Melania Trump Has Had Enough and Is Ready to "Put Her Foot Down" About Donald Trump Divorce Rumors, Says Expert

It looks like the former First Lady may want to set the record straight about her marriage.

Then-President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump at the South Lawn of the White House August 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

By WomenWorking Correspondent

March 11, 2021

Posted March 11, 2021

A relationship expert recently spoke to the Daily Star concerning Melania Trump and her reaction to divorce rumors. There has been a lot of buzz surrounding the Trumps' marriage, especially since the two are no longer President and First Lady. A CNN report even claimed that she was "bitter and chilly" towards her husband Donald Trump. But it seems the former FLOTUS is ready to "put her foot down" and set the record straight about her marriage. She apparently slammed the CNN article saying the publication does not have "insight into her thoughts or daily life."

Relationship expert Carole Ann Rice of Real Coaching said it is likely Melania's outburst is down to a "new sense of freedom." She may be driven by the urge to protect her husband's "decency and integrity." While she has often stayed mum on a lot of issues or tried not to make a big deal out of most matters while being First Lady, now that she is no longer in Washington, she may be a lot more fired up to say what really is on her mind. Mrs.Trump is reportedly giving a "warning shot" to those "assuming and creating mystery around her relationship," and Rice believes that Melania "put her foot down" as she is "her own woman" now and it is "finally time" for her to speak up.

President Trump Departs For Florida At The End Of His Presidency JOINT BASE ANDREWS, MARYLAND - JANUARY 20: President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump pause while speaking to supporters at Joint Base Andrews before boarding Air Force One for his last time as President on January 20, 2021 in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Trump, the first president in more than 150 years to refuse to attend his successor's inauguration, is expected to spend the final minutes of his presidency at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. (Photo by Pete Marovich - Pool/Getty Images)

Rumors of Melania and Donald Trump ending their 16-year marriage came back to the limelight when ex-aide Omarosa Manigault Newman said, as quoted by the Daily Mail, "Melania is counting every minute until he is out of office and she can divorce. If Melania were to try to pull the ultimate humiliation and leave while he's in office, he would find a way to punish her." Even Melania's ex-friend and former aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff once claimed that Melania and Trump share nothing more than a "transactional marriage."

Donald Trump and his girlfriend, model Melania Knauss arrive for the 73rd Annual Academy Awards March 25, 2001 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Weeks/Getty Images)

Wolkoff said to BBC, according to Newsweek, "I do believe it is a transactional marriage. Donald got arm candy, the Vogue cover legitimized Melania which legitimized Donald as well, and Melania got two dynamic decades. She was a young model, she was striving, she didn't have the success yet. She met Donald, she married, she had a son, she became an American citizen and 10 years after that, she is the first lady of the United States." Wolkoff even alleged the Trumps had separate bedrooms in the White House.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his wife Melania greet reporters in the spin room following a debate sponsored by Fox News at the Fox Theatre on March 3, 2016 in Detroit, Michigan. Voters in Michigan will go to the polls March 8 for the State's primary. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

It seems Melania is tired of everyone else talking about her private life, according to the relationship expert. Rice offered her two cents on these allegations, stating, "A lot of people sleep in spare rooms, a lot of people sleep in separate houses when they are married so it’s not unusual. I think she is right to nip it in the bud, but it might also mean that they have touched a bit of a sore spot in her life and in her marriage as well."

Rice shared that she believes Melania is thinking "'enough is enough now' and I would put my foot down. And it could also be a warning shot where she could start to get lawyers in on this – so it could be instead of it becoming a big issue, this could be her way of nipping it in the bud because she doesn’t want it escalating and it also warns others to keep away."

"Now that Melania isn’t the first lady, she probably has a new sense of freedom now that she can speak out where she perhaps felt she couldn’t before out of decency and integrity to protect her man who is in the White House," Rice said. All couples have problems, Rice reminded. "Yes, maybe the marriage isn’t perfect and she has certainly displayed moments of irritation and dislike but that is entirely personal. Only her and Donald Trump know the truth, nobody outside of the marriage knows exactly what goes on within the marriage."