Melania appears to be quiet quitting as public sightings & approval ratings hit all-time low

Why work… when you don’t have to?

That seems to be Melania Tr*mp’s motto in life, and certainly since becoming First Lady of the United States for the second time.

The Daily Beast recently audited the 56-year-old FLOTUS’s diary to see just how often she’s been out and about in public since her 80-year-old husband took office for round two.

The verdict?

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In the past year and a half, she’s made fewer than 100 public appearances, comprising a mere 47 days in 2025 and only 38 sightings so far in 2026.

Per The Daily Beast:

The first lady was last seen in mid-July, when she attended the final of the soccer World Cup with her husband. But that was one of a tiny number of public appearances she has made all year.

In July alone, she skipped three major events in as many weeks, bringing fresh attention to her status as one of the least-active first ladies in the country’s modern history.

A Daily Beast analysis can reveal that the first lady has participated in an official event—or even just been photographed in public—at an average of just once every six days in 2026.

Tell us you don’t give a sh*t about your job without telling us you don’t give a sh*t about your job.

Oh wait…

The Daily Beast was generous in what it considered a “public appearance”, too.

In its analysis of Melania’s diary, it included when she called that emergency White House press conference to demand people stop linking her to Jeffrey Epstein, when she was photographed stepping off Air Force One in February, and showing up three whole times to plug her flop documentary Melania.

Oh, and speaking of that documentary, despite being a complete bomb, earning less than $17 million on a $40 million budget plus $35 million marketing spend by Amazon MGM Studios, the first lady is reportedly busy working on a follow-up docuseries that will “explore her work in the White House, family life, career, and philanthropic projects during the early days of her husband’s second term.”

But if her diary is any indication, there’s not going to be very much to, well, document.

Of course, none of this is all that surprising. Not only did Melania phone things in during her husband’s first term, she didn’t even bother campaigning with him in 2024. She didn’t go to any of his rallies, she watched his attempted assassination on TV after the fact (“I ran to the TV, and I rewind it [sic], and I watched it,” she recounted later), and she couldn’t even be bothered to read a short, plagiarized speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

She did, however, find time to host a formal dinner for Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ autocrat Viktor Orban at Mar-a-Lago, where she presented him with a giant bouquet of flowers, which he later posted about on his Instagram Stories, along with the caption, “Pretty Woman.”

Of course, all this begs the question… Do Americans even give a sh*t? Do they really want to see Melania in public? According to recent polling, the answer is a resounding, um, probably not.

In April, CNN reported Melania was the most unpopular first lady in modern history. In addition to that, her net approval rating was the lowest it had ever been at -12 points. Yes, you read that correctly. Her unfavorable views outpaced her favorable ones by double digits.

So maybe she’s actually doing us all a favor by keeping her schedule light? Turns out, “I really don’t care, do U?” is a two-way street.

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