Black-and-white images play over dramatic music. Then comes Melania Trump’s voice, “I feel a responsibility to clarify the facts. I believe it is important to share my perspective. The truth.” This is how the former First Lady, with a solemn tone and (almost) moved face, promoted with a post on X her memoir, Melania, which will be released on the market on September 24, six weeks before the presidential election.
My Story.
My Perspective.
The Truth. https://t.co/ZCTwZSqZND pic.twitter.com/HHGQaA6d5v— MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) September 5, 2024
The autobiography will clear the “misrepresentations” of her life “as a private person” when her husband was elected President in 2016. “Writing this memoir has been a deeply personal and reflective journey for me,” she continues in the post on X. The copy costs $40, the signed one is $75, and a collector’s edition is $150, including some photographs and other extras life additional photos.
With this video, where she is seen interacting with children, as First Lady or at other presidential events, Trump seems to want to reclaim her place at her husband’s side despite months of press silence and absence from the spotlight and from rally stages in this campaign. Her only brief appearance was at the Republican Convention in Milwaukee last July on the stage reserved for family and MAGA loyalists inside the Fiserv Forum. Still, she did not intervene as a speaker or offer a comment endorsing her husband.
Melania’s speeches during Trump’s political career have been rare. During his presidency, the Slovenian-born former model reportedly decided to move into the White House only in June 2017, five months after Trump was sworn in, so that her son Barron could finish school in New York. Even then, she was rumored to spend a lot of time at the Potomac, Maryland, residence instead, but that was never confirmed.
