Melania Trump: New Revelations About Her Private Life ...
How much influence does First Lady Melania Trump really have on the US President? A new biography causes a stir in the USA.
A determined woman who contradicts the US president and is more powerful than many of her critics want to admit - according to a new, unauthorized biography, America's First Lady Melania Trump (49) is said to be exactly this person.
Since its publication on Tuesday, the work "Free, Melania" (Flatiron Books) about the life of the wife of US President Donald Trump has made waves in the USA. The author of the book is Kate Bennett of the news channel CNN - with which President Trump is at war. The White House has already denied the content - the book makes Melania Trump stand there in an unusually bright light.
The surprising tenor is: Melania Trump has much more influence on her husband than is generally assumed.
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“This woman knows what she's doing,” writes Bennett. She is also the only person in the world who can openly tell President Donald Trump (73) what she thinks. She could do all of this without fear of abuse on Twitter. “She is essentially inviolable.” She also speaks four languages, is down to earth and has a difficult relationship with her stepdaughter Ivanka. And they pull strings.
She had already disposed of unpleasant employees several times during Trump's presidency. The first thing she did was fire White House manager Angella Reid, who her predecessor Michelle Obama had once hired, in favor of an employee close to Trump. The high-ranking government employee Mira Ricardel also had to leave, according to Bennett, after she failed to organize the first lady's first trip to Africa satisfactorily in Melania's eyes.
Despite the close advisory relationship between Donald Trump and his wife, the presidential couple still maintain separate bedrooms. Melania therefore lives in a two-room suite on one floor above the President's bedroom in the east wing. There she has her own fitness studio and a so-called glam room, a beauty area for hair and make-up.
In 2018, Melania Trump almost lost a kidney, according to acquaintances
Trump, who grew up in Slovenia, is also very concerned about her privacy, her son Barron is a priority - especially since allegations were made last year that Trump had paid the porn star Stormy Daniels and the former playmate Karen McDougal hush money.
Both women claim to have had affairs with Trump. According to Bennett, Melania subsequently punished her husband with disregard for some time by not accompanying him to public appointments. The former model also had to struggle with serious health problems in 2018. Well-known Trumps told Bennett that she almost lost a kidney.
But Bennett does not paint the picture of a marriage that is only upheld for the facade. Melania's anger could take Donald Trump with him. "Your punishing coldness as a result of the affair headlines weighed on him," she writes.
In general, Melania Trump communicates subtly according to her biographer. The President's wife, for example, wears pant suits when she is mad at her husband - because the President likes to see women in “tight, short, super sexy and feminine clothes”.
However, this also gives rise to confusion and misunderstanding. Last year, when visiting a home for migrant children on the border with Mexico, the first lady wore a jacket that said “I really don't care. And you? ”Some saw it as a sign of indifference towards the children. If you believe Bennett, it was about something completely different: It was a message to her stepdaughter Ivanka, who sometimes accuses Melania of behaving like a first lady.
In "Free, Melania" Bennett actually shows a lot of sympathy for the first lady. Melania herself, on the other hand, does not seem to be impressed. "Ms. Trump is surprised by Kate Bennett's report," said a White House statement. Meanwhile, Bennett is certain that this statement comes from Melania and that she will write her own statements: "Melania Trump", she explains in the closing words, "does not need any exemption."
