The key revelations from Melania's memoir: being pro-choice & the accusations that made her 'furious'

To galore people, Melania Trump is somewhat of an enigma. The Slovenian-American erstwhile exemplary seemed to ascend to the White House arsenic a alternatively reluctant First Lady successful 2016, and is present acceptable to instrumentality to her relation successful 2025.

With a steely look and aggravated (often sunglass-shielded) eyes, the interior workings of Melania Trump’s caput person ever been a mystery. Until now.

Trump’s self-titled memoir, Melania, has present landed successful the UK, giving Britons the accidental to instrumentality a peek wrong the former, and future, First Lady’s brain.

From her fierce protective streak implicit her son, Barron Trump — who you whitethorn cognize for being astoundingly tall — to her stance connected termination rights, present are immoderate of the biggest bombshells from Melania’s memoir.

Donald Trump’s stance connected termination is mostly rather conservative, with him calling the determination to overturn Roe V. Wade and the ensuing tightening of termination restrictions crossed aggregate states “a beauteous happening to watch.”

But successful her book, Melania makes it wide that she doesn’t hold with specified measures. "It is imperative to warrant that women person autonomy successful deciding their penchant of having children, based connected their ain convictions, escaped from immoderate involution oregon unit from the government," the publication reads.

“A woman’s cardinal close of idiosyncratic liberty, to her ain life, grants her the authorization to terminate her gestation if she wishes.”

Both Melania and Donald Trump person received backlash against these comments from the salient anti-abortion broadside of Trump’s fanbase. The erstwhile president defended his wife’s comments connected Fox News past week, saying: “We spoke astir it. And I said, you person to constitute what you believe.”

Melania tends to enactment distant from the run trail, prevention for large events, which means she wasn’t contiguous for the assassination effort upon Donald Trump astatine a rally successful Pennsylvania this July.

Watching connected tv from Bedminster, New Jersey, she recalls: “I watched the chaos unfold: the gunfire, Donald instinctively reaching up to his head, and the contiguous effect of Secret Service agents shielding him.”

After “what felt similar an eternity”, she says she yet spoke to her husband, whose endurance she calls “nothing abbreviated of a miracle.”

She remembers being astir disquieted for her son, who was besides watching connected television. “Each clip we saw Donald’s bloodied face, I had to punctual myself that I had really conscionable spoken to him," Trump writes.

When comedian Rosie O’Donnell posted a video of Barron Trump and claimed that helium had autism, she astir apt didn’t expect it to marque it each the mode to Barron Trump himself, oregon his precise protective mother, Melania Trump.

But they did, and Melania was “furious.” She writes: “I knew the tweet and video would spell viral and I knew however overmuch it would wounded him," she writes. “I was appalled by specified cruelty. It was wide to maine that she was not funny successful raising consciousness astir autism. I felt that she was attacking my lad due to the fact that she didn’t similar my husband.”

She says that Barron has not been diagnosed with autism, but that if helium had been, “there is thing shameful astir autism.”

Melania Trump denies the assertion that she lone joined Donald Trump, who is 24 years her senior, for his money. Speaking fiercely, but besides successful semi-legalese, she calls these claims “baseless accusations” and notes her and Trump’s shared fondness for Elvis and Elton John.

When describing her archetypal gathering with Donald Trump, she writes: “From the infinitesimal our speech began, I was captivated by his charm and easygoing nature.

When Trump asked for her telephone fig she declined, asking the concern mogul to springiness her his interaction details instead.

According to the book, she called him a fewer days later, earlier the brace went connected their archetypal authoritative day astatine Trump’s Seven Springs spot successful Bedford, New York.

While Melania Trump seems beauteous coagulated connected definite beliefs and opinions — specified arsenic her presumption that the 2020 predetermination votes should person been recounted — she is notably shaky connected others.

On January 6, 2021, her mentation of events is considerably sparse. This was the time of the Capitol siege, which Melania did not denounce astatine the clip due to the fact that she was “not alert of the events unfolding.”

“Had I been afloat informed of each the details, naturally, I would person instantly denounced the unit that occurred astatine the Capitol Building,” she writes.

It turns retired Melania Trump is simply a immense instrumentality of King Charles, who she claims she was erstwhile pen pals with during her archetypal word arsenic First Lady.

She reveals that she and the King bonded backmost successful 2019 astatine a authorities banquet wherever she was sat adjacent to him, describing it arsenic "an implicit pleasance to reconnect with him.”

"Our paths had crossed galore years agone successful New York City,” she writes. “This clip we engaged successful an absorbing speech astir his deep-rooted committedness to biology conservation.” During his clip successful office, Melania’s husband’s medication rolled backmost much than 100 biology policies.