Six juicy details from her (ex) best friend's book on Melania Trump
The shorts of the First Lady with Ivanka and her refusal to use the same toilet as Michelle Obama, some issues.
For 15 years, Melania Trump and Stephanie Winston Wolkoff were close friends. To meet for lunch in a row and exchange messages full of happy faces and rainbows (apparently, the First Lady of the United States is a fan of emojis).
The woman even went to work at the White House as an advisor to her friend. It was all over in 2018, however, and now Winston Wolkoff has put out a book where she draws the curtain and reveals intimate details about both Melania Trump and her family.
The book, called Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady, reviews mostly stories about Melania, although it also has revelations about Donald Trump and issues they ask the government.
Winston Wolkoff was fired from her role as Melania Trump's adviser in 2018 after she was accused of charging up to $ 26 million for planning the president's inauguration ceremony. However, the woman remained faithful to the First Lady and for two years she chose not to speak. It is not clear what changed so that now he has decided to reveal the secrets of the first family of the United States.
The juiciest revelations in the book have to do with Melania's strained relationship with Ivanka Trump, but there are also episodes that show a different face of the First Lady that has been circulated in the media: a woman capable of influencing her husband, who in turn does not care what they think about her. Here are some of the juiciest revelations in the book.
Operational: stop Ivanka
According to Winston Wolkoff's book, a central goal of Melania Trump at the presidential inauguration was to prevent Ivanka from becoming a central figure. "The princess", as she calls Melania the daughter of her husband, sent proposals to the committee that organized the event, and at one point asked to be included in the classic photo that is taken of the First Family that day .
Melania Trump intervened to prevent that from happening.
She in turn, she instructed those in charge of diagramming the seats and camera positions that day to do everything possible to prevent Ivanka's face from appearing too many times.
"Melania was not amused that Ivanka wanted to lead the activity schedule, and she was not going to tolerate it," writes Winston Wolkoff.
Like ... North Korea
The US president's passion for displays of power is known to all. The same goes for his admiration for strong Vladimir Putin-style leaders.
The revelation in Winston Wolkoff's book that the president wanted "tanks and helicopters like North Korea" for his inauguration ceremony, however, is surprising in the mention of the regime being the closest thing to a "cuckoo" there is to the American population.
Asked about this statement, the White House declared that, although the president "loves the Armed Forces," this was not true.
The book also reveals other pearls of the inauguration that did not materialize: a drone party in the sky canceled for security reasons, and a kind of Trump caravan by car from one end of the country to the other (discarded for obvious reasons logistics and security).
Michelle Obama's toilet
It took five months in 2017 until Melania Trump finally moved into the White House. At the time of her, she claimed it was because she did not want to interrupt the election year of her son, Barron. According to this book, however, there was another reason for her delay in moving from New York to Washington DC.
Melania apparently refused to use the same toilet and shower that her predecessor Michelle Obama had used. In that sense, remodeling the bathrooms was priority number one before she packed her bags.
The First Lady, however, did not get all of her wishes. She wanted to paint the presidential bedroom a shade of pink, but her husband objected and she ended up using a darker color.
Melania doesn't care what they say
As her friend before she was her advisor, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff not only had access to Melania Trump's maneuvers, but also to her most intimate thoughts of her.
"Pleasing everyone is not my priority," says the author is a sort of maxim of the First Lady. "She is a pragmatic woman, and she quickly came to the conclusion that she had no control over what people might think, so why bother," writes Winston Wolkoff in the book.
The author also collects the complaints that Melania had about the way in which the press was covering the incidents on the border with Mexico with migrant children who were separated from their parents. "It's sad that they don't have their parents, but the patrols tell me that the children exclaim, 'Wow! A bed for me? I have a clothes rack too.' It's more than they have in their countries, where they sleep on the floor ", are the words that Melania Trump would have said.
She has influence over Donald Trump
The book cites a singular episode to illustrate the idea that Melania Trump, contrary to what many think, is capable of influencing the opinion of her husband, the president of the United States.
At one point, Trump agreed to lift a ban on the possibility of entering the country stuffed wild animals hunted in Africa. The decision was the product of pressure from his sons Donald Jr and Eric, who were dedicated to hunting.
"Melania was not amused by the lobbying of 'the boys' in favor of weapons and hunting, and she did not see the sense of that bizarre need to hang dead animals on the wall. That night, she lobbied herself and achieved results" , writes the author.
The next day, Trump tweeted that the lifting of restrictions was "on hold" until he could study all the details of the situation in depth.
Displays of affection, no
Apparently, the presidential marriage is not very prone to show affection or love. According to the author, the First Lady told her on several occasions that she did not remember the last time the president had sent her flowers or chocolates.
Almost as a logical conclusion, the book claims that neither of them is a fan of Valentine's Day, practically an institution in America. "It's all so commercial. Donald thinks the same, we're not interested in Valentine's Day," Melania told the author.
