Was Melania Trump ready to divorce?

 What's behind Melania Trump's divorce rumors: Tears, a house of her own and Barron's estate

One of the possible consequences of Donald Trump's electoral defeat could be Melania's divorce. Omarosa Manigault, a former adviser to the president who has known the couple for 15 years, claimed that Melania was "counting down the minutes" for the divorce. 

Sources familiar with what is happening in the White House have informed CNN that the first lady has told her husband that it is time to admit defeat. And practically all the books that have documented the couple's passage through the White House agree on the same point: Melania did not want to be there, and she does not want to be one minute longer than necessary in Washington.

Journalist Michael Wolff was the first to reveal that, on election night in 2016, when Donald Trump's victory was announced, his wife cried, "and they were not tears of joy." He was not the only one to ensure that this campaign had taken its toll on Melania, that she refused to move to Washington for five months.

 Trump had promised her (and a lot of people) that he was not going to win the election, that her goal was not to win, but to become "the most famous man in the world." Confessions that he made to many of his advisers and confidants of those years, such as Anthony Scaramucci, who was director of communications for the White House, who revealed that the plan for the day after the elections was to go to Scotland to play golf. Not to the White House.

That victory cost him dearly in one respect: Melania's stay in New York, refusing to act as first lady, was due to the renegotiation of her prenuptial agreement. A negotiation in which the conditions would be established for the president to have a first lady, and she would agree to abandon her dissipated New York life. Especially when it comes to Barron, their son, with whom Melania was pregnant when she married Donald. This is what Mary Jordan, a journalist for the Washington Post, defends in The art of her deal, Melania's biography of her. Where it was already intuited what would happen when they left the White House. Among other things, Melania asked for written guarantees that Barron would not become another Tiffany Trump, her daughter abandoned to her fate from Trump's second marriage. And that neither Donald Jr. nor Eric nor Ivanka, the sibling beneficiaries of the fund where most of the apparent Trump fortune resides, could limit Barron's inheritance.

A renegotiation that lends credence to the idea of ​​a divorce after the marriage left the White House, either now or in 2024. Furthermore, in 2018 Melania bought a one-bedroom apartment in her name in the Tower Trump, His habitual residence, until the 2016 elections, was the giant attic of the skyscraper, which has belonged to Donald for two marriages, and which could survive a third divorce.

A purchase made more or less when he broke his friendship with Stephanie Wolkoff, a friend and confidante of the first lady for 15 years, who in an interview on the BBC (and in her book Melania and me) also defends the idea of ​​divorce after "a mercantile marriage", as Donald and Melania's relationship defends.

 In which the first lady has never had any political interest: Melania has only participated in a campaign event in 2020 (two, if we count the seconds in which she took the stage at the end of the last debate) and at no time has she encouraged in their networks to vote for her husband. Although the divorce right now seems the least important: the current priority, according to the US media, is to convince Trump to admit that he has lost. The first necessary step for Melania to recover her life.