Posted on 04/03/2018 4:27:00 PM PDT by ethom
rst lady Melania Trump is like a shadow president and exercising more power than most people would imagine, according to the author of a new White House tell-all.
In the new book, The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game by former Washington Post reporter Ronald Kessler, he says Trump’s third wife is “a very powerful force behind the scenes.”
“She is very smart,” Kessler told Inside Edition. “She actually sits in on meetings, she summarizes what others have said and then she comes up with her own strategy. She will disagree with Trump.”
He says she also rules the private residence of the White House with an iron hand.
“Obviously, Trump doesn’t listen to her all the time,” Kessler said. “She tries to get him to stop tweeting and of course he ignores that.”
The book makes the case that there are actually two Donald Trumps — one intimidating and outspoken, while the other is caring and compassionate.
“The image that he projects is quite different from the real Donald Trump and so, the big surprise is what he is really like behind the scenes when he is not acting,” Kessler said.
While Trump ruthlessly fired people on The Apprentice, he can’t bring himself to say those famous words — “You’re fired!” — in real life.
The latest examples come on the heels of the departures of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and VA Secretary David Shulkin via Twitter, not in person or over the phone.
“He will let out the word that he wants them fired. But in the end he just can’t bring himself to do it himself, because deep down he is a very compassionate person.”
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Next thing ya know, she’ll be planting a garden, and setting up a national school lunch program.
When Trump was first elected, the media was bitching about her not immediately moving TO the White House, now they’re bitching about her taking over the White House.
Cool. It will be entertaining to watch the media have seizures over a powerful, conservative, gorgeous woman in action and doing it in the most feminine ways.
I haven’t read his latest, but I have to give him the benefit of the doubt, based on the books of his that I have read.
Good post. Probably Kessler's best-known book is Inside the White House. He has excellent contacts in Washington and no particular axe to grind. I'll be interested to see what he has to say.
It’s ‘EXPLOSIVE’ I tell ya! ‘Explosive!” Commie libs are a bunch of drama queens. Always using macho sounding lingo.
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Jackie? No way
Well said; well said indeed.
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