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Melania and Me

The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady

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Melania and Me

By: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
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 What Melania wants, Melania gets.

The former director of special events at Vogue and producer of nine legendary Met Galas, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff met Melania Knauss in 2003 and had a front row seat to the transformation of Donald Trump’s then girlfriend from a rough-cut gem to a precious diamond. As their friendship deepened over lunches at Manhattan hot spots, black-tie parties and giggle sessions in the penthouse at Trump Tower, Wolkoff watched the newest Mrs Trump raise her son, Barron, and manage her highly scrutinised marriage.

After Trump won the 2016 election, Wolkoff was recruited to help produce the 58th Presidential Inaugu­ration and to become the First Lady’s trusted advisor. Melania put Wolkoff in charge of hiring her staff, organising her events, helping her write speeches and creating her debut initiatives. Then it all fell apart when she was made the scapegoat for inauguration finance irregularities. Melania could have defended her innocent friend and confidant, but she stood by her man. The betrayal nearly destroyed Wolkoff.

In this candid and emotional memoir, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff takes you into Trump Tower and the White House to tell the funny, thrilling and heartbreaking story of her intimate friendship with one of the most famous women in the world, a woman few people truly understand. How did Melania react to the Access Hollywood tape and her husband’s affair with Stormy Daniels? Does she get along well with Ivanka? Why did she wear that jacket with 'I really don’t care, do u?' printed on the back? Is Melania happy being First Lady? And what really happened with the inauguration’s funding of $107 million? Wolkoff has some ideas... Politicians Politics & Activism Presidents & Heads of State Marriage Funny First Lady Friendship
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how can a brilliant and experienced person worked for free, in the white house, their was chaos from the beginning, and she should get out and run from the Trump nuclear family. she has herself to blame. But it was a good right, Now the world why she is not in the white house the 2nd time around. Her family didn't respect her, how would she expect the world to respect her..

what a fool she was,

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Interesting but not that revealing because you can tell Malania does not give herself away or get in too deep with her relationships hence why this book hasn't really given us much insight into Malania's inner thoughts, she probably keeps her gaurd up and only has on the surface relationships. I don't think Malania truly valued Stephanie's friendship or was even that close to her because she didn't share her true thoughts and feelings with her about the things that mattered, she was never vulnerable with Stephanie... Nevertheless, I enjoyed listening to this book.

Interesting...

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over all i liked it, felt like i knew some one on the inside who was teling scoops you dont hear in the news.. also loved the nodge to Andre Lion tally sindce im a fan and just read his.book... it might be cool is commes with a book about. what gos in to creating the met Gala.. any way over all verry believable ... some times the transitions where a bit not as smooth..over all co

Intresting insights

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A very interesting insight to the trump inner circle! Stephanie has a lovely soft voice that I could listen to all day! Great book would read again!

Great book

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I don’t know who disliked more, the sociopathic Trump 3 rd wife or the author and her love affair with herself.
A must listen for anyone doubting the the evil that people supporting Trump allowed as long as they could bask in their stolen wealth Amdahl self delusion.

What happens to you when you ignore reality

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