First Lady Melania Trump was secretly recorded in the summer of 2018 expressing her frustration at being criticized for her husband's policy of separating families who illegally crossed the southern border while at the same time needing to perform traditional first lady duties, such as preparing for Christmas.
"They say I'm complicit. I'm the same like him, I support him. I don't say enough I don't do enough where I am," she said in a tape secretly recorded by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former friend and senior adviser to the first lady who wrote a book about their relationship, "Melania and Me."
The tapes were played exclusively on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" on Thursday night and were recorded by Wolkoff after she left the White House.
"I'm working … my a** off on the Christmas stuff, that you know, who gives a f*** about the Christmas stuff and decorations? But I need to do it, right?"
She continued, "OK, and then I do it and I say that I'm working on Christmas and planning for the Christmas and they said, 'Oh, what about the children that they were separated?' Give me a f****** break. Where they were saying anything when Obama did that? I can not go, I was trying get the kid reunited with the mom. I didn't have a chance — needs to go through the process and through the law."
The policy Melania Trump was referring to was different from that of her husband, President Donald Trump. Under former President Barack Obama, children were separated from parents only when authorities had concerns for their well-being or could not confirm that the adult was in fact their legal guardian, but not as a blanket policy as was done under Trump — until a judge forced the administration to stop.
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It sounds like the person doing the Interview with her is cutting out part of what she’s saying !
@Go Go’s Youtube No. He is not. You both should brush up on media literacy.
@Keenan Hunt Keenan? Are you quite well?
@Keenan Hunt okay… this answers my previous question. You are clearly not well.
Yes
@Go Go’s Youtube 🙂 Better to be self-educated, than risk being brain-washed by fanatics and zealots. Nina Simone said in her song, “Funkier Than A Mosquito’s Tweeter” “…Nothing worse than an educated fool…” Wish you well, be safe. I do not know what kind of music you like, but may I suggest – Loreena McKennitt there are many YouTube videos of her songs, also YouTube video Shirley Bassey and the Propellerheads “History Repeating”
“I mean, you know.”
“Honestly, they know.”
You know, I really don’t.
CNN is SHAMEFUL!
No story is here, except for that Melania is trying to save the children, and this woman is a horrible person.
God bless our President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump 🇺🇸
Choose your friends and party wisely people ( 🐘 2020 )
Vincent Ramirez better than being a trumpturd
@NYCzora the anti-conservative names are no where near as funny as “libtard” I don’t agree with calling anyone names, just saying lol
I am so lost lmao
“FEK DOSS IMMIGRANNS , DEY DISCOSTINN”
With a friend like this who needs enemies.
@TN Gardener yes Melania is. The tapes prove it.
@Adam Geiger So you side with what Melania did to her first and she should have taken one for the team and to hell with her husband and kids and not cooperate with the Feds? That is taking Ride or Die to a new level.
@Spencer Cole People forget that Melania stabbed her in the back first.
Fool to think that these two have any real friends(Trump and Melania that is).
The gold digger defends ICE mistreatment of children put in cages. Also, she says the children were Mexicans, and that Mexico does not care, but Mexican consuls immediately took the Mexican children out of the concentration camps, the children left were from Central America. And she hates Christmas !! She´s the Grinch!
What the purpose of this recording? That friend is only looking for paycheque…
To be honest I can relate to the whole “Who gives a f*** about the Christmas stuff and decorations but I need to do it right?”
Hard work tho.
Richard Cano I definitely can relate too….but damn Melania went in. She could care less.🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Sean Paul I am with you too. Christmas lights are tacky AF
Lamo honestly
Me too. It’s just hilarious because you know…. can you imagine any democratic First Lady and how the republicans would react. I’m actually glad all this is coming out so they can morally emotionally Black mail us anyone into what is “right, wholesome, moral, righteous, blah blah
@A- Palooza I was laughing too. She signed up to be his trophy wife not flotus.
“I hag already been accused of a criminal crime” okay
@indefinitetruth LOL 😂
@Blondesense I speak French and it’s my first language,but her French isn’t good at all so count it out of the 6.I wouldn’t make fun of her English though because that’s not her first language.
She lost me when she said tveeter 🤣
Adam Geiger they are really blessed with corona virus
Russians would these acts are from Criminal Crimea…
Stephanie you make your bad by walking over something so personall, really???? Why, how much you has been paid?🤑🤑🤑🤔so wrong in so many ways 😕
Let Melania decorate Christmas AGAIN!!
😂😂😂😂🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
Some “friend” – secretly making recordings of private conversations to turn into a sensational book. I am no fan of Melania, but this other chick has a total Linda Tripp vibe going on. Nope, no thanks.
tony swabbs the fact still stands that her English is terrible. You’re the kind of person that if I say you can’t drive a car, you’ll tell me but you can swim
Birds of a feather….
@Gerome Wright Rightly so!
@Afro Beat Yup….she came to the US looking for an old fart with plenty of money so she could live a life of luxury, bring her parents and sister here and for security have a kid. The kid is her insurance!!!
@Adam Geiger mean while they were telling their parents that the kids weren’t in the concentration camps.
“in a tape secretly recorded by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former friend”
what a good friend hm
I have no friends – Donald Trump
live by the sword, die by the sword.
Former friend, after they trashed her you still expect a friendship 🤷🏻
YOU never have friends just associates. And watch them closely.
I think she was a friend until they tossed under the bus
Secretly recording her, what a kunnnnnt
So you didn’t hear about them setting her up to be charged with crimes???
When u let them know your taping you get control answers , this is the real Melania , no prepared speech impaired answers !!
her interview back in the day helping hubby push a birther lie ! i didnt need to see this to know how dark she is and capable of throwing a so called friend under the bus!
Excellent point!
Idiot…once again it was Hillary who started it. Although Obama exacerbated the problem by letting an incorrect bio stay on the dust jacket of he book. It stated he was born in Kenya…..made him sound more interesting to sell more books.
Former friend means she sold the friendship to cnn ?
At least now Melania have been “teached” no to trust her friends.
What was she got something like 1.5 million for herself plus what CNN paid her for her betrayal. Some friend
The former advisor Stephanie Winston Wolkoff after refusing to abide by house rules set by Homeland Security, 1:44 Stephanie illegal recorded the first lady and without permission about online twitter feed legacy , after leaving the White House chimes in on CNN to make money
@Rowdyreba Melania tried to pin Trump’s inauguration crimes on her. Stephanie said “I have a better idea. I’ll record the sleazy lying piece of crap and show the world who she really is.” Bravo!
We should secretly record everyone all the time. Then we can destroy everyone anytime. We should bait everyone, Everytime we talk to them, into saying stuff to be used against them. Would love to know Cooper’s private conversations.
And there lies the problem Jeffery Epsteins did exactly that. Remember when Hillary said if I ho down we all go down well there are so many in high places
That’s already a Demtwat tactic anyway, why not?
When you’re involved in politics, you have no friends.
The Trumps don’t have friends, just people that are getting used, people waiting to get used, or people that have been used and are now discarded and trashed by Trumps.
Melania is involved in crime and has no friends except for other criminals.
@Soundtracked “We choose truth over facts.”—Joe Biden
@riikerman _”It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”_ Trump in Feb. (Video: 34 times Trump has said COVID was under control and going away very soon since March https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/34-times-trump-said-the-coronavirus-would-go-away/2020/04/30/d2593312-9593-4ec2-aff7-72c1438fca0e_video.html)
@indefinitetruth you literally just described every Democrat I’ve had the displeasure of meeting.
What a unbelievably horrible so called friend. Ewwww
I don’t see anything wrong with her. CNN, just give it a rest – it’s not cool picking on her now.
CNN shame on you this woman shame you though cnn go away
Shame on the stupidity of Melania, never mind her poor English skills…