Melania Trump supposedly was upset over "porn-hooker" Stormy Daniels being featured in Vogue, which rejected her while she was first lady.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Melania's former friend and senior adviser, claimed that the ex-first lady called her to complain about Daniels and Vogue just days after the adult film actress publicly discussed her alleged affair with Donald Trump in a March 2018 interview with Anderson Cooper.
Winston Wolkoff claimed in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that rather than complaining about her husband, Melania appeared to be more concerned with Daniels being photographed by legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz for Vogue.
"Melania Trump called me 3/28/2018 three days after the Stormy Daniels ['60 Minutes'] Interview. You think Melania ever mentioned Donald? Nope! Melania wanted me to know that, 'Annie Leibovitz was photographing the ['Porn-Hooker'] {Stormy} for Vogue,' she said. That's Melania," Winston Wolkoff claimed.
Daniels appears in Vogue's October 2018 issue, alongside her then-lawyer Michael Avenatti. She looked stunning in a royal blue Zac Posen cap mermaid gown and Tiffany & Co. Jewelry.
At the time, Avenatti was assisting Daniels in filing a legal lawsuit against Trump, saying that the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) she signed was unlawful since the then-president did not sign it.
During her March 2018 "60 Minutes" interview, Daniels claimed she had intercourse with Trump once in 2006, four months after Melania gave birth to the couple's only child, Barron Trump.
Daniels told Cooper that she allegedly signed the NDA only days before the 2016 election and paid $130,000 in exchange for her silence about her alleged affair with Trump.
The alleged rendezvous and payment to Daniels are now at the focus of Trump's hush-money criminal trial, which is set to begin Monday in Manhattan.
Trump has adamantly denied having an affair and pleaded not guilty to charges of manipulating corporate documents to conceal the payment.
Meanwhile, Melania remains the only first lady in recent history who has not appeared on the cover of Vogue. The former model previously appeared on the cover in 2005, following her wedding to Trump.
Michelle Obama appeared on the cover of the fashion magazine numerous times throughout her eight-year reign as First Lady. Hillary Clinton and Dr. Jill Biden also received their own Vogue covers.
Winston Wolkoff, who wrote the tell-all book "Melania & Me" after leaving the White House, disclosed Melania's claimed views about Daniels' Vogue picture back in 2020.
During an interview with Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen's podcast, Winston Wolkoff aired a supposed recording of Melania's 2018 conversation regarding the adult film star's magazine article.
"Go Google and read it. Annie Leibovitz shot the porn hooker, and she will be [in] one of the issues, September or October,” the then-first lady said in the alleged audio recording.
"What do you mean?" Winston Wolkoff asked, to which Melania allegedly responded, "Stormy."
Winston Wolkoff also secretly taped Melania in 2018 claiming she is unconcerned about being rejected by Vogue and other major publications.
"Vogue said like, 'Oh, we want to do a profile.' Profile? F**k you, profile. I don't need no profile. Yeah, what I need another profile?" Melania said in the alleged recording shared by her former aide with CNN. "It might be a cover. I'm like, 'Might be a cover? I don't give a f**k about Vogue and any magazine.'"
The former president and current Republican presidential contender also stated last year that his wife "doesn't care" about not appearing on the cover of Vogue while she was first lady.
"It's so sad. But she doesn't care. She's been on the cover of the magazines for a long time, and she was on the cover of Vogue before. And she was actually very friendly with [Vogue editor] Anna Wintour. But once I ran for politics, that was the end of that. And that's OK,” Trump told host Megyn Kelly on "The Megyn Kelly Show" in September 2023.
Melania declared Vogue "biased" in 2022 when Dr. Biden was featured on the cover just months after coming into the White House.
"They're biased and they have likes and dislikes, and it's so obvious. And I think American people and everyone see[s] it. It was their decision. I have much [sic] more important things to do -- and I did in the White House -- than being on the cover of Vogue,” Melania told Fox News.
