Donald Trump and Melania Knauss first met in 1998. He is a successful American businessman, she a Slovenian model who has lived in America since 1996. The two soon started a relationship and in January 2005 they tied the knot. Melania became pregnant and in 2006 their love was crowned with the birth of son Barron. In 2016, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States and since then their relationship has come under heavy scrutiny. What is the story behind the marriage between Donald and Melania Trump?
Contents
- Donald Trump in short
- Melania Knauss in short
- The first meeting and relationship
- Wedding boat and birth of son
- To the White House
- Marriage during presidency
Donald Trump in short
Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946 in New York City. The Trump family is an entrepreneurial family and Donald was also taught entrepreneurship. In 1968 he received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. After this he started working in his father’s real estate company E. Trump & Son. In 1971, Donald was appointed president of the family business and renamed it The Trump Organization. The real estate company renovates and builds skyscrapers, hotels and casinos, among other things. Although the company first did this in the Queens district of New York, Donald Trump managed to expand the business further to other areas of the city such as Manhattan. Trump grew into a successful businessman and produced and presented his program The Apprentice from 2003, which made his star rise. In 2015, Donald Trump ran for the American presidency on behalf of the Republicans. After an eventful race with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump was elected by the people in November 2016 as the 45th President of the United States.
Before Donald Trump met Melania Knauss, he had already tied the knot twice before. Trump married Czech model Ivana Zelníčková in 1977. Together they have three children named Donald Jr. born in 1977, daughter Ivanka born in 1981 and son Eric born in 1984. The couple divorced in 1992 when Donald had an affair with actress Marla Maples. Trump continues with Maples and they married in 1993. In the same year, daughter Tiffany Trump was born. This marriage also did not last long and during the divorce process from Marla Maples, which was completed in 1999, Donald Trump met the Slovenian Melania Knauss.
Melania Knauss in short
Melania Knauss, originally Knavs, was born on April 26, 1970 in Novo Mesto in Slovenia. Knauss goes to school at the Secondary School of Design and Photography in the city of Ljubljana and later studies architecture at the city’s university. However, she quit her studies early to focus on her modeling work. She has been doing this since she was five years old and at the age of sixteen Melania embarked on commercial work. This is also the moment that she changes her Slovenian surname Knavs to the German variant Knauss.
At the age of eighteen, she signed a contract with an Italian modeling agency in Milan. Melania does a lot of modeling for French and Italian fashion houses. Through this work she meets Paolo Zampolli who is co-owner of Metropol itan Models. Zampolli urged Knauss to travel to the United States where he wants to represent her as a model. So it happened, in 1996 Melania arrived and moved into an apartment in Manhattan. The Slovenian does not return to her motherland and receives American citizenship in 2006.
The first meeting and relationship
Melania Knauss is a devoted model, she adheres to a strict diet, does not like going out and does not have an extravagant love life. Yet a successful career as a model in the United States does not get off the ground. In September 1998, her representative Paolo Zampolli throws a party at a club in Times Square during Fashion Week. Melania is there as well as Donald Trump, a friend of Zampolli. Although Trump is still divorced from Marla Maples, he brought a Norwegian date to the party. As soon as she uses the toilet, Donald approaches Melania, 24 years younger. Donald asks for her phone number, but the Slovenian model is not keen to give it up. Instead, Melania goes home with his phone number.
After this, the two soon start dating. The relationship between the two seems to be working well. While Donald Trump likes to be in the spotlight, Melania can live well with being in his shadow. Her relationship with Trump ensures that her modeling career is revived. She appears in GQ and Vanity Fair magazines. Melania would prefer to leave her motherland behind her permanently and Donald has her parents come over to the United States to settle there permanently and thus break as many ties with Slovenia as possible.
Wedding boat and birth of son
Donald and Melania got engaged in 2004 and a year later they tied the knot in January 2005 after a relationship of seven years. They get married in church in Palm Beach, Florida, after which a reception will follow at Mar-a-Lago resort, which Donald Trump himself owns. From that moment on, Melania Knauss goes through life as Melania Trump. Many celebrities are present at the wedding, such as Heidi Klum, P. Diddy and Simon Cowell, but Bill and Hillary Clinton are also among the guests.
About six months after their wedding, Melania becomes pregnant. Cracks now seem to be appearing in the previously seemingly perfect relationship. There are rumors that Melania was only allowed to become pregnant by Donald if she regained her model body after giving birth. In addition, there are increasing accusations from women who claim that he touched them lewdly while he was already married to Melania. On March 20, 2006, Melania gave birth to son Barron William Trump. Donald got to choose the boy’s first name and Melania chose the second name. Melania Trump is described as a devoted mother and son Barron as sweet and well-behaved. Although the couple separated for a few months in 2000, the relationship seems to be lasting this time.
To the White House
From 2011 onwards, Donald Trump starts to become more interested in politics and considers running for office in the 2012 American elections. However, Trump does not do it; in his own words because he is not yet ready to leave the business world. Four years later, the time has come and in 2015 he presents himself as a Republican presidential candidate for the 2016 American elections. According to Donald Trump, his entire family supports his decision to run for office, but rumors have it that Melanie is not here. agreed. She rarely appears at his side during his election campaign. Sometimes she is forced to go public. For example, she has to give a speech at the Republican convention. A speech that later turns out to have been plagiarized by Michelle Obama. The tape also appears on which Donald Trump can be heard saying grab them by the pussy about women. Melania then makes her appearance in a CNN interview in which she defends her husband’s statement as boy talk.
On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States, giving Melania the title of First Lady. Although it is a job that many wives of previous presidents have embraced, Melania still makes sure to stay out of the spotlight. At first she does not even move to the White House in Washington so that son Barron can finish his school year in New York. Only five months after Donald Trump’s inauguration as American president, Melania and Barron moved in with him.
Marriage during presidency
The election of Donald Trump as American president has put Donald and Melania’s marriage under scrutiny. The body language between the two is extensively studied and it regularly emerges that Melania appears to reject physical contact with Donald. In this way she avoids holding hands and other intimacies in public. After moving into the White House, Melania has embraced more duties as First Lady. She appears at the president’s side on more and more official occasions and foreign trips. However, in 2018, dark clouds are gathering over the presidential couple’s wedding. Porn star Stormy Daniels comes out with the story that she had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006, when Melania was pregnant. It leads to a lawsuit, filed by Daniels, which ultimately ends with the payment of hush money. In exchange for money, Stormy Daniels is no longer allowed to talk about the affair. Trump’s team has always denied the allegations.
Although Melania Trump has sometimes defended her husband in the past, it remains remarkably silent surrounding this case. On Valentine’s Day, for example, no loving message from the First Lady for her husband appears on social media, something she previously paid attention to. Once again the marriage is under a magnifying glass and Melania seems to be becoming increasingly distant from her husband. Although the couple can regularly count on a lot of criticism and there are doubts whether the marriage will last, the couple celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary on January 22, 2020. In October 2020 it turned out that the couple became infected with the coronavirus. This virus broke out worldwide at the beginning of the same year. Donald and Melania experience mild complaints and are back on their feet after a few weeks. There must be a campaign for the re-election of Donald Trump that same year. On November 3, 2020, the American people will go to the polls to vote for current President Trump or for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. It will take days before the official results are known, as many votes were cast by post this year due to the ongoing global pandemic. On November 7, Joe Biden will be officially elected as the new President of the United States. Donald and Melania Trump will have to leave the White House after one four-year term in office.