“Explosive” memoirs about Melania Trump are being published in the US
The book “Melania and Me,” prepared by Simon & Schuster, is due out on September 1, Vanity Fair reports. Details are kept strictly confidential. However, the book's blurb from the publisher says the story begins with Wolkoff befriending Melania Trump in the mid-2000s, helping her plan the presidential inauguration, and ending with her being fired from the White House and entering a public life. . Wolkoff retired as assistant to the first lady in 2018.
Sources at The Daily Beast who have reviewed the contents of the book said it is largely negative for the Trump family and will “greatly shake up the First Lady.” Wolkoff, the sources noted, writes about “the most chaotic White House in history.” Melania Trump ended her relationship with her friend after learning that Wolkoff's own firm received $26 million from the Trump inaugural committee to help plan the inauguration of the current head of the White House. Wolkoff herself did not confirm this fact, saying that she was “thrown under the bus.” After her dismissal, Melania wrote a letter to Stephanie Wolkoff, in which she assured her that she was “comforted by the fact that our friendship far outweighs politics.”
In the past few years, Wolkoff, who previously worked at Vogue magazine in charge of creative projects, has attracted the attention of some politicians and security officials opposed to Trump. Her deep knowledge of how the current head of the White House's campaign raised and spent money interested investigators from the Manhattan prosecutor's office and representatives of congressional committees, who began to study how the Trump campaign distributed funds.
The book about the first lady is being published by the same publishing house, Simon & Schuster, which previously published the scandalous memoirs of former Trump national security adviser John Bolton, “The Room Where It Happened,” and is planning to release a sensational book of revelations by the US President’s niece Mary Trump. In her book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, Mary Trump speaks harshly about her uncle in particular and the Trump family in general, which allegedly ruined her and her father's life, and gives “caustic” characterizations to almost all its members, including the president.
Mary Trump is the daughter of the president's late older brother Fred Trump Jr., a former pilot who died due to alcohol problems in 1981 at age 43. The Trump administration tried to block the release of the two books through lawsuits filed by the US Department of Justice. This succeeded only in the second case. On June 30, a New York State Supreme Court judge issued a temporary ban on the distribution of Trump's niece's book, which had already sold 75,000 copies, until July 14. The publishers said Monday that they intend to begin distributing the book by any means on July 14.
Who are you, Mrs. Trump? Interest in the new first lady of America is growing in proportion to her persecution in the media
The elections, which interested the whole world, are over. But still, you cannot miss Melania Trump, the wife of the new US president. Beautiful woman. Plus, they say she's smart
Sky blue, like Jackie's. 3/4 sleeves and long gloves, like Jackie. Even the hair pinned up at the back of her head was a bit reminiscent of the famous pillbox hat at the inauguration 56 years ago. The new first lady has become dear to millions of Americans. Jackie Kennedy, the wife of the youngest elected US president (Donald Trump, by the way, is the oldest), a legend and style icon, now seems to have squeezed her way onto the pedestal.
There are big celebrations in the small Slovenian town of Sevnica. The whole color gathered, even deputies from the capital came. The inauguration ceremony of the 45th president was watched from end to end. After all, this is the first lady’s small homeland. Here they know her by the name Knaus and remember how she ran barefoot and washed her father’s car on weekends.
“She was an obedient and well-mannered girl. Our houses are nearby, and I know her parents well. She got a good husband. It’s obvious that she’s happy,” says Anna Jelancic.
Neighbors say: Melania is the spitting image of her mother, and her son-in-law is very similar to his father. Visiting tourists are shown: here is her house (her parents now live with their daughter in New York), here is the school where she studied. Probably, one of the streets will be named after her soon. The cake has already been named: sponge cake with almond crumbs and custard. White chocolate curls like Donald Trump's extravagant forelock.
Before Melania, there was only one first lady who was not born in America - the Englishwoman Louise Adams, the wife of the sixth president, John Quincy Adams. But Melania is the first whose first language is not English, the first to be the president's third wife, and the first to pose nude. A revealing photo shoot for an advertising campaign, taken before meeting Trump and published 20 years later, almost derailed the presidential campaign.
“Many people told me then: why did you take her?! And this is not the case with her, and this is not the case. She was not a top model, and she had many competitors. But I liked her. On the set she turned out to be a very pleasant person and a great professional,” said photographer Ale de Bosseville.
There was no other “compromising evidence” against Melania. Even at the first meeting with Trump, she refused to give him her phone number, but demanded it so as not to be one of the girls on the call. Paolo Zampolli introduced them at a social party.
“I just said, ‘Donald, this is Melania. Melania, this is Donald." And then he went to his table, he had to take care of other guests, and already from the outside I saw that magic had happened. Two weeks later I had a party at my house to which I invited a famous Italian designer, and the two of them came. I must admit, I was very surprised. But since then they have been together for 19 years,” says Paolo Zampolli.
During the election campaign, Melania suffered more than her husband's opponents. Ineradicable Slavic accent, model past. Even colleagues on the shop floor were sarcastic, especially after the ill-fated speech at the party congress, in which an entire paragraph was taken from Michelle Obama’s speech. The presenter, a famous fashion model, later had to publicly apologize. As well as the blogger who called the Trumps’ son, 10-year-old Barron, autistic: they say he moves wrong, looks in the wrong direction and is generally strange. Trump's lawyers threatened the blogger with a lawsuit. Melania then said that as first lady she intends to focus on combating online bullying.
Melania came to Washington only for the celebrations, and then she will return to New York again, to a three-story penthouse in the famous “Trump Tower” on 5th Avenue. At least until the end of the school year. For my son's sake. She takes him to school herself, picks him up and prepares lunch for him. Apparently, Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka, will have to play the role of the first lady for now. Her husband, Jared Kushner, has been named advisor to the president. This has happened before in the history of the United States.
Residents of the Big Apple are outraged: they can’t walk or walk in the city center. 105 thousand people signed an online petition demanding that Melania move into the White House after all. It costs New York a million dollars to ensure the safety of the state's first family. The city is choking with traffic jams, because an entire block is blocked, and surrounding stores are suffering losses.
The blue box, which Michelle Obama didn't know where to put at first, contained a gift from just such a store. The famous jewelry brand, located in Trump Tower, announced that it was losing 30 percent of its profits every day. Melania's advertising gesture was appreciated. The contents of the box remained a mystery.
“She is very smart and sometimes thinks a couple of steps ahead when she gets down to business. I can tell you that you will be impressed not only by the way she looks, but also by what she says,” said Michael Wilds, Melania Trump’s lawyer.
Americans often see hidden meaning in the first lady's inaugural outfit. Jimmy Carter's wife wore an old dress from her husband's gubernatorial inauguration. At that time, America was experiencing a severe oil crisis. Rosalynn Carter wanted to say: outfits are vanity, you have to work. Hillary Clinton chose purple, which combines red and blue - the colors of the Republican and Democratic parties - as a call for unity. Michelle Obama appeared in dazzling white: a clean slate, a fresh start. This is how the country interpreted her choice.
Melania Trump hired little-known designer Hervé Pierre, and together they came up with a dress: delicate cream silk, open shoulders, an asymmetrical pleat and a thin belt. Refined European gloss, but in an American frame. The designer is French by birth, American by passport. Fashion critics were delighted. Political opponents bit their tongues. Melania exactly followed her husband’s call: “Buy American, hire an American.” And she showed everyone that she understands very well: they are greeted by their clothes, they are seen off by their intelligence.
What threatens the US President's discord with his wife?
The American media are discussing the Trump couple's spat. Since the beginning of the year, Melania has hardly appeared with her husband in public, and for the president’s speech in Congress, the first lady dressed like Hillary Clinton and did not applaud her husband when he spoke about family values. As journalists suggest, the reason for the offense was a story that happened 12 years ago. How can a family conflict hit the White House? Elena Ivanova and Liliya Ponomareva found out.
The tense relationship between Melania and Donald Trump has been talked about for a long time: at official receptions they do not hold hands, they arrive at one event in different cars, and for the first six months after the elections they generally lived separately. But it seems that now the family conflict has reached its climax. In early January, The Wall Street Journal wrote about Trump's affair with porn actress Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels. According to the publication, the romance began in 2006, when Melania gave birth to the current president’s first child. Donald Trump ended his relationship with the girl pragmatically, paying her $130 thousand for silence four years later.
The first lady's resentment is hard to ignore. At the end of January, on the anniversary of Trump's inauguration, she posted a photo on Twitter not with her husband, but with the military man who accompanied her that day.
This has been a year filled with many wonderful moments. I've enjoyed the people I've been lucky enough to meet throughout our great country & the world!
