Melania Trump vanishes from view for weeks at a time, holing up in Trump Tower in Manhattan or in Florida, where she can lie low at Mar-a-Lago. Administration officials say she is at the White House more often than the public knows, but when exactly, and for how long, these officials will not (or perhaps cannot) say for certain.

To assume that Melania Trump has spent more than two weeks in the White House since January would apparently be an overstatement. Though the first lady’s public appearances have notably been few and far between over the past three months,