“You’re blowing this,” said first lady Melania Trump to her husband, then-President Donald Trump, regarding his approach to handling the COVID-19 pandemic during the final months of his term of office.
That’s according to “The Divider” a book by New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker and New Yorker staff writer and CNN global affairs analyst Susan Glasser set for release next Tuesday.
According to the authors, the first lady recalled telling her husband that the pandemic situation was serious, and that it was “going to be really bad, and you need to take it more seriously than you’re taking it.”
She was “rattled,” and “convinced that Trump was screwing up,” said the book, per a CNN report published this week. Melania even asked former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for help in a phone call.
However, Trump dismissed her and told her she worried too much, said CNN.
“It was two weeks ago when I received the diagnosis that so many Americans across our country and the world had already received – I tested positive for COVID-19, said Melania Trump in an October 2020 statement. “To make matters worse, my husband, and our nation’s Commander-in-Chief, received the same news.”
She admitted that her diagnosis came with fears for her son, now-16-year-old Barron Trump.
“I also thought about the hundreds of thousands of people across our country who have been impacted by this illness that infects people with no discrimination,” said the former first lady. “We are in unprecedented times – and with the election fast approaching, it has been easy to get caught up in so much negative energy.”
The COVID-19 pandemic has lasted far past Trump’s term and is ongoing. However, the World Health Organization indicated this week that the “end of the COVID-19 pandemic is in sight,” according to the United Nations.
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