Melania Exposed: 13 Sensational Revelations In Ex-Pal’s Tell-All Memoir Savaging The First Lady

Scroll through some of the most shocking revelations from Wolkoff’s book.

There is a deep mistrust between Melania and her stepdaughter Ivanka. In several text messages, Melania used the snake emoji to refer to Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner. In one text message Melania replied with “You know how they are snakes.”

In the book, Wolkoff describes how Melania would refer to Ivanka as ‘princess’ in a snarky and derogatory manner. During a conversation with Melania, Wolkoff asked how many people Ivanka has in helping her. Melania reportedly replied with: “Who? You mean Princess?!”

The book describes how Melania simply smiled when she heard about President Trump’s now infamous “Grab them by the p***y” quote. Wolkoff wrote: “She was radiant, she was smiling. It was as if nothing happened.” It didn’t seem to bother Melania, as “she knows who she married... She knew what she was getting into.”

It has been long speculated that the relationship between President Trump and his wife has been a bit rocky, but when Wolkoff suggested they correct the narrative after the #FreeMelania campaign popped up online, Melania wasn’t interested. During the inauguration, Wolkoff writes, Barron accidently kicked Melania on the ankle, which caused her to frown. Many thought that she was frowning at the President’s speech, and when Wolkoff suggested damage control, Melania tersely said “I don't owe them an explanation. Pleasing anyone else is not my priority.”

The First Lady’s disdain for her stepdaughter is so deep that she refuses to co-host any event with Ivanka. When the Trump family moved into the White House, Ivanka expressed an interest in getting more involved with events – especially the International Women's Day event. This did not sit well with Melania. “Are you kidding me? Seriously? I’m not co-hosting,” Melania reportedly told Wolkoff.

In 2018 the US saw a surge of migrants making their way into the country. This led to large numbers of children being separated from their parents and placed in detention facilities. While Melania thought it was sad that they were separated, she expressed that some had more than they did at home. In the book, Melania is quoted as saying: “They’re not with their parents, and it’s sad. But the patrols told me the kids say, ‘Wow, I get a bed? I will have a cabinet for my clothes?’ It’s more than they have in their own country, where they sleep on the floor.”

Melania and Me details how the First Lady on several occasions managed to influence President Trump to the point where he overturned orders he previously made. One was the issue of big game hunting and the importation of trophies from Africa. After lobbying from “the boys” Trump lifted the ban, but Melania was having none of it. “Melania was not sympathetic to ‘the boys’' lobbying efforts for guns and hunting or the bizarre need to hang a dead animal head on the wall. That night, she did some lobbying of her own, and her plea to Donald actually worked.” The following day Trump reportedly tweeted that the lifting of the ban was being put “on hold until such time as I review all conservation facts.”

For several weeks in 2018, Melania stepped away from the pubic eye after having surgery for a benign kidney condition. In a telephone conversation between Melania and Wolkoff, the First Lady found glee in the media’s speculation as to her whereabouts. “Face lift? I’m too scared! Nervous breakdown? I’m like, seriously? They don’t even know me,” Melania said. She then quoted a friend who said, “You give people a nervous breakdown, you don’t have it your own!”

Soon after President Trump inauguration, the family members were making moves into the White House. Media reports started to surface that the East Wing was “a dark, lonely, sad place”, and Melania suspected Ivanka leaked the details. Then one afternoon Melania’s team got wind that Kushner’s people were on their way to inspect their offices. Kushner already had office space in the West Wing, so their visit was suspicious to Melania. “This is ridiculous! You have to do something!” Melania told her team. Wollkoff wrote in her book that “it felt like they wanted to keep the East Wing offices empty, as if the budget and vetting process was being used like a weapon to prevent Melania from filling them. They seemed to enjoy disenfranchising the East Wing so they could totally control Melania.”

After the incident of Ivanka and Jared’s team wrestling Melania for the East Wing, Ivanka tried her best to remove her stepmother from any decisions and from being a ‘visible Trump female’. Wolkoff details the steps that Ivanka would take to erase Melania from the situation. “Ivanka was relentless and was determined to be the First Daughter Lady and to usurp office space out from under Melania; she wanted to be the only visible female Trump on the premises, and she was actively using her influence with Katie Walsh, Reince Priebus, and Hope Hicks to thwart our efforts.”