Melania often shares 'seductive gazes' with Donald Trump, says ex-BFF: 'They have a very close relationship'
The public image that former first lady Melania Trump and ex-President Donald Trump maintained during their four years in the White House was mostly of an emotionally distant couple even unwilling to hold each other's hands at times which sparked rumors of an impending divorce. However, the reality behind the scenes was quite different, as alleged by the former FLOTUS' ex-aide and friend, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.
Wolkoff, who is the author of the scathing tell-all, 'Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady,' said on the HollywoodLife Podcast that none of the members of the Trump clan were above chasing their own selfish agendas much like the patriarch of the family.
“A Trump is a Trump is a Trump is a Trump,” she said. “I thought Melania [Trump] was different than the rest. She’s not, but I believed, just as these people believe Donald when he tells them something over and over… I had to learn the hard way that she is a Trump."
The author also opened up about what Trump and Melania's relationship was in reality, which was a far-removed picture than the cold and withdrawn equation between the two that the world got to witness over the recent years when the former was president. Wolkoff said that the couple did not exchange many words and were more about exchanging looks.
“There’s this understanding I guess, but it’s more of a look [between them]… I believe their way of showing affection towards one another is her telling him how wonderful and great he is,” she explained on the podcast. “I was in the car with her and we were coming back to New York from DC and Donald was at a rally. She was always his first phone call, always, no matter where she was. And the first thing he’d say was ‘Hey Baby, how’d I do?’ Like he wants her approval.”
She continued, “So that to him, and to her, is what I think their relationship is more about that she tells him how it is, but she also makes sure to elevate him and embrace what he’s doing, because that is who she is. And I didn’t realize that, but when you see their eye contact and the seduction through that gaze, it’s more about that than I think anything else.”
Wolkoff also said that rumors of Melania being “trapped in an unhappy marriage” or even that she planned to divorce her husband was simply not true because they “actually have a very close relationship.” “They discuss things very openly, but strategically. There is no screaming, yelling, fighting, at least I never witnessed it. There is a strategy in this relationship. It’s not just a transactional marriage, it’s a marriage that is done where everything is planned out,” she said.
As for the “distractions” like “swatting his hand away” during public outings was the former first couple's attempt to “shine the light over here so you don’t see what’s going on over there.”
“They have a purpose for everything that they’re doing, and it’s very hard to believe, but it’s true,” Wolkoff said. “The reality is, is that she knows exactly what’s happening around her. It’s really important to also understand that she is his biggest supporter, and she is the only person in the White House that will never shake in her boots with Donald, and she knew who she was marrying when she married him.”