{"id":452882,"date":"2025-09-26T13:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/452882\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:25:10","slug":"donald-trumps-furious-eight-words-to-melania-during-fiery-exchange-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/452882\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump&#8217;s furious eight words to Melania during fiery exchange | US | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lip reader has revealed exactly what was said between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/us\/2113875\/express.co.uk\/latest\/donald-trump\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/melania-trump\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melania Trump<\/a> after footage of the pair having a <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/us\/2113639\/trump-waves-finger-melanias-face\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seemingly animated exchange went viral<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Extraordinary footage was captured showing the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US President<\/a> and the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/melania-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Lady<\/a> have a finger-wagging discussion through the windows of Marine One. It was filmed on the South Lawn on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The video went viral on social media and it drew comparisons with the incredible moment <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2060312\/emmanuel-brigitte-macron-slap-france-vietnam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emmanuel Macron was shoved by Brigitte in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the exchange, Trump waves his finger at Melania who shakes her head, and expert lip reader Jeremy Freeman has analysed what he thinks was said.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">Jeremy suggested Trump was talking about the \u201cescalator-gate\u201d incident at the United Nations General Assembly this week, rather than aiming his frustrations at something his wife did.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy, speaking to the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15124057\/donald-trump-mocks-united-nations.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a>, believes Melania said: \u201cYou just continued\u2026\u201d Trump followed up with: \u201cIt was unbelievable.\u201d Then, Melania hit back with: \u201cJust say it and leave it\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">Seemingly flabbergasted, Trump then replied: \u201cHow can you do that\u2026\u201d It wasn\u2019t long before the powerful couple then got off the helicopter and crossed the lawn while holding hands.<\/p>\n<p>The escalator incident, where Trump was greeted at the UN General Assembly in Manhattan with a broken escalator, saw him write on Truth Social that it was \u201camazing that Melania and I didn&#8217;t fall forward onto the sharp edges of these steel steps, face first. It was only that we were each holding the handrail tightly or, it would have been a disaster\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Trump offered advice to the Macrons after footage of them went viral showing Brigitte pushing the French President in the face on board an aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Trump: \u201cThere was a video of the First Lady of France slapping her husband, Emmanuel Macron. Do you have any world leader-to-world leader marital advice?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake sure the door remains closed,\u201d he answered. \u201cThat was not good. I spoke to him. He\u2019s fine. They\u2019re fine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey&#8217;re two really good people. I know him very well, and I don&#8217;t know what that was all about. But I know him very well, and they&#8217;re fine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lip reader has revealed exactly what was said between Donald Trump and Melania Trump after footage of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32,13859,12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-452882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-melania-trump","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115270826298429162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}