Melania Trump delayed her arrival at the White House because she was renegotiating her prenuptial contract
Pulitzer winner Mary Jordan reveals in 'The art of her deal' that the first lady put pressure on her husband in this way knowing her influence on him
A new book on the figure of Melania Trump reveals that the first lady of the United States delayed her arrival at the White House as part of the strategy to renegotiate the prenuptial contract with Donald Trump. This is stated by the journalist of the 'Washington Post' Mary Jordan, winner in 2003 of the Pulitzer Prize, in 'The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump' (it could be translated as' The art of your agreement: the history Untold of Melania Trump '), an investigative work made from a hundred interviews with characters from her environment and linked to her at different stages of her life.
Now, a preview of this unauthorized biography (on sale on June 16) published in the aforementioned newspaper, explains that Melania did not move to the presidential residence in Washington with her husband after his electoral victory as a pressure measure. . At the time, the first lady alleged that she was staying in New York so as not to interrupt the school year of her son Barron, then 10 years old. Which the book points out is not the whole truth, but only part of it. This time also served to reach a new nuptial agreement that guaranteed the rights of her firstborn.
Jordan, based on the testimonies of three people close to Trump, points out that Melania sought to ensure that Barron had dual citizenship in Slovenia and that in relation to "financial opportunities and inheritance" you would have the same treatment as the three eldest sons of the ruler.
After a campaign peppered with complaints about alleged infidelities of the now US president, his wife needed time to calm down and "to amend her financial agreement with Trump", which Melania referred to as a way of "'taking care of Barron'", Jordan points out in his work. The 286-page book relates that the original agreement had not been very generous to the current first lady, who is Donald Trump's third wife and has been married to him longer than her other two partners.
Decisive character
The work also points out that the close environment of the tycoon, including at least her eldest son, asked Melania to install herself in the White House as soon as possible due to the great influence she has over the ruler. Something that she was aware of. In fact, the book explains that the first lady was the one who encouraged him to take the final step towards the race for the US presidency facing the 2016 elections. It includes a quote from Roger Stone, the president's collaborator who in February Last year he was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in jail for lying to Congress and witness tampering, which says: "She was the one who finally said, 'You know, Donald, stop talking about running for president and do it. And if you run for president. , you are going to win'".
Another of Melania's great participations, the book points out, was in the election of the current vice president, Mike Pence. "Melania not only accepted and embraced Trump's political aspirations, but she was also an encouraging partner," says the author.
Comprehensive review
'The Art of Her Deal' reviews the figure of Melania Trump from her origins in Slovenia, her career as a model, her romance with the president (they met in 1998, when he was 52 years old and she 28) and until today with her discreet role as first lady. It also exposes intimacies of your relationship. For the book Jordan has interviewed from former classmates of the first lady to former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, she claims that Melania Trump seeks, like her husband, to create her own myth. "She is ... much more like him than she seems," says Jordan.
Mary Jordan points out that Melania and Donald are much more alike than they appear. "They are both fighters and survivors and reward loyalty over almost everything else. Neither the very public Trump nor the very private Melania have many close friends. Their lonely instincts seep into their own marriage," the author writes.
The reporter also describes the first lady as someone who moves on "and would never look back", alluding to the way she has closed her cycles, for example, with her friends in Slovenia or after leaving New York. La Casa Blanca discredited in 2018 a book that claimed that Trump did not want to be president and that he only appeared in the 2016 electoral contest to achieve publicity and business, as well as an article that affirmed that Melania did not want to be the first lady of the United States "under no concept ".
