Art of Her Deal : The Untold Story of Melania Trump (9781982113421) by Jordan Mary

Author:Jordan, Mary
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2020-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

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MELANIA KNEW from the start that Trump would be a hands-off father. He had often said that he was not the type of guy to push a stroller around Central Park, and his views hadn’t changed in 2016, when I interviewed him in Trump Tower. He said that he raised great kids in no small part thanks to their mothers. While we were talking, Jared Kushner, wearing shorts, entered Trump’s office, ready to review a campaign speech. Jared paused to praise Trump as a parent and said he wisely was not the type to give a kid a trophy for just showing up. If they did mediocre work, he told them.

Trump was not a big presence in the daily lives of his oldest three children from his first marriage until they started working at the Trump Organization, and he spent less time with his fourth child, Tiffany, as she was growing up. His fifth child, Barron, was born on March 20, 2006. As a toddler and young child, Barron was often formally dressed in suits, jackets, and elegant sweaters—just like his father. Melania made him her top priority and was a hands-on mother. Redbook quoted her as saying that she had let him write “Barron’s Bakery” on the wall in crayons in his playroom—knowing it could be painted over.

But having a child also changed how present Melania was in Trump’s public life. While they were dating, she had often sat on his lap at parties and was seen snuggling up against him, but after they married, spontaneous public affection became far more restrained. While Trump still calls her “baby,” Melania is more formal in many ways and calls him “Donald.” After Barron was born, some of Trump’s friends thought that he was less interested in Melania. “He wasn’t showing her off and they were not going out like before,” said a friend of the couple. Tellingly, Trump had said to ABC’s Nancy Collins in 1994, “I create stars. I love creating stars. And, to a certain extent, I’ve done that with Ivana. To a certain extent, I’ve done that with Marla… Unfortunately, after they’re a star, the fun is over for me.”

Two women have very publicly stated that they had affairs with Trump after Barron was born and while Trump was filming The Apprentice in Los Angeles. Another woman told me that around this time Trump was also trying to pursue her romantically, including offering rides in his jet to wherever she wanted and dinners with famous people. Until the 2016 campaign was underway, Melania did not realize the extent of his philandering, according to three people close to the couple. But she did attend parties where she watched her husband rekindle his modelizer ways, gravitating to and putting his arm around young models. At one party at the Playboy Mansion, the guests included a former Playmate of the Year, Karen McDougal. She would later go public with claims that she had a lengthy affair with Trump that started shortly after Barron was born.

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