A former adviser to first lady Melania Trump will be releasing a new book detailing her experience working with the president’s wife.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff’s Melania and Me is set for release on Sept. 1 by publisher Simon & Schuster under the imprint Gallery Books, Vanity Fair reported Monday. The two were friends for 15 years before Wilkoff helped plan the inauguration and worked for Trump in the East Wing.
“People with knowledge of the project say the content of the book is largely negative and that the manuscript heavily trashes the first lady,” according to the Daily Beast, which noted that the book is expected to be “a revealing and explosive portrayal” of the relationship between the two women and will include “observations of the most chaotic White House in history.”
At the White House, Wolkoff became Trump’s senior adviser. However, she abruptly left her post in 2018 after news broke that her firm had been paid $26 million to help organize the inaugural activities.
“Was I fired? No,” Wolkoff told the New York Times last year of the controversy. “Did I personally receive $26 million or $1.6 million? No. Was I thrown under the bus? Yes.”
“In her memoir, Wolkoff chronicles her journey from their friendship that started in New York to her role as the First Lady’s trusted advisor to her abrupt and very public departure, to life after Washington, being an advocate for children’s and women’s causes,” the publisher’s description of the book reads.
Simon & Schuster also published former national security adviser John Bolton’s The Room Where It Happened, released last month, and is publishing Too Much and Never Enough by the president’s niece Mary Trump, which is set for release on July 14.
