Donald Trump once offered a MAGA newcomer his bed while she was feeling unwell, but told her to keep it a secret from Melania, according to a new bombshell book.
The president made the offer aboard his personal jet in 2023, when Florida Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, 35, was pregnant.
“If you need a bed to lay down in, there’s one here on the plane. If you feel sick and you need to lay there, you can lay on it,” Trump reportedly told Luna.
“Just don’t tell Melania. She doesn’t like other women on my bed,” he joked.
The comments, revealed in Axios reporter Alex Isenstadt’s new book Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power, cast new light on the president’s eyebrow-raising marriage to Melania Trump.
“She f---ing hates him,” a source close to Trump and his family told Michael Wolff, who last month published another book to delve into Trump’s second campaign, All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America. The White House responded to the book by calling Wolff “a lying sack of s---.”
Responding to the book’s claims on X, Luna described the moment in detail, adding it was the “most compassionate thing” that could have been done at the time as she was experiencing “pre-eclampsia symptoms,” a serious complication during pregnancy that, if left untreated, can cause fatal problems for the mother and child.
“I seldom respond to nasty headlines because I don’t like giving trash credibility, however, being that there is allegedly a book coming out with me named and attacking @POTUS, his marriage, our first lady, and frankly implying something distasteful about me, I am responding,” Luna wrote after the Beast first published this story.
The 35-year-old explained she was “very pregnant and at the time experiencing pre-eclampsia symptoms, but was not diagnosed. As soon as @realDonaldTrump boarded the plane, being the gentleman and good person that he is, said if I did not feel well, I could use the back room.
Luna said the exchange was made in front of her husband in a “respectful way.” She added: “He also assured me that they had a medical team on board in case anything happened and they were aware of how pregnant I was. This was the most compassionate thing that could’ve been done at the time.
“I find it disgusting that the author fails to recognize that,” Luna continued. “A few weeks later, I was induced because I did have pre-eclampsia. The author of this book never reached out to me for comment. Which means that this book is likely going to be a s--- hit piece. If people in POTUS orbit are talking to this author, they need to be cut off immediately. This is gross.”
In a statement to the Daily Beast, an Axios spokesperson stood by Isenstadt’s account.
“In our report, Axios correctly portrayed and contextualized comments made by President Trump during an interaction that he had with Rep. Luna, an interaction she confirmed in her statement did in fact happen,” the spokesperson said.
Melania was rarely seen by Trump’s side on the campaign trail last year. The first lady has reportedly limited her stays at the White House since Trump’s return to power, splitting her time between D.C. and Florida.
“She leads her own life and joins [the president] when appropriate in either place,” a source told People last month.
Isenstadt’s book divulges other candid moments from the president’s campaign trail, such as sarcastic comments about going after his political opponents.
“Listen, everybody. There will be no retribution, there will be no revenge. Wink, wink,” he reportedly told aides in March 2024.
He also raged against E. Jean Carroll and Stormy Daniels to an aide in April 2024, reportedly ranting, “E. Jean Carroll says I f---ed her. Stormy Daniels says I f---ed her. But I never f---ed them. Everyone’s f---ing everybody, but I never f---ed any of these people.”
But his Republicans colleagues weren’t off the hook either. When Ron DeSantis prepared to run against him in the 2023 Republican primary, Trump reportedly told then-Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, “I’m going to squash this guy like a bug.” He also insulted Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) for lacking charisma and made fun of casino mogul Steve Wynn’s incurable eye disease, according to Isenstadt.
“Many of these so-called insider books are a desperate attempt to make money off of President Trump’s name because journalism is a dying industry with reporters peddling lies and selling their souls in order to make a quick buck,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said in a statement to the Daily Beast.
“These works of fiction either belong in the bargain bin of the fantasy section in a discount bookstore or should be repurposed as tissue paper.”
