In the midst of a presidential election, a global pandemic, an economic downturn, and nationwide protests over racial injustice, Trumpworld will have another force to contend with come late summer. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a close friend and adviser to first lady Melania Trump, is due to release a book detailing their 15-year-long friendship that culminated in her ousting after she helped plan the inauguration and served in the East Wing.
Melania and Me, published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, is due out on September 1, just a little more than two months before the election. A description of the book from the publisher says that it will start when Wolkoff met Melania and became friends, and weave through her help planning the 58th presidential inauguration, along with “navigating the White House and East Wing.”
“In her memoir, Wolkoff chronicles her journey from their friendship that started in New York to her role as the First Lady’s trusted advisor to her abrupt and very public departure, to life after Washington, being an advocate for children’s and women’s causes,” the description reads.
Wolkoff garnered the spotlight in the past few years, as her intimate knowledge of how the inaugural committee raised and spent money caught the eyes of investigators and congressional committees who began looking into how it allocated funds. She left her position in the East Wing in 2018.
The book comes on the heels of two other Trump–adjacent memoirs, by John Bolton and Mary Trump, both of which were also published by Simon & Schuster and both of which face legal threats from the Trump family.
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