First lady lays into media about friend’s tell-all book

Melania Trump lashed out Friday at “self-serving adults” for focusing on her falling out with a friend and adviser, writing that the attention paid to “salacious claims” about the broken relationship comes at the expense of her work on behalf of children.

The first lady also criticized Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the former friend and aide who recently wrote a tell-all book.

“We all know that more often than not, information that could be helpful to children is lost in the noise made by selfserving adults,” the first lady said in a blog post. “I have most recently found this to be the case as major news outlets eagerly covered salacious claims made by a former contractor who advised my office.”

The first lady, who recently recovered from COVID-19, said Wolkoff “hardly knew me” and described her as “someone who clung to me after my husband won the presidency.”