Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former aide to Melania Trump and author of the tell-all book “Melania and Me,” discussed the nature of Melania’s marriage to Donald Trump in a recent CNN interview with Jake Tapper. Winston Wolkoff shed light on what she perceives as the transactional aspects of their relationship amid Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York.
“I think people have to remember who Melania really is,” said Winston Wolkoff. “There is no enigma, there is no mysteriousness. Melania really is who she has portrayed herself to be. There is a strength within her that is unlike any other individual I have ever met. She does not care what others feel about here nor does she feel she had to ever explain anything to the American people.”
Winston Wolkoff elaborated on the mutual benefits of their marriage, suggesting it was strategic for both parties. “It’s a transactional marriage in so many ways that they both garnered so much out of their relationship,” she explained. “By marrying Donald, Melania really did finally get to be the Vogue cover model that she’s always wanted to be, that supermodel, and by marrying Melania, Donald was legitimized as trying to get away from that whole playboy mentality that everyone wanted to characterize him as,” she added, via The Hill.
When asked about Melania Trump’s potential presence at her husband’s trial, Winston Wolkoff expressed doubts. “I don’t think we’re going to see Melania Trump accompanying Donald to court,” she told Tapper. “Melania is Melania’s own person, in regards, again, to a marriage that you want to consider to be something that most people are trying to still understand, don’t.”
“I do not see her supporting him this way because she is not someone who, I think, that you can feel that humiliation without having to put yourself in front of the cameras,” Winston Wolkoff concluded. “Everything Melania does is staged, so everything is articulated in a way for her before she does her interviews. So everything, like I said, is very strategically planned. She is not going to put herself in a position where she’s giving anyone the opportunity to say anything negative about her.”