Melania Trump reveals why Donald is calling her personal doctor

In her book, Melania Trump talked about a surprising aspect of her marriage: her husband’s “thoughtful” habit of checking her health with a doctor.

The former first lady offers only fleeting glimpses of life at home with Donald Trump in her new memoir: Melanie. The Daily Beast featured a copy of the 184-page book, which will be released on Tuesday.

In the book, Melania describes her courtship with the 24-year-old billionaire, writes at length about their wedding, talks about the “chemistry” between them and admits that they have “political differences.”

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But she is also revealed to be as vehemently and unrepentantly in denial about the 2020 election as her husband, and only once uses the names of her other four children.

The most touching passage about their relationship comes in a eulogic paean to him at the beginning of the book, revealing that he regularly calls her doctor.

“As I got to know him better, I realized that the public only saw a part of Donald Trump,” she writes. “In private, he was known as a gentleman, showing tenderness and thoughtfulness.

The couple was together on election night 2020 at the White House. In her memoir, Melania reveals that, like her husband, she is still in denial about the choices.

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“Donald, for example, still calls my personal doctor to check on my health, make sure I’m OK and that I’m being taken excellent care of. He’s not flashy or dramatic, just honest and caring.

He does not provide the name of his personal doctor.

Trump’s personal doctors include one who wrote that he couldn’t be drafted during the Vietnam War because of bone spurs, the late Harold Bornstein, who proclaimed he would be “the healthiest president ever,” and White House physician Ronnie Jackson, who said he could “live to 200.” (Jackson, now a Republican congressman, gave up his license to practice except emergency medicine and was stripped of his rank as rear admiral in the Navy after he retired because he was found to have abused subordinates.)

The phone conversations with the doctor are one of the few real insights into their relationship in the book. She describes their charming meeting in 1998 – when she was 28 and he was 52 – which she recounts in five pages of the 184-page diary.

She says she was living in an apartment in Manhattan at the time when a friend called her on a Friday evening and invited her to a party at the Kit Kat Club, which – despite her reluctance to clubbing – she agreed to because it was Fashion Week.

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She writes that in the “sophistication and camaraderie” section of the VIP section, a man approached her and said, “Hi. I am Donald Trump.”

“I recognized the name and knew he was a businessman or a celebrity, but nothing more,” she writes. “Hello,” I replied. “I’m Melania.”

He notes that he had a “beautiful date,” but at the same time, “I was drawn to his magnetic energy.” (The date was widely mentioned, including in the New York Post in 2005 by a friend of Melania’s, as Celina Mildefar, a Norwegian heiress who also dated Jeffrey Epstein.)

On her account in Melanie, she claims she didn’t want to give Trump her number and he gave her his, calling on his “bodyguard” to hand over an “elegant business card” to which he added two numbers. As she writes, she called him only after the model’s trip to the Caribbean, but as she claims, “the connection between us was palpable.”

Melania points to tensions in her relationship with her stepchildren, with whom she was rarely photographed. In 2016, she was seen with (from left) Tiffany, Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric while interviewing for NBC candidates. She didn’t bring in Barron for this, but Don Jr. did. he brought his daughter Kai and his son Donnie.

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Their first date was a tour of his estate in Bedford, north of New York, which has long been controversial because of the generous tax breaks it gave him. At one point earlier this year, New York Attorney General Letitia James came close to taking it away from him.

Melania writes that Trump told him he was in the process of divorcing his second wife. “I refrained from passing any judgments, preferring instead to enjoy his company,” he writes, without mentioning Marla Maples, the mother of his daughter Tiffany.

“He was a little older than me, but at 28, I felt an instant connection with him.” When she returned home, she writes, she realized: “Our bond was undeniable and felt natural.”

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She complains that she was called a “gold digger”, claiming: “I made a fortune and if I wanted to, I could easily attract the attention of many celebrities”, and says that when she moved to Trump Tower, she was about four years into their relationship. cook for him. “Whenever there was music playing in his house, he would turn up the volume and get me into a spontaneous dance.”

She also boasts about the “500 celebrity guests” at her Mar-a-Lago wedding; how Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue, flew her to Paris to choose a dress; “global media reach”; “our long-awaited Maybach”; a list of people who were there, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Shaquille O’Neal, Barbara Walters, Gayle King, Matt Lauer, Anna Wintour and Kelly Ripa; and that entertainment was provided by Tony Bennett, Paul Anka and Billy Joel.

The former first lady writes at length about her Mar-a-Lago wedding, boasting about the number of celebrities, the weight of the dress and the size of the cake.

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Don Jr., her stepson, was one of the wedding guests in 2005, but his and his siblings’ names appear only once in her book.

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Melania describes the “complicated dynamics” of dealing with his four older children, whose names she only uses once, and hints at much greater tensions, writing: “While I do not agree with every opinion and choice expressed by Donald’s adult children, nor do I subscribe to all of Donald’s decisions, and I recognize that different points of view are a natural aspect of human relationships.”

However, one aspect of her husband’s decision that she definitely relates to is his refusal to accept that he lost the 2020 election.

He details election night at the White House, complaining that Fox News is calling for Arizona to elect Joe Biden “before all the votes are counted,” and then paradoxically lamenting that the nationwide election results won’t be known for several days. “Many Americans still have doubts about the election,” she writes, without directly acknowledging that it was her husband and his associates who caused these doubts.

“I’m not the only one who questions the results.”