“Perception is Everything”: Ex-Aide Reveals Tensions Between Donald and Melania Trump
(AP)
Former President Donald Trump is well-known for his unapologetic demeanor and the public’s fascination with his relationship with his wife, Melania Trump. However, a recent revelation by Melania’s ex-aide, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, has left readers and Trump followers stunned.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff recently shared some unsettling insights on X, formerly known as Twitter. She wrote, “Let me bottom line this for you. Perception is everything to the Trump Family so Donald’s lack of ‘chivalry’ towards Melania is quite a ‘tell.’ Chivalry for Donald was waiting for Melania to go first and ensuring she walked by his side. He’s been doing neither recently.”
Wolkoff, 53, posted a video contrasting old footage of Trump, 77, where he would gallantly guide Melania with a hand on her back, encouraging her to walk ahead, with more recent footage showing him walking ahead of her on multiple occasions, leaving her a few steps behind. Several individuals in the comment thread agreed with Wolkoff’s observations. According to Page Six, one wrote, “Melania and #Trump despise each other. She is physically revolted by him and he has zero interest in her.”
Another added, “he treats her like the help.” However, another user defended the Trumps, stating, “People read too much into things. This family has been put through hell by the media and the court system. She also just lost her mother. Her heart is not into this right now. She would rather be home but she is there for her husband.”
Melania, who is also 53, previously criticized Wolkoff as an “opportunist,” especially after Wolkoff published the memoir “Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady.” In a 2020 essay on the White House’s website, Melania referred to Wolkoff as “someone who clung to me after my husband won the Presidency,” adding, “This is a woman who secretly recorded our phone calls, releasing portions from me that were out of context, then wrote a book of idle gossip trying to distort my character.”
Adding to the speculation about the status of Donald and Melania’s relationship, writer Katie Rogers asserts in her recent book, “American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady,” that former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham conveyed Melania’s desire for Donald to be “humiliated” in the wake of his sex scandal involving Stormy Daniels. Furthermore, concerns about marital discord were reignited last week when the former first lady chose not to attend her husband’s Super Tuesday victory party at Mar-a-Lago, their residence.
