To say Melania Trump — Donald Trump‘s wife — isn’t happy with GQ magazine’s profile of her is an understatement.
In a Facebook post, Trump blasted the GQ article, calling it “disingenuous reporting” by “the dishonest media.”
Julia Ioffe, the author of the profile, travelled to Slovenia and dug deep into Trump’s upbringing in the former Yugoslavia.
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Ioffe revealed the existence of Melania Trump’s half-brother, whom her father never acknowledged. Trump herself denied to Ioffe that the half-brother even existed. (She later acquiesced and came clean, saying that she just misunderstood Ioffe’s question.)
Other details exposed in the profile include outrageous wedding costs when the now-Trumps got married (her wedding gown was a $100,000 Dior gown), her “passage” over to the U.S. by a wealthy Italian businessman and her storied past in Yugoslavia. Oh, and there are a few sentences about Trump’s “great boobs” and whether or not she’s had any plastic surgery (no, for the record).
“I think she’s understandably upset that some dirty laundry came out,” said Ioffe to CBS News. “But I did my job.”
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Ioffe went on to express her confidence in GQ‘s fact-checking process and her own reporting, but that didn’t stop Donald Trump supporters from sending her anti-Semitic, aggressive messages on Twitter, voicemail and to her personal email. The ultimate irony is Ioffe and her family legally migrated to the U.S. from Russia 26 years ago, trying to escape Jewish persecution.
“It’s unsettling,” Ioffe said to the U.K.’s Guardian. “I started the day off having a sense of humour about it but by the end of the day, after a few phone calls like this, with people playing Hitler speeches, and the imagery, and people telling me my face would look good on a lampshade, it’s hard to laugh.”
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