Former first lady Melania Trump of the infamous “I don’t really care do u?” jacket has been dogged with rumors that she never enjoyed the White House life since before she even moved her bags to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave — in fact, her failure to pack up and move herself and son Barron Trump to Washington, D.C. until June of 2017 was read as the first steadfast sign that she wanted nothing to do with Donald Trump’s new political life.
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And yet, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s new Trump tell-all book Peril includes a peek at Melania that’s very different from the steely persona she adopts for public speaking purposes, and certainly different from her rumored feelings on the D.C. gig throughout.
Per Woodward and Costa, Melania was seen holding back tears as she and former president Trump made their White House goodbyes — and since for years, we’ve been hearing that Melania really hated D.C. and wanted out and didn’t sign up for this, it was fairly surprising to see how different her experience might have been after all.
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Washington Post journalists Woodward and Costa conducted hundreds of hours of interviews with sources for this book, granting them an inside look at how exactly things went down in some of the tensest moments of Trump’s presidency. In describing the Trump family’s final day in the White House, here’s how they set the scene.
“Melania wore sunglasses,” the book continues. “Those who spoke with her and leaned in to bid farewell could see a hint of tears. ‘Give my love to Lo-Mari and the two girls,’ Melania told [Robert] O’Brien.”