The rumor of an imminent separation of the presidential couple has swelled since the victory of Joe Biden in the elections. The Washington Post sees it above all as a fantasy on the part of the anti-Trump.
Will Melania Trump file for divorce as soon as her husband leaves the White House? This question torments many Americans and is even the subject of bets across the Atlantic, underlines the Washington Post.
Many Americans who "despise Donald Trump imagine that his wife, Melania, also despises him", explains the daily of the capital. As proof, they brandish “the videos where we can see the First Lady refusing to take her husband’s hand”. They point out that Melania Trump definitely spends a lot of time away from Washington and “that she is not very affectionate with her husband, in any case much less than Laura Bush, Michelle Obama or Jill Biden”.
The worst humiliation
A funny theory even made its appearance in October, explains the newspaper, which would have it that “the White House used a double of Melania to appear alongside Donald Trump during his official trips”. As academic Myra Gutin points out: “Never had such a whimsical theory taken shape about another First Lady”.
After a particularly brutal and divisive election, many anti-Trump who are sick and tired of hearing "the president call his opponents losers" would not be against "seeing Donald Trump being humiliated by his wife who is also his junior by 24 years”.
They wouldn't like anything as long as she leaves him when he's already down."
An astonishing complementarity
Despite everything, relatives of the presidential couple interviewed by the newspaper point out that Melania gives no sign of wanting to leave Donald in the near future. Although the First Lady has repeatedly said over the past four years that she does not always agree with the president, at the end of the electoral campaign she has above all emerged as one of his most fervent supporters. .
The Trump spouses are surprisingly on the same wavelength despite their differences in character, underlines Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former relative of the couple who wrote a very critical book on the First Lady. “It's part of the show: she's always been the quiet one, when he's the one talking loudly. She embodies softness, he hardness. Their relationship is based on this funny complementarity.”
