Hillary Clinton said that Melania Trump reminded her of a “little kid” during an awkward meeting last year at former first lady Rosalynn Carter’s memorial service. In her new book Something Lost, Something Gained , released on Tuesday, the former secretary of state wrote that she “never quite knew what to make of the third Mrs Trump.” The two former first ladies had met once before when Clinton wrote that she attended the Trumps’s 2005 wedding at their Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida “out of curiosity.
” “I was going to be in Florida anyway and thought it would be entertaining to see what a Donald Trump wedding was like,” Clinton said. “It was the first time I met Melania, and I just remember that she was young, very beautiful, and very tall.” Melania “didn’t talk much,” Clinton added.
“At least to me.” The pair crossed paths again 18 years later – and eight years after Clinton lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election – at the November memorial service in Georgia for Jimmy Carter’s wife, who died aged 96. “Rosalynn’s grandson Jason said it had been her wish that all the first ladies would come together for her memorial in a show of unity in these divisive times,” Clinton wrote.
The 76-year-old Democrat said that neither her husband, former president Bill Clinton , the White House nor the Secret Service had informed her that Melania had planned to attend the ceremony. Then, Clinton spotted the 54-year-old ex-model standin.