The upcoming Christmas holidays this week would be the Trumps’ final Christmas in the White House. In their last White House Christmas portrait, first lady Melania Trump and husband Donald Trump are photographed wearing matching tuxedos.
Melania her final White House Christmas photo on Twitter, with the first lady wearing a matching tuxedo to her husband. Both are all smiles on the red carpet in front of the grand staircase at the White House. Previous White House Christmas portrait photos of the couple featured them posing in the Cross Hall of the presidential estate. This is also despite audio recordings revealing what she truly felt about the upcoming holiday and as well as her final duty to decorate the White House for Christmas as first lady.
“Merry Christmas from President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. @realDonaldTrump & @FLOTUS are seen December 10, in their official 2020 Christmas portrait on the Grand Staircase of the White House in Washington, D.C.” said the caption on the tweet, the photo taken by White House photographer Andrea Hanks.
The audio recordings back in October were released by Melania’s former aide and friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff. Wolkoff made another revelation involving Melania’s relationship with her stepdaughter Ivanka Trump, whom the first lady has privately blasted. Speaking in The New Abnormal podcast by the Daily Beast hosted by Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast, Wolkoff described Ivanka as “Donald in a suit.” The former aide revealed more about how Ivanka would undermine Melania’s authority by luring the East Wing staff picks to the West Wing.
Wolkoff revealed that the move angered the first lady to the extent that she called her stepdaughter and her husband Jared Kushner as “snakes.” Wolkoff revealed that Kayleigh McEnany and Mercedes Schlapp were originally supposed to be Melania’s staff but were brought to work for Trump instead. Wolkoff went on to say that in private, they also referred to Ivanka as a “serial poacher.”
However, other people familiar with the matter have clarified some of Wolkoff’s claims. Schlapp was the White House Communications Director from 2017 to 2019. McEnany was not brought onto the East Wing staff because she had previously accepted a post in the Republican National Committee when she was approached for a position in the East Wing.