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MELANIA Trump is “counting every minute” until Donald leaves the White House and she can divorce him, claims a former aide.
The outgoing 50-year-old first lady is reportedly considering her 15-year marriage to be over and is only awaiting Joe Biden’s inauguration in January before formalizing it.
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Fired White House aide and star of The Apprentice, Omarosa Manigault Newman, is confident they will part ways, reports the Mail on Sunday.
She said: “Melania is counting every minute until he is out of office and she can get a divorce.
“If Melania tried to take the maximum humiliation and left while he was in office, he would find a way to punish her.”
Newman, who made the claims in his revealing book Unhinged, has previously said that the Trumps have “a very strange marriage.”
She told British television show Lorraine last month that Melania has a “revulsion” for her husband.
‘SEPARATE BEDROOMS’
She said: “I am very cautious when commenting on the dynamics of a marriage because you never know what happens behind closed doors.
“But I’ve known this couple since they were dating, they got married a year after The Apprentice aired.
“What I’ve observed in the last 17 years makes your head spin. Sometimes they love each other, but sometimes she feels repulsed by him.”
Newman claimed that the First Lady’s feelings for her husband were clear when he appeared to pull her hand away from his after the final presidential debate.
It was the last of several times he appeared to refuse to hold his hand, which Newman says is his way of purposefully embarrassing him.
Real estate mogul Trump married former Solvena model Melania, his third wife, in 2005.
She was rumored to be against his bid for the presidency and is said to have burst into tears when he won the 2016 election.
A friend said, “She never expected him to win.”
He waited five months before moving from New York to Washington, apparently because the couple’s son, Barron, “needed to finish school.”
But another former assistant, Stephanie Wolkoff, claimed it was because Melania was negotiating a post-nuptial agreement to give Barron an equal share of Trump’s fortune.
She alleged that the Trumps used separate bedrooms at the White House and had “a transactional marriage.”
The former Vogue Wolkoff executive, Melania’s former adviser and a longtime friend until they fell out, published her own book in September.
She stated in a BBC interview: “I think it is a transactional marriage.
“Donald has arm candy. Melania achieved two dynamic decades.
“She was a young model, she still wasn’t successful. She met Donald, got married, became a US citizen, had a son, and ten years later is the First Lady of the United States. “
Despite the cold moments in public, Melania says she has “a great relationship” with her 74-year-old husband. He insists they never argue.
First Lady spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said of Newman’s book in August: “Mrs. Trump rarely, if ever, interacted with Omarosa.
“It is disappointing for her that she is lashing out and retaliating in such a selfish way, especially after all the opportunities the president gave her.”
The president also attacked her on Twitter as a “dog” with “zero credibility,” while press secretary Sarah Sanders said Newman’s book “is riddled with lies and false accusations.”
Melania personally responded to Wolkoff, writing on a White House blog that the book was “dishonest” and “full of idle gossip.”
Trump’s prenuptial agreement with his second wife, Marla Maples, prevents him from publishing any books or giving critical interviews with him.
Attorney Christina Previte said Melania was likely to have accepted a similar code of silence.
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