Politics'They Don't Spend Any Time Together': President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Are 'Separated,' Source Claims
Are the president and first lady headed toward a divorce?
May 14 2025, Published 4:22 p.m. ET
Best-selling author Michael Wolff, who has published several works about President Donald Trump, declared on the “Daily Beast Podcast” that the political leader and First Lady Melania Trump aren’t in a committed relationship with each other.
On the Tuesday, May 13, episode, Wolff discussed the president’s marriage with podcast host Joanna Coles, who tore into Melania’s lack of support during her husband’s first 100 days in office.
Donald and Melania Trump 'Live Separate Lives'
The author said the president and first lady are living 'separate lives.'
“They clearly do not in any way inhabit a marriage as we define marriage,” Wolff suggested. “And I think maybe we can more specifically say they live separate lives. They are separated. The president of the United States and the first lady are separated.”
The author and Coles spoke about Melania’s rare public appearances since Donald’s January inauguration, suggesting it was speculative of a future divorce.
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“I think the message was about how many times she’d been to the White House or how many days she’d been there in the first 100 days, right?” Coles recalled. “And it turned out to be 14.”
Despite their claims, White House officials revealed to a recent publication that Melania is more present than it appears to the public, which Wolff quite simply didn't believe.
“The American public has been sold a bill of goods here that, you know, Donald Trump and his glamorous wife, that runs entirely counter to all of the facts here, including the fact that they don’t spend any time together,” the author said.
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