The East Wing came out swinging against a book claiming that first lady Melania Trump renegotiated her prenuptial agreement with the president before moving to the White House.
“Yet another book about Mrs. Trump with false information and sources. This book belongs in the fiction genre,” the first lady’s spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a statement to the Washington Examiner on Friday.
Author Mary Jordan wrote in her forthcoming book, The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump, that the first lady used her delayed move to the White House “as leverage” for tweaking the agreement, which had not been overly generous toward the president’s wife, according to the Washington Post.
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Jordan wrote Melania Trump used her time in New York without her husband “to amend her financial arrangement with Trump — what Melania referred to as ‘taking care of Barron.’”
Part of the agreement made sure Barron Trump, the first lady’s only child, would not be shut out of the family business.
“She wanted proof in writing that when it came to financial opportunities and inheritance, Barron would be treated as more of an equal to Trump’s oldest three children,” Jordan wrote.
The first lady has long said she remained in New York City after her husband’s first term began because she wanted her son to be able to finish his school year before switching schools. The mother and son moved to the White House after his school year.
