Melania Trump and Donald Trump have been married for a long time. 20 years, to be precise. They met at an event in New York City, and they’ve been through a lot since then, from growing a real estate empire to two terms at the White House.
Lately, however, rumors about their marriage falling apart have been circulating. Renowned Trump author Michael Wolff has revealed new details about Melania’s feelings towards her husband, with the White House also having their say.
Donald Trump and Melania first met at an event at the Kit Cat Club, where supposedly the then-model wasn’t interested. Since Trump was there with someone else and still asked her for her phone number, Melania admitted being “turned off” and said he was “totally out of the question,” her best friend Edit Molnar later revealed.
Trump had just divorced his second wife, Marla Maples, and came to the event with a date. However, when he saw Melania, he wanted to get to know her instead.
“I went crazy. I was actually supposed to meet somebody else. There was this great supermodel sitting next to Melania,” Trump told Larry King in 2005. “They said, ‘Look, there’s so and so.’ I said, ‘Forget about her. Who is the one on the left? And it was Melania.”
“Melania said, ‘He’s here with a woman. I am absolutely not giving him my number,’” Molnar recalled. “She wouldn’t even consider it. Donald did all the work.”
“He wanted my number,” Melania said. “But he was on a date, so of course I didn’t give it to him. I said, ‘I am not giving you my number; give me yours and I will call you.’ If I give him my number, I’m just one of the women he calls.”
In an interview with Fox News, Melania explained that she and Donald had their first date in New Jersey after she had returned from a modeling shoot in the Caribbean. The couple drove together for an hour and a half to Bedford, New Jersey, where Donald Trump viewed a property he wanted to buy.
“So he was combining business with taking [me] on a first date. And it was very nice, because we were two of us alone in the car for an 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,” Melania told Fox. “So it was really nice to be just two of us.”
