They were Ethel and Lucy, Wolkoff says, Snookie and JWoww. The friendship took off like gangbusters. The two women-both 32-were there because Melania Knauss had a meeting about a modeling job and Stephanie Winston worked in the events department. “I was there at the beginning,” Wolkoff tells us, as though she had witnessed the separation of the Earth from the firmament, not bumped into a model in the Vogue offices. But here we are, possibly at the end of this administration, and Melania is as mysterious now as she was the day her husband bounded up the White House stairs to shake hands with the Obamas, leaving her to get out of the limo and trail behind him with her unwanted gift, the Tiffany-blue box matching the color of her outfit and nobody very glad to see her. You get to know the first lady in a hundred ways: wearing couture in Vogue and blue jeans in People sitting on the couch of a morning show or next to the host of a late-night talk show, who treats her gently and laughs as she gamely makes a few scripted jokes. Bush bombed Iraq, but Laura Bush was a reader, and she seemed nice. Sonja Drimmer: Melania Trump plays the role of medieval queenĮver since the dawn of the television age, the woman in the role of first lady has softened our understanding of the president, presenting him as a family man as well as a politician, and creating her own unassailably good and noncontroversial initiatives, things that call her to travel around the country, spreading goodwill and serving as kind of PR woman for the administration. Still, at last we have a glimpse into the feelings and nature of our first lady, who has stalked through these past four years in high heels and a perfect blowout, her gaze pitiless as the sun. It’s sordid in part because Melania doesn’t seem to have done anything cruel to Wolkoff her problems were entirely of her own making. Wolkoff managed to upsell her 15-year friendship with the first lady into a job helping produce the inauguration and then into a briefly held and unpaid position as her special adviser, and now into a book, which is as sordid as it is fascinating. Who’s to say that Omarosa is so much worse than Henry Kissinger? She certainly has a better record on human rights.Ĭollectively, Plastic Camelot represents a pillar of the Trump family’s success: their awareness that a substantial percentage of Americans who can’t handle anything more challenging than Supermarket Sweep can be manipulated into holding the fate of the world in their hands. Maybe they’re no more disturbing a collection of advisers and jesters than the men and women on whom other presidents have depended. ![]() She is another member of Plastic Camelot, the ever-changing group of personal friends, celebrities, and weirdos whom the Trumps bring close to them and then, in the manner of bored kings, dispatch to the tombs. Like many before her, she decided to write a book about her experiences, Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady, and she proffers it to us as an act of public service, although possibly also as a comprehensive case for the defense if this whole acid trip ends up at The Hague. ![]() ![]() S tephanie Winston Wolkoff is one of those patriotic Americans who went to work in the Trump White House, only to come soaring back over the gates, rejected by the host organism.
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