Trump Employee May be Fired Over Melania Trump Montage: Ex-Aide Says

The employee who created a glowing video montage of Melania Trump posted by her husband Donald Trump may soon be fired for being "off-brand", according to the former first lady's one-time close friend and aide.

On Sunday the presumed 2024 GOP presidential nominee, shared the adoring video montage of him and his wife on his social media platform Truth Social.

Critics have questioned why Trump's wife has appeared to remove herself from public life during Trump's current campaign and various ongoing legal troubles. Melania took a far more active role during the 2016 presidential campaign.

On Tuesday, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Melania's supposed former "best friend" and first hire following Trump's 2016 election win, heavily criticized the video.

"Whoever compiled this footage to create this montage of Melania definitely didn't know the back stories to some of these instances & how 'off brand' this is. You may soon hear, "you're fired!" When you play with fire, you get burned, even if you weren't the one holding the match," Winston Wolkoff wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

It is not known what is meant by "the back stories to some of these instances", but Newsweek has contacted Stephanie Winston Wolkoff for clarification.

The montage starts with Trump calling Melania an "amazing mother" and an "incredible woman" and then shows clips of the couple during the Trump presidency and even some footage of their wedding. Throughout the video, the 1987 song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" by Starship is playing in the background.

The former president shared the affectionate clip after his critics mocked footage of the couple at a campaign fundraiser on Saturday when the former first lady joined Trump for the dinner in Palm Beach, Florida. The event ended up bringing in $50.5 million, according to the Trump campaign.

Speaking to reporters as he arrived at the event with his wife, Trump said: "This has been some incredible evening before it even starts, because people, they wanted to contribute to a cause of making America great again, and that's what's happened."

However, some people on social media were less focused on Trump's words and more focused on Melania's facial expression.

Newsweek has reached out to Trump's spokesperson via email for comment.

Winston Wolkoff left her position at the White House in February 2018 after her relationship with Melania crumbled and has previously spoken of Melania's absence during Trump's latest campaign.

Responding to reports in The Independent last week that her disappearance from the campaign was due to concerns she had been "betrayed by her staff" during her first White House residency, Winston Wolkoff rebuked the claim that she had personally "burnt" the former first lady in a post on X.

"The AUDACITY!" Winston Wolkoff wrote. "For any human being to make EXCUSES for Melania Trump not campaigning with Donald because she 'felt betrayed by her staff' is PATHETIC." Melania LIED & watched the media & her WH CRUCIFY me & then she used her DOJ to try and SILENCE me," she added. "EVIL!"

Winston Wolkoff left her unpaid position as Melania's aide following the publication of a New York Times report on her company, WIS Services, reportedly being paid $26 million to organize Trump's inauguration.

The Department of Justice later investigated the payment. Winston Wolkoff claimed that she had been "scapegoated" and had only received a fee of $1.6 million.

Melania is expected to hold her first major political event of the year when she appears at a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago on April 20 for the Log Cabin Republicans, which bills itself as the nation's largest organization representing LGBT conservatives and allies.