A review by underwaterlily
Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

3.0

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff walked willingly into the viper’s nest (I apologize for this alliterative, twisted Dr. Seuss opening), but I still feel for her. The Daily Telegraph describes Melania and Me as a “spectacular exercise in icy revenge,” and it is that, but it comes from a place of deep hurt. Melania and Me is a high society pity party (the Met Gala of pity parties, if you will); no doubt some readers will find it grating. I spent most of the book marveling at what Wolkoff couldn’t (or wouldn’t) see: Melania Trump was never her friend. Truly, “a Trump is a Trump is a Trump.”