While US President Donald Trump publishes his angry tweets on his Twitter account, in order to question the results of the US elections, it seems that his wife Melania cannot wait any longer, and has already begun the procedures for her transfer from Washington.
Split inside the White House
A month after CNN announced the split within Trump's constituency, as Melania advised him to reconcile with Joe Biden's victory, the site announced that, just days after the final vote count was announced, the first lady had appointed a secret envoy to find out what it was. Available to her in terms of budget and staff allocation, for her life after the chair.
Away from Trump's attempts to discover any way to keep him in the White House, and to present his election campaign with nearly 50 lawsuits to challenge the elections, all of which were unsuccessful, Melania is supervising herself to pack her things to remove her from the White House.
A source close to Melania said, "She just wants to go home." When asked how the first lady feels about her husband's plans to run for elections again in 2024, the source said that "things might not go well."
The location of the couple's move has not yet been officially announced after their departure from the White House, and a report by People magazine indicated that they will most likely move to the Maralago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, and spend time in Trump Towers in New York.
The Secret Counselor
Last April, the first lady came with a new employee named Marcia Lee Kelly, to join her small staff in the East Wing of the White House, and she works as a volunteer, but her work as a special advisor to Melania has brought great benefit to her, due to her previous experience as the director of the White House Administration Office.
Fantastic opportunity joining @VP aboard Air Force Two following the conclusion of today's # RNC2020 roll call vote!
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- Marcia Lee Kelly (@Marcialeekelly) August 24, 2020
After Melania made her decision to start planning for her life after the presidency, Marcia was the first to hire her, and asked her to secretly ask her acquaintances in the West Wing and the Office of Management and Budget whether there were taxes on the money earmarked for the wives of past presidents.
But the answer was "no", as what the first lady gets after the presidency is some privileges, including a budget to establish an official office, hire employees, cover some travel costs, and a small sum of $ 20,000 annually, to be paid in the event her husband dies, but except That, there is nothing else the government offers it.
But what Marcia gathered from information about the lack of financial dues for the former first lady, did not prevent Melania from continuing with her plan to expedite leaving the White House, leaving Washington as a whole, and already began to inventory her possessions of furniture, paintings and her private items.
Post-departure preparations
Melania is doing her best to ensure a smooth transition outside of Washington, and to the Maralago resort, accompanied by her 14-year-old son, Barron, who will not complete his school year at his current school in Maryland, as he will be transferred to Florida.
After the family got used to living in the White House, which is about 5 thousand square meters, and is reserved for the first lady, which includes a bedroom suite and a large dressing room, they will move to their home in the Maralago resort, which is about 280 square meters only.
The CNN report also confirmed that preparations for Trump's arrival in next January are in full swing, and said that "there is already an intense presence of secret services in the Maralago resort, where security personnel are assigned to protect Trump in the long term."
Melania is doing her best to ensure a smooth move out of Washington and move to the Maralago resort with her son Barron (Reuters)
Melania's legacy
Nevertheless, Melania is still the first lady until she leaves the White House after 39 days, and is still continuing her duties, as the spokeswoman for the first lady, Stephanie Grisham, told CNN.
"Melania is focusing on her role as a first lady, and her schedule is still full of her duties as a mother, wife and first lady of the United States," she added.
As for the period after her departure, just as Michelle Obama produced a documentary entitled "And I Become", about her days as a First Lady, and Laura Bush published her memoirs entitled "Words from the Heart", which achieved huge sales, Melania is also thinking about her legacy and planning to publish her own book.
And it probably won't be a diary, as you consider writing a picture book focusing on the history of hospitality in the White House, or about the projects she designed during her first lady position.
Melania intends to continue her Be Better campaign, which focuses on some of the key issues facing children.