Melania Trump doesn't need to be saved
The unauthorized biography of the first lady is published in which it is confirmed that she does not sleep in the same room as Donald Trump
Just as US President Donald Trump was forgetting about his wife, Melania Trump, before leaving Washington for London to attend the NATO summit, an unauthorized biography of the first lady was hitting bookstores.
CNN journalist Kate Bennett has published "Free, Melania," a book that compiles Melania's life as the first lady of the United States and tells many juicy details about the Trump marriage.
"Despite being married to a reality star who can barely bear to walk past a group of journalists without saying something, or let a morning go by without a tweet, Melania Trump has fought the stereotype that she is distant," she explains. Bennett on CNN.
Likewise, the journalist acknowledges that even Melania Trump has to fight the idea that she is a "hostage in the White House." After Trump's inauguration ceremony in January 2017, memes and hashtags about #FreeMelania (Save Melania) have been more than recurrent on social networks and the media.
However, Bennett acknowledges that Melania Trump has also shown "that she knows how to attract attention", as when she wore a white hat (aka "The Hat") during the state visit of Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron to the United States.
The American reporter asserts that Melania "uses silence to her advantage and goes on as the wife of one of the most controversial presidents in the history of the United States." In Bennett's opinion, Melania is very independent and doesn't need anyone to save her.
Own room
One of the main revelations of Bennett's work is that Melania Trump has her own rooms inside the White House. The first lady lives her life in different rooms than the ones Trump inhabits. Not only does she not share a bedroom with the president, she has directly decided to locate herself on a different floor than Trump's.
"The executive residence is not small, roughly 30,000 square feet (9,100 square meters) of the entire 55,000 square feet (16,700 square meters) of the entire White House," explains Bennett, who details the "discomforts" of living in the residence. officer, with all the security measures, which can become suffocating.
How much power does Melania have?
The author of the book concludes that she has more power than she thinks. For example, Bennett points out that the first lady was directly responsible for the firing of Mira Ricardel, Trump's deputy national security adviser, after the two had their quarrels during their route through Africa in 2018.
As reported by Efe, in November of last year, the White House announced the departure of the counselor after the first lady's office openly called for her dismissal.
Melania was also responsible - the book narrates - that the White House decided to dispense in 2017 with the Chief of Service Angella Reid, who was in charge of supervising the administrative activities of the presidential mansion.
The controversial speech
Obviously she didn't write it, but according to Bennett, it was a hard blow for Melania. "The speechwriter was a member of the staff of the Trump Organization - who barely knew the forms of political campaign speeches -" and it was this writer who borrowed some lines from Michelle Obama's successful speech eight years earlier.
According to the sources of the CNN journalist, “it was Donald Trump who disappointed Melania Trump. A skeletal team of political neophytes did not read Melania Trump's speech, much less examine its content, "says Bennett.
First daughter versus first lady
The role that Ivanka Trump plays is unprecedented in the history of the United States, which is why it is sometimes difficult for Melania Trump herself to be relegated to the background. What's more, Bennett points out that the relationship between the two worsened once Trump won the election and they became a presidential couple.
As reported by the EFE agency, the tension was exemplified when Melania wore a Zara raincoat with the controversial message "I really don't care, do u?" (I really don't care, (and) you?) during a visit to detention centers for migrant minors, on the border with Mexico in June 2018.
In Bennett's opinion, it was a message addressed to Ivanka: "I believe, and still do, that the trench coat was a dart (directed) at Ivanka and her almost constant attempts to link herself to positive points of the Administration," writes the journalist. And is that for Bennett there are cracks between the two most important women for the president.
Presidential dog
Melania Trump wanted a dog, a trend in the White House. However, Donald Trump refused because of his known aversion to pets and his phobia of germs.
Perso according to Bennett, Trump "would have accepted if Melania Trump's plan to get a pet for her son came true." In fact, the first lady began to investigate the most appropriate breeds and was analyzing how to care for a persistent dog. They finally chose not to have a dog.
