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Melania Trump’s first encounter with Donald Trump began in 1998 when they first crossed paths at a New York Fashion Week party. She wouldn’t give out her phone number, but she was happy to take his. After his divorce from Marla Maples was finalized in 1999, the duo officially began dating, but what that first date looked like seems open to interpretation by the former first lady.
Melania sat down with Fox News on Sept. 26, and she shared how Donald Trump wooed her on their first night out together. “We went on a first date if you could call it a date,” she laughed. You see, Donald Trump took her on a business call to Bedford, New Jersey where he was thinking of buying property. It’s not the most romantic place to take a date, but Melania didn’t seem to mind.
“And it was very nice, because we were two of us alone in the car for hour, hour and a half, and it’s no other noise, no other people, because at that time, he was already known and a celebrity,” she continued. “So, it was really nice to be just two of us.” Melania felt like she had a “connection” with him as Fox News reporter Ainsley Earhardt read an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, Melania. She described her husband as a “gentleman, displaying tenderness and thoughtfulness.” That sounds like a lovely memory for Melania, but it doesn’t line up with the first-date story she told Harper’s Bazaar in 2016.
In that interview, she claimed that he took her Moomba on their first date. At the time, the restaurant was the trendy, celebrity hotspot in New York City. “Remember Moomba?” she asked the reporter. “It was a great place, wasn’t it? I remember that night like it was two months ago.” Well, it sounds like there are two different versions of her first date with Donald Trump depending on who she is talking to. We don’t know which story is true, but the Fox News story comes straight out of her book — so that might be the one she’s going with for now.
This publicity push for her memoir is what her former friend and adviser Stephanie Winston Wolkoff explained to the Associated Press as an opportunity for her to be “capitalizing on the time she has left before the election.” She added, “Her (market) value is gone if she is no longer a prospective first lady. If Harris wins, I believe people will want to move on.”
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