President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have been serving as major couple goals ever since their return to the White House to serve another time. The couple shares a 24-year age gap in their partnership and has been together for nearly two decades. Despite ups and downs in their relationship, the couple got engaged in 2004 and married at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2005. The pair welcomed their son, Barron Trump, in 2006.
However, is everything as rosy as the show? Probably not; in recent news, every book makes some startling new revelations about Donald Trump’s odd marriage to Melania. Penned by Michael Wolff in the book titled ‘All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America’, Wolff chronicles the legal tribulations and campaign challenges Trump faced on the 2024 election trail and how Melania chose to be absent from it.
As per The Daily Beast, the book claims that Melania remained distant throughout Donald Trump’s campaign, rarely making public appearances and zero participation in speeches. Reportedly, Trump wasn’t sure about her whereabouts. She reportedly lived in Manhattan to be close to their son, Barron, who was studying at New York University. Therefore, it was clear that her priority would be her family, and she wouldn’t be a traditional first lady in President Trump’s second term, accompanying him to every event.
Meanwhile, people were upset when Melania Trump did not show up beside her husband when he was convicted on 34 felony counts related to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. Her absence during such a crucial time sparked questions about the status of their marriage. Despite her distance, Melania did make a notable appearance at the Republican National Convention in July 2024. Wearing a red dress, she joined Trump on stage after his acceptance speech but refused to give a planned showstopper address.
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Michael Wolff further wrote that Melania’s nature was unusual, and people were shocked that she did not show up at key campaign events, including a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where an assassination attempt on Trump later took place. Furthermore, Wolff also mentioned the September 2023 interview with Megyn Kelly, where Donald Trump was uncomfortable and unprepared to answer questions related to his wife.
As per the Daily Beast, Wolff said, “In some sense, this is the darkest Trump hole,” he writes. “Nobody knows the answer to the what-about-Melania question. Not even the people closest to him. What is the nature of the marriage? Nobody can tell you.”. Melania’s book ‘Melania,’ released in October 2024, reportedly caught Trump’s campaign by surprise. Though it was largely positive about Trump, its release led to speculation about whether the book was for or against Trump.
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Reportedly, in the book, Melania offered to introduce Trump at a rally in Madison Square Garden in October 2024, which Wolff suggests was either a pity move or a gesture of reconciliation. However, on election night, she reportedly refused to appear with Trump unless he secured an outright victory. When he won, she joined him on stage to celebrate. While the White House has not commented about it, Wolff claimed that Melania’s presence in Trump’s career has been quite sparse. Even during his first term, she was not seen around him much.
Michael Wolff writes, “That arrangement, an American marriage on a coolly transactional basis, might be difficult to explain in open court and to ‘family values.’ People feel that the couple’s marriage appears both enigmatic and successful while simultaneously seeming pretentious and stale. Meanwhile, the world at large has yet to acknowledge the apparent breakdown of their relationship.
