Melania Trump's friend secretly taped her disparaging Ivanka, the president - Business Insider

Yes."An excerpt of the book published Thursday in New York magazine details the buildup and immediate aftermath of President Donald Trump's inauguration, which Wolkoff played a key role in organizing.Drama with Ivanka Trump was an issue from the start, according to Wolkoff.Ivanka, whom Wolkoff says Melania referred to as "princess," wanted to play a more central role in the inauguration than the incoming first lady was comfortable with, according to the book."It was Donald's inauguration, not Ivanka's," Wolkoff writes. Things got only more tense once the Trump family began settling in at the White House.Since Melania was in Manhattan for the first months of the Trump administration — which The Washington Post's Mary Jordan would later write in her book was part of Melania's effort to acquire leverage in renegotiating her prenuptial agreement and secure a better inheritance for her son Barron — Wolkoff was left to serve as the first lady's "linebacker" in a turf war with Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner.Wolkoff writes that she and Melania Trump immediately suspected Ivanka was leaking to the press when they started seeing "reports that the East Wing was a dark, lonely, sad, cobwebbed place.""We suspected Ivanka immediately," she writes.