The radical Left loves to bend the truth. It’s the only way they can trick people into supporting them.
And this leading Republican torches a Leftist media outlet for spreading a heinous lie about Trump.
Rep. Luna Slams The Daily Beast for Misleading Headline on Trump Exchange
In a fiery clash this week, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) called out The Daily Beast for what she described as a “nasty” and misleading headline. The outlet had twisted a lighthearted exchange between Luna and President Donald Trump into something far juicier—and far less accurate—than the reality.
The drama kicked off with a sneak peek from Axios reporter Alex Isenstadt’s upcoming book, Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power, published on Sunday. Among the tidbits was a 2023 moment when Trump, noticing Luna’s discomfort during her pregnancy, offered her the bed on his private jet.
According to Isenstadt, Trump quipped, “If you need a bed to lay down in, there’s one here on the plane. If you feel sick and you need to lay there, you can lay on it. Just don’t tell Melania. She doesn’t like other women on my bed.” Isenstadt made it clear in his Axios piece that Trump was joking, but that nuance didn’t survive the trip to The Daily Beast’s front page.
The Daily Beast pounced with a headline that screamed, “‘Don’t Tell Melania’: Trump Once Offered Rising MAGA Star His Bed”, hinting at a scandalous undertone. The subhead teased, “The alleged comments cast new light on the president’s eyebrow-raising marriage to Melania Trump.”
While the article’s first paragraph noted Luna was “unwell,” it buried the fact that Trump’s remark was a jest until the fourth paragraph. On X, The Daily Beast doubled down, writing, “The new revelations reveal how Trump reportedly offered a female congresswoman his bed, as long as she kept it a secret from his wife,” further stoking the implication of impropriety.
The new revelations reveal how Trump reportedly offered a female congresswoman his bed, as long as she kept it a secret from his wife.https://t.co/FasBSrXAQv
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 17, 2025
Luna wasn’t having it. On Monday, she fired back on X, saying, “I seldom respond to nasty headlines because I don’t like giving trash credibility, however, being that there is allegedly a book coming out with me named and attacking @POTUS, his marriage, our first lady, and frankly implying something distasteful about me, I am responding.”
She set the record straight: “I was very pregnant and at the time experiencing pre-eclampsia symptoms, but was not diagnosed.” Luna recounted how Trump, upon boarding the plane, noticed her condition and, in her words, acted like “the gentleman and good person that he is.” He offered her the back room to rest if needed—a gesture made respectfully and in front of her husband.
“He also assured me that they had a medical team on board in case anything happened and they were aware of how pregnant I was,” she added. Weeks later, Luna was induced due to pre-eclampsia, a serious pregnancy complication.
“This was the most compassionate thing that could’ve been done at the time,” Luna wrote. “I find it disgusting that the author fails to recognize that.”
She also slammed Isenstadt for never reaching out for her side of the story, predicting his book would be a “s— hit piece.” She warned, “If people in POTUS orbit are talking to this author, they need to be cut off immediately. This is gross.”
The Daily Beast’s narrative didn’t hold up long. X’s Community Notes stepped in, clarifying, “The woman in question was Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who has responded publicly to the allegation. She claims nothing inappropriate occurred, she was not asked for comment, and this situation is being presented out of context.”
Axios stood by its reporting. A spokesperson told Fox News Digital, “In our report, Axios correctly portrayed and contextualized comments made by President Trump during an interaction that he had with Rep. Luna, an interaction she confirmed in her statement did in fact happen.”
The White House, meanwhile, didn’t mince words. Communications Director Steven Cheung trashed Trump-related books like Isenstadt’s as “a desperate attempt to make money off of President Trump’s name because journalism is a dying industry with reporters peddling lies and selling their souls in order to make a quick buck.”
He suggested such works belonged “in the bargain bin of the fantasy section in a discount bookstore or should be repurposed as tissue paper.”
Luna’s response and the ensuing fallout have reignited debates about media spin, leaving no shortage of fireworks as the book’s release looms.
Stay tuned to the Conservative Column.
