Melania Trump defended the size of Donald Trump’s manhood to teasing friends, insisting that he is a ‘real man’, according to a new book obtained by DailyMail.com.
The future First Lady admonished close friends when they joked Trump must have a small penis because he has small hands, and cut in to retort: ‘Don’t say this – he’s a real man.’
The claim is made in a new book about Melania out today called The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump by Washington Post journalist Mary Jordan.
Other revelations made in the book include the former model, 50, sharing posing tips with Trump to help him look better in photos.
And the mother-of-one found allegations of Trump’s infidelity with former porn star Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal so hard to deal with during the 2016 election that she once checked into a hotel to ‘get away from her husband’.
Melania Trump defended the size of Donald Trump’s manhood to teasing friends, insisting that he is a ‘real man’, according to a new book obtained by DailyMail.com. The future First Lady admonished close friends when they joked Trump must have a small penis because he has small hands, cutting in to retort: ‘Don’t say this – he’s a real man’
Trump infamously bragged about the size of his manhood during one of the Republican Presidential debates in 2016. Senator Marco Rubio made a dig at Trump’s small hands, prompting Trump to hold them up and say: ‘I guarantee you there’s no problem’
And the mother-of-one found allegations of Trump’s infidelity with former porn star Stormy Daniels (left) and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal (right) so hard to deal with during the 2016 election that she once checked into a hotel to ‘get away from her husband’
Jordan writes when Melania was dating Trump in the late 1990s she would chat about him with her former roommate Matthew Atanian, a retired fashion photographer.
Atanian recalled he and Edit Molner, the girlfriend of model scout Paolo Zampolli, were once joking about Trump having a small penis.
Melania cut in and said: ‘Don’t say this – he’s a real man’.
Melania told Atanian similar things about Trump’s over-the-top, gilded apartment atop Trump Tower.
She gushed: ‘Oh it’s so beautiful. So much class. This is the way real men live’.
‘ The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump ,’ by Washington Post reporter Mary Jordan, is out on Tuesday
Trump infamously bragged about the size of his manhood during one of the Republican Presidential debates in 2016.
Senator Marco Rubio made a dig at Trump’s small hands, prompting Trump to hold them up and say: ‘Nobody has ever hit my hands before. Look at those hands.
‘He referred to my hands – if they’re small, something else must be small’.
The future President added: ‘I guarantee you there’s no problem’.
Jordan’s book is the most in-depth portrait of Melania so far and details her improbable rise from a small town in Slovenia to become First Lady.
After marrying Trump, Melania was aware of his reputation as a ladies’ man but it became more awkward after Barron’s birth.
A friend recalled them both attending a party at the Playboy mansion where Melania was talking about her son and was ‘extremely uncomfortable’ as Trump grabbed women and held them for photos.
But it wasn’t until the election that Melania understood the ‘extent of his philandering’ when dozens of women accused him of sexually inappropriate behavior.
Jordan writes the ‘most difficult moments’ on campaign were the reports about his cheating with McDougal and Daniels.
Both claimed they had sex with him during the same weekend in July 2006 at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in Nevada.
Jordan writes when Melania was dating Trump in the late 1990s she would chat about him with her former roommate Matthew Atanian, a retired fashion photographer. Atanian recalled he and Edit Molner, the girlfriend of model scout Paolo Zampolli, were once joking about Trump having a small penis. Melania cut in and said: ‘Don’t say this – he’s a real man’. Pictured: Trump and Melania in September 1998
Melania Trump in her wedding dress on her wedding day – January 22, 2005
But it wasn’t until the election that Melania understood the ‘extent of his philandering’ when dozens of women accused him of sexually inappropriate behavior. Jordan writes the ‘most difficult moments’ on campaign were the reports about his cheating with McDougal and Daniels. Both claimed they had sex with him during the same weekend in July 2006 at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in Nevada. Barron, now 14, had only been born three months before that. Pictured: Melania Trump with husband Donald and son Barron in March 2008
Barron, now 14, had only been born three months before that.
The book argues that Melania is far more influential and strategic than people think.
Jordan writes Melania has ‘shared modeling tips’ with Trump to help him look better in photos.
She told him that when somebody is taking pictures he can ‘tighten and define his facial muscles by placing his tongue on the roof of his mouth’.
Melania advised Trump if he stands slightly back in a group photo, he will appear thinner than if he is in front of others.
Before photoshoots Melania has been heard telling Trump to ‘slightly lift and extend his chin.’
The Art of Her Deal includes frank details about how Melania and Trump live, what Jordan calls, ‘parallel lives that barely intersect’.
They sleep in separate bedrooms, partly because Trump likes darker rugs and walls and Melania prefers whites and light colors.
Also he wakes at 5am and pops the TV on immediately while she sleeps in.
Former housekeepers from Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he frequently visits on weekends, say Trump’s room is on the first floor of their mansion on the grounds and Melania and Barron have suites on the first floor.
Staff ‘never saw them have dinner together’ but Melania’s parents Viktor and Amalija were by her side all the time, speaking Slovenian which Barron learned from his mother.
Victoriana Morales, a former housekeeper, said Trump would turn up in the evenings, Barron would play a video game and Melania was on the computer.
The Art of Her Deal includes frank details about how Melania and Trump live, what Jordan calls, ‘parallel lives that barely intersect’
Staff ‘never saw them have dinner together’ but Melania’s parents Viktor and Amalija (pictured) were by her side all the time, speaking Slovenian which Barron learned from his mother. They described how Trump kept a pile of clothes he didn’t want anymore, so Viktor, who is the same size as his son-in-law, ended up wearing them sometimes, the maids said
She said: ‘I never saw them like a normal family, sitting together at a table, eating together, talking.
‘Never, never, never. They spend time in the same place but they don’t interact’.
‘I never saw them holding hands’, another former housekeeper, Sandra Diaz, added.
They also noted that Melania’s room is full of photos of herself and Barron, 14, while the walls of Trump’s room are full of photos of him with celebrities, such as Michael Jackson, to reassure him of his own fame.
The housekeepers revealed that ‘cleaning up the residue’ from Melania’s regular applications of tanning spray was one of the worst jobs they had to do.
Housekeepers also had to make sure that Melania always had two bottles of liquid face makeup filled up.
They described how Trump kept a pile of clothes he didn’t want anymore, so Viktor, who is the same size as his son-in-law, ended up wearing them sometimes, the maids said.
But the President ‘blew up’ at him for wearing one of his old MAGA hats at Bedminster – an unwritten rule is nobody else wears them.
Trump ‘became furious and demanded that he take it off and leave’, so Viktor did but called Trump ‘that f****** guy’.
Witnesses said the incident was ‘unforgettable’ and Viktor was ‘very embarrassed’.
While her father swore, Melania remained ‘silent’, apparently torn between loyalty to her father and her husband.
In the book Jordan was granted a rare interview with Melania, in which she says she and Trump like to watch movies to relax – including Gone With the Wind, which was recently removed by HBO because of its insensitive portrayal of African-Americans.
In the book Jordan was granted a rare interview with Melania, in which she says she and Trump like to watch movies to relax – including Gone With the Wind, which was recently removed by HBO because of its insensitive portrayal of African-Americans (pictured)
Their favorites are classics include Gone with the Wind, Sunset Boulevard and An Affair to Remember, all of which feature complicated love stories.
As to their relationship, Melania said they ‘have great chemistry’ and that Trump is ‘very kind and has a great heart – he is always there’.
She said: ‘We like to do what we like to do and we give ourselves and each other space.
‘I allowed him to do, to have his passion and his dreams come true, and he let me do the same. I’m not a yeller. I’m not a screamer. I’m (a) calm person.’
Asked about his playboy past, Melania said: ‘I guess he now settled down’.
She added: ‘He found the person that he’s compatible, comfortable, has trust (in). We have a trust in each other. We are loyal to each other, We respect each other.
‘We give space to each other. We don’t control each other. So I think it’s very important you know, to find each other it’s very special. It’s a very special thing’.
The Art of Her Deal, the title a nod to Trump’s book The Art of the Deal, describes how Trump would parade Melania in front of men, including a journalist who interviewed him in his office.
Michael Streck, who was the US correspondent for German magazine Stern, recalled how Trump summoned Melania, who was wearing a very tight minidress, and said: ‘Isn’t she stunning?’
Trump asked Melania to turn so Streck could see her back.
Streck called it ‘awkward and weird’ and said it reminded him of how a farmer showed off his best cow at a cattle show.
Melania Trump delayed her move to Washington D.C. after Trump became president in part to use the time to renegotiate her pre-nup agreement; the first couple are seen on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2017
Among the other anecdotes is that Trump repeatedly refused to stay at Blair House the night before his inauguration, even though it is the place where the next President traditionally stays.
Trump objected because the rooms were small and the TVs weren’t big enough but he relented under pressure from the Secret Service and when Ivanka brought him some sheets from the Trump International Hotel to make him feel ‘more at home’.
The whole Trump family slept in the 14-bedroom property and Trump felt ‘trapped’ being so close to his whole family.
In extracts of the book already made public, Jordan said Melania delayed moving into the White House in 2016 so she could renegotiate her prenup agreement.
The plan was that Barron, 14, would be looked after financially the same as the other Trump children and it appears to have worked.
The book claims that Melania has had cosmetic surgery to improve her appearance, lied about her age and made questionable claims to speak several languages.
Such were the tensions between Trump’s daughter Ivanka and Melania that the First Lady called her the ‘The Princess’ and the first daughter called her stepmother ‘The Portrait’.
Jordan writes: ‘There is ample evidence that from the very beginning, Melania not only accepted and embraced Trump’s political aspirations but was also an encouraging partner.
‘In her own way, she is as complex and complicated as her husband.
‘She is also much more like him than it appears’.
Stephanie Grisham, the First Lady’s chief of staff, has dismissed the book and said that it is filled with ‘false information and sources’ and ‘belongs in the fiction genre’.