Melania Trump’s former friend, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who authored the New York Times bestseller Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady alleged that Donald Trump’s wife was selling ornaments bearing resemblance to the Presidential Medal of Freedom — on her site. Stephanie posted photo of the memorabilia on sale on Melania’s site and claimed that the former First Lady altered the image of the Medal of Freedom.”The tension between legality and morality is where Melania Trump toes the line. FLOTUS of the USA altered the image of The Medal of Freedom to monetize from it for personal gain. It’s an exploitation of a national symbol & disrespects its symbolic meaning. It’s unpatriotic,” Stephanie wrote.”WOW! Appears Melania Trump likes the Medal of Freedom so much too that she’s selling Collectibles & Christmas Ornaments that sure do look like they were ‘inspired’ by the real thing,” Stephanie wrote in another post. The allegations came at a time Melania is missing from the public eye while her husband is running the presidential campaign against Kamala Harris. Stephanie used to work at Vogue and started organizing Met Galas. They developed a remarkable friendship with regular monthly lunches and other events but eventually the fell apart and Stephanie published the book in 2020 as Trump lost the election. Stephanie and Melania became friends when Donald Trump asked Vogue’s Anna Wintour to help Melania introduce to New York society — before their Marriage. Melania was presented at the 2004 Met Gala and their friendship continued as Melania got married to Donald, became mother to Barron. As Donald Trump became the president, Stephanie joined Melania’s team as a senior advisor to the first lady. In her tell-all book, she exposed Melania and Trump’s marriage as sham and said that the relationship was created by the TV executives for Donald Trump’s The Apprentice. After Stephanie and Melania’s public fallout, Trump said Stephanie was a “total airhead” who was dumped by Melania years ago for being a publicity seeker. “I find it baffling & shocking Trump hired ‘an airhead’ to produce 18 Trump inaugural events acting as Melania’s senior advisor….’Airhead,’ I’m not. Melania didn’t have the chance to ‘dump me.’ I QUIT! (And have the letter to prove it!)” Stephanie hit back.
