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Some presidents of the United States went down in history (sometimes through the big door, sometimes through the small one) because of their international agreements. Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase; Roosevelt and Yalta; Truman and Potsdam; Carter and Camp David; Reagan and the Intermediate Missile Treaty.

Donald Trump has not yet signed anything similar, and it does not seem that is his intention. But that does not mean that he has no experience in treaties. Specifically, in what in the US is known as 'prenups' and 'postnups', that is, separation of property agreements signed between the spouses before marriage ('prenups', or 'pre-nuptials') or after ('postnups' , or 'post wedding'). Only with his first wife, Ivana , he had a prenup and three postnup.

And one of those negotiations caught him right when he got to the White House. Newly elected president, his wife, the Slovenian nationalized American - thanks to her marriage to him - Melania refused to move to the White House until Trump agreed to sign new capitulations. The first lady's arguments were that she had spent longer than any of her predecessors (Ivana and Marla Maples ) with the current president, had to swallow more news than they did about the president's epic record of infidelity, and had contributed decisively to the electoral victory of the businessman and star of 'reality shows'. So if Trump wanted to avoid the 'role' of living 'de facto' apart from his wife, he was going to have to sign. And Trump, who celebrated his 74th birthday Sunday after giving signs of considerable physical weakness yesterday at the West Point Academy, signed.

This is the account of the journalist of the 'Washington Post' Mary Jordan , who the day after tomorrow publishes her book on the first lady 'The Art of Her Deal' , a pun on the title 'Donald Trump's best-seller' The Art of The Deal ', as the new biography of Melania Trump could be translated as' The Art of Her Deal'. But 'Su' in feminine.

Jordan's book, which has had a prepublication in the 'Washington Post', presents a very different image of Melania Trump from the one that has been often broadcast. The former Slovenian model appears as a woman, at best, as tough and ambitious as her husband, an enemy of improvisation and perfectly capable of confronting Trump and his environment. Given Melania's hieraticism, comparable only to that of an Easter Island moai, her tendency to discretion, and her loyalty to Trump, the figure of the First Lady has been the subject of endless speculation. Now Jordan is trying to shed light on the 'White House sphinx', with some information that was supposed, but never confirmed, such as Melania and Trump's eldest daughter Ivanka (although her real name is Hebrew Jael). they have a rather hostile relationship.

In particular, the journalist's account explains how, in the four and a half months that Melania was in New York, renegotiating the agreement, Ivanka tried to rename the Office of the First Lady in the White House to be renamed the Office of the First Family. Ivanka also tried to move her office as an adviser to the president of the West Wing , where the building's offices are, to the East Wing, where the head of state and government and his family reside. In both attempts, it failed.

In the end, Melania achieved her new marriage capitulation agreement and on June 11, 2017, she moved to Washington with her son with Trump, Barron. Since then, he has been in the White House, where, discreetly, he has become, according to Jordan, the person with the most influence over Trump , even ahead of Ivanka herself and her husband, Jared Kushner.

Ladder phobia

The book comes just as Donald Trump has just celebrated his 74th birthday, marked by some controversy about what many have interpreted as signs of physical weakness on Saturday, in his graduation address to cadets at the West Point Military Academy. At the event, the president showed no sign of losing the thread in his speech - something that happens relatively frequently - but it did surprise when he needed to use both hands to hold a glass of water and bring it to his mouth . Subsequently, Trump descended a ramp very, very slowly and, one could almost say, with a hesitant step. Always responsive to criticism, the White House tenant fiercely tweeted a few hours later saying the ramp "was very long and steep, had no handrails, and, most importantly, was very slippery."

Actually, the ramp was not steep, it had railings - in fact, Trump grabbed onto it - and Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams , who runs West Point, walked it with no other problem than not accelerating to overtake Trump. But critics of the president have forgotten that he suffers from "batmophobia," that is, stair phobia . Whenever he can, Trump takes escalators, and when he has no choice but to go down a few steps he tries to grab hold of the person near him, as happened in 2017 when - newly appointed president - he grabbed the then Prime Minister's hand. British, Theresa May , to go down some stairs in the White House. Perhaps in the West Point environment, the president judged that holding Lieutenant General Williams by the hand was not the most appropriate option.

Two candidates over 70

In any case, the controversy of the glass and the ramp joins many others that Trump has starred in, such as confusing "origins" and "oranges" ('origins' and 'oranges'), or mixing the names of managers with those of their companies ("Marilyn Lockheed and Tim Apple, to refer to the presidents of Lockheed Martin and Apple, Marilyn Hewson and Tim Cook , respectively). Besides, there is the constant inability of the president to say words like" Obama "," suspicious ", "diversity", or even finish the sentences.

That yes: if there is someone who still has more serious problems in that sense that the president is his rival in the November elections, Joe Biden, who has shown an apparently considerable cognitive decline since he left the vice presidency three years ago. Thus, on November 3, Americans will have to decide between two people - one, 74 years old; the other, 77 - who seem to have suffered a decrease in their abilities.

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