Melania Trump's gesture shows the "differences" with Ivanka Trump
It is usual for Melania Trump's gestures to be thoroughly studied by the press. It is not the first time that the face of the first lady gives signs that something "bad" is happening within the family. From rudeness to the president, to a recent "strange" gesture towards her stepdaughter, Ivanka Trump, during the last day of the Republican Convention.
This moment, which has gone viral in recent hours, occurred when Donald Trump's favorite daughter took the stage to join her father and Melania. The latter politely greeted her with a nod, but she quickly changed her gesture when Ivanka Trump placed herself next to the tycoon, without giving her a kiss as she "reciprocates".
The change was abrupt: she went from showing a wide smile to becoming totally serious and confused. A gesture that has not gone unnoticed by the media and users of social networks, who have begun to speculate about the problems that exist between the two.
First Lady Melania Trump appeared to stop smiling as Ivanka, the US president's daughter, joined them on stage at the Republican convention.
— Sky News (@SkyNews) August 28, 2020
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The differences came to light
The book "Melania and I", written by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, former adviser to the first lady and who was in charge of organizing the inauguration of Donald Trump, explains a little about the rivalry that has existed for years between Melania and Ivanka. In fact, both fight for more attention from the press.
Winston explains, in the book to be released Sept. 1, how she and Trump's wife, along with designer Rachel Roy, devised a plan to minimize Ivanka's presence during her father's inauguration, according to an excerpt advanced by New York Magazine.
The strategy was dubbed "Operation Block Ivanka." The move was basically to arrange seating for the Trump family in such a way that TV cameras couldn't include the tycoon's daughter in close-ups, a plan that worked at the time.
That was "the straw that broke the camel's back" since, after that, Ivanka's husband, Jared Kushner, went to the White House to "explore" the offices and left sticky notes specifying the usefulness of each of them. In this way, the first lady and Trump's daughter would not have to see each other so often.
