Melania, the worst first lady of the 21st century
Donald Trump's mysterious partner leaves the White House with a failure in approval (42%), although she surpasses her husband's popularity
Melania Trump (50) leaves the White House being a character as hermetic as she when she entered. She also leaves with a fail as first lady, an approval rating of 42%, the lowest of her immediate predecessors. Which makes her the worst first lady of the 21st century. Michelle Obama left with 69% popular support, while Hillary Clinton left the White House with 56%. Even Laura Bush was fired with a 67% approval rating despite her husband, George W. Bush, failing with 35%. Of course, Donald Trump's wife has managed to surpass her husband, who according to a CNN poll leaves office with a measly 33% approval.
Four years ago, the former Slovenian model held up the Bible and the United States Constitution on which her husband was sworn in. Melania wore an elegant sky blue coat-dress, with a funnel-neck jacket and matching long gloves, reminiscent of the impeccable style of Jacqueline Kennedy. Everyone thought then that that first lady would be her model. And she was in terms of elegance, but not in terms of charisma. Even her most brilliant speech of hers, at the Republican convention that nominated her husband as a candidate for the US presidency for that party, she plagiarized it from Michelle Obama.
Desplants to her husband
Melania has never abandoned her permanent frown, she has rarely been seen to smile naturally and leaves behind no noteworthy legacy.
Melania has never abandoned her permanent frown, she has rarely been seen to smile naturally, and she leaves behind no noteworthy legacy. The woman they say she gave Donald Trump the final push to run for president may have ever regretted doing so. At least she seems that way because of her rudeness towards the president, to whom she has repeatedly denied her hand in public and has even slapped her hands or has remained serious as when he asked her for a smile. The Republican has paid for it by sheltering from the rain under an umbrella and exposing her by walking behind him in the rain.
The pandemic affects their businesses
Donald Trump leaves the White House 900 million euros poorer
Donald Trump, who came to the White House as the richest US president, comes out of it 900 million poorer. Four years ago, his fortune was estimated at 1,792 million euros, but in the last twelve months he has suffered losses of 900 million due to the impact of the pandemic in the hotel sector and in real estate, where he has the bulk of his investments. , including mansions in New York, Palm Beach or the Caribbean.
However, Trump heads the ranking of the ten richest presidents in the United States that The Richest website has drawn up. It is followed, adjusted for inflation, of course, George Washington (486 million euros), the first president of the nation, who grew up in a wealthy Virginia family. The third is Thomas Jefferson, with a fortune that today would be equivalent to 195 million euros. Barack Obama has multiplied by 30 the family patrimony and together with his wife he hoards 33 million euros, insufficient figure, however, to appear in the presidential ranking of the richest.
It is not known if Melania has ever wanted to have a relevant role and could not. She maybe she has been constrained into her role. On October 2, a conversation that she and her former assistant Stephanie Winston Wolkoff had during the summer of 2018 was released. The former model complained about the efforts she was making to decorate the White House for Christmas, as is tradition among the first ladies. , while the journalists only asked him about the separation of the children on the border with Mexico. "Who gives a damn about these things and the Christmas decorations?" She hurt then.
Under full scrutiny
Faced with such a quiet first lady, many have wanted to see a message in her looks
Faced with such a quiet first lady, many have wanted to see a message in her looks. As when in one of the most notorious debates of the Trump era, precisely about "zero tolerance" with immigration that separated thousands of minors from their parents, he decided to wear, during a visit to a center for migrant children in Texas, a Zara's jacket that read: "I really don't care, do you?" Her husband, to clear up doubts about whether the message was directed at him, tweeted that it was a response to the media due to the negative information generated about her.
Since she came to power, the tension between the marriage and the fact that Melania was a loose verse was noted. "They say that I am his accomplice, that I am the same as him (...) that I do not speak enough, that I do not do enough", she has been published that she lamented in private. And in the face of her husband's rudeness, a president who will not attend Joe Biden's inauguration and will not leave him a welcome letter to the White House, as is tradition, she has wanted to be more elegant in her farewell. Melania has recorded a message to the American people in which she has been sober and restrained - some media say that she is bland. In seven minutes of speech, the outgoing first lady urges "to choose love over hate and peace over violence" and she mentions Donald Trump only once.
Nearly a dozen books have been written about what the former Yugoslavian-born woman who immigrated to the United States and made it to the White House really is like, but the information has never been first-hand. The wife of the outgoing US president and mother of her young son, Barron, has given few interviews, supported few initiatives, and fled as much of the public eye as possible. Now, according to the Page Six news portal, the one about to be a former first lady wants to write her memoirs of what she has experienced these four years in the White House. If she does, she's sure to make a fortune for her. She remains to be seen if they will serve, at last, to discover what she is like and what Melania Trump really thinks.
