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Melania Trump skips Davos, visits museum

and heads to Florida
By Kate Bennett, CNN
Updated 1504 GMT (2304 HKT) January 27, 2018

Melania Trump makes surprise trip 01:18

Washington (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump's plane arrived

STORY HIGHLIGHTS in West Palm Beach, Florida, Thursday, the same week she
cancelled her planned trip with her husband to Davos,
Melania Trump's plane was spotted in Switzerland, at the last minute.
Florida on Wednesday
A law enforcement source confirmed to CNN the first lady
was on the plane, and a motorcade was seen leaving the
Last-minute cancellation of international airport.
trip created buzz
Earlier in the day, Trump emerged from the White House for
an unannounced visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington.
 
"My thoughts and prayers are with the people whose lives and families were broken by the horrors of the
Holocaust," said Trump in a statement released following her visit. "Yet it is also through our shared humanity
that we come together now in commemoration, strength, and love. My heart is with you, and we remember."

This Saturday marks the International Day of Holocaust Remembrance.

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The reason for Trump's Florida trip was not immediately clear and the White House did not immediately
respond to a request for comment.

The first lady has had by many accounts a di cult start to 2018, facing myriad news stories about a dalliance
her husband allegedly had with porn star Stormy Daniels. The alleged a air supposedly took place in 2006,
four months after Melania Trump would have given birth to the couple's only son, Barron.

President Donald Trump denies the a air took place, and Daniels denies she received $130,000 from Trump's
attorney Michael Cohen to keep it covered up. Despite the rebuttals, recent headlines have inevitably made for
a di cult period for the first lady.

The Wall Street Journal first reported the Daniels story on January 12, just a couple of hours before the first
lady flew to Mar-a-Lago with her husband, where she was not seen by the press pool the entire long weekend.

The first glimpse of the first lady came when she boarded Air Force One to return to Washington from Florida
on Monday, January 15, walking up the stairs to the aircraft in blustery wind and rain, behind her husband, who
carried an umbrella, but did not o er it to his wife.

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East Wing communications director Stephanie Grisham confirmed to CNN on January 15 that the first lady
would be joining her husband in Davos, for the most part to support him during his planned remarks,
scheduled for early Friday morning. However, on the evening of January 22, Grisham backtracked, telling CNN
Melania Trump's trip was now o , citing "scheduling and logistical issues."

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January 22 was also the first couple's 13th wedding anniversary, an occasion not marked in any public
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Prior to Thursday's museum visit, Melania Trump had only been heard from on her social media channels this
month. Her last posting was a message on January 20 to mark the one-year anniversary of the inauguration,
with a photograph from the day that cryptically did not include her husband, but rather a uniformed military
escort.

Melania Trump
@FLOTUS

Thank you @HolocaustMuseum for a powerful & moving tour that

honors the millions of innocent lives lost, and educates us on the
tragedies and effects of the holocaust. #WeRemember #AskWhy
1:27 PM - Jan 25, 2018
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Melania Trump posted photographs on Thursday of her museum visit to her Twitter and Instagram accounts,
including one where she stood alone in Remembrance Hall to light a candle at the museum's Prayer Wall.

CNN's Noah Gray and Peter Morris contributed to this report.

This story has been updated.

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