# Mrs. Trump got a better prenup in 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 12, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537 "2020-06-12T14:49:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/1 "2020-06-12T14:49:20Z")
According to a new book. I forgot she stayed in NYC until school was out. Seems a smart move on her part. > **[Melania Trump Delayed White House Arrival to Negotiate a Better Prenup, Says...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-trump-delayed-white-house-arrival-to-negotiate-a-better-prenup-says-report?via=twitter_page)** > > The first lady reportedly put off her arrival after Trump’s inauguration to give her leverage for a better financial arrangement. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/2 "2020-06-12T15:31:23Z")
So Trump set the example of his presidency right at the beginning by renegotiating an existing agreement and getting worse terms. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/3 "2020-06-12T16:29:51Z")
either redo it or no BJs ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/4 "2020-06-12T18:49:16Z")
If anyone felt sorry for her before, reading the Washington Post’s synopsis will change that. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/melania-book-art-of-her-deal-prenup-white-house/2020/06/11/ce63ec02-abec-11ea-94d2-d7bc43b26bf9\_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/melania-book-art-of-her-deal-prenup-white-house/2020/06/11/ce63ec02-abec-11ea-94d2-d7bc43b26bf9_story.html) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/5 "2020-06-12T18:55:47Z")
From the post I just put up in the _Clusterfuck_ thread: > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44630): > > Washington Post announces a soon-to-be-released book: > > [Melania Trump was in no rush to move into the White House. That’s when she renegotiated her prenup, a new book says.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/melania-book-art-of-her-deal-prenup-white-house/2020/06/11/ce63ec02-abec-11ea-94d2-d7bc43b26bf9_story.html), _WaPo_, June 12, 2020. > > Amazon page: [The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump.](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1982113405?ie=UTF8&tag=thewaspos09-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=1982113405) by Mary Jordan, coming out June 16, 2020. > > The WaPo article seems to suggest that Melania is an ambitious and hard-driving person in her own right, and much more a supporter of Donald than we commonly think. She has enough influence and leverage that she could, and did, force Donald to renegotiate her pre-nup with him, largely to assure a better inheritance for Barron and his place in the Trump Organization. > > > [@Excerpt from the description at the Amazon page:](#): > > > > Based on interviews with more than one hundred people in five countries, The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump draws an unprecedented portrait of the first lady. While her public image is of an aloof woman floating above the political gamesmanship of Washington, behind the scenes Melania Trump is not only part of President Trump’s inner circle, but for some key decisions she has been his single most influential adviser. > > > > [. . .] > > > > The picture of Melania Trump that emerges in The Art of Her Deal is one of a woman who is savvy, steely, ambitious, deliberate, and who plays the long game. And while it is her husband who became famous for the phrase “the art of the deal,” it is she who has consistently used her leverage to get exactly what she wants. This is the story of the art of her deal. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/6 "2020-06-12T18:56:43Z")
Thanks. I was surprised to learn from the _Washington Post_ article, if true, that she encouraged him to run for President (I have read otherwise in the past), that she largely agrees with his policies, and that she now wants him to be reelected. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/7 "2020-06-12T19:46:03Z")
I was surprised to read that she encouraged him to run for re-election as well. I wonder how the timing on this agreement getting finalized relates to that several week period where she disappeared. There were rumors of plastic surgery, or that she had left him. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/8 "2020-06-12T19:55:54Z")
There is nothing bad for her now , she does not appear in public much and she gets a big staff to help her run the house. I guess if she put up with him this long she’s OK with him. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/9 "2020-06-12T20:04:47Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > There is nothing bad for her now , she does not appear in public much and she gets a big staff to help her run the house. I guess if she put up with him this long she’s OK with him. We know what she is. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/10 "2020-06-12T20:13:37Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > If anyone felt sorry for her before, reading the Washington Post’s synopsis will change that. She has presumably seen Donald Trump naked. Nobody deserves that. I will always feel sorry for her. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/11 "2020-06-12T20:30:23Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > We know what she is. We do? What is she? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/12 "2020-06-12T21:06:43Z")
It’s sexist to give Melania a pass. She too propagated that ‘birther’ garbage. She’s white supremacist trash, just like the filth she married. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/13 "2020-06-12T21:11:31Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > It’s sexist to give Melania a pass. She too propagated that ‘birther’ garbage. She’s white supremacist trash, just like the filth she married. I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/14 "2020-06-12T21:24:43Z")
> [@pool](#): > > We do? What is she? 😉 An immigrant doing one of the jobs Americans won’t do. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/15 "2020-06-12T21:58:51Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > She has presumably seen Donald Trump naked. Nobody deserves that. I will always feel sorry for her. We don’t actually know this. She could have a lights-out rule. What’s worse is she may have seen him with his combover down. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/16 "2020-06-12T22:32:32Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > We don’t actually know this. She could have a lights-out rule. What’s worse is she may have seen him with his combover down. That’s not a combover. At night it wanders the hallways looking for small insects. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/17 "2020-06-12T22:45:12Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > That’s not a combover. At night it wanders the hallways looking for small insects. Lol! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/18 "2020-06-12T22:54:39Z")
She’s in a prime position to manipulate someone who’s very easily manipulated, and whose manipulation yields the greatest gains possible. Why is it a surprise that she’s a manipulator? ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/19 "2020-06-12T22:57:18Z")
As someone put it, Trump had to pay his wife to move in with him. Cuck. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537/20 "2020-06-12T23:32:01Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > She’s in a prime position to manipulate someone who’s very easily manipulated, and whose manipulation yields the greatest gains possible. Why is it a surprise that she’s a manipulator? The WaPo article says the book says she was always that way. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-trump-got-a-better-prenup-in-2017/855537.md?page=2)