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RandySF

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Wed Dec 17, 2025, 07:22 PM Dec 17

Melania Suddenly Ditches Plan to Salute Fallen Heroes

First Lady Melania Trump mysteriously pulled out of a ceremony honoring fallen U.S. soldiers killed during an ISIS ambush in Syria last week.

The elusive First Lady had been scheduled to attend the dignified transfer ceremony with President Donald Trump to receive the bodies of the American soldiers and a civilian interpreter on Wednesday.

But while the president travelled to Dover Air Force base in Delaware to pay his respects—accompanied by his now-controversial chief of staff Susie Wiles, Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth and former House speaker Kevin McCarthy—Melania Trump was nowhere to be seen.

A White House official confirmed to the Daily Beast that the first lady had pulled out of the ceremony at the last minute but declined to explain why.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-suddenly-ditches-plan-to-salute-fallen-heroes/

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