Amalija Knavs
Mother of Melania Trump (1945–2024) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amalija Knavs (née Ulčnik; July 9, 1945 – January 9, 2024) was a Slovenian-American woman who was the mother of Melania Trump, the wife of former U.S. president Donald Trump and was the First Lady of the United States from 2017 to 2021.[1][2]
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Amalija Knavs | |
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Born | Amalija Ulčnik (1945-07-09)July 9, 1945 |
Died | January 9, 2024(2024-01-09) (aged 78) Miami, Florida, U.S. |
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Viktor Knavs (m. 1966) |
Children | 2, including Melania Trump |
Relatives | Barron Trump (grandson) |
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In 2018, Knavs and her husband, Viktor, obtained green cards and then became naturalized U.S. citizens using the U.S.'s family-based immigration program, which Trump had denounced as "chain migration."[3][4]