Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) provided greater context to President Donald Trump lending her his bed on his private jet during a 2023 trip.
Luna, who is married, has long supported Trump. When author and Axios reporter Alex Isenstadt claimed in his book Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power that Trump offered her his bed, Luna wrote a post on X responding to news coverage of the excerpt to identify herself and clarify the exchange was over a health problem.
“I don’t usually respond to nasty headlines, but with a book allegedly using my name to attack @POTUS, his marriage, and our First Lady—while implying something distasteful about me—I have to speak up,” Luna wrote on X Monday when a Daily Beast headline on the book implied Trump had propositioned the congresswoman. “I was very pregnant, experiencing undiagnosed pre-eclampsia symptoms, when @realDonaldTrump kindly offered me the back room on his plane if I felt unwell. He did this respectfully in front of my husband, and we both thanked him.”
Luna confirmed that weeks later, her baby was induced due to preeclampsia, a prenatal high blood pressure condition. She included a photo of a note in Trump’s handwriting, asking her how the baby was doing.
“The plane was ready,” Trump wrote, referring to the medical staff on board. “Will be a winner like parents.”
“President Trump was extremely sensitive and compassionate to both me and my husband, and I’m disgusted the author ignores that. Neither me nor my husband felt disrespected by President Trump in any way,” Luna said.
Isenstadt did not contact her or her office, according to Luna. The representative called on everyone in Trump’s circle to blacklist the reporter over his “baseless hit piece” release. Isenstadt has not commented publicly on the matter.
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Axios told the Washington Examiner in a statement that Isenstadt “correctly reported that Trump made the sincere offer and only made the comment about Melania as a joke, and he properly contextualized that she was pregnant and that would be why she’d need to lie down.” The Washington Examiner did not receive an excerpt of the book to review independently.
The book was released on Tuesday.
