What happens if Melania and Donald Trump get divorced?
The IndependentSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The former president introduced his youngest son, and only child with Melania, to the crowd on Tuesday, saying “That’s the first time he’s done it,” as Barron pumped his fists and waved to the audience. But there comes a time when you have to say, ‘Darling, I think you’re magnificent, and I care for you deeply, but if things don’t work out, this is what you’re going to get.’” Donald Trump and then-girlfriend Melania Knauss attend the wedding of Rudolph Giuliani and Judith Nathan at Gracie Mansion May 24, 2003 He added at the time that the prenup process can act as a way to foresee if the marriage will last – if the couple can make it through, the marriage may have a chance. In 2018, in the middle of Trump’s first term, Washington divorce lawyer Sandy Ain told the Washingtonian that he suspected that “if they got divorced, he would pay her a lot of money, and it would be done in an appropriately dignified way.” “You don’t say ‘you’re fired’ to your wife.’ You say ‘here’s a really nice severance package—and it’s gonna be more than $130,000,’” he added in reference to the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. Very likely.” Attorney Jacqueline Newman told Town & Country magazine in 2018 that “I can pretty much guarantee he’s not giving” his New York apartment to Melania.