“He was with a beautiful blonde.” Melania talks about meeting Donald Trump in a nightclub

He literally stole the show. In his memoirs Melaniapublished on Tuesday, October 8, Donald Trump’s wife looks back at her meeting with the future president of the United States, then on the arm of another woman. If the former first lady is to be believed, the businessman was then a “beautiful blonde” in the company of entrepreneur Selina Middelfart when they first crossed paths at a nightclub party during Fashion Week in 1998. called the Kit Kat Club. Variety thus revealed a part of the work in which the former model recalls her first flirtation with the real estate tycoon.

“Connection Moment”

– Hello, – the latter would say to him. I am Donald Trump. I am glad to meet you.” At that time, Melania Knaus was aware that her interlocutor was a “businessman or a famous person”, but she did not know “much more”. “He reached out to shake mine,” she continued. After the usual introductions, the two would strike up a fascinating conversation. “His eyes were filled with interest and curiosity, and he took the opportunity to sit down next to me and strike up a conversation,” she recalled. He asked me about my life in New York, my home in Slovenia, and my travels around the world.

A discussion that remained engraved in his memory. “It was a moment of connection, a short meeting that left a lasting impression on me,” he wrote. It was nice to meet a new person.” However, at that time, Melania Knaus did not expect anything from this conversation. The young woman is well aware that the businessman came with the event. Thus, he perceives this moment as “simple pleasures exchanged at a fashion industry event.” “The music was loud and the environment was noisy, which made it difficult to really connect with anyone,” he continued.

“The Center of His World”

The model, however, would be seduced by Donald Trump’s “charm and laid-back nature.” “There was a lot of excitement around us, but the care he took to focus on our discussion made me feel like I was the center of his world,” she explained. An exchange of “a thousand miles of mere superficial talk” that conjured the future First ladyof a businessman “attracted by magnetic energy”. “When his partner left for a moment, he asked me for my phone number,” she said. I politely declined his request. He was a little surprised.’

Melania asked him for his number anyway. “I’ll give you my number if you promise to call me,” Donald Trump reportedly replied. The businessman then allegedly called his bodyguard, who discreetly wrote down the number on a fancy business card. “Donald took the card and gave it to me,” she said. The two would meet again a week later. They would then have a checkered relationship over the following years. In 2005, however, they said “I do” in a ceremony in Palm Beach. Until becoming one of the most powerful couples in the United States, a decade later.

“He was a rare man”

A meeting that Charlotte Hayes, article columnist New York Observer and: Washington Timesnotes on the podcast Scandals from Madame Figaro. “Melania Knaus, her maiden name, was a rare person,” he analyzed. She was a supermodel at home, loved to stay in her apartment near Union Square in New York.” Before adding: “One day someone convinced him to go to a party at the Kit Kat Club in New York. She met Donald Trump and she fell completely under his spell, which was not mutual. He came with another woman and when he wanted to take her phone number, she didn’t give it.”

A meeting that was mocked by Melania Trump’s friends. Notably Matthew Atanian, a photographer who was her roommate at the time and who remembered Vanity Fair what he had told her at the time; “You like her little hands, her hair, and her good looks, not her money, of course…” To which he allegedly replied. He’s a man, a real one.” Donald Trump’s love for Melania Knaus would also be genuine.

“The very interesting thing is that at that time Donald Trump once again had the opportunity to seduce many women,” explained journalist Laurence Haim. Madame Figaro. There were many girls who wanted to date him and it was Melania Trump who somehow got him. They are very much in love, it shows in the photos, it is not a story at all (…) We see that there is really something between them. Decades later, the former first lady is still by her husband’s side during the new presidential election campaign.