State of the reunion: Melania marches to the motorcade and leaves waving Trump on the tarmac as they arrive in Florida after a VERY stressful week following FBI memo release, SOTU and the Stormy Daniels fallout
Hours after the release of a controversial memo about the FBI’s perceived bias against him, President Donald Trump appeared relieved to bid farewell to a stressful week in Washington, DC and return to his beloved Mar-a-Lago estate for his traditional weekend getaway late Friday.
Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and their 11-year-old son, Barron Trump, disembarked from Air Force One after landing at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida.
This is the first time in three weeks that Trump has flown to Mar-a-Lago. He was last there during the Martin Luther King Jr holiday weekend.
He had planned to fly there on January 19 to have a bash celebrating a year since his inauguration but was forced to stay in Washington due to the federal government shutdown.
The president and the first lady did not appear to be particularly warm to one another – the latest tense exchange between the couple since it was alleged Trump had an affair with the porn star Stormy Daniels.
In video posted by the Palm Beach Post, an expressionless Melania Trump walks by her husband after they reach the tarmac.
Trump descended the stairs alongside his son while the first lady trailed them both by a few feet.
When they reached the bottom of the stairs, the president guided his young son into the awaiting motorcade.
Just a few feet behind, Melania Trump kept walking to the awaiting motorcade without acknowledging the news media and photographers.