Melania Trump’s Staff Reportedly Followed This Strange Rule To Keep Her Mysterious

One of the reasons why Melania Trump kept so quiet while she was the first lady of the United States was because she wanted to keep people guessing about her. At least, that’s what her former aide and friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff says. In an interview with The Washington Post, Wolkoff says that Trump’s lack of communication was her way of protecting herself and not allowing the media and her critics to get too close. However, she did have a list of pre-approved words that she wanted her staff to use to describe her whenever her name came up in discussion. According to Wolkoff, some of those words included “confident,” “strong,” and “independent.” 

Those specific keywords were certainly used before by those who know her. Publicist R. Couri Hay, an acquaintance of Trump’s, described her as a “strong, independent woman,” per the New York Times. Meanwhile, Trump’s former chief of staff and press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, told CNN in 2017 that the former first lady is someone who “is independent and acts independently.” But those aren’t the only words that Trump has been described as. Grisham also shared that her former boss was admirable, but for reasons that had nothing to do with her being independent.