Portrait of 'The Portrait'

Ms Jordan has drilled down, though, and brings new information about this unconventional first lady to the surface

To the Secret Service, he is “Mogul” and she is “Muse.” Donald J Trump and Melania Knauss met in Manhattan in 1998 and married seven years later. He was a real estate guy and she had curb appeal.

In a new book about Melania Trump’s life, The Art of Her Deal, the Washington Post reporter Mary Jordan suggests Melania kept her mogul’s flickering inte­rest by being an apt pupil of his literary output, which now runs to nearly 20 titles.

In The Art of the Comeback (1997), written with Kate Bohner, Trump said about women: “There is high maintenance. There