Mary Jordan
speaker
274 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Apr
Mary Jordan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's like a montage of wedding photos.
It's, you know, it's not, at no point do we, you know, if somebody else were doing a book on, a movie on Melania, they would ask, they would do that, of course.
This is the danger of being in charge of telling your own story.
Coming up, what do we know about Melania Trump?
We're back with Mary Jordan.
Mary, since you wrote a biography about Melania Trump in 2021, we wanted to ask you to fill in some of the gaps that were maybe left out of the movie.
Can you tell me about the process you went through in your book?
What did you learn about the famously closed off figure?
I ran the Washington Post bureaus in Tokyo, Mexico, London.
I've worked in 40 countries.
I've met a lot of interesting people, both in politics and in public life.
I have never, including drug cartel leaders, met someone more secretive.
She was the hardest target because she had so few friends, so few people who knew her.
You know, I'd go to Slovenia, and I'd get the class list in their elementary school, you know, find them, and they would all say, well, she really talked that, but there were one person.
You find the one person, you get a tiny bit.
She was...
So quiet.
And this was true for her whole life?
Whole life.
She was tough to write about because, like, Donald Trump has so many people that you can call who have direct interaction, right?
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