One word to describe Donald Trump? “Caring”, according to his wife Melania Trump. The former First Lady is promoting the release of her soberly titled memoirs Melaniawhich will be published on October 8, less than a month before the US presidential election. In a very rare television interview for the conservative Fox News channel, he spoke about his relationship with the Republican candidate.
In particular, he retraced their first date. Forget cinema, candlelit dinners, romantic walks. Donald Trump never loses his business sense, not even on an appointmento. So he drove an hour and a half to show his future wife a house he wanted to buy in Bedford, New Jersey, reports the Telegraph.
Appointment or real estate visit?
“He combined the business with the first date with me,” says Melania Trump. And it was very pleasant, because we were both alone in the car for an hour, an hour and a halfand there was no other interference, no other people, even though at that point he was already very well known and a celebrity. […] It was really nice to be just the two of us.” This surprising real estate meeting was arranged after an initial meeting in the Caribbean, where she was on a modeling photo shoot. This version of the story is much less romantic than the one told in 2016 AD Harper’s Bazaar.
That time there was talk of a first dinner date “at Moomba, which in the late ’90s was the ne plus ultra of New York celebrity nightlife.” What do these two stories have in common? Melania Trump initially refused to give Donald Trump her phone number, preferring to collect his. “I won’t give you my number; give me yours and I will call you,” he reminded the magazine. «I wanted to see what kind of number he would give me: if it was a professional number, what would it be? I had no intention of doing business with him.” The real estate mogul got around the problem by giving him “all his numbers”: “the office, Mar-a-Lago, the house in New YorkAll”.
The story of a “miracle”
In the interview with Fox News, Melania Trump also returned to the attack on her husband which occurred on July 3, 2024 during a rally in Pennsylvania. «I ran to the television (which was broadcasting the rally live), went back, found the video and watched it. I didn’t see it live, but maybe three minutes, a few minutes later. […] No one yet knew what had just happened. When you see him on the ground, it was impossible to know what had happened.” On September 15, Donald Trump was again the subject of an assassination attempt. For his wife, his survival was an act of God: «I think that in both cases it was true miracles. If you think about it, July 13th was a miracle.”
Her publishing company, Skyhorse Publishing, will offer several versions of her memoirs: a 256-page $150 collector’s edition, signed by the former First Lady of the United States and with digital content, a $75 signed edition with 48 pages of color photos and a $40 single edition. “May reading my book be as enjoyable as the writing process was for me,” he wrote on Instagram la ex first lady.