Melania Trump is considering writing a memoir about her tenure as first lady, Page Six reports.
The website quotes an unnamed source as saying, “Melania is in meetings to write her White House memoir. And it would be her money—a chance for her to earn on her own.”
Trump, a Slovenian immigrant who married President Donald Trump in 2005, previously worked as a model and businesswoman.
Melania Trump’s time as first lady has been somewhat rocky. In 2018, she launched an anti-bullying campaign called “Be Best,” which was met with mockery from critics who considered her husband a bully. Later that year, she was criticized for wearing a jacket with the words “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” while boarding a plane to McAllen, Texas, where she was scheduled to visit a facility where immigrant children were held.
More recently, former friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, author of Melania and Me, released a secretly recorded tape in which Trump expressed her disdain for jobs she was expected to perform as first lady, at one point saying, “I’m working...my ass off on the Christmas stuff, that you know, who gives a fuck about the Christmas stuff and decorations? But I need to do it, right?”
Page Six’s source said that President Trump is encouraging his wife to write the book.
“She’s not done, or going as quietly as you might expect,” the source said.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
