I just finished "Melania and Me" by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
Unless you like wading through banal, stupid, and boring scenes of insider jockeying for power in the West and East wings of the White House, save your money.
The only new info here is what validates what we've always known about Melania -- she's a morally lazy princess who doesn't care about a damned thing, least of all, Americans.
She's a Trump through and through.
Rachel covered it all, which only takes ten pages in the whole book.
And I read it so you don't have to.
UUGGHH! 
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And so far I must agree.
Healing vibes on the way to you. 💗💗💗
What a disgusting piece of crap the russian asset is.
Thanks, SheltieLover. 
You've got a way with words. "Healing" is a good word for the hours I now realize I'll never get back. 
I didn't mean it as a joke. 😊
That had to be absolutely sickening.
I truly do appreciate you reading & sharing with us.
You know, the old saying, "you are what you read." .... er, eat. 
💗💗💗
Please do something nice for yourself? Watch Car's cute animal videos or something. (Punch a pillow, throw ice cubes at the sidewalk, take something for irritated gut....)
I'd be nauseated, disgusted & furious! 
I'll take the hit and give it away. Giving away both good and bad books. It's kinda my thing.
if you take the same amount of time and do absolutely nothing you will have used your time in a much more positive way. It all balances out that way.
I knew the Pompeo book would be a waste of money and time. To incriminate trump, would be to incriminate himself.
I hope you're doing well
Thank you. I hope you're doing well, too. 
1. She wore the jacket unbeknownst to the designer because she always, without fail, wears whatever she likes, no matter the event. When she put the words on the jacket, she was referring to all Americans who, she says, criticize her and hub no matter what they say or do. She didn't care about going down to the border wearing it, and she only went to the border to show up Obama, who she claims never went there.
2. Her son, Barron, she says, had just kicked her in the ankle, and her downcast eyes were in reaction to that.
3. Blocking Ivanka was Melania's and Stephanie's joint photo project plan to not let Ivanka steal the limelight of the swearing in point of the inauguration because Melania was already pissed about Ivanka's taking over West Wing duties she'd felt should be hers. They positioned Ivanka so she would be blocked by those standing, and so not seen. The high-fived and celebrated it afterward.
4. Because she detests Ivanka for having taken over power and space in the White House, leaving her sidelined.
5. "Be Best," (though I detested the silly games arounding who should decided Melania's formal First Lady presentation to the US) was a success to Melania, whose speech about it was written by Stephanie, IIRC. It fell flat with media and the public, and imo, showed another instance of the bubble of toxic positivity that fills the family's bubble.
6. I didn't pay much attention to mention of her sister except to note that she lived in a Trump condo about four blocks from Jared and Ivanka. What I did notice is that Melania insists in general that every line of every bit of paperwork for their coming to the US was legal.
7. Not to her, it didn't. She said she wore it because she liked it, and didn't care what anyone else thought about it, even if women wanted to think she was making some suffragette echo.
Without using exact quotes from the book, since I didn't mark anything or dog-ear pages the way I always do, I hope these suffice.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I also love Tim Dorsey's hilarious books about two do-gooder crazy dudes in Florida. But Hiassen is the better writer.
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