And if between Melania Trump and Michelle Obama the spendthrift was the second?
In the first year of Donald Trump's presidency, his wife Melania has reduced (and not a little) the expenses of the White House and this is but the last of the surprises that made us the least happy first lady that there ever is. been
Let's face it, everyone misses Michelle Obama. Loving her was easy, if only by emulation; perfect but also normal woman, wife, mother and first lady, a term that just doesn't suit someone like Melania Trump.
Indifferent par excellence of the well-thought-out, Melania, in her first year at the White House, did nothing (or almost nothing) to seem really happy to be there. First of all she went to live there 4 months after the investiture of her husband Donald Trump and her public appearances of her, assuming then that she was the one to make them, there were yes but they are not so frequent, indeed.
Energetic, participatory and full of ideas Michelle; snobbish, shy and of few words Melania. Two opposite sides of the same coin, two antithetical ways of interpreting the role of first lady but also of woman, wife and mother and it goes without saying that most people came first, and better, the more just and impeccable in his task Obama rather than the reluctant and haughty Trump.
Yet, history teaches that there is always a yet.
But yet. Although the wife of a billionaire, accustomed to a life of comfort and pampering, it seems that between Michelle Obama and Melania Trump the most spendthrift was the first and not the second. The New York Post has released the accounts of the first lady in the first year at the White House and, listen, listen, for Melania at the moment only 4 collaborators work, which cost taxpayers less than 500 thousand dollars a year.
Do you think so much? Not exactly. Michelle Obama's staff had 16 employees for a total of $ 1.24 million in annual salaries (Hillary Clinton had at least 19 collaborators and Laura Bush, 18 ed). Sure you say ... Michelle made a lot of it and therefore she also needed a lot of help to realize her thousand ideas of her, of course.
But yet. Melania's spokesperson, Stephanie Grisham, released a statement claiming that Trump's wife is simply very careful in choosing her staff thus confirming the saying that "to get it (the money), you have to know how to put it away" and the Trump in this , they will also have an advantage, but maybe they have something to teach.
But yet. Although less popular than those who passed the baton to her, Melania Trump still managed to carve out her space in the hearts of Americans and not only in a few months: her style is impeccable, her character is anything but a vacuous model and never ceases to surprise, even passing through stingy and come on ... even gardening.
