Donald Trump told supporters at a packed MAGA rally in Long Island, New York that he hopes his wife Melania had "good things" to say about him in her upcoming memoir.
“Go out and get her book,” Trump said. "She just wrote a book. I hope she said good things about me.”
Melania's self-titled memoir promises to tell "the truth" about her and correct the "misrepresentations" peddled by the media over the years.
Her husband urged an enthusiastic crowd Wednesday night to buy the book on the condition that she said "good things" about him.
“Go out and buy it, it’s great. And if she says bad things about me I’ll call you all up and I’ll say don’t buy it, get rid of it,” he quipped.
Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York was filled with thousands of supporters who waited hours to hear President Trump speak.
The MAGA faithful were rewarded with an energetic speech full of jokes, as well as serious reflections on the nation's decline and Trump's place in history after surviving two assassination attempts.
"These encounters with death have not broken my will, they have really given me a much bigger and stronger mission. They’ve only hardened my resolve to use my time on Earth to make America great again for all Americans, to put America first,” Trump said.
Trump's wife has been mostly absent from the campaign trail, but she has been more vocal recently ahead of the October release of her new book.
The enigmatic First Lady recently shared doubts about her husband's first assassination attempt in Penn sylvania, as members of both parties in Congress accuse Secret Service of hiding the truth.
Her husband's Long Island rally was his first since he was targeted in a second assassination attempt at his Florida golf course last weekend. President Trump lavished praise on the woman who followed the suspect, Ryan Routh, and photographed his license plate.
"This could only happen with a woman, because men aren't smart enough. I hate to tell you fellas," Trump said.
Meanwhile, President Trump made a bold promise to win reliably Democratic New York, where he built his real estate empire and lived for decades at Trump Tower before making the move to Mar-A-Lago.
The Queens, New York native painted a grim picture of his hometown under Democratic rule, pledging to clean up its crime-ridden subways and crack down on an influx of violent migrants who have entered the country under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
"What the hell do you have to lose?" he asked New Yorkers.
"Give me a shot, you will have a safe New York within three months… for every New Yorker being terrorized by this wave of migrant crime, Nov. 5 will be your liberation day," he said.
