Melania Trump Teases Memoir: ‘I Feel A Responsibility To Clarify The Facts’

Former First Lady Melania Trump is teasing the release of her memoir, saying after years of “public scrutiny and misrepresentation,” she will share “the truth.”

“Writing this memoir has been a deeply personal and reflective journey for me,” Trump said in a video released Thursday on social media.

“As a private person who has often been the subject of public scrutiny and misrepresentation, I feel a responsibility to clarify the facts,” Trump said ahead of the Oct. 1 release of “Melania.”

“I believe it is important to share my perspective: the truth,” she said into the camera in the video.

The 54-year-old former model, who married former President Donald Trump in 2005, announced the publication of a memoir in July. In promotional materials, publisher Skyhorse Publishing called the book an “intimate portrait of a woman who has lived an extraordinary life.”

The book is poised to include “stories and images never before shared with the public,” according to its publisher.

Donald Trump revealed this week that his youngest son, Barron Trump, learned about him being shot when he was at a tennis lesson.

During an interview with Fox News’ Mark Levin, Trump revealed his youngest son learned that his father had been shot while on the tennis court.

“He’s a good tennis player. And somebody ran up (and said), ‘Barron! Barron! Your father’s been shot,’” Trump recounted, adding that Barron reacted immediately: “He loves his father. He’s a good kid, a good student. And he ran, ‘Mom! What’s going on? What’s going on?”

Trump said his wife, former First Lady Melania Trump, was watching coverage of the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and saw the attempt on his life play out live. “She was watching it live. Can you imagine? And then I got up and let people know I was okay. Fight. Fight. Fight. But it was a big hit,” Trump said.

In a previous interview with Fox News, Trump had spoken about Melania’s reaction to seeing the assassination attempt: “When I could talk to people, I said, ‘So what was your feeling?’, and she said she can’t even talk about it, which is okay because that means she likes me,” he said.

At another point in the interview, Trump said that, after he had been taken to safety following the shooting, his son, Donald Trump Jr., who is “great with guns,” told him, “I can’t believe it. From that distance… I can’t believe it.”

“From that distance it’s supposed to be, like, a sure thing,” Trump continued, alluding that the shooter, Matthew Crooks, should have had no problem hitting him directly. “Like sinking a one-foot putt.” Trump had been showing a chart of border crossing statistics when he was shot. “If I turned around just a little bit less, or a little bit more,” he said. “If I turned around more or less, it was still the end.”

Barron Trump has experienced many changes this summer.

On Wednesday, Barron was seen going to his first day of school at New York University in Manhattan.

The New York Post shared pictures showing Barron Trump getting out of a car with Secret Service guards at NYU’s campus in downtown Manhattan.

On Wednesday, the ex-president told the Daily Mail that Barron goes to NYU’s Stern School of Business.

“He’s a very smart guy, and he’ll be going to Stern, the business school, which is a great school at NYU,” Trump said.

The former president has talked about the idea of his son going to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which is where he went to school and where Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Tiffany Trump also finished. Eric Trump went to college at Georgetown.