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A racy “New York” magazine cover showing Melania Trump smooching a Big Apple firefighter in the wake of 9/11 has been unearthed nearly two decades later.
At the time of the photo shoot in 2002 — meant to be reminiscent of the iconic V-J Day smooch between a sailor and a nurse in 1945 — Trump was a little-known model named Melania Knauss who had been hired to pose on the cover of the publication’s Valentine’s Day “Singles” issue, according to New York.
Knauss — who at the time was dating Donald Trump, then known as a Big Apple property developer — was selected to star on the cover paying homage to New York’s first responders, who had become “rock stars” in the wake of the devastating 9/11 attacks months earlier.
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Engine 7, Ladder 1 smoke-eater Daniel T. Keane — who also moonlighted as a part-time model — recalled how he and Knauss re-created Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous end-of-WWII photograph.
They held the pose “a couple hundred times” — Knauss each time grabbing him and planting a big kiss on him, said Keane, now an FDNY battalion chief. “I don’t know any models, I really wasn’t into the scene. And they said, ‘That’s Melania Knauss … That’s Donald Trump’s girlfriend.’ And I said, ‘Oh, okay.'”
Just three years later, Knauss would appear on the cover of “New York” as Mrs. Donald Trump, and this time she was the star.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/28/melania-trump-kisses-firefighter-in-unearthed-new-york-cover/
At the time of the photo shoot in 2002 — meant to be reminiscent of the iconic V-J Day smooch between a sailor and a nurse in 1945 — Trump was a little-known model named Melania Knauss who had been hired to pose on the cover of the publication’s Valentine’s Day “Singles” issue, according to New York.
Knauss — who at the time was dating Donald Trump, then known as a Big Apple property developer — was selected to star on the cover paying homage to New York’s first responders, who had become “rock stars” in the wake of the devastating 9/11 attacks months earlier.
...
Engine 7, Ladder 1 smoke-eater Daniel T. Keane — who also moonlighted as a part-time model — recalled how he and Knauss re-created Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous end-of-WWII photograph.
They held the pose “a couple hundred times” — Knauss each time grabbing him and planting a big kiss on him, said Keane, now an FDNY battalion chief. “I don’t know any models, I really wasn’t into the scene. And they said, ‘That’s Melania Knauss … That’s Donald Trump’s girlfriend.’ And I said, ‘Oh, okay.'”
Just three years later, Knauss would appear on the cover of “New York” as Mrs. Donald Trump, and this time she was the star.
Impressive, gratuitous — right out of the gate!
Congrats to everyone else who got it right, too! I hope we don’t have nightmares now...
