Melania's frustration
From secret audio apparently dissenting with her husband's policy (released one month after the election) to the network that teases her about forced quarantine in the White House: being Donald Trump's wife
The network that wonders what the walls of the Trump house would say if they could talk in this forced quarantine - due to coronavirus - is only the latest piece of popular fantasies about an alleged hidden rebellion of the icy Melania against her husband Donald. Conjectures under the banner of gossip that today would however find a concrete side in some secret audio recorded by her former friend and assistant Stephanie Winston Wolkoff in 2018.
After the frowning glances, the smiles denied to the press and the chill chatted glance at Donald's daughter Ivanka, eloquent recordings appear in which the wife of the president of the United States complains about a task she was entrusted with on Christmas two years ago. . They pop up and go around the world. And all this exactly one month before the presidential elections (so much so that, in the face of the latest polls that give Biden 13 points ahead according to Cnbc, there are already those who speak of covid as a consensus strategy).
In the recorded voice provided to CNN by Wolkoff, author of the book "Melania and Me", the former model vents the commitment to organize the Christmas decorations of the White House, and the fact of being contextually associated with her husband's policies on migrants, at the time when families stopped at the US border were separated. With Wolkoff, a New York socialite initially hired by Melania as a councilor, relations ended two years ago, and the White House replies to the leaking of documents by leveraging the rancor following the breakup. But so be it.
"They say I'm an accomplice", he hears Melania exclaim on the recordings, "that I'm like him, that I support him. I don't say enough and I don't do enough in my position." And again: "I do the c..o on Christmas things, you know, but who cares about Christmas decorations? I have to do it though, right? Ok, I do it and I say that I work on Christmas decorations and I'm organizing Christmas and they say 'What about the children who were separated then?'.
Give me the f or please. Did they say the same things when Obama was there? I can't go there, I tried to get the child to reunite with his mother, I didn't have a chance, you have to follow the procedure and the law ". Words that also seem to evoke the lack of media hype - perhaps due to prejudice - around the solidarity campaigns launched by the first lady as such, such as the 'Be Best' one designed to discourage bullying.
The publication of the audios was hastily condemned by Stephanie Grisham, Melania's chief of staff ("Secretly recording the First Lady and voluntarily violating a confidentiality agreement to publish a book of indiscretions is a clear attempt to show off," says the woman, who in the past accused Wolkoff of "paranoid delusions"), but it is through the first lady herself that the disagreement with the President seems to spread. Indeed, by tweets.
In fact, on Melania's Twitter profile, an old video message from April in which she gives Americans some tips to take precautions against the coronavirus is fixed at the top. This clip has been evaluated by many as a criticism of Trump's at times denial policy, already renamed 'the president without a mask'. Two hundred thousand likes, 40 thousand retweets: numbers that - even today - increase by the minute, scroll by scroll.
