Melania Trump's former friend and aide has shared some personal texts from 2017 between her and the former First Lady—and they reveal a lot about Melania's relationship with her husband.
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00:00Melania Trump's former friend and aide has shared some personal texts from 2017 between
00:05her and the former first lady, and they reveal a lot about Melania's relationship with her husband.
00:10Stephanie Winston-Wolkoff, former senior advisor to Melania, recently posted a text thread on X,
00:15which came in the wake of Hurricane Maria's catastrophic damage in the Caribbean. Specifically,
00:19"...Puerto Rico."
00:21In the thread, Wolkoff asks,
00:22"...are you going to Puerto Rico on Tuesday?" Melania replies,
00:26Referring to her Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma response,
00:29Wolkoff responds,
00:30"...you are not concerned that you have gone to both others and not this one?"
00:34Melania replies once again,
00:35"...I am not."
00:36Adding a few hours later,
00:37"...what I expected. West Wing is begging me to go with POTUS."
00:40Wolkoff responds, finally,
00:42"...of course they are."
00:43Melania did end up going, but her reluctance to visit the U.S. territory is a bad look,
00:48especially considering the fallout the Trump campaign is currently dealing with
00:51after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's recent comments at a rally at Madison Square Garden.
00:55"...there's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now.
01:00Yeah. I think it's called Puerto Rico."
01:02But Melania referring to her husband as POTUS is also revealing,
01:06as it fuels speculation that the Trumps have long had a business-like relationship.
01:10"...Do you love your husband?"
01:11"...Yes, we are fine."
01:12"...I do believe it's a transactional marriage. I mean, Donald,
01:16you know, Donald got arm candy. The vote cover legitimized Melania."
01:20Wolkoff's Melania and Me, the Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady,
01:24has more juicy details from her time working in the White House,
01:27including how Melania allegedly wanted Ivanka Trump out of the spotlight
01:30during her father's inauguration. In a statement originally shared on the official White House
01:34website, Melania claimed she felt betrayed by Wolkoff, writing,
01:38"...this is a woman who secretly recorded our phone calls,
01:40releasing portions from me that were out of context,
01:42then wrote a book of idle gossip trying to distort my character."
01:45Meanwhile, Melania has written her own self-titled memoir,
01:48but reports indicate POTUS has yet to read it. As of the making of this video,
01:52go out and get a book. She just wrote a book.
01:54I hope she said good things about it. I don't know. I didn't. So busy.