In Wolkoff’s telling, Rick Gates, a campaign deputy and deputy inaugural director, was behind the scandal, as Ivanka’s plant: “If Ivanka controlled Rick, and Rick had allegedly written Melania’s convention speech, did that mean Ivanka was behind that major faux pas/sabotage?” Indeed, Wolkoff intimates that Ivanka helped sabotage Melania’s 2016 Republican convention speech, parts of which had been lifted from Michelle Obama. It also provides a glimpse of Melania’s world in the aftermath of the release of the infamous Access Hollywood tape, in which Donald Trump boasted of grabbing women “by the pussy”.īetween Melania and Ivanka, there is no love lost. Melania & Me amply conveys the tension between Ivanka Trump, Trump’s daughter with his first wife, and Melania, his third wife. Wolkoff and DC were not meant for each other. If you asked me the difference between Barack Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s stances on immigration or to explain their economic plans, I would not know where to begin.”Īpparently, glamour was an end in and of itself. She offers this explanation for such political passivity: “I knew nothing about policy. But until 2016, she writes, she had never voted in a presidential election. She grew up in upstate New York and, at 6ft 1in, played Division I college basketball. Wolkoff is gone but does not want to be forgotten. Going back to 2015, the couple was sued by their son’s tutor for allegedly stiffing her nearly $33,000. Wolkoff explains that stance by pointing to Donald Trump’s famous recalcitrance on the very same matter. When she went to work in the White House in 2017, he refused to disclose their personal finances. Her husband, David Wolkoff, comes from a real estate family. She is accustomed to heavy lifting, frenetic pace and people with very deep pockets. Wolkoff produced the Met Gala, was fashion director for Fashion Week, and worked for Anna Wintour at Vogue. Neither hero nor rogue, she is a seasoned event planner. Against this backdrop, her anger is understandable. She did not appear to have engaged in any illegality. But she wound up back with her own loving family, a happy ending of sorts. When controversy swirled around the finances of the Trump inauguration, Wolkoff was banished from the kingdom. Subtitled The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady, Wolkoff’s tale is one of friendship lost, as opposed to wholesale dysfunction or searing intra-familial enmity. Melania & Me should not be confused with Too Much and Never Enough, by Mary Trump, or Unhinged, by Omarosa. It informs, but it lacks the bombshell revelations that can make this genre compelling or darkly entertaining. Yet for all the hype around Wolkoff having secretly taped Melania, her book is sedate, not tempestuous.
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