Stephanie Grisham helped execute the Trump formula: “When you’re in, you’re in, and when you’re out—you’re denied and then destroyed.” She ended up on the other side of it.

Melania and Me and Her

The Melania and Me author and close adviser to Melania Trump has a lot to say about Stephanie Grisham’s Trump tell-all

By Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

There are people who build things and people who destroy them. Stephanie Grisham is a destroyer, and in her memoir she seems to show no genuine remorse for the destruction that she caused.

Grisham, a female Machiavelli with a penchant for Justin Bieber, whom she quotes at the start of one of the chapters in her book, served as liaison between the West Wing and the East Wing during the tumultuous second half of the Trump presidency. After a stint as White House press secretary and communications director, from July 2019 to April 2020—she never held a news conference in all that time—Grisham became chief of staff to the First Lady of the United States.