Rumors that outgoing First Lady Melania Trump and her stepdaughter Ivanka don’t get along have been festering for years.
The two women are rarely seen together and, any time they are, the tension between them is almost palpable. Like that icy exchange they had at the RNC back in August. Who can ever forget that?
Melania doesn’t seem to like Ivanka pic.twitter.com/PyiJ3OPjTZ
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) August 28, 2020
Now, Melania’s former aide and ex-BFF, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, is weighing in on the matter. She says the rumors are 100% true and that Melania and Ivanka can’t stand each other. Although she claims the issue mostly started with Ivanka.
During a recent interview with podcast The New Abnormal, Wolkoff was asked point blank whether Ivanka is “dumb” or “evil”. Her response? A little bit of both.
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
“Listen, I say it as it is,” Wolkoff answered. “I think it’s a mixture. I really do. I think that Ivanka is Donald in a suit, right?”
She continued, “All of the Trumps are taught to be Trumps. They don’t show emotion. A Trump is a Trump because they are authentically and unapologetically skin deep, and also self-serving. And their attitudes and disrespect for each other is again, you have to get any inside to see it.”
We’d say that sounds about right!
Wolkoff went on to say that there have been many times throughout Trump’s one term presidency where Melania felt Ivanka overstepped her boundaries.
“And I mean that, in a sense like she poached individuals that we were for the East Wing, that we were vetting to have—Kayleigh McEnany, Mercedes Schlapp. I mean, these were people Melania was looking to bring in.”
It was because of this that Ivanka came to be known within Melania’s inner circle as the “serial poacher” and a “snake” who they believed was hellbent on making her stepmother “irrelevant.”
“We called her the serial poacher. It was deceptive. But you don’t go and hire people that the First Lady’s looking to bring in.”
Wolkoff continued, “The princess wanted to render Melania irrelevant. And, you know, Melania refers to them as ‘snakes,’ Jared and Ivanka, and they’ll do anything to get what they want. And they do.”
Yeah, we’d say that sounds about right, too!
But the thing that pissed off Melania the most, Wolkoff alleged, was how much responsibility Jared and Ivanka were given when she was just as qualified to do many of the things they’ve been doing, which is to say not qualified at all.
“What was particularly galling, not only to us, but also to Melania, was that Ivanka and Jared were no more qualified to be engaged in any governing of the country than she was.”
Wolkoff added, “So to hear Ivanka put her name in the same sentence, as working with [former White House Chief of Staff] General [John] Kelly, it’s like, ‘Oh my God, how could you even?’ Who would do that? Who would just be so disrespectful to say something like that? And think I she genuinely thinks it and believes it.”
No comment from the White House on Wolkoff’s latest interview.
Related: Body language expert analyzes the visual hated festering between Melania and Ivanka
Cam
Ivanka was running Donald’s businesses and those businesses failed. Ivanka’s own business failed, and she’s supposedly the star of the family.
I saw an interview with Don Jr. years ago where he said that as kids, Ivanka broke something expensive, ran and told the parents that Don Jr had done it and he got beaten for it. Media keeps desperately trying to paint her as sympathetic because they are sexist enough to assume having a vagina automatically means she has a conscience. She is obviously her father’s daughter.
WashDrySpin
if they have not done a murder suicide these two should not be reported on
Onecaddy13
There’s always hate when a new mom steps in. Happens in most American families… Trumps are no different. And I’m pretty sure the Biden’s had some issues. Who knows what to believe and not to believe. Is the former BFF/Aide trying to make more money?? Don’t know what all these hacks will do for employment once he leave’s office Once you do a tell all or give the news rags inside info, no matter what side of the isle you sit on. You’re done. Washington is too powerful.
Cam
LOL!!!
Oh please! You have to love how the troll accounts always try to stick something phony in about Biden.
Melania lied about graduating and plagiarized Michelle Obama, Ivanka has failed at every business she’s ever run and supported putting kids in cages, but yes, by all means, invent stuff about the Bidens to deflect from the Monster Trump family.
ScottOnEarth
You’re pretty sure the Biden’s had some issues? Well, aren’t you just psychic and all-knowing. All families have issues.
Fname Optional Lname
oh right, Biden’s had “some issues” ???
What, did he have the nerve to wear a brown suit like Obama did? SCANDAL GURL!
Phillip
Perhaps, if you haven’t read Dr. Trump’s book about Donald Trump and the toxic Trump family, you should. She’s a clinical psychologist who happens to be Donald’s niece and daughter of Donald’s older brother. She tells quite a story about this family, but from under a psychologist’s microscope which gives great analysis not only of Donald’s neurosis but of his father and mother’s as well. They were NOT “like most American families” by a long shot.
Mack
I think if Melania really wanted to she could have put her stamp on many things. She is/was the most worthless First Lady we’ve ever had. Her “Be Best” program was a joke mainly because of Donald being the world’s biggest bully. I’m sure there were friction between Ivanka and Melania, but they chose for the friction to happen.
nathan
She is not capable of ‘putting her stamp’ on anything – she is surely the dumbest of all recent First Ladies. If those two hate each other that is good – division in that family hurts only them. Ivanka is only slightly less dumb than her stepmother – but she has the backing of her all-powerful daddy – until January at least. After that date, I am hoping Ivanka, her brothers, husband and father will all be hauled before the courts to answer for their various crimes committed before during and after this disastrous ‘presidency’ – a presidency that the people did not vote for.
michael_totzke
More than anything else, I long to have front-row seats for Stanki Vacant Vanki’s PERP WALK …
phx3rings
I look forward to a day when the media and social media will realize these individuals are all irrelevant and stop reporting on their activities. Yes, I believe they are still a toxic danger to us all, but to give them a forum feels like aiding and abetting. Sigh.
amanwithanedge
They are both swine.
tjack47
Who are Melania and Ivanka? High wire act?
Joseph1971
I think they are lesbian lovers. I mean, who wants to sleep with Donald, or worse, Jared? Yuck…
topshelf
If your husband was sexually fixated on your daughter in law, you’d be pretty peeved also.
KenDC
Precisely!
Bob
Daughter-in-law??? He’s sexually fixated on HIS OWN DAUGHTER!!! He only bought those beauty pageants as a cheap substitute for seeing his own daughter naked and posing.
blackhook
I was tempted to say they are both despicable sub-humans, but… we must show respect for our lovely First Lady! In Melanie’s own words…
“I come to America with genius Visa, to help America better. First I do the Racist Birther. Then I make the BeBest! So…BeBest every America! Then I get the fake virus, but it do not matter I am very rich. The peoples ask me, who did I vote? Maybe I vote the Trump, that’s who! Now the Trump lose so I go shopping!”
thNOLA59
OMG, that is too damn funny!
Guy12345678
Ok, but Donald is no more qualified than Ivanka. Frankly, I’d rather her be in charge instead of her unhinged father
Cam
I wouldn’t, media is already trying to normalize Trump’s insane behavior. Imagine how they would act if Ivanka was doing the same thing but hiding her crazy only slightly better. They would be tripping over themselves to cover for her.
jsmu
RapeubliC*NT infighting is fun!
The photo is hilarious–it’s difficult to say whether Melanoma or ISKANKA is more hideous.
If anyone follows Noel Casler, who seems to have all the sh*t (pun intended) on Diaperdonnie and crime family, iSKANKA is Ilse Koch sans lampshades as yet. Not at all hard to believe. First HOBITCH probably would be as bad if BunkerB*tch still f*cked her, but only iSKANKA can get his micropeen to respond…
Philigree
Can we, like, stop talking about these fools? Seriously. I cannot wait until these mediocre attention seekers slip back into irrelevance or get locked up for all their shenanigans.