Melania Trump Swipes at Ex-Close Friend Over ‘Idle Gossip,’ Calls for Focus on the ‘Next Generation’

First Lady Melania Trump is calling for attention to be shifted to focusing on the “next generation” following reports about her ex-close friend and adviser Stephanie Wolkoff’s book and recent remarks about the first lady.

The first lady noted on Friday that she recently has been able to reflect on personal things — she tested positive for COVID-19 when the president did. She noted that she wants to continue to put her time and effort into her initiative “Be Best.”

“We all know that more often than not, information that could be helpful to children is lost in the noise made by self-serving adults,” Trump said in a statement. “I have most recently found this to be the case as major news outlets eagerly covered salacious claims made by a former contractor who advised my office.”

She then appeared to blast Wolkoff, someone who, as the first lady writes, says she “made” Trump:

“A person who said she ‘made me’ even though she hardly knew me, and someone who clung to me after my husband won the Presidency. This is a woman who secretly recorded our phone calls, releasing portions from me that were out of context, then wrote a book of idle gossip trying to distort my character. These kinds of people only care about their personal agenda — not about helping others.”

The first lady took aim at media outlets for covering that “pettiness over my positive work.”