Stay or divorce: what is Melania Trump really thinking?
Melania Trump rarely intervenes in public debate. But as her husband has just been defeated by Joe Biden in the presidential election, the First Lady has come out of her silence and considers that "the American people deserve a fair election". However, this support comes as rumors of divorce are rife.
She rarely speaks in public, let alone in the media. Yet, against all odds, Melania Trump emerged from her silence to denounce "electoral fraud" - these are the words of her husband - which, according to supporters of Donald Trump, would have allowed Joe Biden to become the 46th President of the States. -United.
While the outgoing US president has already made it known that he will take legal action to challenge the ballot in some states, the First Lady got annoyed on Twitter: “The American people deserve a fair election. Every legal vote - and not illegal - must be counted. We must protect our democracy with total transparency ”, she proclaimed, Sunday, November 8, the day after the victory of the Democratic candidate.
The American people deserve fair elections. Every legal - not illegal - vote should be counted. We must protect our democracy with complete transparency.
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) November 8, 2020
A few hours earlier, Donald Trump had again accused the opposing camp of cheating. “We think these people are thieves,” he tweeted. Big cities are corrupt. This is a stolen election. Britain's top pollster wrote this morning that this is clearly a stolen election. "
The Trumps on the verge of divorce?
However, the speech of the First Lady leaves some observers doubtful. It must be said that divorce rumors have been rife since Donald Trump's defeat in the presidential election. “He lost the election but would Donald Trump be on the verge of losing his wife too?” Asks the Mail on Sunday, for example.
But are these rumors true? Recently, the Washington Post reporter Mary Jordan’s investigation and Stephanie Winston Wolkoff’s revelations pointed in this direction. In a relationship with the billionaire for longer than his two previous wives - Ivana Trump and Marla Maples, Melania Trump is said to have secured more favorable terms in the event of a divorce, for herself and for her son Barron. The key, for the latter, is the assurance of obtaining his share of the inheritance. See, the leadership of the Trump Organization in Europe. And the right time for this renegotiation would have come after the election of Donald Trump, assures the Washington Post reporter in The Art of Her Deal: the Untold Story of Melania Trump.
In 2017, when Donald Trump moved to Washington, his wife chose to continue living in his penthouse in Trump Tower, New York. Not at all to the taste of the 45th President of the United States, who regrets that his wife's office, located in the East Wing of the White House, remains unoccupied. Especially since the media are wondering: is the marriage of the couple in the process of faltering? In February 2017, the first lady would not even have joined the president for Valentine's Day.
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A renegotiated marriage contract
Behind the scenes, Melania Trump was said to have been negotiating and eventually won her case. To achieve this, she would not have hesitated to use against her husband a recording unearthed by the Washington Post in October 2016. We hear the politician say that he is "a star and can touch" all women he wants, or even "catch them by the ch *** e". Donald Trump would have taken two hours before deciding to face his wife. “That night, he seemed scared to confront her,” an anonymous source revealed to Mary Jordan. “You know, if Melania hadn't supported him, if she had walked away directly, he was done,” says the journalist.
In addition, Donald Trump's infidelities with Stormy Daniels and Karen MacDougal, whose silence was bought a few days before the election by his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, did not plead in favor of the US president. Melania Trump, who remained in New York until the end of Barron's school year, finally found a compromise.
"Melania counts every minute"
As she leaves the White House in January 2021, the First Lady is now reportedly determined to file for divorce. "Melania counts every minute until he is removed from his functions and she can divorce," said Omarosa Manigault Newman, in the columns of the Daily Mail on Sunday. "If Melania was trying to bring about the ultimate humiliation and leave while he was in power, he would have found a way to punish her." On October 27 in the television show “Lorraine”, this former advisor to the White House already confided: “I have known this couple since the beginnings of their relationship. They got married a year after "The Apprentice" aired. " Then continued, “What I have seen for the past seventeen years would make you dizzy. Sometimes they like each other, but sometimes he disgusts her. "
Despite sometimes icy gestures in public, Melania Trump has always insisted on maintaining “an excellent relationship” with her husband. Best of all, the couple would never argue. Still, even if the Trumps separate, Melania Trump should undoubtedly respect a confidentiality clause. As is the case with Marla Maples, the second wife of the real estate mogul.
