Melania Trump ‘LAUGHED when she heard Donald on infamous Access Hollywood tape talk about “grabbing women by the p***y”‘
FIRST Lady Melania Trump allegedly laughed when she heard President Donald Trump talk about “grabbing women by the p***y.”
According to Melania’s former BFF, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the first lady was unfazed when the Access Hollywood tape of her husband became public in 2016.
Wolkoff told ABC News’ Good Morning America in an interview that aired on Monday that after the tape was released, she met Melania for lunch at the first lady’s request.
She said she expected to find Melania “in tears.”
But instead, she said, Melania “was radiant, she was smiling,” and added: “It was as if nothing happened.”
“I said to her, ‘How many times have you heard the words ‘p***y’ and ‘president’ in the same sentence?’ And we burst out laughing,” she said.
“Then I said, ‘Are you upset and doesn’t it get you angry?’ and Melania is a pragmatist. ‘Melania, if you can’t control people’s emotions, then why even worry about it,’” she said.
“And that’s how she lived her life and that is what she stood by every day,” adding Melania “exudes” so much confidence each day and she “gives you that confidence.”
“She knows who she married,” Wolkoff said of Melania. She knew what she was getting into, and so did he.”
Wolkoff did note to ABC News, however, that at the time of her lunch with Melania in 2016, she didn’t know that other women would be accusing the now-president of sexual assault.
The Access Hollywood tape from 2005, released in 2016, was expected by many to destroy Trump’s chances at the presidency.
In the video, Trump is heard on a hot mic describing trying to have sex with a married woman.
He also bragged about women letting him kiss and grab them because he is famous.
“When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything,” he said, specifically said women let him “grab ‘em by the p***y.”
Trump later said he never did any of the actions described on the tape, and said his words were locker room talk.
In the final days of the presidential election, more than a dozen women came forward to say that Trump had sexually assaulted or harassed them over the years – but he denied it all.
Wolkoff has been publicizing the release of her tell-all memoir about her friendship with Melania, titled Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady.
In the book, she boasts she “had a front-row seat to the transformation of Donald Trump’s then-girlfriend [Melania] from a rough-cut gem to a precious diamond.”
After putting together the president’s inauguration in 2017, Wolkoff worked as an unpaid aide in the East Wing of the White House until being let go in February 2018.
She told ABC News she “gave up everything” for Melania but when she came under fire for the amount of money that was spent on the inauguration, claimed the first lady refused to come to her aide.
Wolkoff said that “when the time came for her to come and speak the truth about a friend who left everything behind to help her, she turned her back on me … stabbed me in the back.”
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“It was amateur hour then, and it’s amateur hour now, and I think it’s really frightening for our country,” Wolkoff said.
“Everyone does need to know what … this presidency is doing and what this propaganda machine behind this man at the White House is doing,” she added.
Wolkoff’s memoir is set to be released on Tuesday.