Melania Trump: this well-kept secret in her biography
For the purposes of the documentary Melania Trump, this obscure object of power, broadcast from Monday, October 12 on Arte.TV, Laurence Haïm plunged into the past of the First Lady. In particular, she discovered new secrets.
Melania Trump, the mysterious. Since she joined the White House when her husband was elected, the First Lady has been intriguing. A silent woman who prefers shadow to light, it will take well over four years for journalists and Americans to break through her shell. If she has been the subject of biographies and other investigations several times - including one written in vitriol by one of her former friends - Melania Trump remains an enigma. By will. Far from the image of a First Lady "victim", she is in reality a skilful manipulator, who has deliberately decided to keep her past vague. Born in Slovenia, she grew up in the small town of Sevnica, which she never mentions. "It's strange, Melanija has completely turned her back on her past. As if she was ashamed of what she was ...", regretted one of her former neighbors in the columns of L'Express. Little is known about the childhood of Donald Trump's wife. Except that she has turned her back on her country without looking back.
As Laurence Haïm reveals in her documentary Melania Trump, this obscure object of power, broadcast on Arte.tv from this Monday, October 12, Barron's mother one day left Slovenia on a whim, without informing those close to her. departure. The following ? A three-year gap in her biography, during which no one knows where she was. "Paris, Milan or Moscow, all traces of his lives have disappeared," explains the former correspondent at the White House, who was once part of Emmanuel Macron's team, reports Le Monde. It was in New York that the one who then embarked on modeling reappeared in the 1990s. Installed in the United States, Melania Trump wiped out her native country from her life and from her mind, without bitterness and with the desire to forget this mysterious past even if it means drawing the wrath of the Slovenes.
A bulky father
In an investigation by Vanity Fair, we learned that since her meeting with Donald Trump, she had only returned there once and only once. For three hours. Helped by those close to her, and in particular by her father, Melania Trump has voluntarily blurred her past. Igor Omerza, the co-author of a biography devoted to the First Lady, can attest to this. In the columns of L'Express, he confided to having experienced a heated altercation with Viktor Knavs while trying to return in his footsteps. "In November 2015, I wanted to take a picture of his house from my car, he recalled. He saw me, he turned crimson, rushed into his Mercedes and chased me in. the streets of Sevnica! He ended up giving up: no doubt he was afraid of harming Donald Trump, then in the middle of the presidential campaign ... "
Determined to bury her past life, Melania Trump even called on her lawyer to prosecute those who were too interested in it. "I would not say anything, otherwise I will end up in court, assured a former friend. I do not want to hear any more from these people, and especially not from the father, who is not a good person." But this silence calls out. What is the goal of Melania Trump? No one can answer this question, but Igor Omerza finds it suspicious: "Does she mean to believe that she has not experienced anything before meeting Donald Trump, at 28?"
