Melania Trump reveals why Donald keeps calling her doctor and what she believes about the 2020 election

Melania Trump opened up in her book about a surprising aspect of her marriage: her husband’s “thoughtful” habit of checking with her doctor about her health.

The former first lady offers only fleeting glimpses into life at home with Donald Trump in her new memoir. Melania. The Daily Beast has seen a copy of the 184-page book, which will be published Tuesday.

In the book, Melania describes her courtship of the billionaire, who is 24 years her senior, writes in detail about their wedding, talks about their “chemistry” and admits that there are “political differences” between them.

But she also proves to be as vehement and unrepentant a denier of the 2020 election as her husband, using the names of his other four children only once.

The most startling passage about their relationship comes in a paean to him early in the book, revealing that he calls her doctor regularly.

“As I got to know him better, I realized that the public only saw part of Donald Trump,” she writes. “In private, he presented himself as a gentleman and showed tenderness and consideration.

“For example, to this day, Donald calls my personal doctor to inquire about my health, to make sure that I am well and that he is taking perfect care of me. He’s not flashy or dramatic, just genuine and caring.”

She does not name her personal doctor.

Trump’s own personal doctors included one who wrote that he couldn’t be drafted during the Vietnam War because of bone spurs, the late Harold Bornstein, who proclaimed he would be “the healthiest president ever,” and White House physician Ronnie Jackson, who said this he could “live to be 200 years old.” (Jackson, now a Republican congressman, gave up his right to practice anything but emergency medicine and was stripped of his Navy rank of rear admiral after his retirement because he was found to have bullied subordinates.)

The calls to her doctor are among the book’s few real insights into their relationship. It describes their meeting in 1998 – when she was 28 and he was 52 – which she recounts on five pages of the 184-page memoir.

At the time, she says, she was living in an apartment in Manhattan when a friend called one Friday evening to invite her to a party at the Kit Kat Klub. Despite her aversion to clubbing, she accepted because it was Fashion Week.

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In the “sophistication and camaraderie” of the VIP area, she writes, a man came up to her and said, “Hello. I am Donald Trump.”

“I recognized the name and knew he was a businessman or a celebrity, but not much else,” she writes. “’Hello,’ I replied. ‘I’m Melania.'”

She notes that he had a “beautiful date,” but at the same time “I was drawn to his magnetic energy.” (The date was widely reported, including in New York Post in 2005 by a friend of Melania as Celina Mildefar, a Norwegian heiress who also dated Jeffrey Epstein.)

In your account in Melania, She says she refused to give Trump her number and instead he gave her his and summoned his “bodyguard” to hand him an “elegant business card” to which he added two numbers. She writes that she only called him after a modeling trip to the Caribbean, but says “the connection between us was palpable.”

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Their first date was a tour of his estate in Bedford, north of New York City, which has long been controversial because of the generous tax breaks it gave him. Earlier this year, New York Attorney General Letitia James came close to stripping him of it.

Melania writes that Trump told her that he was in the process of divorcing his second wife. “I refrained from passing judgment and instead chose to enjoy his company,” she writes, without mentioning Marla Maples, the mother of his daughter Tiffany, by name.

“He was a little older than me, but I felt an immediate connection with him at age 28.” When she got home, she wrote, she realized, “Our connection was undeniable and our connection felt natural.”

She complains about being called a “gold digger” and claims, “I had made my fortune and could have easily attracted the attention of numerous celebrities if I wanted to,” saying when she moved into Trump Tower , it was about four years into their relationship that she enjoyed cooking for him. “Whenever there was music playing at home, he would turn up the volume and encourage me to spontaneously dance.”

She also brags about the “500 celebrity guests” at her Mar-a-Lago wedding; like Anna Wintour, the fashion editor-in-chief, flew with her to Paris to choose a dress; the “global media coverage”; “our waiting Maybach”; the list of attendees, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Shaquille O’Neal, Barbara Walters, Gayle King, Matt Lauer, Anna Wintour and Kelly Ripa; and that the entertainment was from Tony Bennett, Paul Anka and Billy Joel.

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Describing “complicated dynamics” in dealing with his four older children, whose names she uses only once, Melania hints at far greater tensions, writing: “Although I don’t agree with every opinion or decision made by Donald’s adult children “I agree with all of Donald’s decisions and recognize that different viewpoints are a natural aspect of human relationships.”

But one aspect of her husband’s decisions that she strongly supports is his refusal to accept that he lost the 2020 election.

She details election night at the White House, complains that Fox News called Arizona for Joe Biden “before all the votes were counted,” and paradoxically complains that statewide results wouldn’t be known for several days. “Many Americans still have doubts about the election to this day,” she writes – without directly acknowledging that it was her husband and his staff who fueled the doubts.

“I’m not the only one questioning the results.”