Just a few hours before Donald and Melania Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, Melania’s former friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff appeared on Anderson Cooper’s CNN show. Wolkoff wrote Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady, a tell-all about their friendship and falling out. Wolkoff had given a portrait of Melania like no other: the real Melania is just as much of a small-minded, petty bigot as her husband. Melania is constantly beefing with Ivanka, and constantly trying to screw people over. Wolkoff always said that she could back up everything she wrote in the book with all of the emails and documents she saved, plus she always played coy about the existence of some secret tapes she made of Melania. Well… Wolkoff released the tapes!! WOW.
This taped conversation happened in July 2018, and basically Melania is just bitching and moaning about how hard she works:
“I’m working like a — my ass off at Christmas stuff… You know, who gives a f–k about Christmas stuff and decoration? I say that I’m working on Christmas planning for the Christmas, and they said, ‘Oh, what about the children?’ That they were separated.” She used another obscenity to express her exasperation, asking Ms. Winston Wolkoff, “Give me a f–king break… Where they were saying anything when Obama did that?”
“They say I’m complicit. I’m the same like him. I support him. I don’t say enough. I don’t do enough,” she tells Ms. Winston Wolkoff in a conversation that sounds as if she is confiding in a close friend.
The conversation took place only weeks after Mrs. Trump — who was born in Slovenia and became a United States citizen in 2006 — made headlines when she traveled to an immigrant shelter for children in Texas along the Mexican border and wore a jacket that read, in white capital letters, “I really don’t care. Do U?” At the time, the president and the first lady’s spokeswoman said that the message on the jacket was aimed at reporters, not at the children she was visiting. Asked by Ms. Winston Wolkoff why she wore the jacket, Mrs. Trump said she did it to annoy her husband’s critics.
“I’m driving liberals crazy, that’s for sure,” she said. “And that, you know, that’s — and they deserve it, you understand. And everybody’s like, ‘Oh, my God. This is the worst. This is the worst.’ After, I mean, come on. They are crazy, OK?”
I mean, I’m not shocked by anything she’s saying here, but it’s still sort of startling to hear Melania basically bitch and moan about how tough her life is and how everyone hates her because of her husband and how little she actually cares about *any* of it. The “You know, who gives a f–k about Christmas stuff and decoration?” part is particularly damning for a Republican wife considering the Republicans’ obsession with making “the War on Christmas” happen.
Melania in 2019
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red and Backgrid.
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