Melania And Donald Trump Keep Press Waiting Regarding Parkland Visit And Mar-A-Lago Trip Amid New Controversy


Amid Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal’s claims of an alleged affair with Donald Trump that she says lasted nine months, the public wonders if the president and his wife, Melania Trump, will change their travel plans to Florida on Friday, as reported by the Inquisitr.

McDougal became well known for her story of getting her breast implants removed.

First Lady Melania Trump is scheduled to join Trump at Mar-a-Lago, reports the Palm Beach Post, for the holiday weekend. According to the Office of the Press Secretary, President Donald Trump is scheduled to take a trip to Palm Beach on Friday, February 16 after the president received his briefing in the Oval Office about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School tragedy and signed the H.R. 582, Karis Law. With out-of-town White House reporters scheduled to take over at 1:30 p.m., President Trump and Melania were scheduled to be underway and en route to Joint Base Andrews, leaving the White House at 3 p.m. from the South Portico.

Trump planned to visit those affected by the tragedy in Parkland, which is a close drive to Mar-a-Lago, a planned trip for Trump, according to the Palm Beach Post. By 3:20 p.m., it should be “wheels up,” with the couple en route to West Palm Beach, Florida, landing at 5:40 p.m. at Palm Beach International Airport. However, questions have arisen from reporters waiting to clarify conflicts with that schedule published by the White House against plans that President Trump has published on Twitter.

As reported in the update titled “Subject: In-town Print Pool Report #1 – Stand by for Travel Updates,” Michael D. Shear, a White House Correspondent for the New York Times, wrote that Trump’s tweet about visiting the “bravest people on earth” in Florida conflicts with the schedule that the White House provided the public, which listed no public events scheduled for President Trump and Melania, save for the departures for Joint Base Andrews and Florida’s Palm Beach International Airport.

As seen in the below tweet published by President Trump, he wrote that he would be meeting with “people whose lives have been totally shattered.”

As a result of that conflicting tweet, Shear requested an update about the president’s travel plans and asked whether President Trump was adding “something to his schedule related to the terrible shooting in Florida.” The White House told the reporter to stand by but didn’t offer additional updates. In the follow-up “Subject: In-town Travel Pool report #2 — Still awaiting travel update,” Shear noted that he was still awaiting updates from the White House on the president’s travel plans and any possible changes to President Trump’s schedule.

Shear was told to “stay tuned” by the White House’s press office.

The controversy notably comes amid Karen McDougal’s shocking assertions uncovered by the New Yorker.

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