10 things you didn't know about Melania Trump
For some she is a victim, for others she is an accomplice, for still others she is emotionless. The latest attempt to understand it comes from an unauthorized biography entitled "Free, Melania". We read it, and this is what we found
The mystery Melania Trump continues to fascinate, intrigue, annoy (last week she was even whistled at an event in Baltimore). For some she is a victim, for others she is an accomplice, for still others she is emotionless, a sphinx that seems impossible to understand, every effort to get close seems to fail. The latest attempt comes from CNN reporter Kate Bennett, author of an unauthorized biography called Free, Melania and what exactly that comma means nobody knows.
Bennett is part of the group of reporters stationed in the White House which has given her plenty of access to the life of the First Lady and the people who work with her every day. Not only that, Bennett has traveled with her, always in the group of journalists who follow her, he has been able to observe her closely, he has been able to see her interact with her husband, with his children and with Barron. What emerges is perhaps the most informed portrait of the most enigmatic First Lady ever, with some revelations that until now existed only in the form of gossip, but which can now be moved to the box of certainties.
What she wears is never casual
Many pages are devoted to the looks of the First Lady and it is understandable for two reasons. First, clothing is often the only information signal we have about her state of mind; second, the press seems to be obsessed with her clothes, be it coats or shoes. Bennett argues that nothing Melania wears is casual, that there is always a motivation if not a message. An example: the pink blouse with the "pussy bow" worn during the debate that took place the day after the release of the famous recording in which Trump said to take women for the private parts, in English precisely "grab them by the p ** * ". Bennett also claims that when there is a storm in the house with Donald, Melania punishes him by wearing pants because he is known to like women in super sexy dresses and high heels.
The famous jacket "I really don't care" was a message for Ivanka
Of all the looks, the one that she certainly got her to talk about the most is the famous green Zara jacket with the writing on the back "I really do n’t care, do you?" worn by Melania to visit Mexican children on the border separated from their families. Bennett claims that the writing was a message for Ivanka, who in those days she was meddling a little too much by giving interviews left and right.
Relations with Ivanka are cold
And speaking of the stepdaughter: as already reported by others, the relations between the two first Trump women are cordial, but not friendly. As if to say they are tolerated. Melania does not like the fact that she is considered the empty doll, while Ivanka is the mother of her career manager. Between the two the most evident clashes were in the past for travel calendar issues: some of Ivanka's trips would have taken place too close to those of Melania, as if to want to take away attention.
The 'Be Best' campaign against cyberbullying is going nowhere
Here Bennett says the obvious: that Melania's choice of her as her main business, the one that should make her remember as First Lady is half failure. The campaign against online bullying has generated laughter and irony in anyone who has read at least once a tweet from Trump, king of bullies par excellence. Not only that, the campaign after its launch in 2018 still has no clear objectives, nor methods to measure them.
When he went to the hospital it was for a very serious matter
In May 2018, Melania was admitted to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, near Washington. At the time you spoke of the embolization of a benign mass in the kidney. Bennett, according to sources close to the First lady, rivaled that the procedure was much more complicated, that Melania risked losing a kidney and that the convalescence was very painful.
Melania wanted a dog
It is known that Trump hates dogs: partly because he is germophobic, partly because he is afraid of them. Melania, on the other hand, was considering taking one to keep her son Barron company, and she had already inquired about the various races. But then she didn't do anything about it.
She and Vice President Pence's wife don't get along very well
Melania and Karen Pence wouldn't be friends at all, on the contrary. Bennett reports various incidents, including one during an official trip, when Melania did not speak to the vice president's wife the whole time and did not even allow her to sit on the plane in the seats closest to her.
She and Vice President Pence's wife don't get along very well
Melania and Karen Pence wouldn't be friends at all, on the contrary. Bennett reports various incidents, including one during an official trip, when Melania did not speak to the vice president's wife the whole time and did not even allow her to sit on the plane in the seats closest to her.
Melania and Trump sleep not only in bedrooms, but in separate wings of the White House
Trump sleeps on the second floor in the West Wing. Melania third in the East Wing. Despite this, Bennett argues that the marriage is solid, that the two are friends, that they get along much better than anyone can imagine and that Melania has far more influence on Donald than she is given credit for and in fact they talk on the phone constantly. , many times a day. Bennett then disproves the gossip that has long been running in Washington that Melania and Barron actually live in Potomac, at her parents' home.
Melania uses emojis
When she texts the White House press secretary, Melania uses emojis which Bennett says makes her human, much less rigid than how they paint her.
Her greatest concern
Vaping, an activity practiced by the majority of US teenagers. Melania is terrified that Barron will also be addicted to her.
