Trump Says He’s Been Too “Busy” to Read Melania’s Forthcoming Memoir, in Which She Attacks the FBI, Questions the Secret Service, and Defends Her Nude Modeling Work

Donald Trump, husband of the 12 months, stated at a rally on Wednesday that he hasn’t learn Melania Trump’s soon-to-be launched memoir as a result of he has too many different urgent issues to cope with. “Exit and get her ebook,” the ex-president nonetheless told supporters throughout a rally in New York. “She simply wrote a ebook. I hope she stated good issues about—I don’t know, I didn’t, so busy. She simply wrote a ebook known as Melania. Exit and purchase it. It’s nice. And if she says unhealthy issues about me, I’ll name you all up and I’ll say, ‘Don’t purchase it. Eliminate it.’”

The previous president might not have had room in his schedule to thumb via his spouse’s memoir—although he’s holding fewer campaign events than ever, and does handle to repeatedly fit in a round of golf—however he and the remainder of the world have been given hints in regards to the matters the previous first woman addresses, due to a sequence of just lately launched and deeply unusual book-promo movies.

In a single put out yesterday, Melania Trump asks, “Why do I stand proudly behind my nude modeling work?” After which solutions, “The extra urgent query is, why has the media chosen to scrutinize the celebration of the human kind in a style photograph shoot? Are we not capable of recognize the fantastic thing about the human physique? All through historical past, grasp artists have revered the human form, evoking profound feelings and admiration. We should always honor our our bodies and embrace the timeless custom of utilizing artwork as a strong technique of self-expression.”

As The New York Instances notes, going after the media re: her decades-old nude-modeling work was a little bit of a head-scratching alternative, given Melania’s “profession as a mannequin has not been the topic of broad information protection because the 2016 presidential race.” Additionally a alternative: to place her nude photograph shoot—which appeared in British GQ in 2000 and featured clothes-less pictures of her aboard her husband’s “customised Boeing 727 sporting handcuffs, wielding diamonds and holding a chrome pistol”—in the identical class as works like John Collier’s Girl Godiva and Michelangelo’s David. (Trump doesn’t point out the truth that zealous Republicans have been liable for, amongst different issues, a trainer being forced to resign in Florida for exhibiting college students an image of the well-known sculpture by Michelangelo.)

Anyway! In one other video, the previous first woman asks, of the July assassination try on her husband, “Why didn’t regulation enforcement officers arrest the shooter earlier than the speech?” Including, “there’s positively extra to this story, and we have to uncover the reality.”