Inside Melania and Donald Trump's odd marriage from scandalous first meeting to separate bedrooms

Melania Trump has stood by hubby Donald contempt galore scandals that person dogged him before, during and aft their clip successful the White House - though the mates are said to disagree connected politics

Donald Trump volition instrumentality to the White House with woman Melania following a stunning landslide predetermination victory - but their rocky matrimony has amazed galore implicit its astir 2 decades.

The 54-year-old erstwhile exemplary faced accrued scrutiny passim her husband's 2016 statesmanlike campaign, his 4 years arsenic Commander successful Chief (from 2017 to 2021), and the galore scandals that dogged him aft helium departed the White House. There volition lone beryllium much attraction connected her arsenic she returns to her station arsenic First Lady adjacent year.

However Melania has steadfastly remained by his broadside and has admitted that, contempt her loyalty, she and the contentious person don't ever hold connected everything - but connected sleeping successful antithetic bedrooms.

According to Michael Wolff's publication Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, the mates slept successful abstracted rooms astatine the White House - the archetypal mates to bash truthful since John and Jackie Kennedy. Trump besides has a bizarre nighttime clip ritual, Wolff said - the president reportedly demanded a cardinal to his bedroom, locking his woman and the concealed work retired truthful helium could scoff cheeseburgers portion watching 3 antithetic televisions astatine once.

Wolff besides claims Trump likes to caput beneath the duvet astatine 6.30pm. It is believed the erstwhile president prefers McDonalds and different accelerated nutrient joints due to the fact that helium lives successful fearfulness of being poisoned. As accelerated nutrient is already prepared helium suspects it is simply a safer nutrient root than different choices.

Their narration has besides amazed galore including the precocious Queen. According to claims successful Craig Brown's publication 'A Voyage Around The Queen'', weeks aft 1 of Mr Trump's visits, she spoke astir Trump during a lunch. The publication claimed the Queen believed Mr Trump "must person immoderate benignant of arrangement" with his woman Melania arsenic she mused implicit their relationship. The publication besides claims she is said to person "particularly disliked" the mode helium kept looking implicit her enarthrosis arsenic if '"in hunt of others much interesting".

"A fewer weeks aft President Trump's visit, for instance, she confided successful 1 luncheon impermanent that she recovered him "very rude", the publication claimed. "She peculiarly disliked the mode helium couldn't halt looking implicit her shoulder, arsenic though successful hunt of others much interesting. She besides believed President Trump "must person immoderate benignant of arrangement" with his woman Melania, oregon other wherefore would she person remained joined to him? For his part, Donald Trump was assured helium had been her favourite impermanent ever."

The mates - who person been joined since 2005 and stock 1 son, 18-year-old Barron, had an unusual archetypal meeting. In an interrogation with Harper's Bazaar successful January 2016, Melania admitted Trump approached her for her fig contempt being connected a day with different woman. She revealed: "He wanted my number, but helium was with a date, so, of people I didn't springiness it to him...I told you that I would telephone you, but I'm not giving you my number. Give it to me."

A fewer days later, Melania called her aboriginal hubby and expressed her amazement astatine his "sense of vitality" and "energy." The existent property tycoon was divorced from Marla Maples, his ex-wife, astatine the time. Soon aft they archetypal met, the mates started dating, and successful April 2004, Donald projected during the Met Gala. "That came arsenic a immense surprise. At the time, Melania stated to the New York Post, "We are precise blessed together."

The pursuing January, the mates got joined astatine the Mar-a-Lago edifice owned by the Apprentice alum. Melania called the matrimony "fantastic" erstwhile she and Donald made a associated quality connected Larry King Live successful May 2005. Madeleine Westerhout - who worked arsenic Trump’s enforcement adjunct from 2017 to 2019 - besides revealed details astir their matrimony during a tearful grounds aft Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying concern records.

Describing the “special relationship”, the erstwhile adjunct revealed that Melania wore the trousers. She said: “He was my brag but she was decidedly the 1 successful complaint I retrieve reasoning their narration was truly special.”

Westerhout besides revealed that, during his clip arsenic president, Trump would telephone his woman from the Oval Office and inquire her to look down from her model successful the White House residence. She said: “I could fig retired helium was connected the telephone with Mrs Trump. He would say, ‘Honey, travel implicit to the window’. He would say, ‘Come to the window’ and (they would) question to each other.”