After Melania Trump learned that her husband, Donald Trump, allegedly paid off Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged affair prior to the 2016 election, she responded in her own way.
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When the news went viral, Melania, 53, backed out of an overseas trip with her husband and returned to Mar-a-Lago without him, New York Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers wrote in her new book American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden, which was released on Tuesday, February 27.
Grisham, who traveled with her on that jaunt, said that the First Lady had wanted to communicate her anger to the president," Rogers wrote, referring to Stephanie Grisham, the former White House Press Secretary.
"I think she was pissed at Trump and wanted him to be a little humiliated that she took off," Grisham told the author.
Elsewhere in the tome, Melania "did not seem to mind standing apart from her husband" when it came to controversial issues, including when the White nationalist rally turned deadly in 2017 in Charlottesville, Va.
Donald, 77, brushed off the incident, but Melania "quickly discouraged violence," Rogers wrote.