Melania leaves Trump Tower under heightened security after second assassination attempt on husband Donald

Former first lady Melania Trump left her husband Donald’s namesake Midtown tower under heavy guard Tuesday, two days after a second assassination attempt against the former president in just over two months.

A convoy of eight vehicles — including an NYPD Emergency Service Unit van manned by a cop carrying an automatic weapon — awaited Melania, 54, as she left her family’s New York City residence, photos exclusively obtained by The Post show.

The intimidating fleet was double the usual detail of four vehicles that typically guard the former first lady.

The Slovenia-born model also left Trump Tower through its underground parking garage, rather than the side door she normally uses to come and go.

One woman — possibly an aide or assistant — was spotted getting into Melania’s SUV after it emerged from the garage.

Fifty-Sixth Street was completely closed as Melania’s entourage pulled away from the building — appearing to thwart the arrival of her stepson Eric Trump around the same time.

Because of the street closure, Eric, 40, was forced to get out of his car at 56th and 5th Avenue and walk approximately 40 feet to the side entrance.

The former first family has been on high alert since the attempt against the 45th president, 78, at his namesake golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla., Sunday afternoon.

Suspect Ryan Wesley Routh lay in wait for almost 12 hours off the sixth hole before the barrel of his rifle was spotted by a Secret Service agent on advance patrol, prosecutors said.

Routh allegedly dropped his rifle when the agent opened fire and fled in an SUV — leaving the firearm, two backpacks and a GoPro camera behind.

He was arrested about 40 minutes later following a traffic stop in I-95 in neighboring Martin County, Fla. 

The Secret Service later admitted that the golf course was not searched ahead of Trump’s visit because the round was an “off-the-record,” or unscheduled, event.

“The president wasn’t even really supposed to go there. It was not on his official schedule,” Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. told reporters Monday.

The Palm Beach near-miss took place 64 days after a would-be assassin shot and wounded Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pa.

Rowe’s predecessor, Kimberly Cheatle, resigned from her post in the wake of the first assassination attempt, which led to major questions about the Secret Service’s competence.