ohio University History Professor:
“If you recall, at the beginning of the Trump administration, Melania Trump stayed in New York for a while. And in that instance her explanation was that she needed to be with her son Barron to finish out the school year. And she didn't move into the White House right away full time. With Bess Truman, and of course her daughter was grown by that point, and she didn't feel the need to explain why she would rather be in Independence, Missouri than in Washington, DC and at the White House.”
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United States - 31 December 1945
13. Former First Lady Bess Truman seated at event
14. Former First Lady Bess Truman struggling to christen B.52 hospital planes

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Athens, Ohio - 22 April 2024
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Katherine Jellison, Ohio University History Professor:
“It may be a more fashionably dressed first lady than Bess Truman was, and it may be going down to Florida than to Independence, Missouri, but it’s generally the same kind of mindset.”

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New York - 9 November 2016
16. STILL of Former President Donald Trump, former First Lady Melania Trump and their son, Barron

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Washington - 11 January 1946

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Athens, Ohio - 22 April 2024

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