I guess she hasn’t received her check recently
Melania has been conspicuously absent from the campaign trail since Trump announced. Maybe that’s why. She used to get paid for it:
A super PAC aligned with former President Donald Trump paid his wife, former first lady Melania Trump, $155,000 in 2021, according to new financial filings.
The New York Times first reported that the group, Make America Great Again, Again — which has since been closed — made the unusual payment to the first lady in December 2021. The payment was not included on the group’s initial federal reports, which instead listed two transactions, for $125,000 and $30,000, last year for a client called the Designer’s Management Agency.
Melania Trump is listed as a client of that agency.
The payments were revealed Thursday after Trump filed new financial disclosure forms, which listed the $155,000 figure as the fee for a “speaking engagement.” The date of the payment coincides with a private fundraiser at the Trumps’ Mar-a-Lago club in Florida at the the time, which sold seats for $125,000 a pop.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump stand together during an event at his Mar-a-Lago home on Nov. 15, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida.
There’s nothing illegal about this. But it’s more than a little unusual, especially since her husband, the candidate, is supposedly worth billions. But the cult followers love to throw their hard earned money at Trump so I suppose they probably don’t care.