Is it true that Melania Trump wants to divorce Donald? Here's what's really going on
For days now there has been rumors - taken up by all the newspapers in the world - that Melania Trump is counting down. Looking forward to that January 20, 2021 which will mark the end of his stay at the White House. Because, so they say, he will finally be able to ask for a divorce from Donald Trump. After 22 years together and almost 16 of marriage. But is this really the case? Not exactly.
Melania Trump wants a divorce
The source (if we can call it that ...) of this news is Omarosa Manigault Newman. Former reality TV character, writer and former politician. That's how Wikipedia defines it. Omarosa was among the participants of the first season of The Apprentice, the reality show hosted by Donald Trump. Of which she became assistant and director of communications at the Public Relations Office between 2017 and 2018. Then she published a book in which she unveils the background of the White House and was fired.
“Melania is counting every minute her husband stays in office so that she can get a divorce. If she tried to end his humiliation and leave him while he was in office, he would find a way to make him pay for it. ' Her words. This was followed by a myriad of other tips, more or less authoritative. The most important of which is from Stephanie Wolkoff, Melania's former best friend and author of the scandal book about their friendship. Complete with private recorded conversations. According to her, the First Lady is negotiating a good exit, trying not to compromise her son Barron's future legacy.
Both are plausible claims. Because the marriage between Donald Trump and former Slovenian model Melania Knauss was anything but idyllic. But it is the last public appearance of the two that reinforces the idea of an imminent separation. The presidential couple travel to Arlington Cemetery to pay their respects to the fallen. But throughout the journey Melania remained close to the marine who accompanied her. While Donald has been alone. As they say in these cases, an image that is worth a thousand words.
Who really is Melania Trump
There is a big "but" in this whole story, though. And it's Melania herself. That she is not the mindless model who married the rich man just for his money and plays the beautiful doll on his arm. Which is how she's always been described since she started dating The Donald in 1998. Melania is not the fool who often gets painted. She may not be as culturally prepared as the First Lady who preceded her. But he knows exactly what he does.
And he knows exactly what Donald Trump does. He shares his ideas. He supports him in his choices, behind the scenes. The audios secretly recorded by friends and assistants show a woman more accomplice than a prisoner. Like when, privately commenting on her husband's choice to separate the children from their immigrant parents by locking them up in real cages, she said the unspeakable. “Those kids have a prison bed. The United States takes better care of them than Mexico ”. This is what the famous parka, worn in the midst of that scandal, would refer to, signed by Zara with the words “I don't care, what about you?”. The dig, therefore, was not to the media.
Donald Trump's betrayals
Melania has always known about her husband's escapades. That made Manhattan's Upper East Side laugh so much. She took offense when she was ridiculed by a porn star while she was First Lady of the United States. Because you have the sense of institutions, at least a little bit. So much so that during the 4 years of her husband's mandate she chose silence as a communication strategy. Aware, perhaps, of not being able to pursue a parallel political agenda (as Michelle Obama had done). Whenever he has spoken or given press releases, when he just couldn't help it, Donald hasn't even mentioned him. By creating the myth of the one not always in agreement with him, but "with a big heart". But the former model has always had an agenda of her own.
The war against Ivanka Trump
The first six months of Donald's presidency, Melania Trump spent them in New York. At his house. Officially to end the school year in Barron. In fact, to renegotiate the prenuptial agreement (as a biography of him claims). To negotiate his role in the White House. That he never wanted to cover. And to put firm stakes on relations with Ivanka, the favorite daughter of the magnate and rival of Melania. The times in which, in these 4 years, the two women have crossed in official events can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
If Donald Trump really intends to remain in the American political arena, this is the right opportunity for Melania to leave. Not necessarily with divorce. But by letting him live in the Florida resort of Mar a Lago, where he officially took up residence. While she's in New York. The place he considers home. And where would she be welcomed back into the pre-White House circle of friends only as long as Trump stays away.
Return to New York
Melania has guessed earlier and is seeing now that New York high society is quite cold towards the Trump family. Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner are realizing this on their own skin. The articles written on Vanity Fair America by the former best friend of the chosen one and then by the New York Times are a clear message: we don't want you here anymore.
If the former model really wants to go home because she has no intention of living in Florida on a golf course, it's time to make a choice. Between Donald and New York. But seeing her campaigning for her husband as she hadn't done in 2016. Or demonstrating her independence, for example by voting alone without waiting for the President, the result may surprise the couple's detractors.
In conclusion. Is Melania going to divorce Donald Trump? In our opinion, at this moment, no. Because, as the Washington Post writes, "she knows, and has always known, what she is doing." She was never a sacrificial victim.
