<p>Critics attacked former President Donald Trump when they noticed that former First Lady Melania Trump was missing from the family Christmas photo — but Trump <a href="https://pagesix.com/2024/01/01/celebrity-news/donald-trump-confirms-melanias-mother-amalija-is-very-ill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed the reason</a> for her absence during his New Year&#8217;s Eve celebration at Mar-a-Lago.</p>
<p>Taking the microphone and addressing party-goers, Trump announced that he had just gotten off the phone with Melania — who was at a Miami hospital with her mother, Amalija Knavs.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">President Trump at Mar-a-Lago on New Year&#39;s Eve 2023! <a href="https://t.co/YmUSIJ8QHI">pic.twitter.com/YmUSIJ8QHI</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Shannon Ford 🇺🇸 (@shannonfordUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/shannonfordUSA/status/1741654612422295889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Her mother Amalija is very ill. Hopefully she’ll be recovering, but she&#8217;s been very ill, so &#8230; we just spoke, she&#8217;s down in Miami, a great hospital,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Hopefully, that’ll be okay, but it’s a tough one, a very tough one.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;She sends her love to everybody,&#8221; Trump continued, adding, &#8220;She knows probably about 95 percent of the people in this room. We just want to wish Amalija that she gets better as quickly as possible.&#8221;</p>
<p>The former First Lady has reportedly been at her mother&#8217;s side since before Christmas, which was why she did not appear in the family photo. A source close to Melania Trump told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/melania-trump-spends-christmas-ailing-mother?intcmp=tw_pols" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News Digital</a> that the former First Lady had always been very close with her family, adding, &#8220;It should be no surprise that she spent this Christmas with her ailing mother.&#8221;</p>
<p>But that did not stop critics and media outlets from speculating about all the possible reasons — up to and including claims that she couldn&#8217;t no longer stand her own husband — that she might have missed the moment.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Melania mystery: Why was the former first lady missing from family Christmas photo? <a href="https://t.co/Dwosw6BnTW">https://t.co/Dwosw6BnTW</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) <a href="https://twitter.com/MiamiHerald/status/1741731090044260507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Trump Family Christmas photo. Melania wants nothing to do with her lowlife husband anymore. <a href="https://t.co/WjDZbeNJgl">pic.twitter.com/WjDZbeNJgl</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Reno Ciccotta (@RenoCiccotta) <a href="https://twitter.com/RenoCiccotta/status/1739992990469304626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>One even suggested that Trump&#8217;s daughter Ivanka Trump — who appeared in the photo with her husband Jared Kushner and their children — was &#8220;standing in as the former First Lady.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Trump family Christmas portrait featuring Ivanka standing in as the former first lady. </p>
<p>Where is Melania? <a href="https://t.co/T2OnZyPWWq">pic.twitter.com/T2OnZyPWWq</a></p>
<p>&mdash; BlueDream (@58bugeye) <a href="https://twitter.com/58bugeye/status/1740017225963376906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Trump did not reveal the nature of his mother-in-law&#8217;s illness, nor did he give any indication of her prognosis.</p>

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