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Donald Trump was apparently so excited about spending a great deal of time, opening up to famed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, that he stopped one of their phone interviews to put his wife, Melania Trump, on the phone.
“Honey, I’m talking to Bob Woodward,” Trump said, according to “Rage,” Woodward’s new book about Trump’s presidency in the months of the COVID-19 pandemic. This moment in “Rage,” due for release next week, is shared by the New York Times, CNN and the Daily Mail.
The first couple also were in the spotlight Friday when it appeared they each had trouble reciting the Pledge of Allegiance during a memorial for victims of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. A video clip shows Melania Trump placing her hand over her heart but keeping her lips closed, while Trump appeared to miss several words and phrases, including “under God.”
Trump doesn’t seem to know the words to the Pledge of Allegiance https://t.co/LTQqccPuXC
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 11, 2020
Woodward writes in “Rage” how there were frequent interruptions during his phone calls with President Trump, CNN said. During a June 22 interview, Melania Trump walked into the room, CNN said. After the first lady got on the phone, Woodward said he mentioned to her that he worked at the Washington Post with reporter Mary Jordan, who had just published a biography of her called “The Art of Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump.”
Jordan’s book portrays Melania Trump as a canny operator who has played a key role in Trump’s political life, despite her public image of being aloof, mysterious and removed from her husband’s controversial and divisive actions and policies.
“So, they did a book on you, and they’re giving all kinds of credit to you for knowing how to live with this man,” Woodward said to Melania Trump, according to the Daily Mail. The first lady laughed.
Trump then jumped in, saying, “I didn’t know this. What book is this? I wanted to read this one.”
It’s curious that Melania Trump would laugh off Woodward’s mention of Jordan’s book, or that Trump would claim to not know about it, considering it made headlines with some of its less-than-flattering assertions about the first lady and her marriage to Trump.
Among Jordan’s more critical revelations is that Melania Trump wasn’t just concerned about Barron finishing his school year when she refused to move to Washington D.C. in the first months of her husband’s presidency; she allegedly wanted to use his need for her loyalty and presence in Washington to negotiate a better prenuptial agreement.
Anything Jordan wrote about Melania Trump doesn’t look to be anywhere near as devastating as what Woodward has written about Trump — based on what Trump himself said to Woodward in their 18 taped interviews.
In his latest blockbuster, Woodward reveals that Trump privately understood how deadly the coronavirus really was, even as he was telling the public the opposite, the New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker …read more
Source:: The Mercury News – Entertainment
