Inside First Lady Melania Trump and President Donald Trump’s Marriage

For more scintillating details, there are always the appearances that Trump used to make on The Howard Stern Show back in the day, where he praised his gorgeous girlfriend—”She’s the most secure person I know,” he said in April 2004—before she became his third wife on Jan. 22, 2005. 

He famously popped the question when they were about to head out to the Met Gala in 2004, Melania writing in her book that he whispered, “I love you, I want to spend the rest of my life with you,” and she said yes.

“We literally have never had an argument; forget about the word ‘fight,'” Trump said in a joint interview with his bride on Larry King Live in May 2005. “We never even had an argument. We just are very compatible. We get along. And I just said, ‘You know what? It’s time.’ It wasn’t a big deal.”

They welcomed son Barron Trump on March 20, 2006, and Melania proceeded to lead the carefully curated private-life-of-a-public-figure she so desired until 2015, when her husband commenced not his first but his most serious run for the White House—and won.