Melania Trump 'laughed' at Trump camp's efforts to get her to join POTUS on campaign trail, claims book
WASHINGTON, DC: Melania Trump has never really been one for the campaign trail. According to Michael Wolff’s latest book, she shut down efforts to get her involved in the 2024 election train with a laugh and a "Nice try."
Wolff— known for his tell-all books about President Donald Trump— is back with another explosive take on Trumpworld in 'All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America', a book about the MAGA spearhead's 2024 White House bid. In excerpts published by Newsweek, he paints a picture of a wife who was practically MIA from her husband's campaign.
Melania Trump was nowhere to be seen when Donald Trump began campaigning for his 2024 White House bid
According to Michael Wolff, Melania Trump had made it abundantly clear she had no plans to hit the campaign trail ever since Donald Trump’s first indictment in New York. In fact, he claims she quite literally laughed off the idea.
"Since the first indictment in New York, when Melania had simply laughed at the campaign's effort to get her to accompany her husband ('Nice try'), it had been clear that she wasn't going to show up. During the past year, she had yet to make a single campaign appearance. In only one instance in 2023 did she even appear on the plane—and then only hitching a ride," the journalist wrote.
"Magically, the Melania issue had not, in the White House years nor the Mar-a-Lago years—with both staffers and press quite aware of the Trumps' nontraditional living arrangements and their careful distance from each other—become an issue," he added.
According to Wolff, Melania wasn’t just avoiding speeches and rallies, she wasn’t even traveling with her husband unless she absolutely had to.
"Melania continued to be an additional freak-out, absolutely refusing every entreaty to speak or even to appear side by side with her husband. He had never faced point-blank questions from the media about their relationship. But what if 'Where's Melania?' started now in earnest?" he claimed.
But then everything changed.
The moment that brought Melania Trump back
Just when people were beginning to seriously question her absence, the shocking attempt on Donald Trump's life took place. According to Michael Wolff, that changed everything.
"...that was all before the shooting... now the attempt on Trump's life not only made him again incontrovertibly the central figure of the moment, if not the age, giving him a maximum hero's electoral mantle, but it also repositioned his convention as the joyous and abject coronation of which he dreamed," he wrote.
Trump’s near-death experience turned him into a full-blown martyr, and suddenly Melania was right back in the picture. She made her grand return at the Republican National Convention, stood beside him on election night as he declared victory, and was by his side throughout the inaugural events.
In the days that followed, she stepped into her first lady duties like attending church, posing for her official portrait, and even touring disaster recovery sites in North Carolina and wildfire-stricken Los Angeles with Trump.
But just as quickly as she reappeared, she vanished again. After January 24, Melania was nowhere to be seen—until a surprise sighting on February 22. Nearly a month after the inauguration, she resurfaced at a White House reception and dinner for the National Governors Association.
Is Michael Wolff telling the truth?
Of course, not everyone is buying what Michael Wolff is selling. The journalist has a long history of writing bombshell books about Donald Trump and he’s been called out more than once for playing fast and loose with the facts.
Arkansas Governor and former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders dismissed one of his previous books as full of "mistake after mistake after mistake."
In a statement to Newsweek about the new book, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung went all in on the insults.
He told the outlet that "(Wolff is) a lying sack of s*** who has been proven to be a fraud" and who "fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination" due to his "severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain."
Wolff’s credibility has been questioned by some big names over the years, including Tony Blair, Sean Hannity, Anna Wintour, Tom Barrack, and Alan Dershowitz. Naturally, skepticism about his latest book is understandable.
'All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America' hits shelves on February 25.
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