Who is really Melania Trump? "A woman who doesn't need to be released"
The book of the CNN correspondent that follows the first lady reveals her secrets and tells it with a key word: freedom
Her decorations in the White House are known to the world and her looks, in which yellow appears more than in any other VIP wardrobe, are very studied. We know you care about the privacy of her son, which is right and obvious to Barron, who is still a minor. It is evident, however, that she also cares a lot about her because among the first ladies, Melania Trump, she is the most inscrutable. What Melania thinks is a question that reporters have asked themselves several times and that she now finds, answered in the book by Kate Bennett, a CNN reporter who follows her on business.
In Free, Melania, an unauthorized biography, but partly made with the help of the White House staff, who later disavowed her, the president's wife is much more in control of her life than what is told in the chronicles . She is not the imprisoned Melania of memes, but a free and thinking woman.
According to the author, Melania is independent and in her own way a feminist. "Not only does Melania have power and influence over the president, but maybe she has more than anyone else in the White House." It is a hypothesis that resizes the role of the favorite daughter Ivanka, but which also shows how Trump's wife has redesigned the role of first lady on herself and her interests: a part time job, before her comes the son of she. You have always participated in official commitments, but only in this third year have you increased your commitment to the Be Best campaign for children's health against cyberbullying and opioids.
Melania's secret would be to not care what others think. “She She doesn't care if they think she shares her husband's ideas as she stays married to him. You only do what you want to do. ' "Don't worry about them but she looks and passes by," Dante would have said. Precisely because of this personal choice of her in managing her role, she would have in itself a form of feminism.
Even though, when she is in the White House, they live on separate floors of the residence, her power is remarkable. In the book it is said that it was she who convinced him to run for office in 2016, more convinced than he of the victory and tired of hearing him talk about the hypothesis of the race for the presidency. In Washington you have a staff of 10, half as many as before. She looks at her husband's meals and she doesn't forget to do pilates.
Another thing she does not neglect is to respond indirectly to her stepdaughter Ivanka. The jacket with the inscription I Really Don’t Care, which seems to be Melania's battle cry, worn while visiting immigrant children on the border with Mexico would have been addressed to her. She would have liked to point out that it was not all Ivanka's credit for softening the president's position.
What about Donald's escapades? Nothing that Melania didn't know, but she also knows that "Trump desperately seeks his approval and his coldness in public is an answer to this." Especially when her family is touched. “I am a mother and a first lady,” she has said in the past, “and I have more important things to think about. I know that people and the media love to speculate on our marriage. "
