NEW YORK – Presidential candidate Donald Trump exploded this week over an ad that the anti-Trump PAC "Make America Awesome" ran featuring a semi-nude photo of his third wife, super model Melania Trump.
The 69 year old Republican front runner blamed GOP opponent Ted Cruz for attempting to embarrass his campaign by running the photo taken 16 years ago with the words "Meet Melania Trump, Your Next First Lady …" and then "Or you could vote for Ted Cruz."
The PAC's ad started a firestorm as the indignant Trump blasted Cruz and dug up an less-than-flattering shot of Cruz's wife Heidi to tweet out, comparing her to Melania Trump, saying "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words."
And the Trump-Cruz feud continued throughout Thursday with Cruz calling Trump "a sniveling coward."
It all started with a photo shoot featured in GQ's January 2000 issue, with a cover featuring Melania Knauss – now Mrs. Trump. The cover listed an article inside "Sex at 30,000 feet: Melania Knauss earns her air miles."
Inside, the GQ article featuring Mrs. Trump focused on the "Mile High Club" that was all the rage among the elite jet set, with the photo shoot taken on Trump's custom designed Boeing 727.
The question is, why did the use of a photo that was featured 16 years ago on the front cover of GQ magazine cause such outrage? It was nothing new or secretive.
Some find another image in that same GQ edition of the now 45 year old Mrs. Trump sitting on the Trump jet's white leather couch, holding a chrome pistol, surrounded by jewels and an 18 karat seat belt even more provocative:
More at GQ HERE.
