What was it like to photograph Melania Trump nude for a fashion shoot in the mid 1990s? Alexandre Alé de Basseville knows all about that. But the photographer was only reminded of that New York City assignment after Trump defended her nude modeling work in a video posted on “X” in promoting her upcoming memoir “Melania” from Skyhorse Publishing.

During a September 19 rally on Long Island, Donald Trump revealed that he hasn’t even read his wife’s memoir, Melania, which comes out on October 8. “People love our First Lady, I’ll tell ya,” Trump said. “Go out and get her book. She just wrote a book. I hope she said good things about [me]. I don’t know, I didn’t — so busy!”

Absolutely no one is talking about your nude modeling!” Colbert said of Melania Trump bizarrely putting the focus on her modeling past as her husband campaign’s for president.