During her time as First Lady, Melania often appeared rather coldly indifferent, especially in regard to her husband, Former President and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump. She spent as much time in Manhattan and Mar-a-Lago as she could, well away from her husband’s angry outbursts.

A forthcoming book from Donald Trump’s nephew, Fred Trump III, details one of the former president’s angry tirades in particular and provides another example of just how stonily silent Melania can be. In his tell-all book All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got To Be This Way, set for release next week, Trump III recalls a flight he’d taken to Palm Beach with his uncle Donald, and wife, Melania to Mar-a-Lago “before reporters started calling the plane Trump Force One.”

In a copy obtained by Newsweek, he describes the plane as a “stunning” custom Boeing 575 with “Italian leather seats embroidered with the Trump family crest” and numerous other luxuries.

“Clearly, Donald loved his plane, and he knew every shiny inch of it,” Fred tells us.

He explains that before the plane took off he’d been drinking a bottle of Coke that he left “empty in a cup holder next to my seat.” Fred recounts going up to the cockpit to ride up front, but heard Donald scream “Fred! F*ck!” as the plane took off.

“I didn’t realize that as we were accelerating, the coke went sliding out of the cup holder and tumbling onto one of the leather seats, spilling the last few drops. I swear, it was just a few drops,” he said. “‘That’s a hundred thousand dollars worth of damage,’ Donald roared.”

“Melania didn’t say anything,” Fred recalled. “She was just taking it all in. But Donald was seething mad.”

Obviously, Melania was used to her husband’s rants. Something that the rest of us became all too familiar with just a few years later. She has always maintained an air of chilly silence, so why would she be any different here? My guess is that she was probably glad he wasn’t firing that anger in her direction.

Fred writes that he apologized and helped clean up. Minutes later his uncle patted him on the shoulder, “realizing, I guess, that maybe he’d overreacted a bit.”

“I’d heard him dress down people, including his brother Robert, but I’d never been on the receiving end of his outrage, unless you count the day he and Rob had threatened to send me to military school,” Fred writes. “I can’t say I enjoyed it too much.”

It’s interesting that Fred has written this book since he blasted his sister Mary Trump four years ago for writing a book that was critical of their uncle as the 2020 election loomed. Fred and Mary are the children of Donald’s brother Fred Trump Jr., a lifelong alcoholic who died of a heart attack in 1981 at age 42.

Fred also recounts some of Trump’s disgusting racism but also details something even more shocking: The former president wondered aloud at one point if disabled people would be better off dead. He recounts Donald saying in a private meeting, “The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.” Trump was even so blunt as to tell Fred that he should also let his son, who was born with a rare medical condition that saddled him with developmental and intellectual disabilities, die.

How disgusting.

Fred said when he called Donald about his son’s medical fund running out of money, the former president responded, “I don’t know. He doesn’t recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.”

“Did he really just say that? That I should let my son die… so I could move down to Florida? Really?” he writes. “I’m usually pretty good at getting my head around things that other people say, even when I don’t agree with them. But this was a tough one. This was my son.”

How unbelievably callous. But this is Donald Trump, after all. Perhaps this is one of the main reasons Melania is so chilly. She knows she married a man who cares only about himself. Or maybe she’s just always been this cold. Either way, she and her husband may be a good fit because obviously neither really cares about anything, with their young son Barron perhaps being the exception.

While Fred maintains that he and his uncle were close, perhaps he too, understood this. He notes that he attended Donald’s inauguration in 2017 and visited the White House from time to time. But he reveals that he didn’t vote for his uncle in 2016 or 2020, adding that “it wasn’t personal.”

“I still loved my uncle,” Fred added. “It wasn’t even political. It was about achieving effective policy, about making the world a better place.”

That’s something Trump isn’t remotely interested in, as we know by now. Surely Fred Trump III understood this. Donald and Melania Trump are only in this for the grift.

That’s all life is for Donald Trump. A giant grift. It’s really the only thing he’s good at.