Melania Trump's former advisor calls the Trumps' marriage a "business transaction." Both spouses are said to have benefited from it: Melania has made a breakthrough in modeling and Donald Trump has improved his image. A "win-win situation"?
At the time, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff was an advisor to former US First Lady Melania Trump. On X, the former close friend of the model let loose: according to her, the Trumps' marriage was a "business transaction" from which both spouses benefited.
The American published a video clip from the sixth season of Trump's reality TV show "The Apprentice." In it, Melania Trump plays the devoted mother to her son Barron, now 18, while Donald Trump plays the caring father. “Trump needed a wife who had the right looks, who could play her role well and who allowed him to be the star,” she wrote.
Their marriage would have become a “win-win” situation that would have helped the couple “legitimize each other.” She elaborated on this point in a previous interview on CNN: by marrying a billionaire, Melania “finally became the ‘Vogue’ cover model she always wanted to be.” Trump, for his part, would have used this marriage to combat his playboy image.
Without ‘The Apprentice,’ would he have become president?
In another tweet, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff continues to claim that the couple only made it to the White House because of ‘The Apprentice.’
She cites the book “Apprentice in Wonderland” by Ramin Setoodeh: “He writes that Trump himself admitted that without ‘The Apprentice,’ he probably would never have become president.”
In early June, Melania's former aide poked fun at a claim made by Trump's attorney, Todd Blanche. Blanche told reporters that Melania Trump's continued absence from her husband's trial "should not be taken as evidence that she doesn't love or support him as a husband." The former White House aide later tweeted, "If you truly love and support someone, you support them wholeheartedly. So you don't care about appearances either."
