A romance with a Playboy model and steamy relationships with Secret Service agents?? These are some of the most scandalous infidelity rumors that the Trump family can't seem to get away from.
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00:00A romance with a Playboy model and steamy relationships with secret service agents?
00:06These are some of the most scandalous infidelity rumors that the Trump family can't seem to
00:10get away from.
00:12Long before Donald Trump entered politics, he was known as a fixture on the New York
00:15City social scene.
00:17His marriage to his first wife, Ivana Trump, was covered endlessly by the tabloids, who
00:21cared even more when it was clear that the marriage was on the outs.
00:24It was an open secret that Donald was engaging in an affair with Marla Maples, a relationship
00:29that would lead to the downfall of his marriage.
00:32To control the narrative, Ivana hired a public relations team.
00:35A source told Vanity Fair,
00:37"'This is all very calculated.
00:39Ivana is very shrewd.'
00:40It worked."
00:41And Donald told Vanity Fair that he understood why the public felt bad for Ivana.
00:45He said to the outlet,
00:46"'When a man leaves a woman, especially when it was perceived that he has left for a piece
00:50of ass, a good one, there are 50 percent of the population who will love the woman who
00:54was left.'"
00:56Donald met adult entertainer Stormy Daniels at a golf tournament, kicking off a relationship
01:00that would prove to be one of the most consequential in his lifetime.
01:04Days before the 2016 election, long-term fixer Michael Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 not to
01:10talk to the press.
01:11That illegal hush money payment would ultimately lead the former president to be convicted
01:15of 34 felonies, the first former president in American history to earn that distinction.
01:21In an interview with CBS, Daniels said she asked Donald about the fact that Melania Trump
01:26had just given birth a few months earlier, but he insisted that the relationship was
01:30over.
01:31She told the outlet,
01:32"'He brushed it aside, said, oh yeah, yeah, you know, don't worry about that.
01:35We don't even — we have separate rooms and stuff.'"
01:37For his part, despite the felony conviction, Donald still denies anything happened.
01:42"'I didn't have sex with a porn star.'"
01:45When Trump was elected president, Melania didn't immediately move into the White House
01:48to be with him.
01:49Instead, she continued to live in Trump Tower in New York City for the first year of the
01:53administration.
01:54It didn't take long before people online began to speculate about why that was, including
01:59novelist Monica Byrne.
02:00Byrne claimed on X that Melania was in a relationship with Hank Seymours, head of security at the
02:05Tiffany's location in Trump Tower.
02:07She wrote in the since-deleted post,
02:09"'With DT's knowledge, they had an agreement, written I think, that if DT lost the election,
02:14they'd get divorced.
02:15But then he won.'"
02:16After recommending that journalists look into her allegations independently, Byrne even
02:20tagged the president to get his thoughts on the matter.
02:23However, he did not chime in.
02:25In 2018, shortly after Vanessa Trump filed for divorce from Donald Trump Jr., Page Six
02:30reported on an alleged affair between Donald Trump Jr. and singer Aubrey O'Day.
02:35She was a contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice when Don Jr. was involved in the show, and
02:39they evidently struck up a relationship on set.
02:42Since details about the alleged affair surfaced, O'Day has spoken out about the supposed alience
02:46multiple times.
02:48On former Trump fixer Michael Cohen's podcast, Mea Culpa, O'Day claimed Don Jr. was dating
02:53someone different back then.
02:54She said to Cohen,
02:55"'And you know what a bleeding-heart liberal I am, and there's no way that I ever could
03:00have loved somebody that we see today.'"
03:03It all fell apart when Don Jr. left his phone out while he took a shower, leading Vanessa
03:07to uncover what a source told People were sexy texts.
03:10They added,
03:11"'This is how Vanessa found out, and the affair ended.'"
03:14Stormy Daniels isn't the only adult entertainer that Trump allegedly had an affair with.
03:19He's also rumored to have had a relationship with Playboy playmate Karen McDougal, according
03:23to an investigation by Ronan Farrow that was published in The New Yorker.
03:27In a handwritten account of the affair obtained by Farrow, McDougal detailed a relationship
03:32that was said to have begun after Trump filmed an episode of The Apprentice at the Playboy
03:36mansion in the 2000s.
03:37Her story of the alleged affair was purchased days before the 2016 election by American
03:42Media Incorporated, a publishing company that manages tabloids like The National Enquirer.
03:47Details, however, were never published, which Farrow notes aligns with a strategy called
03:52Catch and Kill.
03:53The story did eventually leak, though the White House denied the affair.
03:56McDougal regrets the deal.
03:58She told The New Yorker,
03:59"'It took my rights away.
04:00At this point, I feel I can't talk about anything without getting into trouble because I don't
04:04know what I'm allowed to talk about.
04:06I'm afraid to even mention his name.'"
04:08According to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carol Lennig's book Zero Fail, The Rise and
04:13Fall of the Secret Service, multiple members of the Trump family may have had inappropriate
04:17relationships with Secret Service agents.
04:20That includes Trump Jr.'s ex-wife, Vanessa.
04:22Lennig wrote,
04:23"[Secret Service agents reported that Vanessa Trump had started dating one of the agents
04:27who had been assigned to her family.
04:29The former president's youngest daughter, Tiffany Trump, too, allegedly grew very close
04:33with a Secret Service agent following a breakup."
04:36Lennig wrote,
04:37"[In the aftermath, she began spending an unusual amount of time alone with a Secret
04:40Service agent on her detail.
04:43The agency's leadership became concerned at how close Tiffany appeared to be getting to
04:46the tall, dark, and handsome agent.
04:48Ultimately, the agent was reassigned after concerns were raised."
04:51However, a Secret Service spokesperson didn't exactly deny the allegations when people contacted
04:57them for comment.
04:58The spokesperson said,
04:59"[The U.S. Secret Service is aware of an upcoming book which rehashes past challenges the agency
05:04overcame and evolved from.
05:06Now, and throughout its 156-year history, the agency's skilled workforce is dedicated
05:11to the successful execution of its critical protective and investigative missions."