What got Melania and Donald Trump together?
Melania and Donald Trump a love story or a marriage of interest
Some say that Melania Trump was willing to stand by her husband's side if he was re-elected. But in the face of defeat, they already speculate about the end of the strangest couple that has set foot in the White House. This is his incredible story.
Since long before his arrival at the presidency of the United States, it was known that Donald and Melania Trump did not have a conventional marriage. When they met, in 1998, he had been divorced twice and was the fashionable playboy in New York. She, on the other hand, was 28 years old and a high-end model who made a living in the same city after a photographer who had met her at 16 had signed her up and put her on a tour of cities like Milan and Paris. She, yes, remembers the president, she was the most spectacular woman in the KitKatClub the night they met for the first time.
He was with a couple, but at a time when he was left alone he went to where she was and whispered: "Give me your phone number to call you." Melania replied: "You're with another woman at this event, don't be so cool." However, she told him: "Rather, you give me your number and I'll see if I call you." The next day she did.
Thus, Melania, who had grown up in Sevnica, a municipality in what was then Yugoslavia (now Slovenia), went from being a middle-class girl in a communist town to becoming the girlfriend of one of the most renowned businessmen in the most capitalist city. of the world. A courtship that lasted seven years, until the couple decided to marry in 2005. The wedding, in fact, was attended by bankers, businessmen, politicians (including Bill and Hillary Clinton) and figures from high society.
For many of them, Melania was what in the United States they call a trophy wife, that is, a trophy wife, who only has to be divine and at least 25 years younger than the tycoon, who is usually the husband. And Trump, who is an inveterate womanizer, always treated her as such. So much so that from the beginning she put her horns on him and even during the time she was pregnant with her son, Barron, the now former president had an affair with porn actress Stormy Daniels, a scandal that her lawyer Michael Cohen, currently in jail , tried to silence by paying the woman $130,000 for her silence.
That episode, and others like the video in which Trump appears saying that women let him "grab them by the pussy," finally saw the light of day during the 2016 presidential campaign. The tycoon had always dreamed of being president and, according to some biographers Melania was sure that he could win. But when both scandals appeared in the press, she – smarter than many believe – took the opportunity to take advantage.
At the time her husband won the presidency and moved into the White House, she refused to go with him and stayed in New York. The official apology was her son's school; however, the real reason was the renegotiation of the marriage agreement. She was pressuring him: either she made a more favorable deal for Barron or she divorced her. He had to give in because at that point she couldn't take another scandal.
Nobody knows the final details of the new arrangement, but it is known that the previous one included a large sum, plus a settlement of one million dollars for each year of marriage in case of divorce. The current one should be much more advantageous. And according to The Art of Her Deal, a book about Melania that came out last year, it includes written assurances that Barron's inheritance cannot be limited by any of her older siblings, the first lady's biggest concern. .
After achieving her goal, Melania was back by her husband's side. However, she was such an untraditional first lady that many media outlets recalled that she had posed totally nude in the past, first for the French magazine Max and then in front of Trump's plane. But that didn't stop her from earning a spot, often pitted against her own stepdaughter Ivanka, with whom she has fierce competition.
According to another book, she actually loves being in the White House and has a great influence on her husband, but public opinion and some personalities believe that this is not the case. The images show that she was not happy at all, which would prove that in the renegotiation of the prenuptial agreement she would also have agreed to her permanence as first lady.
Her displeased faces and the apathetic way in which she assumed her role at the beginning of her husband's administration generated the hashtag #FreeMelania on social networks. Since then, she has starred in at least nine scenes in which she makes public rudeness to Trump, avoiding shaking hands when he tries, looking at him the wrong way or refusing to smile when he asks her to do so.
Now, Trump defeated, many say that Melania would be preparing her divorce, with which – according to some media estimates – she could get a slice of more than 50 million dollars. Her version came from a former White House adviser and a former assistant and friend of the first lady who fought with her and later published the book Melania and I, in which she revealed several of her secrets. They have said that Melania is "counting down the minutes" to leave the White House and divorce her. Also that they always saw the relationship between her and the president as a "transactional marriage".
Several newspapers have even published that the first lady bought a one-bedroom apartment in her name in 2018, an alarm signal considering that until before the presidency she lived in the triplex penthouse of Trump Tower.
For some, in addition, there is various evidence that the marriage between the two is not based on love: not only do they sleep in separate rooms in the White House, but they live on different floors. In fact, Melania has her own bedrooms, her bathrooms and her kitchen on the third floor of the presidential house, and she hardly ever crosses paths with her husband. Trump stays on the second floor, where presidents have always stayed with their wives. It is known that the dialogue between them is scarce and that generally each one keeps to their own things. Likewise, those who know them say that they almost never show affection.
Now, when Trump tries by all means to delegitimize the election of Joe Biden and demonstrate an alleged fraud, Melania's position is indecipherable. It has been leaked in some media that she tells him that she is making a fool of herself, denying reality and that she has to admit defeat. Nonetheless, she posted a tweet supporting all “legal, not illegal” votes being counted.
Meanwhile, she remains holed up in the White House. Behind her smile and her indecipherable gestures could be, however, the longing of a woman who is about to regain her freedom.
