First lady Melania Trump won’t be accompanying her husband on his trips to Canada and Singapore because her doctors said she shouldn’t fly so soon after having surgery, President Trump said Friday.
Melania Trump had surgery May 14 for a benign kidney condition. The first lady’s office has been mostly private about Melania Trump’s health, but the president gave more details Friday while speaking to the press before heading to Canada.
The president said his wife’s operation was a “big” surgery that last four hours, but she’s now doing “great.”
“She wanted to go. Can’t fly for one month, the doctors say. She had a big operation. That was close to a four hour operation. She’s doing great,” Trump said.
Melania Trump appeared for the first time in public outside the White House on Wednesday when she attended an event at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters with the president. She attended an event for Gold Star families at the White House on Monday, but the event was not open to the press.
The president left the White House early Friday to attend the G7 summit in Canada. He’s traveling to Singapore on over the weekend to prepare for an historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to discuss denuclearization of Kim’s country.
