Donald and Melania Trump: a marriage that takes water according to the American press
An investigation published by Vanity Fair reveals the less than stellar backstage of the relationship between Donald and Melania Trump.
Many rumors have circulated about the couple Donald and Melania Trump since the US presidential elections. We had notably been able to read that they were sleeping apart, that Melania did not seem happy (a hashtag #SaveMelania had even emerged on Twitter), that she did not want him to become president of the States United... In a long survey published a few days ago, Vanity Fair magazine looks back on the marriage between the Slovenian model and the businessman who became the 45th president of the United States, and the least that the we can say is that it does not make one dream.
The magazine first recalls their meeting in a New York nightclub in 1998. Donald Trump, who had gone there accompanied by a young woman, waited for her to go to the bathroom to go see Melania, at the model era, and ask her for her phone number. An anecdote that sets the tone of their relationship.
A friend of Donald Trump, Federico Pignatelli explained that Melania appealed to Donald for her easygoing character, and therefore not very constraining, unlike that of his ex-wife, Ivana: “Ivana was an intelligent, enterprising woman. She also had a feisty personality. With Melania...there aren't really any arguments."
A trophy wife
The fact that Melania Trump doesn't make waves isn't the only reason Donald Trump liked her. Beyond his model physique, the article reports a role consisting mainly of reassuring the businessman about his virility through rather humiliating interventions. In 1999, shortly after their meeting, Melania Trump took part in a conversation broadcast on the radio between Donald Trump and the presenter Howard Stern. As Donald Trump explains that he would continue to love Melania as long as her breasts remain intact, the presenter asks him to talk about their sex life. The tycoon contacts his wife, to tell her that they have sex more than once a day and confides that she is nearly naked as she speaks. During another evening, he asked her, in front of acquaintances, to say how much he was a good husband. She simply repeated what he had said, an act sufficient to satisfy him.
The pinnacle in Melania Trump's objectification came six months after their wedding. She told her husband of her wish to become pregnant, to which he consented, only "on condition that she finds the same body immediately afterwards", something she promised him.
A campaign that upset their balance
However, despite her "live and let live" philosophy and the fact that she said she was very knowledgeable about how the person she married operated, the article revealed that Melania Trump was "terrified at 'idea that he can win' during the presidential election. A fear that would partly explain his lack of involvement in the campaign. The article also discusses rumors about her desire for a divorce, which arose after her husband's comments about women were broadcast and he "grabbed them by the pussy", an outing she ended up defending. publicly.
A person close to the Trumps said: “My dream is for Michelle Obama to persuade her to leave him, and become a great feminist icon. She'll shake things up and say, "He's crazy. It's crazy. I don't know what I was doing." It is true that in her case, feminist activism would be the best way out.
