Is it true that Melania Trump wants to divorce Donald? Here's what's really going on
The truth about Melania Trump and the divorce: not everything is as it appears
For days now the rumor has been running - picked 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 she says, she 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. So she calls it Wikipedia. Omarosa was among the participants of the first season of The Apprentice, the reality show hosted by Donald Trump. She of which she became assistant and Director of Communications of the Office of Public Relations between 2017 and 2018. She Then she published a book in which she reveals 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 put an end to her humiliation of her and leave him while he was in office, he would find a way to make her pay. ' Her words. This was followed by a myriad of other tips, more or less authoritative. The most important of which comes from Stephanie Wolkoff, Melania's ex-best friend and author of the scandal book about their friendship. Complete with private recorded conversations. According to her, the First Lady is negotiating her 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 her money and plays the beautiful doll on her arm. Which then she is how she has always been described by her when she started going to The Donald in 1998. Melania is not the fool who is often painted. Perhaps she will not be as culturally prepared as the First Lady who preceded her. But she knows exactly what she does herself.
And you know exactly what Donald Trump does. She shares his ideas. She supports him in his choices, behind the scenes. The audios secretly recorded by friends and assistants show a woman more accomplice than a prisoner. As when she, 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. You are aware, perhaps, of not being able to pursue a parallel political agenda (as Michelle Obama had done). Whenever she has spoken or given statements, when she just couldn't help it, Donald hasn't even mentioned it. 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 her own agenda.
The war against Ivanka Trump
The first six months of Donald's presidency, Melania Trump spent them in New York. At her house. Officially to end the school year in Barron. In fact, to renegotiate the prenuptial agreement (as a biography of her claims). To negotiate her role in the White House. That she 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 she considers home. And where she would 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 like she hadn't done in 2016. Or proving her independence, for example by voting alone without waiting for the President, her 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, "you know, and you have always known to you, what you are doing." She was never a sacrificial victim.
