Melania and Ivanka Trump: book reveals the conflicted relationship between the two women
The memoir of a former aide to First Lady Melania Trump reveals unflattering details about the private lives of the Trumps a few months before the US presidential election.
In Melania and Me, published Tuesday, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff claims to have witnessed "deception" and "deception" among the Trumps.
The White House denounces a "strange distortion of the truth".
Ms Winston Wolkoff, longtime event planner for Vogue magazine, also describes the widely reported tensions between Ms Trump and her stepdaughter Ivanka Trump, whom Ms Trump calls "the princess."
Melania Trump, she writes, is a fan of emojis and texted him describing Ms. Trump and her husband Jared Kushner - both advisers to the White House - as "snakes".
Ms Winston Wolkoff confesses that her 15-year friendship with Melania Trump ended two years ago. And this, after the first lady "betrayed" her by refusing to defend her publicly.
She had been accused of financial mismanagement while planning the inauguration. Moreover, she reveals to cooperate with the authorities on an investigation concerning the financing of the nomination.
The author describes his feeling of having been "stabbed in the back" by someone who has changed a lot since they have known each other.
"The book is not only full of untruths and paranoia, it is based on an imaginary need for revenge ... Unfortunately, she is a deeply insecure woman whose need to be relevant defies logic," writes one. spokesperson for Ms. Trump.
The author reveals surprising nuggets about the private life of the Trumps. In a chapter, Ms Winston Wolkoff describes how the future first lady reacted in 2016 after hearing the Access Hollywood tape in which her husband boasts that he can "grab" women because of his fame.
"She was radiant, she was smiling," writes Ms. Winston Wolkoff. "It was as if nothing had happened."
"She knows who she married ... She knew what she was getting into, and so did he," says the author, who adds that she never voted in the presidential election until 2016.
The book, which is dedicated to Ms Trump, claims the first lady refused to move into the White House for five months until the shower and toilet used by the Obamas were renovated, and Mr Trump canceled the color she had chosen for the mural.
