Melania Trump divorces Donald? "Gossip is crazy but it's all a bluff: that's why"
Does Melania Trump Really Want A Divorce From Donald? The gossip goes crazy but it seems more the result of free speculation rather than reliable information. Two sources in her inner circle told the Washington Post that the first lady "showed no sign" of wanting to leave her husband. To write it is the journalist Mary Jordan, author of a long biography of Melania Trumo who today appears skeptical about the numerous rumors of a breakup.
Two other people who know the presidential couple well share this skepticism. “I don't think Melania will leave Donald. She is her voluntary accomplice and has her own beliefs. Those two deserve each other, ”says Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, now under house arrest for tax fraud and financial violations during the 2016 election campaign.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, former friend and collaborator of Melania, author of a critical book of the first lady, says that the president and his wife have always been in harmony despite her apparent disagreements. «She is part of the show - she explains - she has always been quiet. He is the loud one. she the soft one, he plays the hard one. It's a party game. He is part of the relationship and makes it work ».
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In the four years of the presidency, rumors of coldness have been circulated several times between Melania and Donald, a couple apparently much less close-knit than those of the Bushes, the Bidens and the Obamas. "Never with any first lady" have there been so many conspiracy theories, says Myra Gutin, author of an essay on the wives of American presidents. But if at times Melania appears distant, she refuses Donald's hand, it must also be said that in the last phase of the electoral campaign she supported him with the sword in the rallies. According to Jordan, divorce rumors are projections, fantasies in line with expectations of Trump's resounding defeat in the election. There was a defeat, but not that huge. Many Americans who hate Trump imagine his wife does the same. "Perhaps - she concludes - Melania is similar to America: a large part of her admires Donald, even if the other is horrified by him".
Who believes the rumors of divorce
The gossip of a divorce at the gates is now circulating widely, complete with a figure of 50 million that the first lady could get. But to know if this is all true we will have to wait for the end of the presidential term, on January 20. According to Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former Trump adviser, the president "is a vengeful man" and if Melania were to impose this "humiliation" on him while he is still in office "he would find a way to punish her," reports the British tabloid Express. For this, says Newman, "Melania counts the minutes waiting for him to be no longer in office and for her to get a divorce."
Melania's spokesperson Stephanie Grisham has already dismissed Newman's truth book on the Trump administration as "Unhinged" this summer. But Omarosa, who has known the Trump for 17 years, has recently upped the ante, confiding to ITV that the president's marriage "is very strange", "sometimes they like each other, but at others she feels repulsive towards him". True or not, rumors of impending divorce were re-launched on November 11, Veterans' Day, with images of Melania walking into Arlington Cemetery arm in arm with a soldier, while Donald walked alone. In these 4 years, Melania has always remained an enigma and several times her refusal gestures have been noted as he tried to take her by the hand on public occasions, or grimaces at her while she spoke to her husband about her.
According to The Sun, Melania could get up to $ 50 million in the event of a divorce, but the amount will also depend on custody of her 14-year-old son Barron. Her custody that the first lady should easily get anyway. Trump has already divorced twice.
Trump's two ex-wives
First wife Ivana received 14 million, a mansion in Connecticut, an apartment in New York and one year access to the Mar-a-Lago residence. The two were married from 1977 to 1992 and had three children.
Second wife Marla Maples received only two million dollars, after a marriage that lasted from 1993 to 1999 and a daughter. In both cases, the wives challenged the prenuptial agreements in courts. Melania, on the other hand, has already proceeded to renegotiate her. According to Washington post reporter Mary Jordan, who wrote a book about the first lady, Melania stayed in New York in the first months of her presidency to press on her husband and get a better deal, with guarantees on the future of her son Barron in the companies of family. It is however plausible that, in the event of a divorce, Trump will impose a confidentiality clause on his ex-wife so that he does not tell the media what happened in their fifteen years of marriage.
