Vanity Fair’s new profile on First Lady Melania Trump paints a portrait of a woman who never wanted to be in the position she is in now — even though it was she who pushed Donald toward the presidency.
“She was very clearly the one who said, ‘Either run or don’t run,’” Roger Stone, one of President Trump’s early campaign advisers, told Vanity Fair. He then paraphrased Melania talking to Donald about his frequent mentions of dipping a toe in politics, whether it was at a state or national level.
“‘Your friends are tired of this striptease. Every four years you talk about it.’”
But Melania, born Melanija Knavs in 1970 Slovenia, never actually thought he’d win, a longtime friend of the Trumps’ told Vanity Fair— and the magazine reports that even before his presidency, she and Donald lived essentially separate lives.
“This isn’t something she wanted and it isn’t something he ever thought he’d win,” the longtime friend reportedly said. “She didn’t want this come hell or high water. I don’t think she thought it was going to happen.”
This isn’t a new speculation; Melania has frequently been seen in public frowning, with a rigid posture, even swatting away her husband’s hand on multiple occasions as he reached out to hold hers. Even her cause as first lady — cyberbullying — is so ironic that some speculate it may be pointed.
“It’s unlikely but possible that she chose the cause by way of trolling her own husband.”
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