THE MARRIAGE OF DONALD AND MELANIA TRUMP, A QUARANTINE THAT COMES FROM BEFORE: INDIVIDUAL BEDROOMS, SEPARATE DINNERS ...
Almost everyone who has investigated the Trump presidency agrees: the couple have not shared a bedroom in years. And it took Melania five months to move into the White House.
Donald Trump has returned to the White House: in an act charged with electoralism and epic fanfare, the president has shed his mask on the balcony of his residence, celebrating his discharge from hospital, 27 days before the elections. Now, Donald and Melania Trump will be quarantined in the White House. Only five days have passed since he recognized that both he and the first lady, Melania Trump, were infected with coronavirus, and that they would undergo "immediate quarantine and recovery process. We will get out of this together!" A "together" that, in case of referring to Melania, who has spent these days of confinement in her wing of the White House, requires extra quotes
After Trump was sworn in on January 20, 2017, Melania stayed in New York. It was almost five months in which the president settled in the White House while his wife remained with Barron, their common son, in Trump Tower. The official excuse was that Barron, who was then 10 years old, finished the school year without problems. Although Mary Jordan, a journalist for the Washington Post, claimed in her unauthorized biography of Melania that she did not move to Washington until June because she wanted to renegotiate her prenuptial contract. Not so much for her, but for Barron: apparently, Trump's youngest son did not have the same guarantees when distributing the inheritance as Donald Jr. or Ivanka Trump. The two sons that Trump himself admitted in 2005 tried to remove Tiffany, the president's most distant daughter, from the paternal will.
In the White House, almost all the chroniclers agree that they neither see much of each other nor have dinner together if the official agenda does not require it. As for the rooms, Donald Trump occupies the master bedroom on the third floor, where he spends his nights plugged into the Fox News stories. While Melania sleeps on another floor, on the second floor, in the bedroom that Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama's mother, used to occupy. That after the reform of that wing was converted into: separate bedroom, dressing room and powder room, apart from a private gym. A White House within the White House where you can have "enough space, spread over multiple rooms" - in the words of journalist Kate Bennet in another biography: Free, Melania - outside of Trump.
So the quarantine will be spent together as the neighbors of a block of buildings can.
