A New Book Alleges That Donald Trump Didn’t Have Long-Term Plans With Melania During Their Dating Years

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Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, have a marriage that isn’t always understood by outsiders. He loves the limelight while she prefers to live behind the walls of Mar-a-Lago, raising their son, Barron, 17. The couple, who have been married for 18 years, might not have walked down the aisle if the former president had followed through on his alleged breakup plan.

A new biography about Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, Romney: A Reckoning, spills the reported details about Donald Trump wanting to “drop” his then-girlfriend, Melania. The story took place at a New England Patriots game that the former president and Romney attended at the invitation of team owner, Robert Kraft. “Trump sidled up to Romney’s son Josh and pointed at a leggy brunette across the room. ‘Have you seen my girlfriend, Melania?’ he asked, smirking. ‘When I drop her, the phone is gonna ring off the hook. Every guy in New York wants to go out with her,’” author McKay Coppins wrote in an excerpt obtained by Rolling Stone.

It seems that Donald Trump didn’t appreciate the depiction of his relationship with his now-wife, so his team gave an as-expected type of response with the usual name-calling. “Mittens is a loser who is ‘retiring’ because he knows he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of surviving another campaign,” a Donald Trump spokesperson wrote to the media outlet. “He should stop lying and creating fake stories in order to stay relevant. The fact is that he dropped the ball when he ran against Barack Obama and is partially responsible for the mess America is in.”

It’s well-known that Romney isn’t a fan of Donald Trump either. He’s been trying to rally other moderate conservatives to support a Republican candidate who isn’t Donald Trump or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “I want to put the responsibility on your shoulders as the people who are financing campaigns to have some say as to when it’s time for the person you support to say, ‘Okay, I’m getting behind someone else,’” the senator said at a recent Utah event. Romney is hoping that Donald Trump’s legal woes get the best of them, but it sounds like the GOP politicians will never, ever be friends.

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