The absence of a major Republican figure will be the elephant in the room at the first lady’s upcoming White House event.

Donald Trump married third wife Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model, in 2005 near Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. They have son Barron, an NYU student

To assume that Melania Trump has spent more than two weeks in the White House since January would apparently be an overstatement. Though the first lady’s public appearances have notably been few and far between over the past three months,