Melania told Barron to be strong after Trump's 'grab 'em by the p***y' scandal, says book: 'She wasn't worried'
Recently, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff’s ‘Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady’ was released and the gossip around the astonishing details of the book have been around since. A new detail has come out of the tell-all book that provides an insight into how Melania Trump handled the situation and spoke to her then ten-year-old son Barron when her husband Donald Trump’s ‘Access Hollywood’ tape came out in October 2016. The tape was published by The Washington Post in which Trump and television host Billy Bush made derogatory comments about women in 2005.
“Very matter-of-factly, she had always stipulated, ‘Barron is my first priority and he is strong',” Wolkoff wrote about her former friend in the book. She noted that she met the first lady the same day when the infamous “grab ’em by the p***y. You can do anything” tape was released. However, to Wolkoff's surprise, Melania appeared to be calm. “She was smiling. It was as if nothing happened,” the former adviser said of the first lady to ‘Good Morning America’, just before the release of her book on September 1.
However, when Wolkoff asked Melania if she would be worried about her son Barron, and how the scandal would affect him, the former model reportedly said: “I talk with him and I teach him, with all the political chaos around him, to be strong.”
“She wasn’t worried that he couldn’t handle it. She told her ten-year-old, just as she’d told me many times, ‘What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger',” the writer mentioned in her book.
This comes after Wolkoff claimed in her book that Melania “perpetuated a myth” that she never took the help of a nanny while upbringing Barron. She added that the first lady actually had her household staff and her mother to help her raise her son. Besides, Wolkoff also criticized Melania’s unwillingness to socialize with other parents during playdates. “Melania’s playdates were his playdates. Melania didn’t sit around to watch the kids play. Nor did she entertain the mothers who arrived and wanted face time,” she said.
Earlier in 2015, in an interview with PEOPLE, Melania claimed that she likes "to be hands-on. I think it's very important." In the same interview, Trump added: “If you have too much help, you don't get to know your children.'' To which she explained, “My husband is traveling all the time. Barron needs somebody as a parent, so I am with him all the time.”
The same year she gave an interview to Parenting.com and proudly mentioned, “I am a full-time mom; that is my first job. The most important. I started my business when I started school.'' While speaking of Barron’s relationship with his father, Melania told PEOPLE that she gave space to “Daddy and Barron time”. “Barron loves to be one-on-one with dad because normally he’s almost always all the time with me. So I give them space when it’s Daddy and Barron time. They go alone for dinner, one-on-one. They play golf together. He looks forward to that,” she said.