Melania and Donald Trump: farewell time? The tabloids: divorce of 50 million
Since a biography revealed their prenuptial contract, many have seen the Trump divorce passport as they leave the White House. But "they are made for each other, they will never divorce". Word of someone who knows them well
Until yesterday, around the White House, the question was not whether Donald and Melania Trump divorce, but when they divorce. Many have put two and two together starting from the biography The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump by Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Jordan, in which it is said that, after the 2016 election, the two had renegotiated the prenuptial contract. In what terms, it is not known, but the concept is that the first lady would have undertaken, upon adequate promise of compensation, to remain married at least as long as her husband remained president. Ergo, in the eyes of the first lady, the inauguration of Joe Biden so adverse to his wife would be equivalent, instead, to a passport to freedom. "Melania is counting down," headlined a flood of British and US tabloids and websites.
But, yesterday, Mary Jordan came out with a long article in which she predicts that the two will not break up and that, indeed, they are made for each other and she also published it in the Washington Post, which certainly does not shine for Trumpian sympathies. The verdict of her and the experts interviewed is that divorce theorists are only projecting their desire to get rid of the president onto Melania. To corroborate the thesis, the first lady's commitment in the election campaign and a tweet in which she hopes to recount the votes.
Of course, the signs of how much Melania could long for her freedom had been seen starting from her inauguration ceremony on January 20, 2017, when he turns to tell her and something about her and her face suddenly darkens. The slow motion of the video, with her jaw tightening and her eyes sinking into it, is the portrait of someone who realizes that she will have to swallow several toads. Then, there was the scene of the presidential couple descending from Air Force One in Israel, he makes her to take her hand, but she chases him away. Since then, every opportunity has been good to recycle the hashtag #FreeMelania, #MelaniaLibera on social media.
The confrontation with Ivanka, the favorite daughter Trump had from his first wife Ivana, was a constant thorn in his side, with Melania often confined to the East wing of the White House, or self-exiled there, go find out, while Ivanka in the wing West passed for the real Tsarina of the situation. Melania survived by choosing the line of few words and a lot of patience. He had it when Stormy Daniels, the porn star who claims to have received $ 130,000 from Donald for silent sex in 2006, broke in. He had it when 69 women came forward from the past complaining about Mister Trump 'Unwanted sexual contact' or 'inappropriate behavior. She counted them Monique El-Faizy and Barry Levine in the book "All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator".
And it seems to see in loop the slow motion of Melania's face that becomes gloomy, gloomy and still gloomy. But she was prepared. According to Jordan, in the first months of the presidency, she stayed in New York precisely to renegotiate the prenuptial agreement: becoming first lady, with the resulting "annoyances", had a price that had to be fixed. For a president, being left by his wife is bad publicity and, in short, that would be the moment when Melania reverses her uncomfortable position: in the face of the risk of suffering humiliation and pressure, she collects the certainty of earning a few million dollars and guarantee of a place in the empire for his son Barron.
It is likely that Jill Biden or Michelle Obama have reasoned otherwise, but they have no husbands valued at two billion dollars, and we have only seen slow motion pictures on their faces. Neither Barack and Joe have a history of millionaire divorces. On Melania, however, lawyers all over the world fantasize with calculations. In summary: Donald liquidated Ivana, 30 years ago, leaving her with three young children, twenty million dollars and various houses; to his second wife, Marla Maples, with whom he has only one daughter, he said goodbye with 20 million. The hypothesis is that Melania, with only one child, could aspire to 50 million more homes and alimony for her son, because Donald, it is assumed, has become richer and because she has supported him in very difficult years. Eventually, we will know if it was true love or a real deal only after Biden takes office.
