The "lonely" privacy of the Trumps: this is their separate bedrooms in the White House
"Fire and fury". Fire and fury. This is the title of the book that has shaken the foundations of the White House. Although not yet out, the volume written by Michael Wolff invites the reader to enter the Donald Trump White House and addresses all sides, from the political to the personal. And it once again brings to the table one of the issues that gave the most to talk about when the Trumps landed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: whether they shared a bed or not.
"US Weekly" was the first magazine to claim that Donald and Melania Trump used separate rooms. A fact that was denied by sources close to the first lady, but that Wolff confirms in his book. Like the Kennedys, the Trumps prefer to sleep each on their own.
The truth is that the presidential couple is quite conservative with that idea. If we make calculations, up to 36 presidents of the United States lived in the White House without sharing nights with his wife, from John Adams, who inaugurated the presidential residence in 1800 to Gerald Ford, 38th president of the United States between 1974 and 1977, whose wife Betty refused to spend a single night without her husband. Given that Donald Trump is 45th on the presidential list, that leaves 7 couples sleeping in the same room in the entire history of the White House: the Fords, the Carters, the Reagans, the Bushes (George-Barbara), the Clintons. , the Bushes (George Jr.-Laura) and the Obamas.
The second floor of the White House
The private residence of the president and his family is located on the second floor of the mansion. In it there are 16 rooms, six bathrooms and a toilet. According to the website of the White House Museum, “although the presidential family usually has guests who stay in the residence, the heads of state usually stay across the street, in the Blair House, which is the responsibility of the Department of Condition".
Among all the rooms and halls on the second floor, one stands out above all. It is the Masters room, the suite in which the majority of presidents have awakened with the problems of the country. The room has a private dressing room and two bathrooms and occupies approximately a quarter of the total floor space.
From its windows you can see the Potomac River and the Jefferson Memorial, and possibly the views are the only thing that has not changed over the years. Each tenant has redecorated the room to her liking, starting with Jackie Kennedy, who settled in the suite as soon as she arrived at the White House (her husband slept in what is now the main living room of the house).
It has not been known what distribution of rooms the Trumps and his son, Barron, have made, but in addition to the main suite they had at their disposal the East and West rooms, as well as the rooms designed for visitors: Lincoln and Queen. Nor is it known whether they have redecorated or accepted the style imposed by Michael Smith, husband of former ambassador James Costos and a great friend of the Obamas. What has transpired, thanks to "Fury and fire", is that Trump has requested two additional television screens for his room and that the service does not pick up his clothes from the floor.
Of course, the Trumps' decision to sleep apart is shared by other well-known marriages, whether real, like Queen Elizabeth II and Philip of Edinburgh, or fictitious, like Frank and Claire Underwood's in "House of Cards." Because, as Lady Pamela Hicks, Elizabeth II's cousin, once explained, “no one wants to be snored in the ear or endure kicking. It is enough to share the room as many times as you want to be intimate ».
