![]() This was the wrong assessment, Wolkoff writes – emotionally, mentally, physically, financially, socially and professionally. By my heart said: 'Melania is not one of them. "My sixth sense warned me not to trust the Trumps. She first met Melania Trump through Vogue and liked her immediately.īut after the 2016 election, she was repeatedly told by her other New York friends not to work with the Trumps – any of them. Wolkoff, 50, was fixture in the New York fashion/arts/charity scenes and used to work for another enigmatic woman, Anna Wintour of Vogue, and helped organized nine annual Met Galas. It's built on three main themes: Who is Melania Trump? Who in Trumpland traduced Wolkoff and why? And what's the gossip about relations between Melania Trump and stepdaughter Ivanka Trump, her father's favorite, who was dismissed as "Princess" by her stepmother? Just who is Melania Trump?Īs Wolkoff tells it, the scales have finally dropped from her eyes: Melania Trump turns out to be as mysterious to her as she is to many Americans – someone she thought she knew. But note: Wolkoff still cares enough about Melania Trump to dedicate the book to her. At the time, she couldn't even defend herself fully because she had signed an NDA, yet another reason why signing nondisclosure agreements can be risky. Wolkoff feels her reputation and integrity were permanently damaged by the Trump White House, aided by "inaccurate" reporting by the media and by Melania Trump's failure to defend her. It’s unfortunate and concerning that she’s overstated their friendship and her very brief role in the White House to this degree.” ![]() “It is an exercise in bizarre twisting of the truth and misguided blame for the sake of self-pity. “This book is not only wildly self-aggrandizing, it’s just not truthful,” Grisham told USA TODAY in an email. USA TODAY reached out to Stephanie Grisham, the first lady's chief of staff and spokeswoman, for a response. She so wanted to show how "special" her friend was that she took on Herculean tasks (helping organize the inauguration and the first lady's office, staff, FLOTUS initiatives and White House residential quarters) for which she was not fully prepared and ended up in the hospital with an excruciating back malady exacerbated by the stress.Īnd then she was "fired," even though she was an unpaid FLOTUS adviser, and " thrown under the bus," in her famous words to The New York Times, by West Wing enemies who sought to make her the sole scapegoat for the incompetence and alleged corruption in planning and spending for the inauguration. Wolkoff adored Melania Trump (the book is littered with their texted emojis and "I love you" exchanges, plus many exclamation marks). Wolkoff's book is no psych workup of Melania Trump, 50, although the reader may come away with somewhat better insight into the character and personality of America's most elusive first lady since the 1940s. "Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady" (Gallery Books, out Tuesday) joins the recent crop of Trump family takedown books as the November election nears, including "Too Much and Never Enough," the best-selling psychological dissection of Mary Trump's uncle, President Donald Trump. ![]() If anyone is capable of plumbing the shallows of the enigma that is first lady Melania Trump, it should be Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, her lovey-dovey, emoji-wielding close friend of nearly two decades who has written an "I was betrayed!" book to beat all. Watch Video: RNC: Melania Trump on race 'we need to cherish one another' ![]()
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