CNN: “As Donald Trump publicly mulls his political future, playing a game of ‘will he-won’t he’ in a potential bid for the White House in 2024, all the while flexing influence in primaries for next year’s midterms, there is one key person noticeably quiet. Again. Melania Trump, perhaps the most private first lady in modern history, has retreated more and more from the spotlight since departing Washington last January. She has been seen publicly just once this summer, spotted in July by photographers leaving Trump Tower in New York City, accompanied by her son.”

“Melania Trump’s disinterest in public political life runs deep enough that she has gone so far as to tell several friends that not only does she not intend to bolster her husband’s inflated political ambitions, she has zero desire for a White House redux, according to several people who spoke with CNN about her mindset. ‘Being first lady again is not what she wants,’ said one of the people, who had a close relationship with Trump during her White House tenure. ‘For her, it was a chapter – and it’s over, and that’s that.’ She views her husband’s continued impact on the GOP landscape as his job, not hers. ‘You’re not going to see her at rallies or campaign events, even if he ‘officially’ says he’s running again,’ said another person aware of the disinterest Trump has shown in supporting the former President. ‘Instead it’s going to be Lara (Trump, the wife of Trump’s son, Eric) or (Kimberly) Guilfoyle (the girlfriend of Trump’s eldest son, Don). They have that same urge Trump has to (run) again; Melania absolutely does not.'”