Melania's sneer at Ivanka Trump
On the last day of the Republican Convention, the confrontation of the first lady with the favorite daughter of the president of the United States was evidenced
Melania Trump's gestures are studied in detail, either for denying her husband's hand, the president of the United States, or for making a face at her stepdaughter, Ivanka Trump. This Thursday, during the last day of the Republican Convention, Donald Trump's favorite daughter took the stage to join her father and the first lady. The latter gave her a courteous nod, but quickly changed her gesture when Ivanka Trump stepped up to the mogul's side. She went from showing a wide smile to getting totally serious. A gesture that has not gone unnoticed by the media and users of social networks.
This was so weird. #RNC2020 pic.twitter.com/YHReTl0bfT
— Dana Goldberg (@DGComedy) August 28, 2020
Relationships within the Trump family are complicated. The president's fourth daughter, Tiffany Trump, only appears publicly when there is an election campaign or at certain events in which the businessman needs to show a happy and united family. And Melania and Ivanka Trump often clash for attention. Tensions between the two are collected in the book Melania and I, written by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who was an adviser to the first lady and who was in charge of organizing the inauguration of Donald Trump. The publication will be on sale as of September 1, but little by little some details of the text that deals with the friendship of the former adviser with the president's wife and her sudden dismissal, because shortly after the inauguration ceremony Winston left the White House without further explanation. It is now known that she left the institution after being accused by presidential lawyers of taking advantage of her close relationship with Melania Trump. According to these workers, her event organization company made $ 26 million in just a few months and for a few events, and she earned $ 1.6 million. Something that the advisor herself denied a year after her departure, when she revealed to The New York Times that she was not paid.
Winston also explains in the book how she and the president's wife, along with designer Rachel Roy, devised a plan to minimize Ivanka Trump's presence during her father's inauguration, according to an excerpt from New York Magazine. A strategy they called "Operation Block Ivanka." The maneuver consisted of arranging the seats for the Trump family in such a way that television cameras could not include the tycoon's daughter in the plans. That worked, and according to the former adviser, Roy later sent both of them a picture of Ivanka covered by Melania Trump's head. A message that accompanied with emoticons crying with laughter.
Over time, Winston considers that strategy, which she learned when she worked for Anna Wintour, was "petty", but they needed to keep Ivanka Trump in the background so that she did not monopolize the attention that corresponds to the first lady. Winston worked for the president's wife and not her daughter, and she defended her friend tooth and nail. “Don't underestimate Melania just because she's shy and reserved. She is very confident and doesn't always agree with everything Donald says. They are a powerful couple and two teammates. […] She always says that when the day comes she will be up to the task ”, commented the former advisor to Du Jour magazine.
Wolkoff explains that Ivanka Trump sent her boss a message before the inaugural parade on Pennsylvania Avenue with a photograph of Barack Obama's oath accompanied by his wife, Michelle Obama, and her daughters, Malia and Sasha. "FYI, regarding the oath, it is good that he has the family with him at this special time," wrote Ivanka Trump. In addition, the president's daughter wanted to change the time of the family inn and asked that her car be added to the presidential caravan.
It did not end there. They discovered that Ivanka Trump's husband, businessman Jared Kushner, was pacing the east wing of the White House to explore the offices. So Wolkoff opted to stick sticky notes on the doors to make it clear what the use of each room was going to be. A way of marking the distances between the first lady and the daughter of the president, and that they endure today.
