Melania Trump during the Fox News interview. Photo / Fox News
Melania Trump during the Fox News interview. Photo / Fox News
Melania Trump has revealed that on her first date with Donald he took her on an hour-and-a-half drive to view a property he wanted to buy.
In her first interview for two years, the former first lady, 54, spoke candidly about her and the former President’s early courtship.
She said after initially refusing to give Trump, 78, her number, the pair spoke on the phone while she was on a modelling shoot in the Caribbean and arranged their first date upon her return.
The meeting involved a 90-minute drive to Bedford, New Jersey, so that Trump, who made his money in real estate, could view a property he was interested in purchasing.
“So he was combining business with taking [me] on a first date,” she told Fox News.
“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.”
Recollections may vary
The details of the couple’s early romance differ from those previously given by the former first lady.
In 2016, she told Harper’s Bazaar she and Trump went for dinner and then to Moomba, a New York restaurant and lounge, on their first date.
“It was a great place, wasn’t it? I remember that night like it was two months ago,” she told the magazine.
In the wide-ranging interview with Fox that comes before the release of her new book Melania, she also revealed she watched the former President get shot on television.
“I ran to the TV and I [rewound] it and I watched it,” she said, referring to the moment a gunman opened fire at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July, shooting the former President in the ear.
Donald Trump surrounded by US Secret Service agents in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July after an assassination attempt. Photo / AFP
“I didn’t really see [it] live, but maybe, you know, three minutes, a few minutes later. But when I saw it, I, you know, it was only ... Nobody really knew yet. Because when you see him on the floor, and you don’t know, you don’t know what really happened.”
Addressing the second attempt on Trump’s life, when a gunman was spotted hiding in the bushes at the former President’s Florida golf course this month, she said the fact her husband survived both would-be assassins was a miracle.
“As soon as I saw it on television, I called again and he was okay because Secret Service were great,” she said.
“The guys that they were, the team, they were fantastic. And I think both of the events, they were really miracles.”
