But all eyes were on 56-year-old Melania, who had last been seen in public at the Fifa World Cup final on July 19.<\/p>\n
The Slovenian-born former model skipped a number of other major events including the rescheduled White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner on July 24, despite having attended the first version in April, which was disrupted by a gunman.<\/p>\n
An analysis by US broadcaster NBC said Melania was keeping a much lower public profile in her second term as First Lady, carrying out about half as many public events as she did by this point in her first.<\/p>\n
Melania\u2019s return to the public eye also came amid speculation about Trump\u2019s hyper-loyal executive assistant Natalie Harp, 35.<\/p>\n
The White House hit back angrily this week after a Democratic Senate hopeful queried why Harp was one of only a few people to secretly swap from Air Force One with the President in Turkey after a security threat.<\/p>\n
Harp has been a near-constant presence at Trump\u2019s side in his second term, sometimes typing out social media posts for him and printing out information, a role that has seen her dubbed the \u201chuman printer\u201d.<\/p>\n
Harp did not appear to be present at the Rose Garden event.<\/p>\n
\u2013 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But all eyes were on 56-year-old Melania, who had last been seen in public at the Fifa World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1443,9868,4995,430,651,2178,156,1888,71,27501,95458,38887,9207,14909,1073,29713,14771,4486,111,139,69,1118,3111,1523,175094,2572,3109,21674,9871,13172,2179,19096,197],"class_list":["post-575389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-about","tag-aides","tag-away","tag-celebrities","tag-close","tag-donald","tag-entertainment","tag-first","tag-from","tag-heard","tag-i","tag-jokes","tag-lady","tag-me","tag-media","tag-melania","tag-missed","tag-month","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-out","tag-over","tag-poked","tag-president","tag-public","tag-scrutiny","tag-speculation","tag-spotlight","tag-trump","tag-trumps","tag-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}