I always say that there are no Melania Trump coincidences. It was a terrible, terrible decision and will be part of her legacy. That jacket is the biggest mystery of Melania, and there are many, many mysteries of Melania. That, for me, was really key-just how she deals with so many things that for Americans and other women might be like, what? You write that her “I really don’t care, do u?” coat-which she got a lot of criticism for wearing on her way to visit migrant children-was a ham-fisted message to Ivanka, who she thought was trying to take too much credit for attempting to soften Trump’s immigration policy. It’s a not-unfriendly but sort of, like, mind-your-own-business culture. How did going to Slovenia help you understand her better? I think she’d rather have people be confused by her or mystified by her than have them pick apart every word or emotion or smile or thing or appearance. But that was her MO: to really be America’s First Lady. Which I think was also in part an affectation. We felt like we knew Michelle Obama, like we could hang out with her and have a drink with her and go to SoulCycle. ![]() She seems to have not compromised her Melania-ness at all to take on this role. But I think there are people who are compelled by her story and how she ended up in this bizarre place. And there are people who will always think she’s complicit and don’t want to know any more about her. Some people think she’s miserable and angry and trapped in the White House. ![]() That’s the question I get asked all the time. Bennett, a former editor at Washingtonian, discussed her new book between bites of tuna tartare. We met at Bourbon Steak, the DC restaurant where, coincidentally, the Obamas celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary. “Ask a Slovenian if ‘resting bitch face’ is a thing in their country, and they will look blankly at you and say, ‘it’s just ‘face,’ ” she writes. She traveled to New York and Mar-a-Lago as well as Melania’s home country, where Bennett figured out why the First Lady rarely smiles. Working around her CNN schedule, Bennett met with childhood friends of the First Lady’s and people who knew her when she was an aspiring model.
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