Former first lady Melania Trump was worried about the way her husband, former President Donald Trump, was handling the COVID-19 pandemic, says a recently published book.
Melania shared her concerns with former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and enlisted his support to convince the former U.S. president to take the threat more seriously, the authors reportedly wrote in the book.
Melania recalled telling Trump, “You’re blowing this. This is serious. It’s going to be really bad, and you need to take it more seriously than you’re taking it,” Baker and Glasser wrote in the book.
Trump shrugged it off it saying “You worry too much,” the authors wrote.
Trump, as suggested in the book, took it easy early on, mocking wearing masks and suggesting that disinfectant injections and sunlight treatments would help tackle the disease.
According to a 2020 report in The Washington Post, Trump reportedly told author Bob Woodward in March 2020 that he wanted to play it down just to avoid creating panic.
Incidentally, Trump and the first lady tested positive for COVID-19 in 2020 shortly after they organized the September Rose Garden party to announce the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Originally published Sept. 15, 2022.
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