An upcoming book details an angry outburst that former President Donald Trump had on Trump Force One and how his wife, former First Lady Melania Trump, reacted to his temper.
Trump’s nephew, Fred Trump III, will publish his tell-all book, All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got to Be This Way next Tuesday, and in it, he details an intimate moment he had with his uncle while taking a trip to Palm Beach. Newsweek obtained a copy.
In the memoir, Fred, who describes himself as being fairly close to his uncle, detailed a 2012 flight that he took with his wife, Donald and Melania to Mar-a-Lago “before reporters started calling the plane Trump Force One.” He described the plane as a “stunning” custom Boeing 575 with “Italian leather seats embroidered with the Trump Family crest,” among other luxuries.
“Clearly, Donald loved his plane, and he knew every shiny inch of it,” Fred writes.
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He goes on to explain that before taking off, he had been drinking a bottle of Coke which he left “empty in a cup holder next to my seat.” Fred said he went up to the cockpit to ride up front, but heard Donald scream “Fred! F***!” as they were taking off.
“I didn’t realize that as we were accelerating, the coke went sliding out of the cup holder and tumbling onto one of the leather seats, spilling the last few drops. I swear, it was just a few drops,” he said. “‘That’s a hundred thousand dollars worth of damage,’ Donald roared.'”
“Melania didn’t say anything,” Fred recalled. “She was just taking it all in. But Donald was seething mad.”
Fred said he apologized and helped clean things up and a couple of minutes later, his uncle patted him on the shoulder, “realizing, I guess, that maybe he’d overreacted a bit.”
“I’d heard him dress down people, including his brother Robert, but I’d never been on the receiving end of his outrage, unless you count the day he and Rob had threatened to send me to military school,” Fred wrote. “I can’t say I enjoyed it too much.”
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Fred’s new book comes just four years after he blasted his sister Mary Trump for publishing a book critical of their uncle before the 2020 election. Fred and Mary are the children of Donald’s older brother, Fred Trump Jr., who struggled with alcoholism and died of a heart attack at 42 years of age in 1981.
In the new book, Donald’s nephew recalled his use of the n-word when he “disgustedly” blamed Black people for the slash into the soft top of his beloved Cadillac Eldorado convertible, although noting, “This was Queens in the early 1970s,” when “people said all kinds of crude, thoughtless, prejudiced things.”
“In one way or another, maybe everyone in Queens was a racist then,” he mused.
Fred also recounted that the former president wondered aloud whether people with disabilities would be better off dead. He recalled Donald saying in a private meeting, “The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.” A few years later, Fred said his uncle suggested that he should also let his son, who was born with a rare medical condition that led to developmental and intellectual disabilities, die.
Fred said when he called Donald about his son’s medical fund running out of money, the former president responded, “I don’t know. He doesn’t recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.”
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“Did he really just say that? That I should let my son die… so I could move down to Florida? Really?” he wrote. “I’m usually pretty good at getting my head around things that other people say, even when I don’t agree with them. But this was a tough one. This was my son.”
Fred described himself as being close to his uncle, having attended his inauguration in 2017 and visiting the White House during Donald’s presidency. But he revealed that he did not vote for his uncle in either the 2016 nor 2020 election, saying that “it wasn’t personal.”
“I still loved my uncle,” Fred wrote. “It wasn’t even political. It was about achieving effective policy, about making the world a better place.”
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