If reports in British media are to be believed, US First Lady Melania Trump is “counting the minutes” until President Donald Trump “is out of office and she can divorce him”. These claims were published by The Daily Mail UK, quoting a former White House aide.
The newspaper said that according to Omarosa Manigault Newman, “Melania is counting every minute until he is out of office and she can divorce.” She added that “if Melania were to try to pull the ultimate humiliation and leave while he’s in office, he would find a way to punish her”, the tabloid said. It said that according to Newman, the first couple’s marriage is over.
Newman, a reality TV star, was a senior adviser to Trump and director for the office of public liaison before she was fired by Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly.
Former aide Stephanie Wolkoff, who was appointed as senior advisor to Melania Trump, claimed that the Trumps had separate bedrooms in the White House and that their marriage was :transactional”.
Wolkoff, who was either fired or resigned from the post of senior adviser to Melania Trump, published a book, Melania and Me, that she said was on secretly recorded conversations with her.
She had written that Melania refused to move to the White House from their New York apartment till Trump signed an agreement assuring a share of the family wealth to their son Barron, who unlike Trump’s children from earlier marriages is not involved in his businesses as he is a minor.
Melania moved to the White House five months after Trump became President and Wolkoff asserted that they had separate bedrooms. She also said that Melania had cried when Trump was elected President.
Melania, a Slovenian model, is Trump’s third wife; she married Trump in 2005 and they have one son, Barron, who is 14 years old.