What Will Melania Trump Do After Husband Donald Loses Presidential Election?

Melania Trump and her family are expected to depart from the White House next year after Joe Biden beat Donald in the election. Several sources shared their predictions on what’s bound to happen to the first lady moving forward.

Katherine Jellison, a History professor at Ohio University, believes that the first lady will go back to either Florida or New York.

"I assume Mrs. Trump will go back to Florida – or maybe she will be able to convince her husband to return to New York as their official residence – and continue the kind of life she led before the White House," she was quoted by USA Today, as saying.

Meanwhile, Anita McBride, former first lady Laura Bush's chief of staff who now runs the Legacies of America's First Ladies Initiative at American University, said that there was a "certain disappointment of not having this option (of being in the White House) again after working so hard towards it."

This year, Melania will have to decorate the White House for President Trump's final Christmas season there. After that, she said Melania would likely focus on her family especially on her son, Barron.

"Helping him to manage this transition will most likely be foremost in her mind," McBride said of Melania.

Meanwhile, Kate Andersen Brower, a journalist and author of books about the White House, including "First Women," said that the impending departure would be good riddance for Melania who went through a lot while her husband served as the president.

Melania said in a previous speech that she started the Be Best Campaign because she has received non-stop backlash ever since her husband took the highest office. In fact, she considered herself the "most bullied person in the world."

“I could say that I’m the most bullied person in the world,” Melania said.

“One of them – if you really see what people are saying about me. That’s why ‘Be Best’ is focusing on online behavior and social media. We need to educate the children [about] social, emotional behavior.”

Aside from the online attacks, there have been a number of unwelcome biographies and tell-all books, including one from her former advisor Stephanie Winston Wolkoff. The latter also taped their secret conversations and released it. Because of such things, Anderson Brower was convinced that Melania wouldn’t fee that bad about leaving the White House.

"I think Melania will probably be secretly relieved," Anderson Brower said. "This is not what she signed up for.”

The journalist added that every first lady somehow felt that they couldn't do right, but it was more difficult for Melania because she is "married to someone who has burned every bridge to the past." As for Melania's career, Anderson Bower said she could make money by writing a book like Michelle Obama's "Becoming."

"I think Melania is going to return to that lady-who-lunches lifestyle, which is totally her right to do, but if she wrote a book she could make a lot of money," she said.

"If she wrote a no-holds-barred book, like Nancy Reagan's 'My Turn' memoir, that would do very well. And she might, given the way she (sometimes) talks so candidly.”

Melania could also continue advocating for some of her causes like neo-natal drug addiction. She could work with groups and organizations, visit hospitals and host round tables on those issues, McBride added.

It remains uncertain where the Trumps will live after leaving the White House, but the family has a lot of options. They can move to Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, the Seven Springs estate in Westchester, New York; and the Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, New Jersey.