Donald Trump boasted tonight at the Al Smith dinner that Melania Trump’s book, “Melania,” is number 1 on the NY Times best seller list.
But that will be for one week only.
“Melania” has not made it to number 1 on USA Today, Amazon, or at Barnes & Noble. It’s been outsold by Bob Woodward’s “War” and by Elvis Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir.
At Barnes and Noble, “Melania” is number 40.
The Times list is ten days old when it appears. Initial sales and back orders propelled “Melania” to number 1. But the momentum wasn’t there.
Strangely, tonight Melania herself appeared at the Al Smith dinner in New York. Maybe it was in exchange for Trump mentioning the book from the stage. She has rarely appeared to back her husband at any campaign event.
But Melania is Catholic, which is the theme of the Smith dinner. Trump is not and has no actual religious affiliation. So he needed his third wife to be present.
At the dinner, Trump spoke from a Teleprompter after being told that no one would use it, the remarks are meant to be spontaneous. He praised currently indicted Mayor Eric Adams lavishly. But he called former Mayor Bill De Blasio “a shit mayor” in his usual graceless way. For the whole speech there was stone silence from the guests on the dais.
