The Atlantic's Sophie Gilbert has written a review of Melania Trump's new memoir — and has come away with a decidedly negative impression.
The main impression that Gilbert got from the former first lady's book is that she simply does not care about anything, and works to block out potentially negative or upsetting information.
"She appears to have turned not caring into its own superpower, focusing rigidly on who or what pleases her (beauty; her son, Barron; blockchain ventures) and filtering out virtually everything else," Gilbert explained.
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The book includes an account of Melania Trump's early life and career, which Gilbert described as "deadening to read."
"Her time as a model, a fairly uneventful career whose highlight before she met Trump was a single Camel ad, is reinvented as a plucky girl’s triumph, a 'testament to my firm determination, courage, and resilience,'" Gilbert wrote while displaying considerable irritation.
In fact, the former first lady throughout the book tries to show that nothing bothers her except for when she's on the receiving end of negative press.
"When it’s revealed that sections of her speech supporting her husband at the 2016 Republican National Convention were near-identical to sections from a speech by Michelle Obama, she’s furious that 'my words, which articulated a hopeful vision for the nation, were overshadowed by a barrage of personal attacks,'" Gilbert observed.
"As her I really don’t care jacket—a dig at the media, she writes—becomes a scandal, she’s enraged at how 'the media’s distorted reporting on the jacket overshadowed the importance of the children,' as though the jacket had simply fallen on her shoulders by accident, its message inscribed by invisible fairies."
To sum up, Gilbert concluded that Melania "is truly free, liberated from the pains of empathy and anxiety that plague the rest of us."
