Melania Trump was secretly recorded expressing surprise over Vogue magazine’s choice to feature Beyoncé on the cover of its coveted September issue in 2018, and that the singer was given ‘complete’ creative control.
The First Lady discussed the issue in a secretly recorded phone conversation from July 2018 with her former friend and aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.
The September issue is traditionally Vogue’s biggest and most important issue of the year.
‘Anna [Wintour] gave the September issue of Vogue cover – complete, complete, complete everything – to Beyoncé,’ Melania said in the recording shared with NBC News.
‘So she will hire black photographer and it’s the first black photographer ever doing cover of Vogue,’ she added.
Melania has not appeared in Vogue since her husband Donald took office.
Meanwhile Michelle Obama graced the cover of Vogue three times during her husband’s presidency.
‘What? That is insane,’ Wolkoff is heard responding to Melania in the audio.
‘Well that’s what I read,’ Trump replies.
Wolkoff recorded six telephone conversations with the First Lady between February and July 2018.
She said she started to record her calls with Trump after she was asked to leave the White House amid scrutiny about overspending done by the Presidential Inaugural Committee, which she worked on.
She went on to write a book entitled: ‘Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady’.
Melania’s spokeswoman condemned Wolkoff’s secret recordings.
‘Her narcissism knows no bounds, this woman is a fraud. These audio tapes are hand-picked about nonsense and presented with no context. Shame on her for this continued attempt at character assassination and shame on NBC for covering this gossip,’ Stephanie Grisham said.
Beyoncé’s spokesperson declined to comment on the remarks.
Doesn’t she know it’s just dirty politics?They despise her husband, nothing personal.?