Donald and Melania Trump: behind the scenes of their cold and distant marriage
Do Donald Trump and Melania Trump love each other? Hard to say. Rather, a long investigation by the American edition of Vanity Fair seems to indicate the opposite.
Everything had started well: Melania Knavs, an aspiring model living in New York, caught the attention of a certain Donald Trump during a party organized in the Kit Kat Club in Times Square. Even if he came accompanied, the businessman takes advantage of his companion's absence for one evening to approach Melania. He asks her for her number, it is finally she who takes hers.
They start dating, Melania assuring her friends that it's not money that attracts her to him: she considers Donald to be "a real guy". They get married seven years later. "She doesn't make waves, she only speaks when asked to. She's very gentle," says Lisa Bytner, press relations officer for Trump Model Management at Vanity Fair,
35, Trump's "best before date for a woman"
In this long investigation of Vanity Fair US signed Eugenia Peretz, we learn how their relationship has gradually deteriorated. It seems that it was Melania Trump's pregnancy that turned everything upside down. She was then 35 years old, "the expiration date of a woman" according to Donald Trump.
"A guest of one of the Trump houses, at the end of Melania's pregnancy, remembers Donald who tells him to have accepted this baby on the condition that Melania finds her body of yesteryear", indicates the investigation. "She promised that everything would return to order," continues this source. "There was no 'How are you feeling?', No opening doors so that it wouldn't fall. Just one: 'You wanted it'." Obviously, this version of the facts is firmly denied on the side of the Trumps.
Forced to endure degrading comments about her physique (for example Trump explained to Howard Stern that if his wife was the victim of a serious car accident, he would stay with her only if her breasts were intact), Melania Trump would nevertheless be "perfectly fine. aware of the man she married ". Accused by many women (including journalist Natasha Stoynoff) of sexual assault when he was already married, Melania Trump would have only one philosophy: "Live and let live", tells her friend Lisa Bytner to Vanity Fair.
A strained relationship with Ivanka Trump
But when a video dating from 2005 is published, in which Donald Trump makes sexist and degrading remarks about women, Melania Trump cracks. She would think of leaving him. All the more so since she "never wanted or had any interest" in her husband taking up the office of American president.
This would no doubt explain its very noticeable absence of investment in activities generally reserved for the president's wives. "A First Lady usually comes with partnerships, explains a source to the American monthly. You come with a team. They have no one." Ivanka Trump, eldest daughter of Donald Trump, was therefore almost obliged to position herself to take the place that Melania does not want. Obviously, tensions thus emerged between the two women. "Two sources in fashion and the media say they have observed a coldness between them," says Vanity Fair.
Will Melania Trump remain the President's wife until the end of her term? A friend of the couple, who has known the Trumps for decades, has only one fantasy: "That Michelle Obama convinces her to leave him and become this great feminist icon," she tells Vanity Fair. Let her shake everything up and say, 'He's crazy. It's crazy. I don't know what I was doing!' "
