Trump indicates he hasn’t read Melania’s new book: ‘So busy’

Donald Trump indicated during a rally on Wednesday night that he has not read Melania Trump’s new memoir even as he pushed his followers to buy it.

“People love our First Lady. Go out and get a book. She just wrote a book. I hope she said good things about… I don’t know. I didn’t… so busy,” Trump said at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York on Long Island.

He added: “She just wrote a book called Melania. Go out and buy it, and if she says bad things about me, I’ll call you all up and I’ll say, don’t buy it.”

Earlier this month, in a video promoting her book, the former first lady asked for the “truth” behind the first assassination attempt against her husband on July 13 when a gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, opened fire during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was grazed by a bullet and one attendee was killed and two others were injured.

“The attempt to end my husband’s life was a horrible, distressing experience,” she said in a video shared on X on September 10. “Now the silence around it feels heavy. I can’t help but wonder why didn’t law enforcement officials arrest the shooter before the speech. There is definitely more to this story, and we need to uncover the truth.”

Since then, a second would-be assassin, 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, has been detained after his rifle was spotted by a Secret Service agent in the bushes at a Trump golf course in Florida as the former president was golfing on Sunday. On Wednesday night, Trump praised the woman who took a picture of his license plate, enabling the authorities to pull him over and detain him.

The former first lady hasn’t been seen on the campaign trail and while she did attend the Republican National Convention, she didn’t make a speech, as