Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump are going to war over the First Lady Office.
According to a new biography about Melania Trump, reports state that her and Ivanka have never really gotten along. The Art of Her Deal, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Mary Jordan details over 100 interviews that solidify the war between the women.
In her early absence at the White House, Ivanka, 38, was appointed as an adviser in her father’s administration, working out of the West Wing. During that time, “staff positions and budgets that would have been available to support the first lady’s office” were “diverted to support those in the West Wing, including Ivanka.”
Trump’s eldest daughter reportedly even tried to get her presidential father to rename the “First Lady’s Office” the “First Family Office.”
According to Jordan Melania Trump “did not allow that to happen,” writing that the first lady set up “firm boundaries” with her stepdaughter, who had allegedly made herself too comfortable at the White House.
“[Ivanka] treated the private residence as if it were her own home,” Jordan writes. “Melania did not like it. When she and Barron finally moved in, she put an end to the ‘revolving door.’ “
In addition, Jordan declares Mrs. Trump as her husband’s “single most influential adviser” at the White House.
“Melania is very behind-the-scenes but unbelievably influential. She is not one to go in and say, ‘Hire this person, fire this person.’ But she lets the president know what she thinks, and he takes her views very seriously,” Sean Spicer, the president’s first communications director, told Jordan.
Some insiders also told the author that Mrs. Trump’s input has become “something of a loyalty test” for Trump, who will ask his advisers: “This is what Melania thinks. What do you think?”
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